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