2011 Toyota Racing Series

The 2011 Toyota Racing Series was the seventh running of the Toyota Racing Series. The Toyota Racing
2011 Toyota Racing Series
Series is New Zealand's premier open-wheeler motorsport category.
Previous: 2010 Next: 2012
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 Taupo 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 Taupo 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 Taupo 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.

Contents
Teams and drivers
Calendar
Results
Championship standings
Scoring system
Drivers' Championship
References
External links

Teams and drivers

Team No. Driver Rounds
1 Mitch Evans[1] All

7 Nick Cassidy[1] All

Giles Motorsport
13 Nick Foster [1] All

36 Alex Lynn [1] 1–4

2 Earl Bamber [2] 4

4 Kotaro Sakurai[1] 1–4

5 Ivan Lukashevich [1] 1–4

M2 Competition
Earl Bamber [3] 3
11
Ken Smith [1] 4

22 Jordan Skinner [1] All

8 Jamie McNee [1] All

Scott Pye [1] 1–4

19
ETEC Motorsport Jono Lester [4] 5

20 Josh Hill[1] 1–4

48 Mario Farnbacher [1] 1–4

Dart International 17 Alastair Wootten [1] All

29 Daniil Kvyat[1] 1–4

Victory Motor Racing
87 Damon Leitch [1] All

Calendar
The first four rounds were part of the International Trophy.[5]
Round Date Circuit/Location
R1 15 January
1 R2 Teretonga Park, Invercargill
16 January
R3
R1 22 January
2 R2 Timaru International Motor Raceway, Timaru
23 January
R3
R1 5 February
3 R2 Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Waikato
6 February
R3
R1 12 February
4 R2 Manfeild Autocourse, Feilding
13 February
R3
R1 12 March
5 R2 Taupo Motorsport Park, Taupo
13 March
R3

Results
Round Winning Round Winning
Round Circuit Pole Position Winning Driver Winning Team
Driver Team
Race Mitch
Scott Pye ETEC Motorsport
1 Evans
Race Nick
1 Teretonga Park, Invercargill Mitch Evans Giles Motorsport Mitch Evans Giles Motorsport
2 Cassidy
Race
Alex Lynn Giles Motorsport
3
Race Mitch
Mitch Evans Giles Motorsport
1 Evans
Race Timaru International Motor Raceway, Mitch
2 Mitch Evans Giles Motorsport Mitch Evans Giles Motorsport
2 Timaru Evans
Race
Jamie McNee ETEC Motorsport
3
Race Nick
Mitch Evans Giles Motorsport
1 Foster
Race Hampton Downs Motorsport Park,
3 Jamie McNee ETEC Motorsport Mitch Evans Giles Motorsport
2 Waikato
Race Nick
Mitch Evans Giles Motorsport
3 Foster

Race Daniil Victory Motor

Daniil Kvyat
1 Kvyat Racing

Race Ivan
4 Manfeild Autocourse, Feilding M2 Competition Mitch Evans Giles Motorsport
2 Lukashevich
Race Mitch
Mitch Evans Giles Motorsport
3 Evans
Race Mitch
Nick Cassidy Giles Motorsport
1 Evans
Race Mitch
5 Taupo Motorsport Park, Taupo Mitch Evans Giles Motorsport Nick Cassidy Giles Motorsport
2 Evans
Race
Nick Cassidy Giles Motorsport
3

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 2
Points 75 67 60 54 49 45 42 39 36 33 30 28 26 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 9

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver TER TIM HMP MAN TAU Points Colour Result
Mitch Gold Winner
1 2 1 3 1 1 3 1 2 1 2 2 1 Ret 1 3 973
Evans
Silver 2nd place
2 Nick 9 2 8 5 2 4 3 3 3 11 6 8 1 5 1 805
 Cassidy R Bronze 3rd place
Jamie Green Points finish
3 6 10 11 12 6 1 5 1 6 13 7 12 6 2 7 675
McNee
Non-points finish
Scott Blue
4 1 4 5 3 4 7 11 9 4 3 4 3 628 Non-classified finish (NC)
Pye
Daniil Purple Retired (Ret)
5 3 Ret 6 13 7 5 2 7 2 1 3 2 600
Kvyat R Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red
Alastair Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
6 11 7 7 8 9 6 8 10 7 7 15 Ret 3 6 2 584
Wootten
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
Ivan
7 8 8 9 6 5 2 10 12 10 6 1 7 531 Did not start (DNS)
Lukashevich
Damon White Withdrew (WD)
8 Ret 3 4 11 8 Ret 6 5 14 8 8 Ret 4 8 6 517
Leitch R Race cancelled (C)
Alex Did not practice (DNP)
9 4 6 1 2 3 10 4 4 Ret 9 9 Ret 514
Lynn
Blank Did not arrive (DNA)
Nick
10 5 9 Ret 7 10 Ret Ret 13 13 5 14 5 2 3 5 510 Excluded (EX)
Foster R
Jordan
11 10 Ret 12 9 11 9 12 Ret 11 10 Ret 10 7 7 8 410 Bold – Pole
Skinner R
R – Rookie
Mario
12 Farnbacher Ret 5 2 4 Ret Ret 13 11 8 4 10 6 397
R
Josh
13 Ret 12 10 Ret 13 8 9 8 9 12 5 4 368
Hill R
Kotaro
14 7 11 13 10 12 Ret 14 14 12 14 11 9 325
Sakurai R
Earl
15 7 6 5 Ret 12 Ret 164
Bamber
Jono
16 5 4 4 157
Lester
Ken
17 15 13 11 78
Smith
Pos Driver TER TIM HMP MAN TAU Points

References
1. "2011 Toyota Racing Series Competitor List" (http://www.toyotaracing.co.nz/wp-content/themes/TRS/uploads/2010/12/TRS-Competitors-as-D
ec-10.pdf) (PDF). toyotaracing.co.nz. Toyota Racing Management. 21 December 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
2. Martinez, Peter (11 February 2011). "Earl Bamber rusty for NZ Grand Prix defence" (http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/motorsport/4648780/Earl-Bam
ber-rusty-for-NZ-Grand-Prix-defence). Stuff. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
3. "Bamber late entry for Toyota series" (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/motorsport/news/article.cfm?c_id=66&objectid=10704102). The New Zealand
Herald. APN News & Media. New Zealand Press Association. 4 February 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
4. "Lester to make Toyota Racing Series debut at Taupo" (http://www.toyotaracing.co.nz/lester-to-make-toyota-racing-series-debut-at-taupo).
toyotaracing.co.nz. Toyota Racing Management. 11 March 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
5. "Toyota Racing Series – 2011" (http://www.toyotaracing.co.nz/wp-content/themes/TRS/uploads/2010/12/2011-Toyota-Racing-Series-Points1.
pdf) (PDF). toyotaracing.co.nz. 17 February 2011. Retrieved 17 February 2011.

External links
Official website of the Toyota Racing Series (http://www.toyotaracing.co.nz/)

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