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2025 Racetreads.com GT Radial 86Cup Rd. 4 Joint Challenge w/ 86Challenge – Sonoma Raceway – Event Results

Round 4 saw the SoCal gang pack up their bags and head up north on Mother’s Day weekend to beautiful wine country in Sonoma, California.

It seems however that we may have brought with us our stereotypical desert weather as a heat wave consumed all of us on the way up and on Saturday during our Round 4 festivities (sorry NorCal friends!). Even with the hot ambient temperatures midday, that didn’t stop the actual heat and by that we mean record breaking laps!

The last time the 86Cup crew visited Sonoma was back in 2023. Since then Sonoma has had a repave so it seems that points to how fast everyone was this past weekend.

That being said, there were timing/transponder issues all weekend it seems so this is more or less the “preliminary” results and we did our best to sift through everything we had available to determine these times. If there’s no objections, then we’ll send it as is for final results on our socials.

For our NorCal friends, 86Cup only counts sessions 2-4 and no bonus (unless otherwise stated by admins explicitly to everyone prior to the event) for your reference. So for everyone here, your best time here may differ from your best time for 86Challenge.

STOCK Class

Stock class was the true battle of SoCal vs NorCal for our joint challenge it seems as Luke Daley and Dennis Feng duked it out in their 2nd gen BRZs for supremacy at the end of it all.

Luke won the dogfight and is the only SoCal class winner for the event with a 1:56.061* after adjustments for the Stock class time penalty. His actual lap of 1:54.561 breaks the previous FA24 86Cup Stock class record held under current ruling! Nicely done Luke.

Dennis threw down a very respectable lap as well coming in right behind Luke by less than 3 tenths with a 1:56.301* after the Stock Class time penalty was assessed.

Rounding out the class in the final spot, we have John Rice claiming his first podium of the year! John puts down a very respectable 2:04 for his very first foray with the behemoth that is Sonoma Raceway. An otherwise daunting track with it’s drastic elevation changes, walls and intense braking zones.

STREET Class

In Street class, we have Bobby Tisher taking home the final spot in the podium gang. Bobby lays down a very respectable 1:55.512 on the final time charts for the day for us which is less than half a second behind the second place finisher. We’ve been saying it since basically Round 2 this year, Bobby is the one to watch in 2025!

Brian Armstrong claims the second place spot in his 2022 BRZ with a 1:55.217 in the second session for Saturday.

Haowei Wu takes the top spot atop the podium in the SoCal vs NorCal Street class battle with a record-breaking 1:53.007 in his 2022 Toyota GR86. Looks like he wasn’t going to let Luke take away his former FA24 86Cup stock class record without taking another 86Cup record with him. Nicely done sir.

MODIFIED Class

Brian Kao is the lone soul for Mod Class this round. That being said, despite flying solo, he was definitely flying breaking the former 86Cup Mod class record with a 1:57.540 in his 2024 Subaru BRZ.

UNLIMITED Class

Unlimited is typically the next class that gets filled up just as much as Street but we had only two souls play around in Unlimited for this round.

In second place, we have SoCal regular Jeff Flogerzi in his 2013 Scion FR-S put down a 1:53.976 while playing with some new Toyo Proxes RRs.

For first place, there’s a reason this guy is THE BOSS (for multiple reasons, iykyk). First goes to Joe McGuigan in a K-swapped 2017 Toyota 86 putting down a blistering fast 1:47.643 on Bridgestone RE71RS. We have no other words for this, we’re pretty speechless.

And that concludes Round 4 at Sonoma and our first joint round with 86 Challenge for the year. We hope everyone that got to experience Sonoma for the first time had an absolute blast. Is this now your favorite track in California? We wouldn’t be shocked if you said it was.

We shot some photos of everyone during Round 4 and we’ll look to get those edited and shared with you all within the next week or two.

We have one more round until we take a bit of a summer break as we’re certain things are going to be hottttt. Round 5 will take place at Streets of Willow on June 28th with Speed Ventures and we will be running the CCW configuration if we’re not mistaken.

Hopefully you can bear one more round and some heat before we take a nice break. Streets dates usually sell out, but at the moment it seems like the day is still relatively wide open for signups so don’t sleep on it! Huge shout out to the 6 folks who already signed up for Round 5.

See you then!

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2025 Racetreads.com GT Radial 86Cup Rd. 3 – The Circuit at Buttonwillow – Event Results

2025 Racetreads.com GT Radial 86Cup Rd. 3 – The Circuit at Buttonwillow – Event ResultsRound 3 was a stark reminder to everyone in our community that it ain’t always sunshine and rainbows in a time attack event. And that ultimately, at the end of it, a lot of it just comes down to pure luck.Drivers battled the elements dealing with suboptimal conditions all day. While we don’t count the first session of the HPDE day, drivers got to learn the new track at Buttonwillow at a relatively slow pace as the rain was coming down full bore early in the morning.

