Nissan Insider

Nissan will return to the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2014, according to news today,  bringing ‘an innovative project’ to the table that promises to rival last year’s award-winning Nissan DeltaWing for innovation. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn made the pledge to return to Le Mans during a special event today in Yokohama, Japan, to open [...]

THE 14 Nissan-powered cars running at Le Mans recently, including nine of the top 10 finishers in the LMP2 class, completed a combined total of 31,732.07 miles in the world- famous 24-hour race. Having pledged to donate £1 per mile completed by each of its cars in the gruelling endurance event, Nissan will now write [...]

FROM the look of despair in Satoshi Motoyama’s eyes to hands raised in triumph on the podium, we thought we’d present a small selection of pictures that seem to sum up a memorable weekend of motor racing at Le Mans. It was a hugely successful weekend for Nissan, with the company taking nine out of the [...]

NISSAN power took nine of the top 10 positions at the Le Mans 24 Hours at the weekend, rounding off an incredible week for the company at the world’s best endurance race. Former Le Mans winner Martin Brundle made good his return when he came home in eighth place in class with his son Alex [...]

TO celebrate Nissan’s support of the DeltaWing Le Mans project, the manufacturer has invited a number of journalists to the 24 hour race. Reporters from Top Gear Magazine, Sky Sports, the Daily Mail and a number of other high-profile publications yesterday started their trip to the famous French race. Nissan Insider was along for the [...]

THE revolutionary Nissan DeltaWing completed its first running on the famous 8.5-mile Circuit de la Sarthe at the weekend – the home of the upcoming 80th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Invited to compete under the Automobile Club de l’Ouest’s ‘Garage 56′ classification that showcases new and innovative technology, the Nissan DeltaWing [...]

NISSAN will be the dominant force at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, with a quarter of all entries running on Nismo-tuned Nissan power. Spearheading Nissan’s dominant entry to the famous endurance race, on June 16/17, will be the hugely innovative and experimental Nissan DeltaWing, which aims to change the face of motor racing by [...]

NISSAN and NISMO have announced that their Japanese Super GT star, Satoshi Motoyama, will be the third driver in the ground-breaking Nissan DeltaWing Le Mans 24 Hours race car. NISMO driver and triple Super GT champion, Motoyama, will join Briton Marino Franchitti and German Michael Krumm, who won the 2003 JGTC (formerly SUPER GT) title [...]