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FAST KIWI TAKES GP3 POLE IN GERMANY
New Zealand teenager Mitch Evans took his second pole position of the season for MW Arden in a closely fought battle for the top spot at Nürburgring today. The Series front runner was just 0.035 seconds ahead of Antonio Felix Da Costa in second. The field hit the track in much improved and sunny conditions for [...]
Continue reading...TEENAGER WINS NZ GRAND PRIX
Monday, February 14, 2011
Auckland racer Mitch Evans, 16, has won the 2011 New Zealand Grand Prix, becoming the youngest driver to ever win the prestigious title. Today’s win is believed to put him in the history books as the youngest person to ever win an FIA-recognised Grand Prix. Evans put in a dominant performance to control the 30-lap race from [...]
Continue reading...EVANS FIGHTS BACK TO WIN TERATONGA TOYOTA ROUND
Monday, January 17, 2011
Three winners in three races. That was the result of the opening weekend of the Toyota Racing Series at New Zealand's Teratonga circuit. Australia's Scott Pye started the weekend in fine form edging out local hero Mitch Evens to take the opening race. But Evans recovered to take a a great come from behind victory in he 20 lap feature race. Evans led home team mate and fellow Kiwi Nick Cassidy with another local youngster in Damon Leitch making it a 1-2-3 for the New Zealanders. Pye was a steady fourth, just 4.3s off the lead while Nick Foster finished back in ninth. England's Alex Lynn became the third different race winner of the weekend, leading from start to finish in the wet 12-lap finale at Teretonga.
Continue reading...AUSSIE PYE TAKES TERATONGA TOYOTA THRILLER
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Australian Scott Pye snatched a late victory from Mitch Evans in a dramatic start to the International Toyota Racing Series at Teretonga today. Evans lead the field through two restarts behind the safety car only to lose out with a couple of laps to go when a missed gear change forced him to run wide. Pye who started alongside Evans on the front row, seized the late opportunity to sneak ahead and finish 0.9s in front. Nick Cassidy crossed the line in second place only to be penalized 10 seconds for being out of position during the final restart. The penalty dropped Cassidy to ninth place. Cassidy’s demise gave third place to young Russian driver Daniil Kvyat. In qualifying on Saturday morning both Cassidy and Kvyat were relegated three places on the grid after they both went off in separate incidents on the same lap causing a red flag delay.
Continue reading...TRANS TASMAN BATTLE FOR TOYOTA CROWN
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
As Australian Motorsport goes into a bizarre Summer hibernation across the Tasman the New Zealand scene is already in full swing. A highlight of the season is the annual Toyota Racing Series. This year the battle will be between the young hot shots of New Zealand and a group of slightly older Aussies making the step up from Formula Ford. Initial interest will centre round 2010 Champion and Australian Formula 3 runner up, local driver Mitch Evans. The 16-year-old New Zealander will again be racing for Stephen Giles Auckland-based team alongside yet another talented young Kiwi in 16 year old Nick Cassidy from Auckland’s North Shore. Evans will compete for the first time in an identical car against 20 year old Aussie Scott Pye, the 2009 TRS Rookie Champion and current British Formula Ford champion. Pye, who made a strong impression in Britain this season, will be teamed with Wellington teenager Jamie McNee in the Australian-based ETEC team run by Trevor Shuemack. Both Evans and Pye will soon announce plans to race in major European single seaters championships later in 2011 and will have high expectations for the New Zealand races. Evans already has the support of Australian Formula One star Mark Webber and is expected to race for Webber's team in GP3 in 2011. Also confirmed for the series will be 18 year old Australian Nick Foster who finished third overall in this year’s Australian Formula Ford Championship. Two other young Australians will also test at Manfeild this week in preparation for the series. Jordan Oon, a 19 year old from Perth finished third in the 2010 Formula BMW Pacific series in Asia, while 19-year-old Jordan Skinner from Wallaroo in South Australia, has just returned home after winning the National Formula Ford 1600 title in Britain.
Continue reading...EVANS ON TOP AT EASTERN CREEK F3
Saturday, September 11, 2010
New Zealand teenage sensation Mitch Evans has returned to form sweeping the Saturday action at round six of the Formula 3 Australian Drivers Championship at Sydney's Eastern Creek. Evans took his fifth pole of the season and held out teammate Ben Barker to win the first sprint race under perfect conditions at the 3.9km circuit. It was Evans’ first win since round three at Phillip Island and elevated him to within one point of the championship leader (Barker) with Tweedie’s third place keeping him in contention, just a handful of points behind in third. “It was a good race and really works well for the point’s situation,” A confident Evans’ said after his return to the top of the results sheet.
Continue reading...EVANS CONTINUES AUSSIE F3 DOMINATION
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Phillip Island VIC: Young New Zealand sensation Mitch Evans continued his domination of the Formula 3 Australian Drivers Championship at Phillip Island. Evans started from pole for Saturday's ten lap sprint but was beaten off the line by Sydney driver Tom Tweedie, in an older National class chassis. However Tweedie's moment of glory was fleeting as Evan's retook the lead on lap two and from then on was never headed. Tweedie hung on for second, almost 5-seconds behind, Barker battled his way past Gilmour on lap five and finished third – just missing out on second place after a mistake on the penultimate lap cost him an opportunity to catch Tweedie.
Continue reading...EVANS’ PERFECT WEEKEND
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Mitch Evans, the 15 year old New Zealand whiz-kid, stamped his authority on Queensland Raceway today when he won the third and final race of round six of the Australian Formula Ford Championship. Sitting on pole, Evans once again launched a perfect start to maintain the lead into turn one and from there on lead the race to become the youngest driver in Australian Formula Ford history to taste the success of a national championship round win. “I’m stoked with how this weekend has turned out,” Evans said. “From first practice the car was fast, so it was just up to me to learn the track as quickly as possible ... everything just fell into place – I wish every round was like this,” he added. “Becoming the youngest driver to take out a round was the icing on the cake ... if you told me I’d be a round winner at the start of the year I would have thought you were joking.”
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