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 |
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Giles Motorsport | 1 | Mitch Evans | 4, 5 |
2 | Nick Cassidy | 1-5 | |
5 | Bruno Bonifacio | 1-5 | |
6th | Felix Serralles | 1-5 | |
15th | Lucas Auer | 1-5 | |
16 | Hannes van Asseldonk | 1-5 | |
Victory Motor Racing | 4th | Chris Vlok | 1-5 |
20th | Dmitri Suranovich | 1-5 | |
87 | Damon Leitch | 1-5 | |
88 | Michela Cerruti | 1-5 | |
ETEC motorsport | 7th | Jono Lester | 1-5 |
8th | Melvin Moh | 1-5 | |
9 | 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 |
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1. | January 14th | Invercargill | Josh Hill | Damon Leitch | Jono Lester |
2. | 15. January | Hannes van Asseldonk | Nick Cassidy | Bruno Bonifacio | |
3. | Hannes van Asseldonk | Nick Cassidy | Damon Leitch | ||
4th | 21th January | Timaru | Nick Cassidy | Damon Leitch | Josh Hill |
5. | 22nd of January | Nick Cassidy | Felix Serralles | Jordan King | |
6th | Damon Leitch | Dmitri Suranovich | Nick Cassidy | ||
7th | January 28th | Taupo | Jordan King | Josh Hill | Hannes van Asseldonk |
8th. | January 29th | Nick Cassidy | Damon Leitch | Raffaele Marciello | |
9. | Hannes van Asseldonk | Josh Hill | Jordan King | ||
10. | February 4th | North Waikato | Mitch Evans | Hannes van Asseldonk | Nick Cassidy |
11. | February 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 |
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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
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Individual evidence
- ↑ “2012 Toyota Racing Series Competitor List” (toyotaracing.co.nz on December 28, 2011; PDF file; 71 kB)
- ↑ “Teretonga set to sizzle” (voxy.co.nz on January 4, 2012)
- ↑ a b “Record numbers for 2012 Toyota Racing Series” (stuff.co.nz on December 12, 2011)
- ^ “The Car” (toyotaracing.co.nz; accessed January 7, 2012)
- ↑ “Taupo: R3 - Saturday Qualifying (PDF; 83 kB)” (toyotaracing.co.nz on January 28, 2012)
- ↑ “R4 - Saturday Qualifying (PDF; 84 kB)” (toyotaracing.co.nz on February 4, 2012)
- ↑ “Manfield: R5 - Qualifying Session (PDF; 117 kB)” (toyotaracingseries.co.nz on February 11, 2012)