The series, which consisted of five meetings of three races, began on 12 January at Teretonga Park in Invercargill, and ended on 10 February with the 58th running of the New Zealand Grand Prix, at Manfeild Autocourse in Feilding.
Cullen left the series after the second round of the season at Timaru,[10] while Pieter Schothorst, brother of Steijn, joined the team for the New Zealand Grand Prix.
Lucas Auer,[12] Bruno Bonifacio,[13] and Félix Serrallés all remained with the team after finishing sixth, eighth and tenth respectively, in the 2012 championship.
By the end, Félix Serrallés had set a lap time three-tenths of a second quicker than anyone else to take pole for the feature race, the Spirit of a Nation.
[27] In the opening race, Auer led from start-to-finish to take his maiden win in the series, ahead of defending champion Nick Cassidy and Alex Lynn, who had swapped places from their starting positions.
[29] He was followed home by Serrallés and Bruno Bonifacio; the latter's third place was short-lived as he was given a five-second time penalty for jumping the start, which promoted Lynn onto the podium.
The top six were inverted once again for the reverse-grid race, which meant that Serrallés started from pole position ahead of Damon Leitch.
Serrallés managed to fend off the advances of Leitch during the fifteen-lap race, and won by just under half a second to retake the championship lead from Auer, after the latter's opening win.
[36] Lynn took a comfortable victory in the opening race, winning by nearly five seconds ahead of Cassidy, while the podium was completed by Schothorst.
[44] Evans rejoined Giles Motorsport, the team he won both of his championship title with, and took a double pole position for the opening and closing races of the weekend.
[48] After repairs, Mardenborough was able to line up on the grid once again; he ultimately fell down the order to sixth place, as Evans led home Lynn, Derani, Cassidy and Auer.
No fewer than eight drivers had a mathematical chance of winning the championship title: Cassidy, Auer, Lynn, Schothorst, Serrallés, Derani, Leitch and Bonifacio.
Lynn set the fastest time in the first two qualifying sessions, and thus guaranteeing himself pole position for the opening race of the weekend, the Dan Higgins Trophy.
[53] Schothorst would join Lynn on the front row for the Dan Higgins Trophy and Cassidy was alongside for the Grand Prix.
In the Dan Higgins Trophy, Schothorst made the better start from second place on the grid, and moved ahead of Lynn on the opening lap.
Schothorst held the lead until the end of the race, called three laps shy of its original distance after Mardenborough spun off the track, to take his first victory.
Auer ultimately passed Bonifacio and Serrallés on-the-road, to take the victory,[55] but was eventually given a 50-second penalty for dangerous driving.
Cassidy cemented his title triumph with a second New Zealand Grand Prix victory in succession,[4] leading every lap of the 35-lap race.