Toyota Racing Series 2013

The 2013 Toyota Racing Series season was the ninth season of the Toyota Racing Series . It began on January 12th in Invercargill and ended on February 10th in Feilding . A total of 15 races were held on 5 racetracks.

Teams and drivers

The entry list for the 2013 season was published on December 28, 2012.

A Tatuus chassis with Toyota engines was used .

team	Car no.	driver	Race weekend
M2 Competition	01	Nick Cassidy	1-5
	10	Spike Goddard	1-5
	17th	Ryan Cullen	1, 2
	19th	Pieter Schothorst	5
	21st	Steijn Schothorst	1-5
	36	Alex Lynn	1-5
	44	Dennis Olsen	1-5
Victory Motor Racing	03	Damon Leitch	1-5
	16	Ignazio D'Agosto	4, 5
	53	Michael Scott	1-5
Giles Motorsport	04th	Felix Serralles	1-5
	05	Bruno Bonifacio	1-5
	06th	Pipo Derani	1-5
	09	Mitch Evans	4th
		Ken Smith	5
	11	Lucas Auer	1-5
	18th	Nicholas Latifi	1-5
ETEC motorsport	07th	Tatiana Calderón	1-5
	22nd	Andrew Tang	1-5
	23	Jann Mardenborough	1-5
	29	Akash Nandy	1-5
	43	Tanart Sathienthirakul	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 of a driver in the first qualifying. For the second race, the target order of the first race was followed, with either the first four, six or eight pilots starting in the reverse order ( reversed grid ), depending on the size of the starting field. In the third race, the starting grid for the race was determined by the fastest time of the second qualifying.

No.	date	Racetrack	winner	Second	Third
01.	January 12th	Invercargill	Lucas Auer	Nick Cassidy	Alex Lynn
02.	13th January		Pipo Derani	Felix Serralles	Alex Lynn
03.			Felix Serralles	Lucas Auer	Steijn Schothorst
04th	January 19th	Timaru	Lucas Auer	Nick Cassidy	Bruno Bonifacio
05.	January 20th		Felix Serralles	Damon Leitch	Nick Cassidy
06th			Alex Lynn	Lucas Auer	Felix Serralles
07th	January 26th	Taupo	Alex Lynn	Nick Cassidy	Steijn Schothorst
08th.	January 27th		Bruno Bonifacio	Steijn Schothorst	Lucas Auer
09.			Alex Lynn	Nick Cassidy	Bruno Bonifacio
10.	0February 2nd	North Waikato	Mitch Evans	Alex Lynn	Pipo Derani
11.	03 February		Nick Cassidy	Pipo Derani	Lucas Auer
12.			Mitch Evans	Alex Lynn	Nick Cassidy
13.	0February 9	Feilding	Steijn Schothorst	Nick Cassidy	Alex Lynn
14th	February 10th		Bruno Bonifacio	Nick Cassidy	Ignazio D'Agosto
15th			Nick Cassidy	Alex Lynn	Steijn Schothorst

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 2 4th 8th 2 3 7th 2 4th 2 4th 1 3 2 2 1 915 02  A. Lynn 3 3 DNF 7th 6th 1 1 8th 1 2 6th 2 3 15th 2 803 03  L. Auer 1 5 2 1 5 2 5 3 16 5 3 4th 4th 14th 6th 797 04th  S. Schothorst 8th 6th 3 4th 17th 4th 3 2 4th 8th 7th 10 1 4th 3 754 05  B. Bonifacio 5 7th 4th 3 4th DNF 4th 1 3 DNF 9 DNF 7th 1 5 650 06th  F. Serralles 4th 2 1 6th 1 3 16 9 6th 9 12 DNF 8th 11 9 646 07th  P. Derani 6th 1 5 8th 7th 8th DNF 15th 14th 3 2 9 6th 12 4th 625 08th  D. Leitch 10 8th 6th 5 2 5 7th 7th 5 17th 11 12 12 8th 11 588 09  N. Latifi 7th 10 10 9 8th 6th 13 16 7th 11 8th 7th 11 17th 12 503 10  J. Mardenborough 11 9 7th 10 9 9 6th 12 12 6th 6th DNF DNF 6th 7th 491 11  T. Sathienthirakul 9 12 12 11 10 13 14th 13 11 13 10 5 10 9 14th 462 12  T. Calderón 12 11 11 12 16 11 8th 5 13 12 13 14th 15th 13 13 432 13  D. Olsen 15th 15th 16 14th 11 12 9 10 8th 7th NC 8th 13 5 DNF 410 14th  A. Nandy 14th 13 9 18th 12 10 10 6th 15th DNF 14th DNF 18th 7th 18th 361 15th  A. Tang 17th 18th 13 17th 15th 14th 11 DNF 9 10 DNF 6th 14th 16 10 345 16  M. Scott 16 16 15th 15th 14th 16 15th 14th 10 16 15th 13 17th DNF 15th 315 17th  S. Goddard 13 14th DNF 13 DNF 15th 12 11 DNF 15th 16 11 16 DNF 19th 262 18th  M. Evans 1 4th 1 204 19th  I. D'Agosto 14th DNF 15th 9 3 8th 181 20th  R. Cullen 18th 17th 14th 16 13 17th 122 21st  P. Schothorst 5 DNF 17th 67 22nd  K. Smith 19th 10 16 67 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. ↑ “2013 Toyota Racing Series Entry List” (toyotaracing.co.nz on January 4, 2013; PDF file; 86 kB)
2. ↑ "The Car" (toyotaracing.co.nz; accessed January 4, 2013)

Web links

• Official site of the Toyota Racing Series (English)