2012 Toyota Racing Series

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The 2012 Toyota Racing Series was the eighth running of the Toyota Racing Series, the premier open-wheeler motorsport category held in New Zealand. The 15-race competition was won by Nick Cassidy.

The series announced a 20-driver entry list on 28 December 2011.^[1]

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Giles Motorsport	1	Mitch Evans[1]	4–5
	2	Nick Cassidy[1]	All
	5	Bruno Bonifacio[1]	All
	6	Félix Serrallés[1]	All
	15	Lucas Auer[1]	All
	16	Hannes van Asseldonk[1]	All
Victory Motor Racing	4	Chris Vlok[1]	All
	20	Dmitry Suranovich[1]	All
	87	Damon Leitch[1]	All
	88	Michela Cerruti[1]	All
ETEC Motorsport	7	Jono Lester[1]	All
	8	Melvin Moh[1]	All
	9	Victor Sendin[1]	1–3
		Ken Smith[2]	5
	10	Josh Hill[1]	All
	11	Shahaan Engineer[1]	All
M2 Competition	42	Jordan King[1]	All
	43	Tanart Sathienthirakul[1]	All
	51	Sheban Siddiqi[1]	All
	52	Nathanaël Berthon[1]	All
	53	Raffaele Marciello[1]	All

The calendar for the series was announced on 11 July 2011,^[3] and was held over five successive weekends in January and February.

Round		Date	Circuit/Location
1	Race 1	14 January	Teretonga Park, Invercargill
	Race 2	15 January
	Race 3
2	Race 1	21 January	Timaru International Motor Raceway, Timaru
	Race 2	22 January
	Race 3
3	Race 1	28 January	Taupo Motorsport Park, Taupō
	Race 2	29 January
	Race 3
4	Race 1	4 February	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Waikato
	Race 2	5 February
	Race 3
5	Race 1	11 February	Manfeild Autocourse, Feilding
	Race 2	12 February
	Race 3

Round		Circuit	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Round winner
1	R1	Teretonga Park	Lucas Auer	Damon Leitch	Josh Hill	ETEC Motorsport	Damon Leitch
	R2		Lucas Auer	Nick Cassidy	Hannes van Asseldonk	Giles Motorsport
	R3			Hannes van Asseldonk	Hannes van Asseldonk	Giles Motorsport
2	R1	Timaru International Motor Raceway	Hannes van Asseldonk	Damon Leitch	Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport	Nick Cassidy
	R2		Hannes van Asseldonk	Damon Leitch	Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport
	R3			Raffaele Marciello	Damon Leitch	Victory Motor Racing
3	R1	Taupo Motorsport Park	Jordan King	Jordan King	Jordan King	M2 Competition	Jordan King
	R2		Josh Hill	Nick Cassidy	Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport
	R3			Hannes van Asseldonk	Hannes van Asseldonk	Giles Motorsport
4	R1	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park	Mitch Evans	Hannes van Asseldonk	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport	Nick Cassidy
	R2		Mitch Evans	Raffaele Marciello	Raffaele Marciello	M2 Competition
	R3			Nick Cassidy	Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport
5	R1	Manfeild Autocourse	Mitch Evans	Mitch Evans	Mitch Evans	Giles Motorsport	Nick Cassidy
	R2			Mitch Evans	Félix Serrallés	Giles Motorsport
	R3		Mitch Evans	Mitch Evans	Nick Cassidy	Giles Motorsport

Pos Driver TER TIM TAU HMP MAN Points 1 Nick Cassidy 8 2 2 1 1 3 5 1 8 3 5 1 3 5 1 914 2 Hannes van Asseldonk Ret 1 1 5 13 19 3 5 1 2 4 3 2 Ret 2 738 3 Damon Leitch 2 4 3 2 5 1 6 2 10 12 13 Ret 19 12 16 633 4 Josh Hill 1 13 6 3 7 18 2 13 2 7 Ret 4 5 3 Ret 629 5 Jordan King Ret Ret 10 7 3 6 1 4 3 6 3 7 8 9 Ret 591 6 Lucas Auer Ret Ret 14 6 15 14 7 6 5 4 2 5 4 4 3 589 7 Nathanaël Berthon 4 11 8 9 16 8 8 8 6 8 Ret 6 9 6 5 555 8 Félix Serrallés 6 7 4 4 2 10 9 Ret 4 DNS DNS DNS 6 1 7 547 9 Raffaele Marciello Ret 5 NC 10 9 5 4 3 18 5 1 8 10 7 Ret 535 10 Bruno Bonifacio 9 3 7 Ret 11 11 10 7 7 9 8 Ret 7 8 4 525 11 Jono Lester 3 Ret 11 8 4 4 11 9 9 10 6 15 Ret 11 6 514 12 Dmitry Suranovich 5 15 15 12 6 2 12 12 11 11 Ret Ret 12 14 8 440 13 Shahaan Engineer 11 6 NC 11 12 16 13 10 12 13 7 13 14 13 15 406 14 Tanart Sathienthirakul 13 9 12 15 Ret 13 14 11 14 15 9 9 16 16 10 383 15 Chris Vlok 12 14 9 16 Ret 12 16 14 15 17 11 12 11 10 11 371 16 Michela Cerruti 10 10 13 17 14 15 15 16 17 18 10 11 15 15 12 367 17 Melvin Moh Ret 8 17 14 10 7 Ret Ret 16 14 12 10 13 DNS 9 323 18 Victor Sendin 7 12 5 13 8 9 17 15 13 286 19 Mitch Evans 1 Ret 2 1 2 Ret 284 20 Sheban Siddiqi 14 Ret 16 18 17 17 18 Ret Ret 16 Ret 14 18 18 14 212 21 Ken Smith 17 17 13 62 Pos Driver TER TIM TAU HMP MAN Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (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

• Official website of the Toyota Racing Series