2011 Toyota Racing Series

2011 Toyota Racing Series

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The 2011 Toyota Racing Series was the seventh running of the Toyota Racing Series. The Toyota Racing Series is New Zealand's premier open-wheeler motorsport category.

Defending champion Mitch Evans of Giles Motorsport retained both his International Trophy and main series titles, joining Daniel Gaunt as the only drivers to have won the Series on more than one occasion, after enjoying a successful championship campaign. Evans took seven race victories – including becoming the youngest-ever winner of the New Zealand Grand Prix – and fourteen podium finishes out of a possible fifteen races. Evans clinched both championship titles at Manfield after his closest rival at the time, Scott Pye elected not to attend the final meeting of the season at Taupō due to testing commitments in Europe. Pye fell to fourth in the championship standings after strong weekends for Nick Cassidy and Jamie McNee allowed them to overhaul Pye's points tally.

Cassidy, another Giles Motorsport driver, finished as top rookie after taking the round victory at Taupō which included his first two race wins in the Series, and he also took five further podium finishes as he finished 168 points behind Evans. McNee, in his second season in the championship, took his first race victories, winning at Timaru and Hampton Downs as well as a second place at Taupō to finish 47 points clear of Pye. Russian driver Daniil Kvyat finished the best of the five European drivers in the series, finishing in fifth place for Victory Motor Racing with a solitary victory at Manfeild. Two other drivers won races during the season, Russia's Ivan Lukashevich, like fellow countryman Kvyat won at Manfeild, and Britain's Alex Lynn won at Teretonga.

Teams and drivers

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Giles Motorsport	1	Mitch Evans	All
	7	Nick Cassidy	All
	13	Nick Foster	All
	36	Alex Lynn	1–4
M2 Competition	2	Earl Bamber	4
	4	Kotaro Sakurai	1–4
	5	Ivan Lukashevich	1–4
	11	Earl Bamber	3
		Ken Smith	4
	22	Jordan Skinner	All
ETEC Motorsport	8	Jamie McNee	All
	19	Scott Pye	1–4
		Jono Lester	5
	20	Josh Hill	1–4
	48	Mario Farnbacher	1–4
Dart International	17	Alastair Wootten	All
Victory Motor Racing	29	Daniil Kvyat	1–4
	87	Damon Leitch	All

Calendar

The first four rounds were part of the International Trophy.

Round		Date	Circuit/Location
1	R1	15 January	Teretonga Park, Invercargill
	R2	16 January
	R3
2	R1	22 January	Timaru International Motor Raceway, Timaru
	R2	23 January
	R3
3	R1	5 February	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Waikato
	R2	6 February
	R3
4	R1	12 February	Manfeild Autocourse, Feilding
	R2	13 February
	R3
5	R1	12 March	Taupo Motorsport Park, Taupō
	R2	13 March
	R3

Results

Round		Circuit	Pole Position	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Round Winning Driver	Round Winning Team
1	R1	Teretonga Park, Invercargill	Mitch Evans	Scott Pye	ETEC Motorsport	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
	R2		Nick Cassidy	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
	R3			Alex Lynn	Giles Motorsport
2	R1	Timaru International Motor Raceway, Timaru	Mitch Evans	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
	R2		Mitch Evans	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
	R3			Jamie McNee	ETEC Motorsport
3	R1	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Waikato	Nick Foster	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
	R2			Jamie McNee	ETEC Motorsport
	R3		Nick Foster	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
4	R1	Manfeild Autocourse, Feilding	Daniil Kvyat	Daniil Kvyat	Victory Motor Racing	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
	R2			Ivan Lukashevich	M2 Competition
	R3		Mitch Evans	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
5	R1	Taupo Motorsport Park, Taupō	Mitch Evans	Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport	Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport
	R2		Mitch Evans	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
	R3			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 HMP MAN TAU Points 1 Mitch Evans 2 1 3 1 1 3 1 2 1 2 2 1 Ret 1 3 973 2 Nick Cassidy R 9 2 8 5 2 4 3 3 3 11 6 8 1 5 1 805 3 Jamie McNee 6 10 11 12 6 1 5 1 6 13 7 12 6 2 7 675 4 Scott Pye 1 4 5 3 4 7 11 9 4 3 4 3 628 5 Daniil Kvyat R 3 Ret 6 13 7 5 2 7 2 1 3 2 600 6 Alastair Wootten 11 7 7 8 9 6 8 10 7 7 15 Ret 3 6 2 584 7 Ivan Lukashevich 8 8 9 6 5 2 10 12 10 6 1 7 531 8 Damon Leitch R Ret 3 4 11 8 Ret 6 5 14 8 8 Ret 4 8 6 517 9 Alex Lynn 4 6 1 2 3 10 4 4 Ret 9 9 Ret 514 10 Nick Foster R 5 9 Ret 7 10 Ret Ret 13 13 5 14 5 2 3 5 510 11 Jordan Skinner R 10 Ret 12 9 11 9 12 Ret 11 10 Ret 10 7 7 8 410 12 Mario Farnbacher R Ret 5 2 4 Ret Ret 13 11 8 4 10 6 397 13 Josh Hill R Ret 12 10 Ret 13 8 9 8 9 12 5 4 368 14 Kotaro Sakurai R 7 11 13 10 12 Ret 14 14 12 14 11 9 325 15 Earl Bamber 7 6 5 Ret 12 Ret 164 16 Jono Lester 5 4 4 157 17 Ken Smith 15 13 11 78 Pos Driver TER TIM HMP MAN TAU 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 R – Rookie

External links

• Official website of the Toyota Racing Series