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NISSAN CONFIRMS DRIVERS FOR 2012
The first three graduates of GT Academy – Lucas Ordonez, Jordan Tresson and Jann Mardenborough – will compete for Nissan in 2012 in three of the world’s top endurance racing series. As 26 year-old Spaniard Lucas Ordonez demonstrated at the Le Mans 24 Hours last year, GT Academy is now a proven process, turning out [...]
Nissan at Dubai 24 Hours
After a season of astonishing success in 2011, which saw Nissan win championship titles across the board, the 2012 season is revved up and ready to go next week at the Dubai 24 Hours.There will be three Nissan cars in action in Dubai, all with very different reasons for being there, but all focused on [...]
Ringmeister: Dirk Schoysman
Way back in 2008 Dirk Schoysman was happy to be interviewed by the GTROC. The questions came from club members and were compiled by Iain Mathews who put them to the great man himself. Dirk Schoysman is revered as the man who developed the chassis of the last three generations of the Skyline GT-R as [...]
Dubai 24-hour race to be an all GT Academy affair
Nissan and PlayStation® are aiming to demonstrate the phenomenal success of their GT Academy programme with a ground-breaking driver line-up at the prestigious Dubai 24 Hours (12 to 14 January 2012). All four winners of the innovative virtual-to-reality competition will tackle the demanding endurance race as a team sharing the wheel of the awesome 410bhp [...]
Jann Mardenborough
With Jann now writing for the GTROC it’s a great chance to follow his exploits But just who is he and how did he get to where he is already? We asked him to tell us about his journey so far: I’m Jann Mardenborough, I’ve just turned 20 and race fast Nissan’s at the weekend. [...]
Nissan to enter Le Mans 24 Hour 2012
Ex-Formula One driver, Martin Brundle, will join his son Alex at the wheel of the Nissan-powered Greaves Motorsport LMP2 prototype at next year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans (June 16-17). The deal sees Brundle senior reunited with Nissan, after the Englishman spearheaded its official works effort at the world’s oldest and most celebrated endurance race [...]
Nissan wins in China
The Signatech Nissan team stormed to LMP2 victory, and eighth place overall, in today’s season-closing ‘6 Hours of Zhuhai’. The weekend got off to a flying start when Franck Mailleux took pole position, giving the team the top spot on the LMP2 grid for the start of the race. The early stages of the race [...]
JRM GT-R wins GT1 world championship
A second place from the no.23 JRM Racing Nissan GT-R in the San Luis FIA GT1 World Championship Qualifying Race saw Michael Krumm and Lucas Luhr being crowned as the GT1 World Drivers’ Champions for 2011. The German pairing went into the race knowing that any finish of fourth or above would secure them [...]
Jann Mardenborough new GT Academy Champion
The 2011 GT Academy Race Camp drew to a thrilling conclusion when 19-year-old Jann Mardenborough from Cardiff took the chequered flag in a four-way, 20-minute race on Silverstone’s national circuit. Pole position and the race win in the Nissan 370Z was enough to satisfy Head Judge Eddie Irvine that Jann was a worthy winner of [...]
Going on a track day? – Read this
originally written by Andy Barnes So, you’ve chosen to do a trackday, what should you expect?, what does everyone expect of you? and in what ways should you prepare your car prior to the event. With your average car owner looking for some excitement and an area in which to push his or her car [...]
Peter Dumbreck is running the London Marathon 2011
The Sumo Power driver is running London 2011 Peter Dumbreck will be running the London Marathon in aid of cystic fibrosis as part of the BRDC team. Peter is one of Sumo Power’s GT1 drivers and a member of the GTROC. Those of you that have met him at various events will know how keen [...]
Nissan GT-Rs competing in GT1
GT-Rs are back again in GT1 for a second year! There will be four Nissan GT-Rs in this year’s FIA GT1 World Championship. The cars will be run as two completely separate teams, in two different liveries: JR Motorsports and Sumo Power GT. Driver line up for the two teams is as follows: JR Motorsports [...]
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