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Rene Binder is staying with the Lazarus team for his first full season of GP2.

Colombian Carlos Huertas will return for another season in Formula Renault 3.5 after being signed on by Carlin to partner Jazeman Jaafar.

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

Hilmer Motorsport will compete in the GP2 Series in the 2013 season after financial trouble forced Ocean Racing Technology to close their team.

Fabio Leimer will remain in the GP2 Series this year with Racing Engineering, with Julian Leal joining as his teammate.

Dutch driver Nigel Melker is set to race for Tech 1 Racing for the 2013 season of Formula Renault 3.5.

Formula Abarth graduate Emanuele Zonzini has become the first driver announced for Trident Racing in their second year in GP3.

Lucas Auer will join Prema Powerteam for a campaign in the renewed European F3 Championship, becoming the second officially-announced driver from their four-driver lineup after Alex Lynn was confirmed at the end of 2012.

It has been confirmed that GP3 champion Mitch Evans will graduate to the GP2 Series with the Arden team.

Youngsters Jules Bianchi and Felipe Nasr upstaged star names in Felipe Massa’s annual charity karting event in Brazil, each winning one of the two heats and finishing up first and second in the final standings.

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.

Auto GP champion Adrian Quaife-Hobbs has said that he is not far from securing a place on the GP2 Series grid this year.

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.

Brazilian driver Pietro Fantin will race for Arden Caterham in FR3.5 in 2013 alongside Antonio Felix da Costa, the team has announced.

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.

International Draco Racing are set to retain Nico Muller and Andre Negrao as their drivers for the 2013 season of Formula Renault 3.5.