Nissan confirms driver line-up for 2015 Bathurst 12 Hour

Nissan has confirmed that Alex Buncombe, Katsumasa Chiyo and Wolfgang Reip will return to Mount Panorama for the 2015 Bathurst 12 Hour race, driving for its Nismo Athlete Global Team.

The trio will line-up in the #35 Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 as the team seeks

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GT Academy winner Reip joins Ordonez in Nissan ZEOD RC driver line up

The driver line-up for Nissan's revolutionary ZEOD RC prototype will feature two past winners of the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy program with Belgian driver Wolfgang Reip signed to join Lucas Ordonez at this year's Le Mans 24 Hours.

In 2012, Reip won the European

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Lucas Ordonez to race Nissan ZEOD RC at Le Mans

Two-time Le Mans 24 Hours LM P2 podium finisher and inaugural Nissan PlayStation GT Academy winner Lucas Ordonez has been confirmed as the first race driver for Nissan's revolutionary ZEOD RC prototype.

The Nissan ZEOD RC will become the first car to complete

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Nissan ZEOD RC, electric racecar unveiles at Nismo, Yokohama

After an intense eight months of development, design and construction, Nissan's revolutionary Nissan ZEOD RC electric racecar was unveiled at the headquarters of Nissan's performance arm, Nismo, in Yokohama.

The zero-emissions on demand racer has

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Miguel Faisca crowned 2013 European GT Academy Champion

GT Academy Driver Development Programme and a full-season's racing in a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 beckon for Portuguese Gran Turismo gamer as he aims to become a real racing driver.

Miguel Faisca, a 24-year-old student from Lisbon, Portugal has been crowned the

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Nissan's racing season gets into gear with new FIA GT Series

The new-for-2013 FIA GT Series gets underway this weekend at Nogaro in France and the Nissan GT Academy Team RJN squad is ready to take its pair of Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 race cars to the limit as they go head to head with the likes

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G-Drive Racing revealed as official Nissan Partner team

G-Drive Racing's entry into the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) has been revealed as the Official Nissan Partner entry for 2013.  Operated by Delta-ADR, the team will run two Russian G-Drive branded Oreca LMP2 cars, powered by Nissan Nismo, in

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Nissan DeltaWing wins Autosport's Pioneering and Innovation award

The 2012 Autosport Awards, the motorsport industry's 'Oscars' held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London's Park Lane, provided a night of delight for Nissan when the Nissan DeltaWing received the award for Pioneering and Innovation.

The Nissan DeltaWing has

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Nissan increasing global motorsport presence, names Darren Cox and Jerry Hardcastle to key positions

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. announced two appointments for its motorsport activities covering global strategy and marketing communications.

Darren Cox will take on the role of Director, global motorsports for Nissan. The role has been specially created to reflect Nissan's continuing

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From concept to reality... to virtual reality

They said it was impossible. They said it would never happen. Today's the day that the Juke-R doubters are silenced, as the production version #001 emerges from the pit garage - in both real and virtual worlds.

The first super-exclusive Juke-R

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Nissan takes on Petit Le Mans

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

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Mission Motorsport and Nissan ready to do battle at Britcar 24 Hours

The Mission Motorsport team that will take on the 2012 Britcar 24 Hours were on track at Silverstone on Monday making final preparations for this weekend's race. The all-amateur crew took advantage of Nissan's GT Academy instructors to hone their newly acquired

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Nissan DeltaWing rides again, entered in American Le Mans Series Finale

The team behind the radical Nissan DeltaWing has declared it has 'unfinished business'... after being unceremoniously shoved out of the famous Le Mans 24 Hours in June, the fans' favorite will return to finish what it started at the event's little brother, Petit Le Mans.

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Nissan DeltaWing passes first full wet test as European phase of development begins

The experimental Nissan DeltaWing prototype sportscar kicked-off its European testing program in England at Snetterton, in Norfolk, with Scotsman Marino Franchitti and German Michael Krumm getting the opportunity to sample the car in wet conditions.

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Successful ‘Gamer-to-Racer' GT Academy Programme expands for 2012

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

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