The track was full wet, then half wet, then dry/steamy, then full wet for half the track, and every combination in-between throughout the rest of the day for everyone in 86Cup. Not to mention lightning and then huge gusts of wind that blew tumbleweeds that would try to kill you entering turn 5, then try to finish the job again as you came by on the front straight.

It was definitely hard to put down a proper flying lap. Towards the end of the day, it seemed like everyone just decided to full send in the rain and put down the fastest lap that they could as time ran out overall.

Being this is a new track for us, there were several “records” recorded amongst the 86Cup gang and those laps have now been updated on our website for your viewing pleasure. Send us a photo if you print it out and hang it on your fridge for your mom to see.

STOCK Class

The Luke Daley show is in full effect for the 86Cup Stock class with another W added to his column. After the 1.5 second penalty is assessed for Gen 2 cars, he comes home with a 2:06.479*.

Sean Irwin falls closely behind in second place with a 2:06.936. Can Sean make a comeback in the rest of his season to go back-to-back Stock class championships? Only time will tell…

Eric Robi takes home the final spot on the podium in what is probably the last event for ‘ole red, laying down a 2:08.296* after time adjustment. Based on the group chat, it seems like he got his money’s worth out of his rotors.

Honorable mention goes out to William being the lone Gen 1 car in the class this round, putting down a 2:09.267. This lap will go into the records page but it will be exciting to see if someone can break it the next time around for 86Cup.

STREET Class

The party class strikes again, though this time the admins didn’t have to go into the double digits for the results positions which probably hasn’t happened in a bit.

Bobby Tisher comes up with a massive W in the rain! If we’re not mistaken, this is his first win in 86Cup? At least for Street class that is for sure. Congratulations on the top spot Bobby! It’s been awesome seeing you get faster year after year and especially in 2025 in particular you’ve been blazing a trail!

That being said, Ethan Lawrie comes nipping at his heels. Remember when we said time attack is sometimes just about pure luck at the end of it all? Well, Ethan comes up just 0.050 seconds behind Bobby to take second place. As many of us have experienced over the years, Ethan is probably analyzing that lap trying to see where they lost that time.

With rain, mud, lightning, and luck all thrown into the mix, we have Matt Woolsey taking home the final podium spot with a 2:05.345 in his 2023 Toyota GR86. Matt lead the charge for what is otherwise an extremely intense Street class midpack battle looking at the time charts. Everyone from 3rd to 7th was separated by less than half a second. Some Gen 1 cars thrown into the mix there too, suggesting some of the Gen 2 drivers need to go a little bit faster possibly.

MOD Class

Looks like the rain scared off any Mod class friends we were going to make this Round. No one wanted to be the first to claim a “record” lap? Guess we’ll have to wait until next year.

UNLIMITED Class

Is anybody going to stop this man? Jared Ramirez is on a terror in his 2022 Toyota GR86, seemingly in a league of his own setting the only sub-2 lap for the class this round.

Speaking of sub-2, Jeff Flogerzi gets ever so close to such. He sets the non-86Cup specific FA20 NA overall lap record based on our data. He laid down a 2:00.997 at the end of it all. So looks like there’s still about a full second to look for out there. Sounds like it’ll be doable on a completely dry event.

Tim Chan, also in a first gen car, comes home with 3rd place for Unlimited class in his 2014 Subaru BRZ. He put down a 2:02.743 on Kumho Ecsta V730s.

EXHIBITION Class

Exhibition class finally saw two challengers in the running. Our dear friends and sponsors, CounterSpace Garage managed to put down a 2:01.109 in their Silver Bullet 2022 Toyota GR86. They take home the “win” for the class, despite battling the drastic weather changes all day.

Shining Wolf Motorsports is the other contender for the class, with their 2020 Subaru BRZ, they managed to lay down a 2:06.105 lap on GT Radial SX2 RS tires. It’s nice to see that team back in action, having been dormant since a Global Time Attack event in 2021.

And with that, that’s a wrap on Round 3! Thank you to everyone who came out to the event. It seems like a lot of you changed your minds about the track after finally getting to see and drive it yourself for once, even with all of the weather.

Sidenote, did anyone catch the double rainbows at the end of the day? It was a nice touch to end what otherwise was a great day.

Our next round, Round 4, is coming up super fast! Round 4 sees us head up north to visit this wonderful track called Sonoma Raceway. If you haven’t been to it, we highly recommend you come join us!

Once you visit and drive this track, other tracks will pale in comparison. Round 4 will also be a joint event with our NorCal buddies 86 Challenge so there will surely be some fierce competition with folks who may call this their home track.

Registration for the track day portion will be via Speed SF Track Events, so a bit of a change of pace from the usual SV days. The SpeedSF guys run a top notch ship and a lot of them are 86Cup/86Challenge alum so they are all too familiar with our shenanigans.

Round 4 flyer and event details will be posted tomorrow. Hope to see you there!

