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NISSAN has announced an ambitious, social media-led project, Nismo #Jukeride. In collaboration with European motorsport enthusiasts and ex-Formula 1 driver Johnny Herbert, Nissan will build a state-of-the-art Juke, with its own Skycam helicopter, designed to help Nismo’s (Nissan Motorsport) team of talented young athletes to push their performances to new heights, and put fans in [...]

NISSAN has created an action-packed programme of events for this year’s Cholmondeley Pageant of Power (15-17 June), in Cheshire. Visitors to the show will be able to enter the highly-acclaimed virtual-to-reality Nissan PlayStation GT Academy competition, meet the 2011 GT Academy Champion Jann Mardenborough and take a close look at a range of Nissan’s latest [...]

NISSAN’S inaugural GT Academy winner, Lucas Ordonez, received his best ever birthday present when he was selected to join the test team for the company’s revolutionary motorsport experiment, DeltaWing. As the fourth season of the life-changing GT Academy competition began last week, the very first ‘virtual-to-reality’ racer received confirmation that he would play a key [...]

NISSAN and PlayStation have joined forces again to run the fourth year of the innovative GT Academy virtual-to-reality racing competition. While the four previous GT Academy graduates line up in top-level race series in 2012, the programme that set them on their path to motorsport fame has been expanded and will now incorporate four separate [...]

THE Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 of GT Academy Team RJN slowed to an agonising crawl at the final corner of the three-hour Blancpain Endurance race at Monza yesterday. The team was on for a very creditable 14th place finish in a race that had seen many top challengers fall by the wayside. The team had [...]

THE first three graduates of GT Academy – Lucas Ordonez, Jordan Tresson and Jann Mardenborough – will compete for Nissan in three of the world’s top endurance racing series this year. As Ordonez demonstrated at the Le Mans 24 Hours last year, GT Academy is now a proven process, turning out drivers who are ready [...]

EUROPEAN winner of the 2011 Nissan PlayStation GT Academy, Jann Mardenborough, and his American counterpart Bryan Heitkotter, have completed the final race of their intensive five-month ‘Driver Development Programme’. The pair competed in the Britcar MSA British Endurance Championship race at Brands Hatch, and recorded a notable first-in-class finish (fifth place overall) in their RJN [...]

THIS week Nissan will be taking UK journalists to Malaga to try the revised Qashqai – and the firm has a robotic trick up its sleeve to impress them! To assist with journalists’ growing needs for video footage, Nissan will offer the services of its Skybot – a remote control camera that can produce amazing [...]