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2019 Toyota Racing Series

The 2019 Castrol Toyota Racing Series was the fifteenth running of the Toyota Racing Series, the premier open-wheel motorsport category held in New Zealand. The series consisted of fifteen races at five meetings. It began on 10 January at Highlands Motorsport Park, in Cromwell, and concluded on 10 February with the 64th running of the New Zealand Grand Prix, at Circuit Chris Amon in Feilding.

The championship, as well as the 2019 New Zealand Grand Prix was won by rookie Liam Lawson; who became the first New Zealander to win the championship since Nick Cassidy in 2013.

Champion Liam Lawson and runner-up Marcus Armstrong both took five wins apiece, whilst Cameron Das, FIA Formula 3 European Championship driver Lucas Auer, Esteban Muth, Brendon Leitch and Artem Petrov all had one race win each.

Teams and drivers edit

Team No. Driver Status Rounds
MTEC Motorsport 5   Petru Florescu All
11   Jackson Walls[1] R 2–5
36   Kazuto Kotaka[2] R All
54   Calan Williams[3] All
Giles Motorsport 7   Raoul Hyman[4] All
9   Petr Ptáček[5] R All
16   Tommy Smith[6] R All
21   Dev Gore[7] All
48   Ken Smith[8] 5
M2 Competition 8   Marcus Armstrong[9] All
10   Liam Lawson[10] R All
12   Artem Petrov[11] All
22   Lucas Auer[12] All
28   Cameron Das[13] All
30   Esteban Muth[5] R All
Victory Motor Racing 66   Parker Locke[14] R All
86   Brendon Leitch[15] All

Race calendar edit

The calendar for the series was announced on 19 June 2018, and will be held over five successive weekends in January and February.[16] Races 2 and 3 of the second round at Teretonga were postponed to due high winds and rescheduled. Race 2 will be run at Hampton Downs, and Race 3 qualifying and race will be run at Taupō.[17]

Round Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning Driver Winning Team
1 R1 Highlands Motorsport Park
Cromwell, Otago 		12 January   Raoul Hyman   Liam Lawson   Liam Lawson M2 Competition
R2 13 January   Brendon Leitch   Brendon Leitch Victory Motor Racing
R3   Lucas Auer   Liam Lawson   Liam Lawson M2 Competition
2 R1 Teretonga Park
Invercargill, Southland 		19 January   Liam Lawson   Marcus Armstrong   Marcus Armstrong M2 Competition
R2 20 January Races 2 and 3 cancelled due to unsafe high wind conditions.[17]
R3
3 R1 Hampton Downs Motorsport Park
Hampton Downs, North Waikato 		25 January [N 1]   Cameron Das   Artem Petrov M2 Competition
R2 26 January   Marcus Armstrong   Marcus Armstrong   Marcus Armstrong M2 Competition
R3 27 January   Liam Lawson   Liam Lawson M2 Competition
R4   Marcus Armstrong   Artem Petrov   Marcus Armstrong M2 Competition
4 R1 Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park
Taupō, South Waikato 		2 February   Liam Lawson   Liam Lawson   Liam Lawson M2 Competition
R2   Liam Lawson   Marcus Armstrong   Lucas Auer M2 Competition
R3 3 February   Marcus Armstrong   Esteban Muth M2 Competition
R4   Lucas Auer   Lucas Auer   Marcus Armstrong M2 Competition
5 R1 Manfeild: Circuit Chris Amon
Feilding, Manawatū District 		9 February   Liam Lawson   Marcus Armstrong   Marcus Armstrong M2 Competition
R2 10 February   Cameron Das   Cameron Das M2 Competition
R3   Lucas Auer   Liam Lawson   Liam Lawson M2 Competition

Championship standings edit

The series had introduced a new drivers' championship points system for the season. Drivers were awarded the same number of points for Races 1 & 3. Race 2 featured a reversed grid of the top 6 to 8 finishers from Race 1, and awarded reduced points to the top 15 finishers. Drivers must have completed 75% of the race distance and be running at the finish to score points.[18][19]

Scoring system edit

Race (starting grid from qualifying)
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Points 35 31 27 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Reversed grid Race
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th
Points 20 18 16 14 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Drivers' championship edit

