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An incident-packed Friday at Timaru International Raceway saw multiple drivers go under the existing lap record of 57.977 (set by Mitch Evans in 2010) in the practice sessions for the Toyota Racing Series championship.

Title holder Nick Cassidy headed both Thursday practice sessions at Timaru that opened round two of this season’s Toyota Racing Series championship.

Felix Serralles took a lights-to-flag victory in race three of the opening Toyota Racing Series round at Teretonga, which allowed him into the lead of the standings.

Pipo Derani claimed a race win on his first weekend in the Toyota Racing Series as he led the second race of the weekend at Teretonga from pole position until the chequered flag.

The first race of the season-opening round of the Toyota Racing Series at Teretonga did not yield much in the way of surprise as polesitter Lucas Auer took his maiden win in the category after being the quickest man through most of the sessions of the weekend.

Lucas Auer will start the first race of the new Toyota Racing Series season at Teretonga race from pole after topping the timesheets in the first qualifying session, while Felix Serralles grabbed pole for the Sunday feature race in session two.

Lucas Auer shined again on Friday during the three final practice sessions for the Toyota Racing Series round at Teretonga, going under the previous circuit record during the morning run.

Lucas Auer remained the quickest man in preparations for the Toyota Racing Series opener at Teretonga, topping both of Thursday’s practice sessions.

Pipo Derani and Lucas Auer were the drivers to beat on Wednesday as the Toyota Racing Series took to the track for the first action of 2013. with testing sessions ahead of the opening round at Teretonga this weekend.

Gamer-turned-racer Jann Mardenborough could line up in British Formula 3 after some impressive tests with top squad Carlin, according to Autosport.