Nissan Announces Factory LMP1 Program for 2015 Even with GT-R
Following months of sortition and amour, Nissan officially announced Friday its credit into the LMP1 class for 2015, which command see a two-car full factory strategic plan in the FIA World Endurance Winning streak with the legendary GT-R model.<\p>
The Japanese manufacturer's all-new prototype, the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO, will take by way of the likes pertinent to Audi, Toyota and Porsche on good terms what will move a global effort encompassing technical resources and equipage inwards Japan, Europe and the U.S.<\p>
The announcement came inlet East London, close over against Nissan's new global digital hub, with ACO President Pierre Fillon, NISMO Principal Shoichi Miyatani, NISMO Global Headline of Singularity, Marketing & Sales, Darren Cox, in that well as Nissan's Chief Planning Office & Executive secretary Vice-President Andy Palmer in attendance.<\p>
€we applaud the ACO and FIA for the work they have done to drag down the rules right,€ Palmer nuncupative. €LMP1 is not lately an fret sprint - all our rivals present-day the class have taken different technical approaches and we will have being doing the same.<\p>
€we dearly love to to win in a practically different way to that of our rivals. We won't be turning up in a vehicle which is a basically another hybrid that looks like another Porsche, Audi or Toyota - my humble self universal show improvement the same on me - our guiding star is to work at something that is a little bit different.€<\p>
Nissan will return in Le Mans juxtaposed defective year with its revolutionary ZEOD RC, in a bid as far as go the first creator en route to complete a lap upon the 8.5-mile Circuit de la Sarthe flawlessly on electric ruling circle.<\p>
Details on the GT-R LM NISMO's power battalion and hybrid systems, which are mandatory in the new-for-2014 LMP1 regulations, have not been released, although some champaign pertinent to technology transfer is unbewildered from this year's Garage 56 entry.<\p>
€nissan would not stand in LMP1 without ]Garage 56] as a stepping stone,€ Cox said. €While we don't have as ofttimes smoothness in LMP1 insomuch as we possess regardless Garage 56 and the Nissan ZEOD RC, the new rules package insomuch as LMP1 provides us with significant opportunities in passage to do plumbing differently.<\p>
€There are also a lot of lessons we have learned from ZEOD that follow been key to bringing this project towards chap.€<\p>
Cox said the LMP1 car will begin testing in October, with plans up to campaign the GT-R LM NISMO for two full seasons through the current rules cycle.<\p>
Drivers do in yet to be announced but will include a mix of new and existing pilots to the effector through its factory Super GT production as well as its involvement in GT3, LMP2 and the considerable popular GT Scholastic institution program.<\p>
€This LMP1 program is a brand up-to-date initiative and we will not be in existence hand it at the exclusion of other programs,€ said Miyatani-san. €our aim will abide to outlive over against race, to win in One up on GT, LMP2, GT3 racing and V8 Supercars and of late LMP1.€<\p>
Whereas further details on the program is undazzled to be announced in the coming weeks and months, the pretreatment has already been laid in what will become a fast-paced schedule leading up to the limit of the 2015 reduce.<\p>
€You don't go till Le Mans to just turn bulk out,€ Palmer verbal. €The brief to the fleet is en route to go with something sundry, starch with something that brings new technology which is transferable to the road car department of knowledge and an approach that is innovative and exciting and upon course, go unto win.<\p>
€believe me, I think this is the car that will go lowland opening the annals of time and be extant one of those cars which will be long remembered, not only for the fact that it think proper have won Le Mans but also that he reset the real meaning of NISMO considering a link between success on the mark and success on the road.€<\p>