2016 Toyota Racing Series – Round 4, Schedule The Toyota Racing Series continues at the Taupo this weekend February 6th/7th. The top seven on the points table are closely matched, with the top Kiwi driver Brendon Leitch fifth overall and just 14 points away from second. He has already had two second places in races…
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2016 Toyota Racing Series – Svetlana is Breaking the Mould
Svetlana is Breaking the Mould For the last two years Svetlana Strelnikova has celebrated her birthday in an oyster restaurant at Bluff. Strelnikova is in a unique position in world motorsport as the Team Principal of Russian Time, which competes in the GP2 series, the curtain raiser to most of the European rounds of the…
2016 Toyota Racing Series – Points After Round 3, Norris Keeps Control
Points After Race 9 of 15 1st, Lando Norris*, 518 points 2nd, Pedro Piquet, 466 points 3rd, Jehan Daruvala, 463 points 4th, Guanyu Zhou*, 460 points 5th, Brendon Leitch, 452 points 6th, Ferdinand Habsburg/Artem Markelov, 423 points 8th, James Munro, 320 points 9th, Antoni Ptak, 303 points 10th, Taylor Cockerton*, 289 points 11th, Devlin DeFrancesco*,…
2016 Toyota Racing Series – Hampton Downs, Race 3, Piquet Wins Behind the Safety Car
Piquet adds his name to famous trophy Pedro Piquet has put another famous name on the NZ Motor Trophy after winning the main race at the third round of the Toyota Racing Series at Hampton Downs on Sunday afternoon. First presented in 1921, the solid silver trophy used to be awarded to the winner of…
2016 Toyota Racing Series – Hampton Downs, Race 2, Zhou Survives Chaos to Win
Zhou takes chaotic Toyota Racing Series race Chinese driver Guanyu Zhou has won a drama packed preliminary race in the Toyota Racing Series at Hampton Downs this morning. Zhou started from the front row of the reverse grid and was never headed while all the action happened behind him. The race was stopped twice to…
2016 Toyota Racing Series – Hampton Downs, Race 1 to Norris
Norris extends Toyota Racing Series lead Lando Norris has extended his lead in the Toyota Racing Series after winning this afternoon’s preliminary race at Hampton Downs from Jehan Daruvala and Pedro Piquet. “I just wanted to control the race,” said 16 year old Norris after taking a flag to flag victory – an unusual occurrence…
2016 Toyota Racing Series – Hampton Downs, Qualifying Honours Split Between Norris and Piquet
Piquet and Norris Share the Honours Pedro Piquet (Brazil) and Lando Norris (England) each won pole position for TRS events at Hampton Downs over the weekend. Norris was fastest in the first session to get the prime qualifying place for this afternoon’s 15 lap race. Jehan Daruvala (India) will share the front row with him,…
2016 Toyota Racing Series – Hampton Downs, Day 2, Free Practice 3
Day 2, Free Practice Session 3 1st – No. 40, James Munro, NZL, Giles Motorsport, 1:00.087 2nd – No. 5, Pedro Piquet, BRA, M2 Competition, 1:00.087 3rd – No. 67, Antoni Ptak*, POL, Giles Motorsport, 1:00.184 4th – No. 10, Artem Markelov, RUS, M2 Competition, 1:00.231 5th – No. 62, Ferdinand Habsburg, AUT, Giles Motorsport,…
2016 Toyota Racing Series – Hampton Downs, Day 2, Free Practice 3
Kiwis lead the way in Toyota Racing Series practice Brendon Leitch (Invercargill) and James Munro (Christchurch) lead the way after today’s official practice for the third round of the Toyota Racing Series at Hampton Downs. Leitch set the day’s quickest time in the morning session coming close to breaking the one minute barrier with a…
2016 Toyota Racing Series – Hampton Downs, Day 2, Free Practice 2
Day 2, Free Practice Session 2 1st – No. 31, Lando Norris*, GBR, M2 Competition, 1:00.472 2nd – No. 67, Antoni Ptak*, POL, Giles Motorsport, 1:00.546 3rd – No. 40, James Munro, NZL, Giles Motorsport, 1:00.651 4th – No. 6, Jehan Daruvala*, IND, M2 Competition, 1:00.680 5th – No. 5, Pedro Piquet, BRA, M2 Competition,…
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