Nissan
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Porsche top wet session 1 at Le Mans test day
It was rain on the menu for breakfast at Le Mans for the first offical session of the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans. As always, the test day is taking place two weeks before the race. All of this years runners of the endurance classic have been completing, with some special entries for teams…
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Nissan push GTR-LM debut back to Le Mans
Nissan will miss the opening two round of this years World Endurance Championship at Silverstone and Spa-Francorchamps in order to focus on a continued testing program. The team have also announced their withdrawal from the pre-season test at Paul Ricard, meaning that the team will make their debut at Le Mans in June with their full three car…
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KCMG reveal new ORECA 05
The LMP2 team, KCMG, will go into the new season with a new car to match. After the manufacturer of there car, ORECA published images of their car for the first time last week, the images of the fully liveried KCMG car shortly followed. Last year KCMG began a partnership with the French manufacture, ORECA.…
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Harry Tincknell Q&A: This is going to be really different!
Harry Tincknell is one of the latest drivers to arrive in the top class of the World Endurance Championship. He will be making his LMP1 debut in April for Nissan in their GT-R LM at the 6 Hours of Silverstone. We caught up with him in this exclusive interview ahead of his first full season in…
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Nissan announce three more drivers
After a secretive year of information around the Nissan LMP1 project, the drivers are now beginning to break cover. Marc Gene, Harry Tincknell, Olivier Pla and Le Mans extra Tsugio Matsuda will be joined by Nissan regular and GT-R LM NISMO test driver, Michael Krumm and GT Academy winners Lucas Ordonez and Jann Mardenbourgh. When…
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Nissan reveal new GT-R LM
Last night at between Sunday and Monday, Nissan finally launched their new endurance programme. In the half-time of the Super Bowl, the Japanese manufacture presented a one and a half minute commercial which released the manufacture’s new car for the first time to the public. With the slogan “A Hero Comes Home” the advert advertised…
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Toyota begin testing 2015 car
After Porsche were the first LMP1 team to reveal images of their new prototype ahead of the 2015 season, Toyota have also been testing in the south of France. The Japanese team spent three days testing a modified version of the 2014 model of the TS040 at Le Castellet. Over the course of the test,…
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Nissan Postpones 2015 Announcement
The original plan was that Nissan would be revealing their 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship LMP1 challenger next week. The Japanese manufacturer rented out Sebring Raceway from 5 December to 7 December, then there were reports that Nissan would take this opportunity to lift the lid on its return to world sportscar racing. However, it now…
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Michael Krumm Testing Nissan’s LMP1 Car
With it getting closer and closer to the end of the season, Nissan are still keeping their 2015 plans somewhat mysterious. Except from announcing the fact there will be a Nissan LMP1 contender under the name of the Nissan GTR-LM NISMO on the grid next year, the Japanese manufacture have not given anyone as much as…