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Nissan Withdraws From Endurance Racing
The GT-R LM raced only once, at Le Mans this year, where two of three entered examples retired and the third finished too far behind the leaders to be classified. During the 24 hour race, the Nissan did not perform well and lapped around 25 seconds slower than its competitors.
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Although Nissan has yet to confirm its drivers for a mooted full 2016 FIA WEC campaign, Motorsport.com understands that Harry Tincknell, Jann Mardenborough and Tsugio Matsuda, all three of whom also drove at the NOLA test, will continue to be part of the team in 2016.
Prompting Nissan to withdraw the auto from the remainder of the WEC rounds in favour of rigorous testing with a view to a 2016 return, though this would continue up until early December, the firm has now announced it is canning the project altogether.
The Japanese manufacturer returned to top-flight sportscar racing this year for the first time since 1999 with its innovative front-engined GT-R LM NISMO. The teams worked diligently to bring the vehicles up to the desired performance levels.
Nissan announced Tuesday it will discontinue is World Endurance Championship (WEC) and Le Mans campaign after only a single season, effectively ending development of its front-wheel-drive GT-R LM Nismo LMP1 cars. The car’s hybrid system was plagued by issues and it raced at Le Mans with conventional petrol power only. “However, the company concluded that the program would not be able to reach its ambitions and made a decision to focus on developing its longer term racing strategies”.
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That said, they will put more focus on their GT cars especially the GT-R Nismo GT3 which helped them win the 2015 Super GT title, Blancpain Endurance Series Pro Cup title as well as winning the Bathurst 12 Hour race.