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2011 Toyota Racing Series

Motor racing competition

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	NZL Mitch Evans	All
7	NZL Nick Cassidy	All
13	AUS Nick Foster	All
36	GBR Alex Lynn	1–4
M2 Competition	2	NZL Earl Bamber	4
4	JPN Kotaro Sakurai	1–4
5	RUS Ivan Lukashevich	1–4
11	NZL Earl Bamber	3
NZL Ken Smith	4
22	AUS Jordan Skinner	All
ETEC Motorsport	8	NZL Jamie McNee	All
19	AUS Scott Pye	1–4
NZL Jono Lester	5
20	GBR Josh Hill	1–4
48	DEU Mario Farnbacher	1–4
Dart International	17	NZL Alastair Wootten	All
Victory Motor Racing	29	RUS Daniil Kvyat	1–4
87	NZL Damon Leitch	All

Calendar

The first four rounds were part of the International Trophy.

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

Results

Round	Circuit	nowrap	Pole Position	nowrap	Winning Driver	nowrap
NZL Teretonga Park, Invercargill	NZL Mitch Evans	AUS Scott Pye	ETEC Motorsport	NZL Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
nowrap	NZL Nick Cassidy	NZL Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
	GBR Alex Lynn	Giles Motorsport
NZL Timaru International Motor Raceway, Timaru	NZL Mitch Evans	NZL Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport	NZL Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
NZL Mitch Evans	NZL Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
	NZL Jamie McNee	ETEC Motorsport
NZL Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Waikato	AUS Nick Foster	NZL Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport	NZL Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
	NZL Jamie McNee	ETEC Motorsport
AUS Nick Foster	NZL Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
NZL Manfeild Autocourse, Feilding	RUS Daniil Kvyat	RUS Daniil Kvyat	nowrap	Victory Motor Racing	NZL Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
	nowrap	RUS Ivan Lukashevich	M2 Competition
NZL Mitch Evans	NZL Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
NZL Taupo Motorsport Park, Taupō	NZL Mitch Evans	NZL Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport	NZL Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport
NZL Mitch Evans	NZL Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport
	NZL Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport

Championship standings

Scoring system

Position	Points
1st	2nd
75	67

Drivers' Championship

Pos	Driver	TER	TIM	HMP	MAN	TAU	Points	1	973	2	805	3	675	4	628
NZL Mitch Evans	2	1	3	1	1	3	1	2	1	2	2	1	Ret	1	3
NZL Nick Cassidy	9	2	8	5	2	4	3	3	3	11	6	8	1	5	1
NZL Jamie McNee	6	10	11	12	6	1	5	1	6	13	7	12	6	2	7
AUS Scott Pye	1	4	5	3	4	7	11	9	4	3	4	3
RUS Daniil Kvyat	3	Ret	6	13	7	5	2	7	2	1	3	2
NZL Alastair Wootten	11	7	7	8	9	6	8	10	7	7	15	Ret	3	6	2
RUS Ivan Lukashevich	8	8	9	6	5	2	10	12	10	6	1	7
NZL Damon Leitch	Ret	3	4	11	8	Ret	6	5	14	8	8	Ret	4	8	6
GBR Alex Lynn	4	6	1	2	3	10	4	4	Ret	9	9	Ret
AUS Nick Foster	5	9	Ret	7	10	Ret	Ret	13	13	5	14	5	2	3	5
AUS Jordan Skinner	10	Ret	12	9	11	9	12	Ret	11	10	Ret	10	7	7	8
DEU Mario Farnbacher	Ret	5	2	4	Ret	Ret	13	11	8	4	10	6
GBR Josh Hill	Ret	12	10	Ret	13	8	9	8	9	12	5	4
JPN Kotaro Sakurai	7	11	13	10	12	Ret	14	14	12	14	11	9
NZL Earl Bamber							7	6	5	Ret	12	Ret
NZL Jono Lester													5	4	4
NZL Ken Smith										15	13	11

Bold – Pole

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References

(21 December 2010). "2011 Toyota Racing Series Competitor List". Toyota Racing Management.
Martinez, Peter. (11 February 2011). "Earl Bamber rusty for NZ Grand Prix defence". [[Fairfax Media]].
(4 February 2011). "Bamber late entry for Toyota series". [[APN News & Media]].
(11 March 2011). "Lester to make Toyota Racing Series debut at Taupo". Toyota Racing Management.
(17 February 2011). "Toyota Racing Series – 2011". toyotaracing.co.nz.

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