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Mitch Evans made a winning return to action in the Toyota Racing Series as he claimed victory in race one at Hampton Downs. Evans was chased home by Alex Lynn, following a restart for a first lap crash that saw Bruno Bonifacio fly into the air over the back of Jann Mardenborough.

Mitch Evans has started his 2013 season by claiming a double pole position for his one-off return to the Toyota Racing Series for the Hampton Downs round. It was far from a walkover for the GP3 champion though, with rookie Jann Mardenborough finishing a fine second in the opening session, just 0.052 seconds away, while he denied Alex Lynn by a mere one thousandth of a second in Q2.

Alex Lynn might have started out Friday at Hampton Downs as the quickest man on track, but it didn’t take long for 2010-11 Toyota Racing Series champion Mitch Evans to get up to speed, allowing him to display commandeering pace in the following afternoon sessions.

Mitch Evans will contest this weekend’s Toyota Racing Series round at Hampton Downs, returning to the series he won in 2010 and 2011.

Alex Lynn claimed his second victory of the Toyota Racing Series weekend at Taupo, with a lights-to-flag victory in the Denny Hulme Memorial Trophy feature race.

With the top four from race one reversed, Bruno Bonifacio got to start race two of the Toyota Racing Series round at Taupo from pole – an opportunity he used the most out of, leading the race lights-to-flag.

Alex Lynn took a dominant lights-to-flag victory in the first race of the Toyota Racing Series weekend at Taupo.

Alex Lynn topped both qualifying sessions for round three of the Toyota Racing Series at Taupo, securing pole for races one and three. Qualifying one saw the times descend rapidly…

The third round of the Toyota Racing Series at Taupo saw the first time during the year that all practice sessions were topped by different people. On Thursday, Lucas Auer and Nick Cassidy were unsurprisingly in charge, yet Friday saw the likes of Bruno Bonifacio, Andrew Tang and Alex Lynn record quickest times in given sessions.

Lucas Auer remains the man to beat in the Toyota Racing Series as action got underway at Taupo for round three, the points leader posting the fastest time in Thursday practice.

Alex Lynn recorded his first win of the season on Sunday in race three of the second round of 2013’s Toyota Racing Series at Timaru.

Felix Serralles continued his tussle with Lucas Auer for the Toyota Racing Series points lead by winning the second race of the weekend at Timaru from lights-to-flag.

Lucas Auer was once again the man to beat in the first race of the Toyota Racing Series round at Timaru, as he recorded a dominant lights-to-flag victory.

Lucas Auer has continued his strong start to the 2013 Toyota Racing Series campaign by claiming a double pole position in qualifying for round two at Timaru.

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.