This past Saturday, the Toyo Tires F1600 Championship met to hand out some awards, and talk about next season. Jason Sharpe of Move Motorsports Management handed out the awards and talked about the coming season, schedule and sponsros, while Stephen Adams discussed the some of the changes for the upcoming season, including a new points structure and weekend schedule

*Shannonville CTCC Event tentatively added to the schedule - With the DAC Shannonville event of Jul 9-10 being removed from the calendar, the Series is looking to join the F1200 championship the following weekend at the Shannonville race, in conjunction with the Canadian Touring car Championship on July 16-17, is tentatively on this years schedule.

1) May 14-15 - Canadian Tire Motorsport Park
2) Jun 17-19 - Canadian Tire Motorsport Park
3) Jul 16-17 - Shannonville Motorsport Park**
4) Jul 30-31 - Canadian Tire Motorsport Park
5) Aug 20-21 - Calabogie Motorsports Park
5) Sep 17/18 - Canadian Tire Motorsport Park

**-tentative

*2015 Season Awards

Rookie Of The Year - Ben Hurst
Most Pole Positions - Zacharie Robichon
Lincoln Electric Best Prepared Car - Byron Leis
Gord Lowe Award - Graham Lobban

*2015 Championship Trophies - A Class

1st - Reid Arnold
2nd - Zacharie Robichon
3rd - Andre du Preez

*2015 Championship Trophies - B Class

1st - Conor Wagland
2nd - Graham Lobban
3rd - Amy Castell

*New Race Weekend Format Announced - 3 Races per Race Weekend

Saturday
1) Practice
2) Qualifying
3) Race 1 - grid set from qualifying

Sunday
1) Warm Up
2) Race 2 (a.m.) - Grid set by fastest lap from Race 1 or 2nd fastest lap in qualifying
3) Race 3 (p.m.) - Grid set by fastest lap from race 2

*New Points Format

1) Points awarded for all 3 races per event, to 15th position
2) 1 point for pole position in each race
3) 1 point awarded each race to every driver that leads a lap
4) 2 drops allowed from the 18 race season

*New A Class/B Class Eligibility Criteria

A Class
1) As per 2015, with the addition that all Honda Powered cars being in A Class, regardless of chassis manufacture date

B Class
1) Cars that have been altered and/or updated to later specs MAY be classified as A Class cars
2) Eligibility of modifications will be at the discretion of the Steering Committee

*2016 Sponsors

1) Toyo Tires
2) HPD
3) Lincoln Electric
4) MK Technologies

*2016 Special Awards

1) Rookie of the Year - Top finishing A Class rookie in points
2) Most Pole Positions
3) Masters Award - top finishing driver aged 40+ in each class during race 2 of each weekend
4) Media Award - Driver who consistently demonstrates a commitment to the enhanced awareness of the series and of F1600 racing in the media