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NISMO ambassador and Super GT racer Michael Krumm will join GT Academy winners and Nismo Athletes Lucas Ordonez and Jann Mardenborough at the Le Mans 24 Hours next month. The three drivers will unite to race a Greaves Motorsport Zytek-Nissan in the LMP2 class. This class has an entry of 22 cars, 15 of which [...]

YOUNG sportscar stars Lucas Ordoñez and Gunnar Jeannette faced a massive leap of faith when driving the Nissan DeltaWing for the first time. But deciding whether or not the radical narrow-nosed racer would successfully negotiate its way around Road Atlanta at Petit Le Mans was nothing compared to the leap the pair made AFTER the [...]

MISSION accomplished! The Nissan DeltaWing had one goal entering its North American debut at Petit Le Mans – to score a race finish. The team not only completed the 1,000-mile journey at Road Atlanta over the weekend, but American Gunnar Jeannette and Spaniard Lucas Ordoñez demonstrated stunning pace to finish fifth in the endurance classic. [...]

AFTER last weekend’s round of the FIA World Endurance Championship at Fuji in Japan, Nissan’s attention turns to America this week, specifically to the glorious Road Atlanta road course in Georgia that hosts the 1,000 mile/10-hour ‘Petit Le Mans’. This is one of the blue riband events of the American sportscar scene and a fitting [...]

SILVERSTONE is where it is all happening this week for Nissan’s motorsport activities. At the weekend Martin Brundle makes his return to the Greaves Motorsport squad where he will race with his son Alex and Nissan’s first GT Academy winner, Lucas Ordonez, in the British round of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The second GT [...]

WHO is your favourite motorsport driver and why? It might not be too tricky a question for many of us – but in this case, there’s quite a bit of pressure on the young man standing in front of us to supply an interesting answer. The reason? Well, Daniel Glover is among the candidates hoping [...]

ENTRY to the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy 2012 qualifying closed earlier this month after more than 830,000 people from the participating European countries had downloaded and played the online qualifying demo. The demo, based on the hugely popular Gran Turismo5 game for PlayStation3, attracted the most entries from the UK (over 161,000) closely followed by [...]

AFTER making a successful return to world-class sportscar racing at the Le Mans 24 Hours last month, Martin Brundle will enter a second endurance race this year, alongside his son Alex and Nissan’s first GT Academy winner, Lucas Ordonez. The trio made a formidable team at Le Mans so when the opportunity arose for Greaves [...]