Motorsport — GTROC

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Nissan finish 1st and 2nd!

Nissan-powered cars finished the ‘6 Heures du Castellet’ in first and second position today with the Thiriet by TDS Racing team taking the win and the Sebastien Loeb Racing team finishing in the runner up spot. Greaves Motorsport were heading for a win when some bodywork damage caused Alex Brundle to come in for an [...]

Published by Fuggles on April 2, 2012 1:24 pm

GT3 GT-Rs competing in 2012

Reigning GT Cup Champions, JMH Automotive, have announced their return to the Avon Tyres British GT Championship after a six-year absence. The team will run a brand-new Nissan GT3 GT-R with strong support from both NISMO, Nissan’s motorsport division and JR Motorsports, its official partner in the GT3 project. Contesting the championship in the GT-R [...]

Published by Fuggles on April 2, 2012 11:15 am

The Nissan LMP2 Team

The LMP2 category is the premier class in the 2012 European Le Mans Series so the race is on for the overall series title. With seven teams running with Nissan power and stiff competition coming from five further LMP2 teams, the scene is set for some hard fought racing. Nissan driver, Lucas Ordonez, makes his [...]

Published by Fuggles on March 28, 2012 10:26 am

Nissan Delta Wing

Is It A Plane? No, but it is the exiting new Delta Wing Experimental Race car, powered by Nissan’s 1.6-litre DIG-T engine technology. This radical and revolutionary race car will be making it’s first public debut and demo at the famous Sebring race circuit in just a few days time on March 15th and then [...]

Published by Paul Creed on March 14, 2012 6:22 pm

New World Record for Ludders!

Not every new record is set in the glare of publicity at a major event Sometimes you get to take part in a low key affair and everything works just so well, everything comes together and before you know it – a new world record! A recent RWYB at Santa Pod was just the setting [...]

Published by Fuggles on March 13, 2012 5:45 am

NISSAN / NISMO 2012 MOTORSPORTS PLAN

Nissan won numerous championships in motor races in 2011. For 2012, it will participate in the GT500 class of the SUPER GT series, the top motorsports competition series in Japan, provide support in overseas races, mainly by offering its engines to teams participating in LMP2 (Le Mans Prototype 2) Class, and support customer teams which [...]

Published by Fuggles on February 24, 2012 1:21 pm

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 [...]

Published by Fuggles on January 30, 2012 1:59 pm

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 [...]

Published by Fuggles on January 6, 2012 8:10 pm

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 [...]

Published by Fuggles on December 20, 2011 11:15 am

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 [...]

Published by Fuggles on December 17, 2011 6:46 am

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. [...]

Published by Fuggles on December 7, 2011 8:27 am

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 [...]

Published by Fuggles on November 23, 2011 10:03 pm