Thomas Randle was the fastest in a packed field in final practice today for this weekend's Castrol Toyota Racing Series at Hampton Downs in the northern Waikato.
Just four tenths of a second separated the top ten cars and the whole field was within less than a second of one another.
The tight packed field is vindication of the Toyota Racing Series one make formula, where all the cars have the same components and the only difference is the drivers and the way they set up the car's suspension, brakes and aerodynamics in conjunction with their engineers.
Randle was the pace setter at Teretonga last weekend, qualifying on pole for one race, but throwing away the advantage when he was penalised 10 seconds for jumping the start. Then he spun away the lead in the main race.
From Melbourne, Randle lies second in the series 58 points behind Richard Verschoor of the Netherlands, who was third fastest, just edged by Jehan Daruvala (India), who won the Lady Wigram Trophy race at the opening round at Ruapuna a fortnight ago.
