The 2013 Toyota Racing Series reaches its climax this weekend with the teams and drivers arriving at the Manfield Park Track in Palmerston North for the weekend final races culminating on the Grand Prix of New Zealand.
The now regular rhythm for ETEC of the rookies learning the track whilst Tanart showed his experience and setting the early pace ensued.
Tang, the Singaporean continued his excellent rate of progress, running in the top two of the ETEC runners for the majority of the 5 sessions, whilst Mardenborough again showed to be the class of the ETEC field despite his relative inexperience, fastest in all but one session.
Behind, Calderon struggled with a throttle issue that plagued her progress but with the problem now identified is hoping for an improvement for qualifying.
Tanart declared himself satisfied, running competitively in or around the top ten.
The results of the sessions ahead of tomorrows qualifying were as follows:
Session times and Positions:
Jann Mardenborough
Session 1 1.05.108 (8th)
Session 21.05,653 (10th)
Session 3 1.04.487 (12th)
Session 4 1.04.469 (9th)
Session 5 1.04.181 (9th)
Tanart Sathienthirakul
Session 1 1.05.442 (13th)
Session 2 1.04.973 (13th)
Session 3 1.04.547(15th)
Session 4 1.04.408 (8th)
Session 5 1.04.430 (12th)
Akash Nandy
Session 1 1.06.445 (20th)
Session 2 1.05.418 (18th)
Session 3 1.04.613 (16th)
Session 4 1.05.010 (17th)
Session 5 1.04.838 (17th)
Tatiana Caldron
Session 1 1.05.254 (10th)
Session 2 1.05.127 (14th)
Session 3 1.04.892 (17th)
Session 4 1.04.852 (14th)
Session 5 1.04.809 (15th)
Andrew Tang
Session 1 1.03.699 (17th)
Session 2 1.02.950 (17th)
Session 3 1.03.960 (19th)
Session 4 1.04.725 (11th)
Session 5 1.05.114 (18th)