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[OnAllCylinders]

Thread created in anticipation of the first season. So far, it's been announced the Muth Brothers (Esteban and O'Neill) will race in the championship with an unspecified team.

 

http://www.speed-mag...-racing-series/

 

[Kev00]

O’Neill is his first name?

[OnAllCylinders]

O’Neill is his first name?

Yes.

[Rob29]

Thread created in anticipation of the first season. So far, it's been announced the Muth Brothers (Esteban and O'Neill) will race in the championship with an unspecified team.

 

http://www.speed-mag...-racing-series/

Not clear why this is in french-seems it is in New Zealand?

[BRG]

Not clear why this is in french-seems it is in New Zealand?

Because of an EU Directive, but don't worry, Nigel Farage says that all websites will be in English after Brexit.

 

Or possibly it might be because the website is Belgian?  As are the brothers Muth apparently.

[OnAllCylinders]

Italian F4 rookie champion Petr Ptacek joins the field with Giles while Esteban Muth is confirmed with M2 (O'Neill Muth will do Toyota 86 on account of his age):

 

http://www.formulasc...ng-series/46119

Edited by OnAllCylinders, 31 October 2018 - 15:53.

[HistoryFan]

I hope we'll see more cars in 2019 after this year's campain was a bit disappointing.

[OnAllCylinders]

Artem Petrov joins with M2:

 

http://www.formulasc...s-with-m2/46201

[HistoryFan]

Drivers confirmed so far;

 

M2: Cameron Das, Liam Lawson, Esteban Muth, Artem Petrov

Giles: Dev Gore, Petr Ptáček, Thomas Smith

MTEK: Callan Williams

Victory: Parker Locke

 

Championship battle could be between Lawson and Petrov

[HistoryFan]

Auer to contest in Toyota Racing Series:

 

M2: Lucas Auer, Cameron Das, Liam Lawson, Esteban Muth, Artem Petrov

Giles: Dev Gore, Petr Ptáček, Thomas Smith

MTEK: Callan Williams, Kazuto Kotaka, Jackson Walls

Victory: Parker Locke, Brendon Leitch

 

Championship battle could be between Lawson, Kotaka, Petrov and Auer

[PeterScandlyn]

Still not drawing me in for some reason, even coming to a racetrack near me....

[balage06]

Armstrong returns as well

https://twitter.com/...104692351066112

[HistoryFan]

Raoul Hyman also is in:

 

M2: Marcus Armstrong, Lucas Auer, Cameron Das, Liam Lawson, Esteban Muth, Artem Petrov

Giles: Raoul Hyman, Dev Gore, Petr Ptáček, Thomas Smith

MTEK: Callan Williams, Kazuto Kotaka, Jackson Walls

Victory: Parker Locke, Brendon Leitch

 

Championship favorite is Armstrong, then it could be between Lawson, Kotaka, Petrov, Auer and Hyman

[ANF]

The race calendar is straightforward. Five weekends in a row:

Highlands, 12–13 January
Teretonga, 19–20 January
Hampton Downs, 26–27 January
Taupo, 2–3 February
Manfeild, 9–10 February

[HistoryFan]

Petru Florescu joins grid:

 

M2: Marcus Armstrong, Lucas Auer, Cameron Das, Liam Lawson, Esteban Muth, Artem Petrov

Giles: Raoul Hyman, Dev Gore, Petr Ptáček, Thomas Smith

MTEK: Petru Florescu, Callan Williams, Kazuto Kotaka, Jackson Walls

Victory: Parker Locke, Brendon Leitch

 

Championship favorite is Armstrong, then it could be between Florescu, Lawson, Kotaka, Petrov, Auer and Hyman

[ANF]

A Youtube live stream for the first race at Highlands has been scheduled at https://www.youtube....taRacingSeries/

Race 1 should start in 8 hours and 15 minutes. That's 13:55 Kiwi time (UTC +13).

Races 2 and 3 are scheduled for 12:50 and 16:35 the next day.

