Toyota Racing Series 2012

The 2012 Toyota Racing Series season was the eighth season of the Toyota Racing Series . It began on January 14th in Invercargill and ended on February 12th in Feilding . A total of 15 races were held on 5 racetracks. Nick Cassidy won the championship.

Teams and drivers

The starting list for the 2012 season was published on December 28, 2011. While most of the drivers have come from New Zealand in recent seasons, in 2012 only 6 out of 21 drivers were from New Zealand. In total, drivers from twelve nations competed against each other. In 2012, the Toyota Racing Series had the most international field of drivers that a New Zealand monoposto racing series had ever had.

All drivers used a Tatuus chassis and Toyota engines .

team	Automobile #	driver	Race weekend
Giles Motorsport	01	Mitch Evans	4, 5
	02	Nick Cassidy	1-5
	05	Bruno Bonifacio	1-5
	06th	Felix Serralles	1-5
	15th	Lucas Auer	1-5
	16	Hannes van Asseldonk	1-5
Victory Motor Racing	04th	Chris Vlok	1-5
	20th	Dmitri Suranovich	1-5
	87	Damon Leitch	1-5
	88	Michela Cerruti	1-5
ETEC motorsport	07th	Jono Lester	1-5
	08th	Melvin Moh	1-5
	09	Victor Sendin	1-3
		Ken Smith	5
	10	Josh Hill	1-5
	11	Shahaan Engineer	1-5
M2 Competition	42	Jordan King	1-5
	43	Tanart Sathienthirakul	1-5
	51	Sheban Siddiqi	1-5
	52	Nathanaël Berthon	1-5
	53	Raffaele Marciello	1-5

Racing calendar

There were five race weekends with three races each. One race took place on Saturday, two races on Sunday. The events took place on five consecutive weekends.

The starting grid for the first race was determined by the fastest time a driver had in qualifying. For the second race, the two fastest laps of a driver were added to determine the starting grid. The third race started according to the target order of the second race, with the first six pilots starting in the reverse order ( reversed grid ). At the last three events, the starting order for the second and third races was determined using the other method.

The last race at the Chris Amon Manfeild Circuit was the New Zealand Grand Prix .

No.	date	Racetrack	winner	Second	Third
01.	January 14th	Invercargill	Josh Hill	Damon Leitch	Jono Lester
02.	15. January		Hannes van Asseldonk	Nick Cassidy	Bruno Bonifacio
03.			Hannes van Asseldonk	Nick Cassidy	Damon Leitch
04th	21th January	Timaru	Nick Cassidy	Damon Leitch	Josh Hill
05.	22nd of January		Nick Cassidy	Felix Serralles	Jordan King
06th			Damon Leitch	Dmitri Suranovich	Nick Cassidy
07th	January 28th	Taupo	Jordan King	Josh Hill	Hannes van Asseldonk
08th.	January 29th		Nick Cassidy	Damon Leitch	Raffaele Marciello
09.			Hannes van Asseldonk	Josh Hill	Jordan King
10.	0February 4th	North Waikato	Mitch Evans	Hannes van Asseldonk	Nick Cassidy
11.	0February 5th		Raffaele Marciello	Lucas Auer	Jordan King
12.			Nick Cassidy	Mitch Evans	Hannes van Asseldonk
13.	February 11th	Feilding	Mitch Evans	Hannes van Asseldonk	Nick Cassidy
14th	February 12th		Felix Serralles	Mitch Evans	Josh Hill
15th			Nick Cassidy	Hannes van Asseldonk	Lucas Auer

Ratings

Point system

The points were awarded according to the following scheme:

position	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	8th.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th	16.	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23.	24.	25th	26th	27.	28.	29	30th
Points	75	67	60	54	49	45	42	39	36	33	30th	28	26th	24	22nd	20th	18th	16	14th	12	10	9	8th	7th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1

