2020 Toyota Racing Series

2020 Toyota Racing Series

Drivers' Champion:
Igor Fraga

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The 2020 Castrol Toyota Racing Series was the sixteenth 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 17 January at Highlands Motorsport Park, in Cromwell, and concluded on 16 February with the 65th running of the New Zealand Grand Prix, at Circuit Chris Amon in Feilding.

Changes

Technical

In May 2019, the new Tatuus F.3 T-318, nicknamed "FT-60", chassis was revealed to be the chassis used from the 2020 season onwards. The change in chassis will also be accompanied by a new engine. The modified 1.8L Toyota four cylinder 2ZZ-GE production engines that were used since the series' inception will be replaced with a 2.0L turbocharged unit, increasing power output from 200bhp (150kW) to 270bhp (200kW). The top speed of the cars has increased to 250 km/h. The improved aerodynamics mean that the FT-60 is expected to generate around 25% more downforce that its predecessor. The six-speed Sadev paddle-shift sequential will remain. ^[1]

Tyres

In July 2019, it was announced that Hankook Tire would become the series' tyre supplier starting from the 2020 season. The new contract stipulates that 1,600 tyres will be brought in for each season, with each driver receiving 17 sets of tyres, with the ability to add a further two sets of wet weather tyres if required. The tyre is of the same specification used in Formula Renault Eurocup and the W Series. Tyre dimensions will also be changed in conjunction with the changing of supplier; 230/560 for the fronts and 280/580 for the rear. ^[2]

Teams and drivers

All teams are based and registered in New Zealand.

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
M2 Competition	1	Liam Lawson	All
	6	Ido Cohen	All
	17	Igor Fraga	All
	21	Émilien Denner	All
	33	Yuki Tsunoda	All
	99	Rui Andrade	All
Giles Motorsport	4	Henning Enqvist	All
	26	Grégoire Saucy	All
	44	Lirim Zendeli	All
	49	Ken Smith	5
	62	Chelsea Herbert	1–2
Kiwi Motorsport	5	Spike Kohlbecker	All
	7	Axel Gnos	All
	13	Tijmen van der Helm	3–5
	16	Amaury Cordeel	1
	32	José Blanco-Chock	1–2
	43	Franco Colapinto	All
mtec Motorsport engineered by R-ace GP [3]	9	Petr Ptáček	All
	10	Oliver Rasmussen	All
	11	Jackson Walls	All
	23	Caio Collet	All
	88	Lucas Petersson	All
Source: [4]

Team changes

A joint three-year effort between MTEC Motorsport and France-based R-ace GP will see the latter organization take charge of the race engineering side of the operation starting from the 2020 season. ^[3]

MP Motorsport and Kiwi Motorsport announced they would be joining forces by supplying engineers and mechanics. ^[5]

Race calendar

The 2020 calendar was announced on 30 April 2019 with each round to have three races, with qualifying taking place for both races one and three. ^[6]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	Highlands Motorsport Park (Cromwell, Otago)	18 January	Caio Collet	Caio Collet	Liam Lawson [note 1]	M2 Competition
	R2		19 January		Oliver Rasmussen	Yuki Tsunoda	M2 Competition
	R3			Liam Lawson	Liam Lawson	Liam Lawson	M2 Competition
2	R1	Teretonga Park (Invercargill, Southland)	25 January	Igor Fraga	Caio Collet	Caio Collet	mtec Motorsport engineered by R-ace GP
	R2		26 January		Igor Fraga	Émilien Denner	M2 Competition
	R3			Jackson Walls	Liam Lawson	Liam Lawson	M2 Competition
3	R1	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park (Hampton Downs, North Waikato)	1 February	Petr Ptáček	Liam Lawson	Igor Fraga	M2 Competition
	R2		2 February		Liam Lawson	Franco Colapinto	Kiwi Motorsport
	R3			Igor Fraga	Igor Fraga	Igor Fraga	M2 Competition
4	R1	Pukekohe Park Raceway (Pukekohe, Auckland Region)	8 February	Liam Lawson	Liam Lawson	Liam Lawson	M2 Competition
	R2		9 February		Liam Lawson	Jackson Walls	mtec Motorsport engineered by R-ace GP
	R3			Liam Lawson	Liam Lawson	Liam Lawson	M2 Competition
5	R1	Manfeild: Circuit Chris Amon (Feilding, Manawatū District)	15 February	Franco Colapinto	Igor Fraga	Igor Fraga	M2 Competition
	R2		16 February		Franco Colapinto	Tijmen van der Helm	Kiwi Motorsport
	R3			Igor Fraga	Franco Colapinto	Igor Fraga	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. ^{[7] [8]}