[ANF]

Qualifying result
 1  8 Marcus Armstrong  1:28.252 M2 Competition		
 2  7 Raoul Hyman         +0.237 Giles Motorsport
 3 10 Liam Lawson         +0.304 M2 Competition
 4 28 Cameron Das         +0.425 M2 Competition
 5 30 Esteban Muth        +0.518 M2 Competition
 6 22 Lucas Auer          +0.614 M2 Competition
 7 86 Brendon Leitch      +0.758 Victory Motor Racing
 8  9 Petr Ptacek         +0.771 Giles Motorsport
 9 36 Kazuto Kotaka       +0.916 MTEC Motorsport
10 54 Calan Williams      +1.470 MTEC Motorsport
11 12 Artem Petrov        +1.643 M2 Competition
12  5 Petru Florescu      +1.867 MTEC Motorsport
13 21 Dev Gore            +2.299 Giles Motorsport
14 16 Thomas Smith        +2.523 Giles Motorsport
15 66 Parker Locke        +2.537 Victory Motor Racing

[potmotr]

Wow, Armstrong is back?

I'd expect him to smoke this field, with the exception of Auer.

[ANF]

I think he might have been smoking ever since he lost the title on that safety car restart on the last lap in the last race last year. One of the cruelest things I've ever seen.

Anyway, race 1. Green flag in... 45 minutes?

[potmotr]

I think he might have been smoking ever since he lost the title on that safety car restart on the last lap in the last race last year. One of the cruelest things I've ever seen.

Anyway, race 1. Green flag in... 45 minutes?

 

Sounds good! Highlands is a great track in an amazing part of the world! 

[ANF]

Video is live NOW.

Hyman on pole. Armstrong demoted to 4th, Das to 7th for setting their fastest qualifying laps under yellow flags.

Edited by ANF, 12 January 2019 - 01:01.

[ANF]

Surprisingly clean racing so far.

[ANF]

Spoiler

Liam Lawson won the first race, 9 seconds ahead of Armstrong who was held up by Hyman throughout the race. Auer finished 3rd, Hyman 4th.

[ANF]

Race 2! Should be starting in 15 minutes.

[ANF]

The video is live but there are no cars on the grid and they are playing awful music. Surely computer generated.

Auer, Armstrong, Lawson starting 4th, 5th, 6th.

Formation lap and the stupid music is still on!

Edited by ANF, 13 January 2019 - 00:03.

[potmotr]

Hyman on pole. 

 

Hyman has broken through! 

[potmotr]

This commentary is great. 

 

Who is the Kiwi commentator? 

 

"Yeah, nah" said about ten times a minute!

[ANF]

The Kiwi co-commentator was supposed to be a famous Kiwi driver. Trevor? Trent? Um.

[ANF]

Spots of rain on the cameras?

[potmotr]

The Kiwi co-commentator was supposed to be a famous Kiwi driver. Trevor? Trent? Um.

 

Someone called ​Taylor Cockerton according to the comments on the YouTube live page.

 

No, I'd never heard of him either.

Edited by potmotr, 13 January 2019 - 00:31.

[potmotr]

Interesting Lucas Auer is spending the winter in NZ. 

[potmotr]

Not a lot of overtaking...

[potmotr]

Cometh the Auer, cometh the only exciting thing in this race. 

[ANF]

Oops. And a red flag again?

[potmotr]

Oops. And a red flag again?

 

Yeah, I guess so.

 

I wonder if the left rear wheel broke causing that crash.. or was broken by the crash? 

[ANF]

It looked to me like they were entering the corner side-by-side. I wonder if Auer realised it was a bad idea and lost the rear as he got off the throttle. Hard to tell from those angles though. Where are the drone pics?

[ANF]

Race 3 was run on wet weather tyres on a drying track. Very entertaining stuff!

The video is unlisted, so you won't find it on Youtube even with the search function. Click the video or https://youtu.be/ABO9kbRziXY to watch it.

[potmotr]

It looked to me like they were entering the corner side-by-side. I wonder if Auer realised it was a bad idea and lost the rear as he got off the throttle. Hard to tell from those angles though. Where are the drone pics?

 

I presume given how few cameras there are that there's only one drone, which was probably somewhere else at the time.

