2014-2015 Tasman Cup Season

The 2014-2015 Tasman Cup Season is the 55th Tasman Cup Season. It started August 24th, 2014 and will end May 10th, 2015.

Report
Frankland Sports Cars came off well after winning the 2013-2014 Championship well in Winter testing, notching top spot in the New Cardiff Test on July 21-24, and the Frankland Power Plants looked to have even more power going into this season. The teams headed to Japan for the first two rounds where HSV Tasman and Frankland both looked in form. Twice Champion Tim Pollard took the pole and set the fastest lap early on but on lap 11 of the 67 lap race, Pollard blew his engine and stopped at the entrance to Turn 12, necessitating a full course caution to clean up the dropped fluids. On the restart, Shibutani jumped passed Super Ishikuno Team driver Hori Karauria. Shibutani lead all but four laps under pit stops of the remaining portion of the race. Shibutani would have won by a considerable margin except for a late yellow for the crashed Cody Carnarvon, who collided with Cyril driver Andrew Turley. The two were battling hard for position when Carnarvon cut across Turley's nose and sliced the left rear tire on Turley's wing. Due to the late nature of the race, Turley was unable to pit to repair the damage and fell by the wayside into 18th position in the final order. When all was said and done however, Shibutani took the green with two laps to go and held on to win by 0.8 seconds over Tasman Powerteam's Zac Foster and Cyril's other driver, Cameron Stokes.

Calender Changes

 * A second Japanese round was added at Suzuka Circuit. Suzuka has hosted the Japanese round of the championship on two prior occasions but this marks the first time two rounds will be contested in Japan.
 * After a year at the Circuit of the Americas, the American round returns to Sonoma Raceway, where it had been since 1999.
 * The Horohui Circuit underwent a layout change and the surface of the circuit was re-profiled ahead of the 2014-2015 round.

Championship Standings
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