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.
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

TeamNo.DriverStatusRounds
MTEC Motorsport5 Petru FlorescuAll
MTEC Motorsport11 Jackson Walls2–5
MTEC Motorsport36 Kazuto KotakaAll
MTEC Motorsport54 Calan WilliamsAll
Giles Motorsport7 Raoul HymanAll
Giles Motorsport9 Petr PtáčekAll
Giles Motorsport16 Thomas SmithAll
Giles Motorsport21 Dev GoreAll
Giles Motorsport48 Ken Smith5
M2 Competition8 Marcus ArmstrongAll
M2 Competition10 Liam LawsonAll
M2 Competition12 Artem PetrovAll
M2 Competition22 Lucas AuerAll
M2 Competition28 Cameron DasAll
M2 Competition30 Esteban MuthAll
Victory Motor Racing66 Parker LockeAll
Victory Motor Racing86 Brendon LeitchAll

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. 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.

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.

Scoring system

;Race
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th11th12th13th14th15th16th17th18th19th20th
Points3531272422201816141210987654321

;Reversed grid Race
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th11th12th13th14th15th
Points201816141210987654321

Drivers' championship

Footnotes