2016 New Zealand Grand Prix

  2016 New Zealand Grand Prix

Race details[1]
Race 3, Round 5 of 5 of the 2016 Toyota Racing Series
Date	14 February 2016
Official name	LXI New Zealand Grand Prix
Location	Manfeild Autocourse, Feilding, New Zealand
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	3.033 km (1.885 mi)
Distance	35 laps, 106.16 km (65.96 mi)
Weather	Fine
Pole position
Driver	Lando Norris	M2 Competition
Time	1:02.145
Fastest lap
Driver	Ferdinand Habsburg	Giles Motorsport
Time	1:03.097 on lap 31
Podium
First	Lando Norris	M2 Competition
Second	Artem Markelov	M2 Competition
Third	Ferdinand Habsburg	Giles Motorsport

The 2016 New Zealand Grand Prix event for open wheel racing cars was held at Manfeild Autocourse near Feilding on 14 February 2016. It was the sixty-first New Zealand Grand Prix and was open to Toyota Racing Series cars. The event was also the third race of the fifth round of the 2016 Toyota Racing Series, the final race of the series.

Twenty Tatuus-Toyota cars started the race which was won by 16-year-old Briton Lando Norris who became the fourth teenager in as many years to claim the Grand Prix after Mitch Evans, Nick Cassidy and Lance Stroll.

Norris took pole position and won the race from Russian Artem Markelov and Austrian Ferdinand Habsburg; Habsburg also achieved the fastest lap of the race.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Qualifying 1	Qualifying 2	Gap
1	31	Lando Norris	M2 Competition	1:02.522	1:02.145
2	5	Pedro Piquet	M2 Competition	1:02.554	1:02.162	+ 0.017 s
3	6	Jehan Daruvala	M2 Competition	1:02.492	1:02.162	+ 0.017 s
4	10	Artem Markelov	M2 Competition	1:02.800	1:02.276	+ 0.131 s
5	40	James Munro	Giles Motorsport	1:02.751	1:02.416	+ 0.271 s
6	62	Ferdinand Habsburg	Giles Motorsport	1:02.767	1:02.505	+ 0.360 s
7	15	Kami Laliberté	M2 Competition	1:03.016	1:02.533	+ 0.388 s
8	49	Thomas Randle	Victory Motor Racing	No Time	1:02.576	+ 0.431 s
9	11	Taylor Cockerton	ETEC Motorsport	1:03.025	1:02.659	+ 0.514 s
10	17	Devlin DeFrancesco	Giles Motorsport	1:03.041	1:02.660	+ 0.515 s
11	25	Bruno Baptista	Victory Motor Racing	1:03.146	1:02.681	+ 0.536 s
12	33	Guanyu Zhou	M2 Competition	1:03.089	1:02.732	+ 0.587 s
13	86	Brendon Leitch	Victory Motor Racing	1:03.159	1:02.740	+ 0.595 s
14	67	Antoni Ptak	Giles Motorsport	1:03.185	1:02.768	+ 0.623 s
15	18	Julian Hanses	Victory Motor Racing	1:03.109	1:02.830	+ 0.685 s
16	26	Timothé Buret	ETEC Motorsport	1:03.238	1:02.998	+ 0.853 s
17	23	Will Owen	Giles Motorsport	1:03.509	1:03.097	+ 0.952 s
18	13	Rodrigo Baptista	ETEC Motorsport	1:03.750	1:03.118	+ 0.973 s
19	21	Nicolás Dapero	Giles Motorsport	1:03.621	1:03.166	+ 1.021 s
20	4	Theo Bean	ETEC Motorsport	1:03.566	1:03.197	+ 1.052 s
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Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Gap	Grid
1	31	Lando Norris	M2 Competition	35	39min 43.893sec	1
2	10	Artem Markelov	M2 Competition	35	+ 2.167 s	4
3	62	Ferdinand Habsburg	Giles Motorsport	35	+ 2.598 s	6
4	40	James Munro	Giles Motorsport	35	+ 4.741 s	5
5	49	Thomas Randle	Victory Motor Racing	35	+ 5.236 s	8
6	11	Taylor Cockerton	ETEC Motorsport	35	+ 7.101 s	9
7	6	Jehan Daruvala	M2 Competition	35	+ 11.225 s	3
8	15	Kami Laliberte	M2 Competition	35	+ 12.160 s	7
9	25	Bruno Baptista	Victory Motor Racing	35	+ 16.611 s	11
10	86	Brendon Leitch	Victory Motor Racing	35	+ 20.411 s	13
11	13	Rodrigo Baptista	ETEC Motorsport	35	+ 20.568 s	18
12	18	Julian Hanses	Victory Motor Racing	35	+ 21.961 s	15
13	17	Devlin DeFrancesco	Giles Motorsport	35	+ 22.501 s	10
14	23	Will Owen	Giles Motorsport	35	+ 23.837 s	17
15	5	Pedro Piquet	M2 Competition	35	+ 31.830 s	2
16	21	Nicolas Dapero	Giles Motorsport	35	+ 32.387 s	19
17	33	Guanyu Zhou	M2 Competition	34	+ 1 Lap	12
18	26	Timothe Buret	ETEC Motorsport	34	+ 1 Lap	16
Ret	4	Theo Bean	ETEC Motorsport	30	Retired	20
Ret	67	Antoni Ptak	Giles Motorsport	6	Retired	14
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References

External links

• Toyota Racing Series