Nissan: SUPER GT champions!

  • MOTUL AUTECH GT-R grabs back-to-back Super GT championship wins
  • Nissan NISMO racing across the globe this weekend

YOKOHAMA, Japan –The final round of the 2015 Super GT Championship took place at Twin Ring Motegi last weekend, and the #1 MOTUL AUTECH GT-R of Tsugio Matsuda and Ronnie Quintarelli accomplished an amazing comeback from 12th to finish in second place. Displacing the ranking leader, the #12 Calsonic IMPUL GT-R of Hironobu Yasuda and Joao Paolo de Oliveira, they secured their second GT500 championship in a row.

After the race, NISMO Team Principal Yutaka Suzuki said: “It was the never-give-up spirit of the whole team that allowed us to achieve this victory. This could be seen in the amazing effort from Ronnie as well as the fastest pit work in the race. You could say that our mechanics really created a stir. Tsugio’s out-lap was a fitting reward for all the team’s hard work. This was definitely a race fit for NISMO and it enables us to take home the championship. Thank you to all the fans who supported us throughout the year.”

Tsugio Matsuda added: “I don’t know what to say. Ronnie did a fantastic job in the first half and that pit work was astounding. We’ve been diligently practicing our driver changes and pit work all year and it was the effort from the whole team that spurred me on in my out-lap. In the second half there was only one line you could take, and there were some close calls when dealing with GT300 machines and back-markers. It was an incredibly tense race. However, I feel like we were able to display a performance worthy of a champion.”

Read the full report from Motegi here.

 

 

Nissan NISMO Racing Across the Globe this Weekend

The Super GT season may be over in Japan, but Nissan NISMO continues to race across the globe this weekend. The V8 Supercar team will be in action at Phillip Island in Australia and the “Powered by Nissan NISMO” LMP2 teams will take their championship fight to the last FIA World Endurance Championship race of the season in Bahrain.

One of Nissan’s Blancpain Endurance Series Champions, Alex Buncombe, will take part in the Race of Champions this weekend where he will team up with 2009 Formula 1 World title winner, Jenson Button. Together they will take on some of the biggest names in motorsport including Sebastian Vettel, Nico Hulkenberg, Tom Kristensen, Petter Solberg, Felipe Massa, David Coulthard and Daniel Ricciardo.

The Race of Champions includes a Celebrity Skills Challenge, and Nissan’s LMP3 Champion Sir Chris Hoy is primed and ready to do battle with the likes of Sir Ben Ainslie and Mike Tindall. The action gets underway at London’s former Olympic Stadium this Friday.

 

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