2012 Toyota Racing Series

2012 Toyota Racing Series
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The 2012 Toyota Racing Series was the eighth running of the Toyota Racing Series, the premier open-wheeler motorsport category held in New Zealand. The 15-race competition was won by Nick Cassidy.

Teams and drivers

The series announced a 20-driver entry list on 28 December 2011.^[1]

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Giles Motorsport	1	Mitch Evans[1]	4–5
	2	Nick Cassidy[1]	All
	5	Bruno Bonifacio[1]	All
	6	Félix Serrallés[1]	All
	15	Lucas Auer[1]	All
	16	Hannes van Asseldonk[1]	All
Victory Motor Racing	4	Chris Vlok[1]	All
	20	Dmitry Suranovich[1]	All
	87	Damon Leitch[1]	All
	88	Michela Cerruti[1]	All
ETEC Motorsport	7	Jono Lester[1]	All
	8	Melvin Moh[1]	All
	9	Victor Sendin[1]	1–3
		Ken Smith[2]	5
	10	Josh Hill[1]	All
	11	Shahaan Engineer[1]	All
M2 Competition	42	Jordan King[1]	All
	43	Tanart Sathienthirakul[1]	All
	51	Sheban Siddiqi[1]	All
	52	Nathanaël Berthon[1]	All
	53	Raffaele Marciello[1]	All

Calendar

The calendar for the series was announced on 11 July 2011,^[3] and was held over five successive weekends in January and February.

Round		Date	Circuit/Location
1	Race 1	14 January	Teretonga Park, Invercargill
	Race 2	15 January
	Race 3
2	Race 1	21 January	Timaru International Motor Raceway, Timaru
	Race 2	22 January
	Race 3
3	Race 1	28 January	Taupo Motorsport Park, Taupo
	Race 2	29 January
	Race 3
4	Race 1	4 February	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Waikato
	Race 2	5 February
	Race 3
5	Race 1	11 February	Manfeild Autocourse, Feilding
	Race 2	12 February
	Race 3

Results

Round		Circuit	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Round winner
1	R1	Teretonga Park	Lucas Auer	Damon Leitch	Josh Hill	ETEC Motorsport	Damon Leitch
	R2		Lucas Auer	Nick Cassidy	Hannes van Asseldonk	Giles Motorsport
	R3			Hannes van Asseldonk	Hannes van Asseldonk	Giles Motorsport
2	R1	Timaru International Motor Raceway	Hannes van Asseldonk	Damon Leitch	Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport	Nick Cassidy
	R2		Hannes van Asseldonk	Damon Leitch	Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport
	R3			Raffaele Marciello	Damon Leitch	Victory Motor Racing
3	R1	Taupo Motorsport Park	Jordan King	Jordan King	Jordan King	M2 Competition	Jordan King
	R2		Josh Hill	Nick Cassidy	Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport
	R3			Hannes van Asseldonk	Hannes van Asseldonk	Giles Motorsport
4	R1	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park	Mitch Evans	Hannes van Asseldonk	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport	Nick Cassidy
	R2		Mitch Evans	Raffaele Marciello	Raffaele Marciello	M2 Competition
	R3			Nick Cassidy	Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport
5	R1	Manfeild Autocourse	Mitch Evans	Mitch Evans	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport	Nick Cassidy
	R2			Mitch Evans	Félix Serrallés	Giles Motorsport
	R3		Mitch Evans	Mitch Evans	Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport

Championship standings

Scoring system

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

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver TER TIM TAU HMP MAN Points 1 Nick Cassidy 39 67 67 75 75 60 49 75 39 60 49 75 60 49 75 914 2 Hannes van Asseldonk Ret 75 75 49 26 14 60 49 75 67 54 60 67 Ret 67 738 3 Damon Leitch 67 54 60 67 49 75 45 67 33 28 26 Ret 14 28 20 633 4 Josh Hill 75 26 45 60 42 16 67 26 67 42 Ret 54 49 60 Ret 629 5 Jordan King Ret Ret 33 42 60 45 75 54 60 45 60 42 39 36 Ret 591 6 Lucas Auer Ret Ret 24 45 22 24 42 45 49 54 67 49 54 54 60 589 7 Nathanaël Berthon 54 30 39 36 20 39 39 39 45 39 Ret 45 36 45 49 555 8 Félix Serrallés 45 42 54 54 67 33 36 Ret 54 DNS DNS DNS 45 75 42 547 9 Raffaele Marciello Ret 49 NC 33 36 49 54 60 16 49 75 39 33 42 Ret 535 10 Bruno Bonifacio 36 60 42 Ret 30 30 33 42 42 36 39 Ret 42 39 54 525 11 Jono Lester 60 Ret 30 39 54 54 30 36 36 33 45 22 Ret 30 45 514 12 Dmitry Suranovich 49 22 22 28 45 67 28 28 30 30 Ret Ret 28 24 39 440 13 Shahaan Engineer 30 45 NC 30 28 20 26 33 28 26 42 26 24 26 22 406 14 Tanart Sathienthirakul 26 36 28 22 Ret 26 24 30 24 22 36 36 20 20 33 383 15 Chris Vlok 28 24 36 20 Ret 28 20 24 22 18 30 28 30 33 30 371 16 Michela Cerruti 33 33 26 18 24 22 22 20 18 16 33 30 22 22 28 367 17 Melvin Moh Ret 39 18 24 33 42 Ret Ret 20 24 28 33 26 DNS 36 323 18 Victor Sendin 42 28 49 26 39 36 18 22 26 286 19 Mitch Evans 75 Ret 67 75 67 Ret 284 20 Sheban Siddiqi 24 Ret 20 16 18 18 16 Ret Ret 20 Ret 24 16 16 24 212 21 Ken Smith 18 18 26 62 Pos Driver TER TIM TAU HMP MAN Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole R - Rookie

References

1. "2012 Toyota Racing Series Competitor List" (PDF). Toyota Racing Series. Toyota Racing Management. 28 December 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
2. "2012 Toyota Racing Series: Manfeild Qualifying" (PDF). Toyota Racing Series. Toyota Racing Management. 11 February 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
3. "TRS goes back-to-back in 2012". Toyota Racing Series. Toyota Racing Management. 11 July 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2011.

External links

• Official website of the Toyota Racing Series