Driver ranking

Item driver INV TIM DEW HMP MAN Points 01  N. Cassidy 8th 2 2 1 1 3 5 1 8th 3 5 1 3 5 1 914 02  H. van Asseldonk DNF 1 1 5 13 19th 3 5 1 2 4th 3 2 DNF 2 738 03  D. Leitch 2 4th 3 2 5 1 6th 2 10 12 13 DNF 19th 12 16 633 04th  J. Hill 1 13 6th 3 7th 18th 2 13 2 7th NC 4th 5 3 DNF 629 05  J. King DNF DNF 10 7th 3 6th 1 4th 3 6th 3 7th 8th 9 DNF 591 06th  L. Auer DNF DNF 14th 6th 15th 14th 7th 6th 5 4th 2 5 4th 4th 3 589 07th  N. Berthon 4th 11 8th 9 16 8th 8th 8th 6th 8th DNF 6th 9 6th 5 555 08th  F. Serralles 6th 7th 4th 4th 2 10 9 DNF 4th DNS DNS DNS 6th 1 7th 547 09  R. Marciello DNF 5 NC 10 9 5 4th 3 18th 5 1 8th 10 7th DNF 535 10  B. Bonifacio 9 3 7th DNF 11 11 10 7th 7th 9 8th DNF 7th 8th 4th 525 11  J. Lester 3 DNF 11 8th 4th 4th 11 9 9 10 6th 15th DNF 11 6th 514 12  D. Suranovich 5 15th 15th 12 6th 2 12 12 11 11 NC DNF 12 14th 8th 440 13  S. Engineer 11 6th NC 11 12 16 13 10 12 13 7th 13 14th 13 15th 406 14th  T. Sathienthirakul 13 9 12 15th DNF 13 14th 11 14th 15th 9 9 16 16 10 383 15th  C. Vlok 12 14th 9 16 DNF 12 16 14th 15th 17th 11 12 11 10 11 371 16  M. Cerruti 10 10 13 17th 14th 15th 15th 16 17th 18th 10 11 15th 15th 12 367 17th  M. Moh DNF 8th 17th 14th 10 7th DNF DNF 16 14th 12 10 13 DNF 9 323 18th  V. Sendin 7th 12 5 13 8th 9 17th 15th 13             286 19th  M. Evans                   1 DNF 2 1 2 DNF 284 20th  S. Siddiqi 14th DNF 16 18th 17th 17th 18th DNF DNF 16 DNF 14th 18th 18th 14th 212 21st  K. Smith                         17th 17th 13 62 Item driver INV TIM DEW HMP MAN Points

colour meaning gold winner silver 2nd place bronze 3rd place green 4th and 5th place Light Blue 6th to 10th place Dark blue Race ended (outside of the first ten pilots) violet Race not finished red not qualified (DNQ) black disqualified (DSQ) White not at the start (DNS) withdrawn (WD) Race canceled (C) Blank not participated did not appear (DNA) injured or sick (INJ) excluded (EX) Further notation fat Pole position Italic Fastest race lap Rookie of the Year Rookie

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “2012 Toyota Racing Series Competitor List” (toyotaracing.co.nz on December 28, 2011; PDF file; 71 kB)
2. ↑ “Teretonga set to sizzle” (voxy.co.nz on January 4, 2012)
3. ↑ ^{a b} “Record numbers for 2012 Toyota Racing Series” (stuff.co.nz on December 12, 2011)
4. ^ “The Car” (toyotaracing.co.nz; accessed January 7, 2012)
5. ↑ “Taupo: R3 - Saturday Qualifying (PDF; 83 kB)” (toyotaracing.co.nz on January 28, 2012)
6. ↑ “R4 - Saturday Qualifying (PDF; 84 kB)” (toyotaracing.co.nz on February 4, 2012)
7. ↑ “Manfield: R5 - Qualifying Session (PDF; 117 kB)” (toyotaracingseries.co.nz on February 11, 2012)

Web links

• Official site of the Toyota Racing Series (English)