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 PUK MAN Points 1 Igor Fraga 2 7 3 3 6 2 1 4 1 2 5 8 1 4 1 362 2 Liam Lawson 1 5 1 6 3 1 2 2 Ret 1 4 1 2 5 3 356 3 Franco Colapinto 9 6 2 4 5 8 5 1 8 3 3 2 3 2 2 315 4 Yuki Tsunoda 5 1 4 11 7 3 7 16 3 4 7 4 9 7 6 257 5 Petr Ptáček 8 8 6 9 14 10 3 5 10 5 2 5 7 3 5 241 6 Grégoire Saucy 4 4 5 2 9 6 9 8 2 10 6 17 15 13 9 220 7 Caio Collet 7 Ret DNS 1 8 5 4 6 4 Ret 14 7 4 6 4 219 8 Lirim Zendeli 3 3 8 7 2 12 10 7 5 12 Ret 3 13 15 13 200 9 Ido Cohen 10 11 7 5 4 11 11 14 Ret 7 8 6 11 11 11 164 10 Jackson Walls 12 9 Ret Ret 15 4 8 9 12 6 1 10 10 9 8 160 11 Oliver Rasmussen 6 2 17 13 11 Ret 6 3 9 8 11 11 12 12 12 158 12 Lucas Petersson 16 13 10 12 12 7 16 11 7 Ret 12 13 8 8 10 127 13 Spike Kohlbecker 13 12 12 17 13 13 14 15 Ret 14 13 12 5 10 7 109 14 Tijmen van der Helm 17 17 11 11 10 9 6 1 Ret 84 15 Émilien Denner 11 10 9 8 1 Ret Ret 12 Ret Ret DNS DNS Ret 14 Ret 72 16 Rui Andrade 14 14 16 15 16 14 13 13 Ret 9 9 15 16 18 Ret 70 17 Henning Enqvist Ret 18 14 16 Ret 16 12 10 6 13 15 14 Ret 16 Ret 68 18 Axel Gnos 15 16 11 14 17 15 15 Ret Ret 15 16 16 14 17 14 60 19 José Blanco-Chock Ret 15 13 10 10 9 41 20 Chelsea Herbert 17 17 15 DNS WD WD 10 21 Ken Smith 17 19 15 10 — Amaury Cordeel WD WD WD — Pos. Driver HIG TER HMP PUK 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 Italics – Fastest Lap

Footnotes

1. Caio Collet originally won the race, but received a 5-second time penalty for performing a practice start on the formation lap.

References

1. "New FT-60 will put NZ firmly on global motorsport map". 29 May 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
2. "Hankook Tire confirmed as Castrol Toyota Racing Series tyre supplier". 22 July 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
3. "mtec and R-Ace GP join forces to create formidable TRS challenge". 30 July 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
4. "2020 Season Drivers". Archived from the original on 2019-12-20.
5. "Watch out for Kiwi Motorsport this summer in TRS". 6 November 2019.
6. "SPEED WORKS EVENTS PULL BIG PUNCHES WITH PROVISIONAL CALENDAR". 30 April 2019. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
7. "Castrol Toyota Racing Series Points Table" . Retrieved 19 January 2019.
8. "The DownLow; The Official Magazine of the Castrol Toyota Racing Series; Issue 09". 15 January 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2019.