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Tom McLennan has become the first Australian to sign up for the 2023 Toyota Racing Series. The 17-year-old from Brisbane has raced in Formula Ford and the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge after making the step up from karting. He took a win and two podiums in the 2021 Queensland Formula
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Brazilian Lucas Fecury has been announced as the first driver of the 2023 Toyota Racing Series. Fecury's entry is a sign of the recovery in New Zealand motorsport, with the TRS to run its first full season since 2020 complete with international competitors. “I am very excited to
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The Toyota Racing Series will visit five circuits in 2023 and remains hopeful for a field of twenty cars in its first full year since the COVID pandemic. Toyota Gazoo Racing New Zealand has announced a five-week run through January and February 2023, with two rounds in the South Island
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New Zealand Formula Ford champion James Penrose has won a fully-funded drive in the 2022 New Zealand Grand Prix. The twenty-five year-old is the first entrant for the Grand Prix after winning the Castrol-sponsored seat. Sixty-six drivers applied for the drive, with a short list of seven announced in November.
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The shortlist for the Castrol ambassador at the New Zealand Grand Prix has expanded to seven drivers. Initially targeting five drivers, Castrol has expanded the shortlist to seven due to the quality of the 66 applicants. Any driver with NZ residency or citizenship could apply for a fully-funded drive in
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Toyota GAZOO Racing will become title sponsor of the New Zealand ProKart series in an effort to build motorsport recruitment. The series, which runs from February to May, joins the TGRNZ pathway for New Zealand drivers. The organisation has a proven commitment to New Zealand motorsport with the aim of
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The Toyota Racing Series will not take place in 2022, with the New Zealand Grand Prix to be held as a one-off event. Toyota GAZOO Racing New Zealand had planned a four-round championship, to feature international drivers, but the worsening COVID outbreak in New Zealand has made that impossible. Organisers
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Shane van Gisbergen has won the 66th New Zealand Grand Prix despite starting the race from pit lane after setting off his fire extinguisher. Rookie Kaleb Ngatoa started the jewel in the Castrol Toyota Racing Series from pole position but all eyes in the sold-out Hampton Downs crowd were on
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Shane van Gisbergen has taken his second victory of the Castrol Toyota Racing Series weekend at Hampton Downs, ahead of Chris van der Drift and Matthew Payne. Van Gisbergen has promised that he would work on his race start overnight and it showed, as he started from pole and easily
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Rookie Kaleb Ngatoa has mastered the wet Hampton Downs conditions and claimed pole position for the 66th New Zealand Grand Prix. With conditions changing throughout the Sunday morning qualifying session, it came down to the final moments of track time as the top spot was traded between Daniel Gaunt, Chris
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Shane van Giserbergen has won Race 1 of the 2021 Castrol Toyota Racing Series ahead of Chris van der Drift and Matthew Payne. Polesitter Chris van der Drift led from the line with van Gisbergen holding off the chasing pack to maintain his second place. With a cat-and-mouse battle looming,
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Shane van Gisbergen has taken pole position for Race 2 of the Toyota Racing Series at Hampton Downs, with a last-second hot lap launching him to the top of the timesheet. Porsche Carrera Cup Asia champion Chris van der Drift grabbed the paddock’s attention with his pace in Friday’