2015 New Zealand Grand Prix

  2015 New Zealand Grand Prix

Race details[1]
Race 3, Round 5 of 5 of the 2015 Toyota Racing Series
Date	15 February 2015
Official name	LX 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	Arjun Maini	M2 Competition
Time	1:02.343
Fastest lap
Driver	Brandon Maisano	M2 Competition
Time	1:02.845 on lap 16
Podium
First	Lance Stroll	M2 Competition
Second	Charlie Eastwood	M2 Competition
Third	Brandon Maisano	M2 Competition

The 2015 New Zealand Grand Prix event for open wheel racing cars was held at Manfeild Autocourse near Feilding on 15 February 2015. It was the sixtieth 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 2015 Toyota Racing Series, the final race of the series.

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

The race was dominated by the M2 Competition outfit, with Arjun Maini taking pole position, Brandon Maisano the fastest lap and locked out the podium with Stroll winning, Charlie Eastwood second and Maisano third.

Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Gap
1	18	Lance Stroll	M2 Competition	35	40m 25.216s
2	28	Charlie Eastwood	M2 Competition	35	+ 1.138s
3	19	Brandon Maisano	M2 Competition	35	+ 1.239s
4	5	Sam MacLeod	Giles Motorsport	35	+ 2.156s
5	10	Santino Ferrucci	Giles Motorsport	35	+ 9.558s
6	21	Artem Markelov	Giles Motorsport	35	+ 10.240s
7	12	Matteo Ferrer	ETEC Motorsport	35	+ 10.486s
8	11	Stefan Riener	Victory Motor Racing	35	+ 13.326s
9	49	Thomas Randle	ETEC Motorsport	35	+ 14.723s
10	87	Damon Leitch	ETEC Motorsport	35	+ 24.146s
11	17	Nikita Mazepin	ETEC Motorsport	35	+ 24.259s
12	23	Jamie Conroy	M2 Competition	35	+ 25.085s
13	4	Alfonso Celis, Jr.	M2 Competition	35	+ 32.243s
14	36	Arjun Maini	M2 Competition	34	+ 1 Lap
15	40	James Munro	Giles Motorsport	34	+ 1 Lap
16	86	Brendon Leitch	Victory Motor Racing	33	+ 2 Laps
17	7	Sérgio Sette Câmara	Giles Motorsport	32	+ 3 Laps
18	8	Mathias Kristensen	M2 Competition	29	+ 6 Laps
Ret	62	Ferdinand Habsburg	M2 Competition	4	Retired
Ret	53	Callum Ilott	ETEC Motorsport	1	Retired

References

External links

• Toyota Racing Series