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2025 Racetreads.com GT Radial 86Cup Rd. 1 – Big Willow – Event Results

Howdy folks, the time has come! We shook off the rust and dust off our builds and ourselves for a lovely day out at Willow Springs International Raceway for Round 1 of our 2025 season.

As some of you are aware, this may be one of the last times we get to play out here, at least for this “cheap” so who knows what the future holds.

Anyways…

With new stickers provided by our awesome sponsors Racetreads and GT Radial, and the power of friendship to help install our new windshield vinyls, we were off to the races! Even more so for a few of you as we had some course records already broken in the first event. C’mon guys, we JUST updated the website and records tab haha!

STOCK Class

Stock class saw a true return to form with Luke Daley taking the helm and breaking the previous FA24 Stock Class lap record held by Matt Woolsey. Luke’s unadjusted time of 1:35.409 will be inputted into the record books shortly!

After that, Luke was chased by some first gen cars surprisingly considering that Big Willow is most definitely a power track. William Chen comes home with a 1:37.874 in his 2015 Scion FR-S after some unfortunate mechanical troubles later in the day. Arguably the only person who could really put a stop to Luke’s reign with his new FA24 platform.

In third we have Harry Galbraith take the final podium spot with a 1:38.892 in his 2019 Toyota 86. It’s nice to see Harry move up the timing charts event after event we see him at.

STREET Class

It seems that 86Cup is for the streets as Street class is a party once again. A lot of familiar faces from the last couple of seasons join us in the fray, along with some new ones joining 86Cup entirely or downgrading/upgrading their 86Cup build.

Ethan Lawrie channeling the power of Takumi in his Trueno edition GR86 comes home with a 1:34.818. Previously in mod class, he figured he’d join the shenanigans in the lower tiers. He takes home the win for this first round.

Phuoc Hai Tran in his 2014 Scion FR-S comes nipping at his heels with a 1:35.017, he’s arguably a longtime veteran of this particular class. If you ever need a ridealong or some advice definitely seek him out at a future round!

Lastly, we have Bobby Tisher starting off the season strong claiming the last spot on the steps with a 1:35.321 besting Cody by over half a second. Is this the year we finally see Bobby take home a clearly metaphorical first place award at the end of an event? Only time will tell!

We’d also like to welcome Carlos Ruiz to the fold with his Neptune Blue GR86, who was extremely eager to join our ranks. Welcome Carlos!

MODIFIED Class

(*crickets*……..tumbleweed blows across the mini-straight inbetween turns 8 and 9 at Big Willow……..)

UNLIMITED Class

Luke wasn’t the only person to break a course record during this event, we also had Jared Ramirez besting the previous Unlimited class record in his FA24 rocket with a time of 1:29.501.

Another newcomer, Joseph Alfonso comes onboard with his 2023 Toyota GR86 flying fast in the Unlimited class. He set down a 1:31.146 for this particular round which is definitely not something to shake a stick at.

Jonathan Geisinger comes out of his offseason nap to come play with us at Big Willow. On Nankang CR-S, he nailed a 1:33.245 for the day after all was said and done.

Lastly, we had another new face in Tim Chan come out to party with us in his first gen BRZ. It’s always interesting seeing the first gen cars in the Unlimited class. We hope to see you at more events as the year unfolds!

EXHIBITION Class
Something (not entirely but sorta) new to 86Cup is the exhibition class for this year. For those, especially (prospective) sponsors/shops/teams/etc. with FT86 cars that want to come out and play but don’t want to upset the championship dogfights, we invite you to take on the Exhibition class!

For this particular round, we had the CounterSpace Garage team take their shop 2022 GR86 and hand it to their notorious tame racing driver, who laid down a 1:29.061.

Despite having a full face helmet and a closed visor, we somehow interpreted that this tame racing driver did mention that this car could go much faster than the posted times. We wish them luck in their pursuit of squeezing even more speed out of the FT86 platform.

And with that, that wraps up Round 1!

How do you guys like the new graphic? How are you guys liking the new website so far? These event results will be posted their shortly and a new points standings will be shown as well at a later date.


Some other news while we have you all here…

Our 2024 Awards Ceremony has been scheduled for Sunday, March 30th at 2:15pm at K1 Circuit in Winchester, CA. If you’d like to go, please check out the “Schedule” tab for the event and it’s details.

If you can’t make it out to this event and you were a podium class finisher last year, let us know! We’ll be sure to accept the award on your behalf and bring it out to the next round you’ll be at.

There will be some information in the next couple of days/weeks on what exactly the 2025 contingency for Racetreads/GT Radial entails. There are obviously the vinyl stickers, and then some finer details.

CSG should be finalizing their 2025 details as well for their contingencies shortly.

For Round 2, we head to Chuckwalla CCW! We don’t get to do Chuck that often and it’s a long drive for most, except for you SD/Temecula/San Bernardino area folk so we hope you can make it out! Cabins are sold out for the weekend so best to look elsewhere or find someone to bunk with that got some quick thinking!

See you all then!