Early November sees Nissan heading to Argentina for the final round of this year’s FIA GT1 World Championship. Coming off their amazing 2011 success in motorsports, they’ve now set their sights on a double-Championship victory.
Michael Krumm and Lucas Luhr enter the race weekend as leaders in the GT1 Drivers’ Championship standings at the Lago Potrero de los Funes circuit in San Luis in the #23 JRM Racing Nissan GT-R, while JRM is a close second in the Teams’ Championship. With the possibility of points for the Qualifying and Championship races, Krumm, Luhr and JRM will be seeking race victory inspired by those who have been triumphant while wearing Nissan colors this year.
Simon Sproule, Nissan’s Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing Communications, commented: “Our great results in motorsport in 2011 are testament to the efforts and talents of many people – teams of drivers, technicians, engineers and plenty of others behind the scenes – who have worked hard to ensure that the Nissan name has been at the top of the standings wherever we’ve competed this year.
“The success owes much to Nissan’s rich motorsport heritage at iconic races such as Le Mans, as well as the engineering excellence inherent in road vehicles like the 370Z and GT-R. There is a lot of crossover between road and track technology, and we constantly strive to apply what we learn from motorsport into our production models, and not just at the high performance end of the range. That is why motorsport, and being the best, is so very important to Nissan.”
Highlights of Nissan’s 2011 motorsport success include:
Super GT – The #46 S Road MOLA Nissan GT-R claimed the GT500 class Drivers’ Championship, as well as the Teams’ Championship for MOLA. Another Nissan, the #23 Nismo Motul Autech, finished an overall second in the Drivers’ and Teams’ standings. From the eight rounds contested this season, GT-R entries demonstrated their dominance by winning five times.
Intercontinental Le Mans Cup – Nissan made a successful return to prototype endurance racing in partnership with Signature Racing. With inaugural GT Academy winner Lucas Ordonez among the driver line-up, the Signatech Nissan car won the LMP2 ILMC Teams’ Championship, while also securing a second place class finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Le Mans Series – Powered by the same NISMO tuned Nissan VK45V8 engine as the Signatech Nissan, Greaves Motorsport’s Zytek Z11SN dominated LMS to claim the LMP2 Teams’ and Drivers’ Championship double, with four wins from five races.
Blancpain Endurance Series – The RJN Motorsport team, featuring 2010 competition winner, Jordan Tresson, won the GT4 class BES title in the Nissan 370Z, prevailing at the Total 24 Hours of Spa along the way.
Formula One – Infiniti, along with partners Red Bull Racing, has had great success into F1. 2011 has seen Red Bull with their second successive F1 Constructors’ title win, with three races to spare. Infiniti global ambassador, Sebastian Vettel, produced one amazing performance after another to be crowned the youngest double Drivers’ champion in the sport’s history.
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