Nick Cassidy

Nick Cassidy
Nationality	New Zealander
Born	(1994-08-19) 19 August 1994 Auckland, New Zealand
FIA European Formula 3 Championship career
Debut season	2013
Current team	Prema Powerteam
Car no.	2
Former teams	ThreeBond with T-Sport, EuroInternational, Carlin
Starts	48
Wins	1
Poles	1
Fastest laps	1
Best finish	4th in 2016
Previous series
2015 2015 2014 2012-13-14 2011-12-13-14 2011 2011 2011 2010–11	All-Japan Formula 3 Super GT Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup Toyota Racing Series Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series Formula Abarth ADAC Formel Masters Australian Formula Ford
Championship titles
2012-13 2012-13-14 2015	Toyota Racing Series New Zealand Grand Prix All-Japan Formula 3

Nick Cassidy (born 19 August 1994)^[1] is a New Zealand racing driver. He is best known for being one of the most successful drivers in history of the Toyota Racing Series.

Career

Cassidy began his racing career in karting when he was six years old. He remained in karting until 2010. He also participated in midget races since he was eight years old.^[2]

Since 2008 Cassidy has been racing in the formula racing series. After driving in Formula First championships, he started in Formula Ford championships in New Zealand and Australia. In 2009 he became runner-up in the New Zealand Formula First championship and 2010 he was runner-up in the New Zealand Formula Ford Championship. Both times he was Rookie of the year.^[2]

Cassidy placed 14th in the 2011 Australian Formula Ford Championship in a Mygale SJ11a

2011 Cassidy began the year for Giles Motorsport in the Toyota Racing Series. After 5 podium finishes he won two of three races at the last racing weekend. He became Rookie of the year and runner-up^[2] behind his teammate Mitch Evans. Moreover, he started to a few races in the Australian Formula Ford Championship, the ADAC Formel Masters and the Formula Abarth. So he made his first racing experiences in Europe. Furthermore, he competed in 5 races of the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series. 2012 Cassidy participates in the Toyota Racing Series again. He stayed with Giles Motorsport. With 3 victories and 7 podium finishes he leads the championship after the 11th race.

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Podiums	Points	Position
2008	Formula First Manfeild Winter Series	Sabre Motorsport	12	3	2	2	9	782	1st
2008–09	Formula First New Zealand	Sabre Motorsport	24	8	2	8	16	1439	2nd
2009	Tony Oliver Contracting Formula Ford NZ Winter Series	?	6	3	2	3	3	225	7th
2009–10	Weldwell New Zealand Formula First Championship	?	3	1	1	1	3	195	26th
	Western Springs Speedway – F2 Midgets	HLR Racing	8	7	0	7	8	290	1st
	ZOAGN NZ Formula Ford Championship	BNT/Fuchs Motorsport	18	8	3	5	14	1090	2nd
2010	Australian Formula Ford Championship	Evans Motorsport Group	3	0	0	0	1	26	15th
2010–11	Western Springs Speedway – Midgets	HLR Racing	3	0	0	0	1	36	20th
2010–11	Western Springs Speedway – International Midget Series	HLR Racing	4	0	0	0	0	25	14th
2011	Toyota Racing Series	Giles Motorsport	15	2	1	3	7	805	2nd
	Australian Formula Ford Championship	Evans Motorsport Group	2	0	0	0	1	22	14th
	Formula Abarth European Series	Composit Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0	6	17th
	Campionato Italiano Formula ACI-CSAI Abarth	Composit Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0	6	17th
	ADAC Formel Masters	ma-con Motorsport	3	0	0	0	0	8	22nd
	V8 Supercar Series	Greg Murphy Racing	5	0	0	0	0	153	31st
2012	Toyota Racing Series	Giles Motorsport	14	4	0	3	9	914	1st
	V8SuperTourers Endurance Championship	M3 Racing	2	1	0	0	2	1852	1st‡
	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Fortec Motorsport	6	0	0	0	0	8	24th
2013	Toyota Racing Series	Giles Motorsport	15	2	0	6	10	915	1st
	European Formula 3 Championship	EuroInternational	3	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
	European Formula 3 Championship	Carlin	3	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	AVF	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2014	Toyota Racing Series	Neale Motorsport	2	1	2	1	1	91	24th
	European Formula 3 Championship	ThreeBond with T-Sport	6	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Koiranen GP	10	0	0	0	0	20	18th
	Formula Renault 2.0 Alps	China BRT by JCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	33rd
	Macau Grand Prix	ThreeBond with T-Sport	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	3rd
2014–15	Toyota Finance 86 Championship	Neale Motorsport	6	3	1	4	6	202	11th
2015	European Formula 3 Championship	Prema Powerteam	6	0	0	0	2	43	16th
	Super GT – GT300	Team Up Garage with Bandoh	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	All-Japan Formula 3	Petronas Team TOM'S	17	7	7	6	13	129	1st
	Macau Grand Prix	TOM'S	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	12th
2016	European Formula 3 Championship	Prema Powerteam	30	1	1	1	8	254	4th
	Macau Grand Prix	Prema Powerteam	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
	Super GT – GT500	Lexus Team TOM'S	8	0	0	0	2	54	5th

^†As Cassidy was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score championship points.
^‡ Nick only competed the first round at Taupo Motorsport Park with co-driver Jack Perkins while Greg Murphy took over for the next rounds at Pukekohe and Ruapana Park. With combined results, Nick, Greg and Jack finished 1st in the championship.

