Young Aucklander Nick Cassidy has left Timaru with the lead
in the Toyota Racing Series with the teenager from
Invercargill Damon Leitch just eight points back.
The country's summer racing series heads to Timaru's Levels
Raceway this weekend hoping for improved weather after the
hail and sleet of last weekend's round at Invercargill.
The annual premier motor racing series comes to Teretonga
Park from January 13-15, with all the major categories of New
Zealand motorsport set to provide more top class competition
for Southlanders.
Kiwi former Formula 1 driver Chris Amon believes New Zealand
is set for a brilliant summer season of international
single-seater motor racing with the largest and youngest
field of drivers yet seen.
In-form Auckland motor racing driver Mitch Evans says he will
need to be tactically smart if he is to emerge with the
laurels from this weekend's finale of the Toyota Racing
Series at Taupo.
Having won the 2010 New Zealand Grand Prix in February,
Triple X Motorsport driver Earl Bamber has been intently
focused on securing the Toyota Racing Series title being
contested at the Taupo finale this weekend.
Wanganui driver Earl Bamber snatched victory with a late move
that thwarted fellow teenager Mitch Evans' bid to be the
youngest winner of the New Zealand Grand Prix (NZGP) at
Manawatu's Manfeild circuit.
