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.

2019 Toyota Racing Series
Drivers' Champion: Liam Lawson
Previous: 2018 Next: 2020

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
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 Thomas 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

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 Taupo.[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
Taupo, 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, Manawatu 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

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
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
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 Thomas 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
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not participate (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

Rookie

Footnotes
  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
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  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. 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. 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.
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