Complete FIA European Formula 3 Championship results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	DC	Points
2013	EuroInternational	Mercedes	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	MNZ 3	SIL 1	SIL 2	SIL 3	HOC 1	HOC 2	HOC 3	BRH 1	BRH 2	BRH 3	RBR 1	RBR 2	RBR 3	NOR 1 16	NOR 2 11	NOR 3 11	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	NÜR 3	ZAN 1	ZAN 2	ZAN 3	VAL 1	VAL 2	VAL 3							NC†	0†
2013	Carlin	Volkswagen																												HOC 1 24	HOC 2 21	HOC 3 16				NC†	0†
2014	ThreeBond with T-Sport	NBE	SIL 1	SIL 2	SIL 3	HOC 1	HOC 2	HOC 3	PAU 1	PAU 2	PAU 3	HUN 1	HUN 2	HUN 3	SPA 1	SPA 2	SPA 3	NOR 1	NOR 2	NOR 3	MSC 1	MSC 2	MSC 3	RBR 1	RBR 2	RBR 3	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	NÜR 3	IMO 1 11	IMO 2 12	IMO 3 22	HOC 1 16	HOC 2 19	HOC 3 18	NC†	0†
2015	Prema Powerteam	Mercedes	SIL 1	SIL 2	SIL 3	HOC 1	HOC 2	HOC 3	PAU 1	PAU 2	PAU 3	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	MNZ 3	SPA 1	SPA 2	SPA 3	NOR 1	NOR 2	NOR 3	RBR 1	RBR 2	RBR 3	ZAN 1	ZAN 2	ZAN 3	ALG 1 32	ALG 2 Ret	ALG 3 9	NÜR 1 2	NÜR 2 6	NÜR 3 3	HOC 1	HOC 2	HOC 3	16th	43
2016	Prema Powerteam	Mercedes	LEC 1 2	LEC 2 2	LEC 3 2	HUN 1 Ret	HUN 2 16	HUN 3 9	PAU 1 2	PAU 2 16	PAU 3 Ret	RBR 1 6	RBR 2 Ret	RBR 3 10	NOR 1 6	NOR 2 4	NOR 3 6	ZAN 1 2	ZAN 2 1	ZAN 3 2	SPA 1 4	SPA 2 17	SPA 3 5	NÜR 1 4	NÜR 2 Ret	NÜR 3 5	IMO 1 10	IMO 2 7	IMO 3 8	HOC 1 3	HOC 2 Ret	HOC 3 4				4th	254

^† As Cassidy was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score championship points.

Complete Super GT results

(key)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	DC	Pts
2015	Team Up Garage with Bandoh	Toyota 86	GT300	OKA	FUJ	CHA	FUJ	SUZ 21	SUG	AUT	MOT	NC	0
2016	Lexus Team TOM'S	Lexus RC F	GT500	OKA 8	FUJ 4	SUG 11	FUJ 5	SUZ 2	CHA 11	MOT 3	MOT 4	5th	54

References

↑ "Profile" (nickcassidy.co.nz; retrieved 4 February 2012)
1 2 3 "Driver Profile" (toyotaracing.co.nz; 2012-02-04; pages 3,4)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nick Cassidy.

Official website
Nick Cassidy career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Mitch Evans	Toyota Racing Series Champion 2012–2013	Succeeded by Andrew Tang
Preceded by Mitch Evans	New Zealand Grand Prix Winner 2012–2014	Succeeded by Lance Stroll
Preceded by Nobuharu Matsushita	All-Japan Formula Three Championship Champion 2015	Succeeded by Kenta Yamashita

Teams and drivers who competed in the 2016 FIA European Formula 3 Championship season

Prema Powerteam		Carlin		Van Amersfoort Racing

1. Lance Stroll 2. Nick Cassidy	24. Ralf Aron 25. Maximilian Günther	3. Ryan Tveter 4. Alessio Lorandi	19. Weiron Tan	5 Pedro Piquet 6 Callum Ilott	20. Harrison Newey 21. Anthoine Hubert

kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport	Motopark		HitechGP		ThreeBond with T-Sport

7. Mikkel Jensen 8. David Beckmann	9. Sérgio Sette Câmara 10. Niko Kari	22. Joel Eriksson 23. Guanyu Zhou	11. Nikita Mazepin 12. George Russell	24. Ben Barnicoat	15. Ukyo Sasahara

Other drivers

William Buller (Carlin)
Zhi Cong Li (Carlin)
Raoul Hyman (Carlin)
Arjun Maini (ThreeBond with T-Sport)

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