Category: Announcements

The time is finally here! We apologize for the long wait but your 86CUP and Maxxis tire contingency and championship prize details for 2026 have been finalized!

Maxxis joins as the title sponsor for the North American 86CUP time attack series for 2026! Maxxis will provide Maxxis RC-1, VR-1 or VR2 tires as part of their 2026 86CUP Tire Contingency and the 2026 86CUP Championship Podium Prizes.

Maxxis Tires and the 86CUP will provide a discount code to registered 86CUP participants to purchase Maxxis RC-1, VR-1 or VR2 tire products ONLY.

ALL 86CUP competition classes are eligible for the Maxxis Championship Prizes and Maxxis 86CUP Tire Contingency.

For full details please head to over to the contingencies and sponsors tab under “Driver Resources” on our website at https://86cup.us/sponsors/ for full details.

We’re excited for you all to earn some Maxxis tires out there on track!

With this we are ready to truly get the season in full swing.

New year, new look. We’re ready to bring back the party on track to the 86 and BRZ crowd on track in 2026!!

2026 86Cup will feature potentially ELEVEN rounds! At the moment, we have 9 rounds confirmed, 1 of which will feature our frenemies to the north in NorCal 86Challenge bringing the fight to hallowed grounds at Buttonwillow Classic 13CW in September.

The schedule also sees the 86Cup community make another trek out of state to Nevada at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Outside Road Course on Saturday, April 18th. We hope to see a bunch of our southwestern friends who usually don’t get to make it out to California events join us here. LVMS ORC is an extremely challenging track to nail down perfectly right, throwing even the most experienced 86Cup drivers in for a loop.

Registration for ALL events confirmed so far for 2026 on this schedule posted above will be with our good friends in Speed Ventures, who for some reason still put up with our shenanigans after all these years.

Registration for 2026 86Cup Round 1 on February 21st at Streets of Willow CW is now currently open to the public. There are several competitions occurring this day while also being a very beginner-friendly track so we recommend you sign up now before it’s too late!

You may do so here: https://speedventures.com/Events/Detail.aspx?id=1029

Also, we should note that cabins for the weekend of March 14th at Chuckwalla are currently sold out. We always try our best to release the schedule as soon as possible for this possibility but much like tracking your cars, there is ALWAYS someone faster. Chuckwalla cabins for the weekend of November 21st and 22nd for some of our final rounds are still wide open at the time of writing this post. We still recommend reserving a cabin as soon as possible if you’d like to stay at the track. They’re really nice and it’s super convenient to just wake up at the track day of! You may look into renting a cabin HERE.

That’s it for our announcements for 2026 at the moment! We should have some very exciting news coming up shortly in regards to sponsors and rules in the coming weeks! The 86Cup admins are also planning our 2025 Awards Celebration as well, so look forward to that as well.

We’ll see you soon! Happy New Year!!

Your 2025 Racetreads.com GT Radial 86Cup Champion Class Winners are as follows!

STOCK Class
1. Luke Daley
2. Scott Irwin
3. Sean Irwin

STREET Class
1. Ethan Lawrie
2. Bobby Tisher
3. Phuoc Hai Tran

MODIFIED Class
1. Garrett Wilson
2. Brian Kao
3. Miles Kodama

UNLIMITED Class
1. Jared Ramirez
2. Isamu Kakitani
3. Joseph Alfonso & Jonathan Geisinger
(yes you are reading that last part correctly)

Let’s give it up for all of the 2025 86Cup championship winners!! Congratulations!

As you all can assume, it’s about that time of year where the admins, and our (potential) drivers look towards the next season to build their 86 or BRZ into the best build for the upcoming season.

Will we be back in 2026?
-Hell yeah we will!

Will there be several rounds on the schedule in 2026?
-Definitely!

Will there be some friendly fightin…err…competition with 86Challenge in 2026?
-Possibly, most definitely. We may even throw in some random collaborations with folks as well in the greater community, you will just have to see.

That all being said, we want to give you all a heads up that there will be some pretty big changes coming in 2026 so we please ask that you hold off on your builds until the 2026 season is more clearer. Hopefully we can provide an annoucement as soon as after Round 10 has concluded next week but hope to do it before the Christmas break and definitely before the New Year has started.

You all can expect some rules changes (potentially). Stock class will probably remain the closest in form to its current iteration so if you’re aiming for that class, you should be good. The motive for that class has always been the “least amount of mods to (regularly) take your car to the track and have a fun time”.

We’re toying with the idea of a “warm up” round in late January/early February if we think folks would be interested in an exhibition, non-points paying round. It would not count for 86Cup points but it’s a good way for everyone involved to get into the swing of things.

Nonetheless, we ask that you all hold off on buying tires and other mods if you’re specifically aiming for a certain class to be in for 2026!

Please hold any and all questions until we’ve released 2026 information. All questions until then will be ignored until the announcement is made, thank you!

Rounds 8 and 9 of the 2025 Racetreads GT Radial 86Cup sees us head out east to the desert for a doubleheader weekend at Chuckwalla!

Both days will have us doing the Clockwise (CW) configuration of this 2.68 mile track out in Desert Center, California.

The best part of this weekend isn’t just the on-track action but also the camaraderie and bonds that form between the 86Cup community as well as other track rats lingering on Saturday night as we typically have a potluck/barbecue at the cabins at Chuckwalla.

Registration is OPEN via Speed Ventures and Saturday is already pretty much sold out, if not filled up by the time of this post. We recommend signing up as soon as you possibly can to make sure you get in! You may have to sign up for Sunday and ask to be waitlisted for Saturday. If you do end up on a waitlist for either day, please be sure to write “86Cup competitor” in the notes. There’s a lot of competitions happening this day so there’s no guarantees you’ll get in as per usual but the awesome team at SV will always do what they can to get competitors in first!

You can register for the weekend here: https://www.speedventures.com/Events/Detail.aspx?id=1017

Along that same vein, cabins at Chuckwalla are basically sold out, so best to look to Palm Springs for some lodging or perhaps even try your hand at camping (though it gets extremely cold in the fall)!

We can’t wait to see you all at the end of November!

P.S. With championship battles heating up, if you need tires before the event, purchase through our Racetreads 86Cup member link to receive a small discount on your order or simply enter
” 86CUP “ into the promo code area when checking out! (All GT Radial tires used for redemption need to be purchased through Racetreads regardless). Our friends at CounterSpace Garage can also help out with any fluids, maintenance items and any other modifications you may fancy before the end of year is up.

Round 7 of the 2025 Racetreads GT Radial 86Cup restores order to the Force with us FINALLY doing 13CW at Buttonwillow Raceway this season.

It’s kind of weird how the calendars all work out isn’t it?

On Saturday October 18th, we’ll see just how fast some of you are and see if you’re ready to join the “Sub 2 club”.

Track day registration for this round will be through Speed Ventures.

Also, ALL Speed Ventures events are open for registration for the rest of the year!!! That means Round 7 here as well as Rounds 8 and 9 for Chuckwalla are NOW open. Don’t sleep on it and get some vital track time for our championship run before December!

Track day registration:
https://www.speedventures.com/Events/Detail.aspx?id=1014

Need tires before the event? Purchase through our Racetreads 86Cup member link to receive a small discount on your order or simply enter ” 86CUP “ into the promo code area when checking out! (All GT Radial tires used for redemption need to be purchased through Racetreads regardless)