Pos. Driver HIG TER HMP TAU MAN Points
1   Liam Lawson 1 5 1 2 C C 7 3 1 Ret 1 2 3 3 2 5 1 356
2   Marcus Armstrong 2 3 2 1 C C 10 1 4 1 3 NC 8 1 1 9 2 346
3   Lucas Auer 3 Ret 4 5 C C Ret 4 3 15 2 1 7 2 3 2 Ret 270
4   Raoul Hyman 4 2 3 11 C C 5 2 9 10 5 3 6 5 9 6 4 270
5   Esteban Muth 6 4 11 9 C C Ret 6 2 5 7 6 1 4 6 3 5 258
6   Brendon Leitch 5 1 9 8 C C 3 14 10 4 13 5 2 9 4 4 6 245
7   Cameron Das 9 6 7 4 C C Ret 7 5 3 15 10 5 8 7 1 Ret 205
8   Calan Williams 11 7 8 7 C C Ret 8 8 7 8 8 9 7 5 7 Ret 183
9   Artem Petrov 10 Ret 6 3 C C 1 Ret 7 2 4 4 4 Ret DNS DNS Ret 181
10   Kazuto Kotaka 8 Ret 10 6 C C 11 9 6 6 9 15 10 6 Ret 10 3 176
11   Petr Ptáček 7 8 5 12 C C 2 Ret 11 12 14 7 11 Ret Ret 12 Ret 123
12   Jackson Walls 13 C C 8 5 Ret 8 6 13 12 10 10 Ret Ret 110
13   Dev Gore 14 9 13 10 C C 4 13 14 14 12 9 14 12 11 Ret Ret 109
14   Tommy Smith 15 12 12 14 C C 12 11 12 9 11 14 13 13 14 8 Ret 101
15   Parker Locke 13 11 14 15 C C 9 12 15 11 16 12 15 Ret 12 11 7 100
16   Petru Florescu 12 10 Ret Ret C C 6 10 13 13 10 11 Ret 11 8 Ret DNS 98
17   Ken Smith 13 13 8 27
Pos. Driver HIG TER HMP TAU MAN Points
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third 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 practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

Rookie

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ Race 1 at Hampton Downs was the make-up of Race 2 from Teretonga, featuring a partially reversed grid of the top six finishers from the first race.

References edit

  1. ^ "Castrol Toyota Racing Series welcomes youngest gun". 13 December 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Kotaka heading to New Zealand to begin 2019". 21 December 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Williams set to begin 2019 European challenge with NZ warm up". 11 December 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  4. ^ "Hyman aiming to win in New Zealand to begin 2019". January 3, 2019. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
  5. ^ a b Allen, Peter (30 October 2018). "Italian F4 rookie champion Petr Ptacek to contest Toyota Racing Series". FormulaScout. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  6. ^ "Smith to run Castrol Toyota Racing Series with Giles Motorsport". 27 November 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  7. ^ "Gore for New Zealand as 2019 Castrol Toyota Racing Series gathers pace". 5 December 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  8. ^ "King Kenny rides again". February 5, 2019. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
  9. ^ "Kiwi Armstrong aiming to win". 4 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  10. ^ "Lawson first Kiwi for Castrol Toyota Racing Series". 29 November 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  11. ^ "Petrov heads to New Zealand to begin 2019". Toyota New Zealand. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  12. ^ "Auer heads to New Zealand to begin 2019 campaign". Toyota New Zealand. 22 December 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  13. ^ "Das a likely challenger in Castrol Toyota Racing Series". 15 November 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  14. ^ "Young US racer Locke's in New Zealand Camp". 14 November 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  15. ^ "Leitch back for title attempt in Castrol Toyota Racing Series". 19 December 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  16. ^ "Toyota Racing Series unveils 2019 schedule". Motorsport.com. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  17. ^ a b Bradley, Charles (19 January 2019). "Toyota cancels further Teretonga TRS track activity on safety grounds". Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network.
  18. ^ "Castrol Toyota Racing Series Points Table". Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  19. ^ "The DownLow; The Official Magazine of the Castrol Toyota Racing Series; Issue 09". 15 January 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

External links edit

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