86Cup Admin 2025 Event Results, Announcements

2025 Racetreads.com GT Radial 86Cup Round 5 – Streets of Willow CCW – Event Results

The last event before our summer break! Despite the rather elevated temperatures compared to most of the events in the first half of the year, we still had a bunch of our regulars come on out to play. We even had some new faces join the fold, which always seems to happen at Willow Springs, so welcome aboard!

Running the results, it’s obvious that the session to take home the W was in the first competition session of the day. A few of you, however, managed to sneak in your PB for the day in some of the later sessions which is interesting to see.

Despite everything above and below, we actually managed to bust out a GT Radial tent as a necessary for this Round’s heatwave and it DIDN’T fly away! That’s a W in our book despite being totally unprepared otherwise.

STOCK Class

At this point in the season, it almost feels like Luke is getting away with highway robbery in the points standings for this class. Luke adds another W on his resume for the season with his time at Round 5.

Chasing behind him in the points and for this round is none other than Sean Irwin. Laying everything out on the line, Sean unfortunately comes up almost half a second short to Luke’s best for this day.

Keeping things in the family is Scott Irwin who claims the final podium spot for the Stock class gang.

Honorable mentions for this round include Sam Nunez in his beautiful Hakone Edition GR86 and Celeste Alvarez also in a 2025 Toyota GR86, competing in their first 86Cup event. It’s always nice to see new faces having a good time!

STREET Class

Even without some of its regulars, the Street class party was still partying on for Round 5!

Ethan Lawrie continues to abuse plot armor in his Trueno Edition GR86, absolutely decimating the other Street class competition by nearly two seconds compared to most of the field.

Brian Guan, a definitely worthy opponent, set his sights on challenging that plot armor in his first gen BRZ. Unfortunately, as we all know, plot armor always prevails, and after everything was said and done for Round 5, Brian comes up with a time of 1:28.689 for his second place endeavors.

Coming off of some stints of #86cupsecretseattime is Greg Balos who lays down a 1:29.236 to take home the final podium spot in Street class in his 2022 Subaru BRZ. Aside from the secret seat time, we’ve seen Greg slowly but surely creep up the rankings over the last several months.

MODIFIED Class
(insert gif of tumbleweed rolling here)

UNLIMITED Class

Mother nature’s heat was no match to the heat that Jared Ramirez brought to Round 5, smashing through the previous 86Cup Unlimited class record! Jared after a brief hiatus and some choice mods, puts down a 1:24.015 in his 2022 Toyota GR86 to continue to assert his dominance in Unlimited class.

Tim Chan follows behind in his 2014 Subaru BRZ laying down a 1:27.816 for the day.

Lastly, we have Damon Estrada joining us as another new face to the 86Cup family in his 2015 Scion FR-S! Damon managed to put down a 1:32.752 for his time before packing it up and heading home.

Thank you all to everyone who came out to Round 5 and braved the typical heat (and wind) that Willow Springs provides! It’s looking like this was (one of?) the last event at the facility before they get to work on some renovations as you may have seen in our group chat, so we’re excited to see what that looks like in the coming months.

For now, we have a TWO AND A HALF month hiatus until our next 86Cup round.

This would surely be the time to finally perform any “deferred” maintenance you’ve been dreading. If you need any helping sourcing things for your maintenance needs or modification endeavors, look no further than our sponsor CounterSpace Garage to get you situated!

Even if they don’t have it listed on their website, they have an extensive backcatalog and access to numerous brands, OEM Subaru/Toyota parts, etc. etc. So hit them up!

Given that we’re 5 events into our 10 round season, you may also be looking to get some new tires for the remainder of the season. That being said, our friends at Racetreads can surely help with that. If you use 86Cup’s ambassador link, you also get a small discount on your order: www.racetreads.com

This is also your friendly reminder that any GT Radial SX2s you plan on using for 86Cup (contingencies) needs to be purchased via Racetreads after February 2025.

That all being said, have a happy summer break! Round 6 is on a SUNDAY, September 14th. We’ll be running with Speed Ventures and it’ll be a joint round with our NorCal friends again 86 Challenge. We chose the Sunday date from this SV weekend because we’ll be getting to run a very rare (to those outside of Cal Club/SCCA days at least) 25 CCW configuration.

This will surely be challenging as you’re going to skip the famous bus stop section completely and go full steam from Riverside all the way to Grapevine. We would place some good money someone will probably blow through the braking zone at least once.

Round 6 event flyer and details will be posted as soon as possible. See you then!

86Cup Admin 2025 Event Results

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!