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Nissan engine to power DeltaWing at Le Mans

NISSAN is aiming to change the face of endurance racing forever by becoming a founding partner in the most radical motorsport project of its time – Nissan DeltaWing. A highly-advanced and hugely-efficient Nissan engine will power the remarkable DeltaWing car as it races in anger for the first time at the legendary Le Mans 24 [...]

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Brundles will race at Le Mans with Nissan

EX-Formula One driver, and TV pundit 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. 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 [...]

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Virtual champions

IT was thrills and spills for the Nissan PlayStation® GT Academy teams last weekend. Starting in seventh place – second in class – the RJN Motorsport-run Nissan 370Z GT4 race car started the Britcar 24 Hours race at Silverstone strongly, climbing up to fourth place. However, disaster struck as Alex Buncombe handed over to latest European GT [...]

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GT-R takes charge in championship

A FINE second place was earned by the no.22 JRM Racing Nissan GT-R of Peter Dumbreck and Richard Westbrook at the weekend’s FIA GT1 race in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. The result has allowed the team to rise to the top of the teams’ championship standings in the process. The GT-Rs began the race cleanly retaining [...]

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Autocar drives GT-R racer

AUTOCAR already loves the GT-R, calling it ‘the supercar bargain of the modern era’. But what happens when they get their hands on one of the Nissan GT-Rs currently competing in FIA GT1 World Championship? Watch this to find out. Tweet Share

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GT-R reigns supreme in France

NISSAN reigned supreme in France last week by dominating round seven of the FIA GT1 Championship at Paul Ricard. The German duo of Michael Krumm and Lucas Luhr lead from the beginning to end and put themselves back on top of the GT1 Drivers’ Championship standings in the process. The no.21 Sumo Power GT of [...]

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Nissan take one-two at Le Mans

NISSAN-powered cars took a fantastic one-two at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. Olivier Lombard took the chequered flag as LMP2 winner in the Zytek Nissan of Greaves Motorsport. Meanwhile second place went to the Oreca 03 Nissan of the Signatech Nissan team of Lucas Ordonez, Franck Mailleux and Soheil Ayari. It was the first [...]

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VIDEO: Training for Le Mans on UK roads

LUCAS Ordonez competed in the Le Mans 24 Hours last weekend courtesy of the Nissan GT Academy – three years ago he was just a Playstation gamer. To prepare for the legendary endurance race, Nissan put Ordonez into a GT-R and told him to complete a lap of England in 24 hours. Here’s how he [...]

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