 

Were there any onboards? 

[ANF]

Lawson tops Practice 1 at Teretonga followed by Armstrong, Auer, Hyman, Leitch.

Race 1 is scheduled to start in 26 hours.

[ANF]

Three hours until the start of the race.

[balage06]

What a strange decision to make the videos unlisted after the stream has finished... I would have missed every race if you haven't posted them! 

[ANF]

I know, last weekend I had to scan the entire internet before I could find race 3.

Anyway, real shame about Hyman today. That had been a great drive.

[potmotr]

Three hours until the start of the race.

 

Thanks for posting these mate, very helpful!

 

That was some start by Armstrong! 

 

Love Invercargill, there must have been at least 20 people watching!

[ClubmanGT]

No TRS today; race 3 to be run at Hampton Downs and race 4 to be run at Taupo instead. Winds apparently too high to run the single seaters. 

[dave34m]

Really, that's disappointing. I am watching the live feed on speedworks and it doesnt look too bad really

 

[potmotr]

All the way to Invercargill for one race! 

 

Be interesting to know what the international guys like Auer do between races...

[Maxioos]

What a nice races are this.

Lawson still hasn't signed anything for coming season? With his relative little experience looking at the drivers database, he makes very good results and I like his drive to win attitude.

[ANF]

There will be four races at Hampton Downs. The first one will start in 4 hours and 15 minutes.

I think it will be on the first of these streams:




Race 2 is on Saturday, races 3 and 4 on Sunday. Full schedule and results at https://www.toyota.c...ton-downs-2019/

[ANF]

Unfortunately, race 1 became no more than a series of safety car interventions and red flags. If you don't want to spend 45 minutes on it, here's a quick summary:

Spoiler

Hyman starts from the pit lane after an electrical problem.
Kotaka and Auer start on the front row but make contact at T1; Auer spins off and brushes the wall but makes it back to the pits and rejoins.
Petrov makes a poor start from P4 and is sandwiched through T1 between Lawson, who overtakes him on the inside, and Armstrong, who has to take to the grass and loses a place to Leitch.
But Leitch runs wide at T3, goes across the gravel, but rejoins in P10. Further back, Walls spins and hits Muth who retires with a puncture, while Walls rejoins from the grass.
Safety car and a quick red flag. Kotaka, who has dropped down the order, pits for a new front wing.
Das is the race leader ahead of Lawson and Petrov.
Restart with 15 laps to go and Armstrong overtakes Petrov.
Leitch and Auer make up positions until Auer makes contact with Florescu (?) and stops with a broken front wing.
Safety car for Auer, who is towed back to the pits.
Restart with 9 to go... is aborted because Auer has just exited the pit lane.
Restart with 8 to go and on the exit of T5 Kotaka and Williams make contact, which sends Williams into a spin into the barrier and out of the race.
Safety car and a quick red flag.
Restart with 2 to go and for some reason the race leader Das seems to slow down a bit as they approach the Line and he is hit from behind by Lawson, who breaks his front suspension and Das's rear wing. Armstrong has to back off and loses momentum and positions. Petrov also has to back off and Leitch storms into the lead, followed by Ptáček.
But the race is stopped and the final race results are... hopefully yet to be announced because the provisional race results make little sense to me.

[ANF]

It was indeed the final race results I read earlier today. The race was red-flagged on lap 19 of 20, and the results were taken from the end of lap 18 (when the safety car restart accident happened). The top ten all crossed the Line within 1.5 seconds!

Petrov was declared the winner with a 0.051 seconds margin over Ptáček. Leitch, who would take the lead into T1, was 0.057 behind Ptáček in third. Armstrong crossed the Line in fourth but was demoted to tenth with a 10-second time penalty for overtaking behind the safety car. Lawson limped across the line in seventh. Das, who was sent into the barrier, never crossed the Line and – although he completed 85% of the race – is listed as Not classified.

Oh, and according to the TRS race report, Auer wasn't to blame for the aborted restart with 9 to go. It was aborted because Cameron Das, the race leader, "had not given the Safety Car enough room to exit the circuit safely ... That allowed Auer back out..."