2013 New Zealand Grand Prix

New Zealand  2013 New Zealand Grand Prix
Race details
Race 3, Round 5 of 5 of the 2013 Toyota Racing Series
Date 10 February 2013
Official name LVIII New Zealand Grand Prix
Location Manfeild Autocourse, Feilding, New Zealand
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 3.033 km (1.885 mi)
Distance 35 laps, 106.16 km (65.96 mi)
Weather Fine
Pole position
Driver Giles Motorsport
Time 1:03.472
Fastest lap
Driver New Zealand Nick Cassidy M2 Competition
Time 1:04.631 on lap 26
Podium
First M2 Competition
Second M2 Competition
Third M2 Competition

The 2013 New Zealand Grand Prix event for open wheel racing cars was held at Manfeild Autocourse near Feilding on 10 February 2013. It was the fifty-eighth New Zealand Grand Prix and was open to Toyota Racing Series cars. The event was also the third race of the fifth round of the 2013 Toyota Racing Series, the final race of the series.

Twenty Tatuus-Toyota cars started the race which was won by New Zealander Nick Cassidy for the second time in succession, a feat last achieved by Simon Wills who won the race back to back in 1998 and 1999.

The M2 Competition team dominated the race, filling all three podium positions. Briton Alex Lynn finished second, 0.7 seconds behind Cassidy. Third was Dutch driver Steijn Schothorst.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos No Driver Team Car Time Gap
1 11 Austria Lucas Auer Giles Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:03.472
2 36 United Kingdom Alex Lynn M2 Competition Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:03.520 + 0.048 s
3 21 Netherlands Steijn Schothorst M2 Competition Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:03.730 + 0.258 s
4 1 New Zealand Nick Cassidy M2 Competition Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:03.738 + 0.266 s
5 5 Brazil Bruno Bonifacio Giles Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:03.843 + 0.371 s
6 6 Brazil Pipo Derani Giles Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:03.913 + 0.441 s
7 19 Netherlands Pieter Schothorst M2 Competition Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:03.948 + 0.476 s
8 23 United Kingdom Jann Mardenborough ETEC Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:03.972 + 0.500 s
9 16 Italy Ignazio D'Agosto Victory Motor Racing Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:04.036 + 0.564 s
10 4 Puerto Rico Felix Serralles Giles Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:04.070 + 0.598 s
11 18 Canada Nicholas Latifi Giles Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:04.128 + 0.656 s
12 22 Singapore Andrew Tang ETEC Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:04.153 + 0.681 s
13 43 Thailand Tanart Sathienthirakul ETEC Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:04.208 + 0.736 s
14 3 New Zealand Damon Leitch Victory Motor Racing Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:04.289 + 0.817 s
15 44 Norway Dennis Olsen M2 Competition Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:04.311 + 0.839 s
16 7 Colombia Tatiana Calderon ETEC Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:04.342 + 0.870 s
17 29 Malaysia Akash Nandy ETEC Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:04.429 + 0.957 s
18 53 New Zealand Michael Scott Victory Motor Racing Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:04.469 + 0.997 s
19 10 Australia Spike Goddard M2 Competition Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:04.498 + 1.026 s
20 9 New Zealand Ken Smith Giles Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 1:04.965 + 1.493 s
Source:[1]

Race

Pos No Driver Team Car Laps Gap
1 1 New Zealand Nick Cassidy M2 Competition Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 40min 18.328sec
2 36 United Kingdom Alex Lynn M2 Competition Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 0.711 s
3 21 Netherlands Steijn Schothorst M2 Competition Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 2.371 s
4 6 Brazil Pipo Derani Giles Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 3.148 s
5 5 Brazil Bruno Bonifacio Giles Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 4.877 s
6 11 Austria Lucas Auer Giles Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 5.232 s
7 23 United Kingdom Jann Mardenborough ETEC Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 5.497 s
8 16 Italy Ignazio D'Agosto Victory Motor Racing Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 5.995 s
9 4 Puerto Rico Felix Serralles Giles Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 8.248 s
10 22 Singapore Andrew Tang ETEC Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 8.569 s
11 3 New Zealand Damon Leitch Victory Motor Racing Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 9.332 s
12 18 Canada Nicholas Latifi Giles Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 10.548 s
13 7 Colombia Tatiana Calderon ETEC Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 10.829 s
14 43 Thailand Tanart Sathienthirakul ETEC Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 11.890 s
15 53 New Zealand Michael Scott Victory Motor Racing Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 12.493 s
16 9 New Zealand Ken Smith Giles Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 35 + 17.070 s
17 19 Netherlands Pieter Schothorst M2 Competition Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 34 + 1 Lap
18 29 Malaysia Akash Nandy ETEC Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 33 + 2 Laps
19 10 Australia Spike Goddard M2 Competition Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 33 + 2 Laps
Ret 44 Norway Dennis Olsen M2 Competition Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota 15 Retired
Source:[2]

References

  1. "New merge for average for Race 19". mylaps.com. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
  2. "R19 TRS "NZ Grand Prix" 35 Laps". mylaps.com. Retrieved 2015-10-31.

External links

Preceded by
2012 New Zealand Grand Prix
New Zealand Grand Prix
2013
Succeeded by
2014 New Zealand Grand Prix
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