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PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:33 am 
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Also an announcement on the new HQ. I want to go to there.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:44 am 
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I have been watching the presentation but I still can't see what car is being shown... Any one else seen it yet?


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:45 am 
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Mercedes5CLR wrote:
I have been watching the presentation but I still can't see what car is being shown... Any one else seen it yet?

New SGT GT500.

Press releases:

http://assets.epresspacks.com/nissan/9M ... e_mans.pdf
http://assets.epresspacks.com/nissan/9M ... rsport.pdf

PR actually mentions "a potential return to LMP1 in the future" following this Garage 56 experiment.

Couldn't care less even if the Garage 56 ran on fart gas as long as they keep avoiding actual racing. :yuk:


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:46 am 
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Juihi wrote:
Certainly looks like a GT car, but at the same time it looks too extreme for one, just look at those wheel archs, wouldn't be a Daytona prototype would it?

That's a SuperGT GT500 GTR.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:51 am 
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Yea I thought it looked like one, but I wasn't sure why they'd have one under wraps for some announcement, but obviously it makes sense now

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"Nissan to rebrand technology someone else developed and put their badges on it, whilst telling us how mad and extreme they are"

#stickerengineering

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So much for this being interesting.


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ellis wrote:
"Nissan to rebrand technology someone else developed and put their badges on it, whilst telling us how mad and extreme they are"

#stickerengineering

"Garage 56 - great way to go racing without actually racing while getting the same PR exposure as the ones that are actually racing"


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ptclaus98 wrote:
I hope it's GTE, unless Nissan will use rebadged Renault F1 engines with KERS, they really don't need to be in LMP1. Nissan/Renault aren't particularly into spending big bucks like Audi and Toyota and they've seen Peugeot do it and how they couldn't sustain it. LMP1 doesn't seem like Ghosn's cup of tea, and Nismo getting back into big time Endurance GT with a GTR or even a Z makes more sense.


Really, I'd like to see them announce GTE, GT3, and GT4 cars, and partnerships with more teams. And a new S-chassis. But that's just my fantasy.

Close enough.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 1:11 pm 
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deggis wrote:
ellis wrote:
"Nissan to rebrand technology someone else developed and put their badges on it, whilst telling us how mad and extreme they are"

#stickerengineering

"Garage 56 - great way to go racing without actually racing while getting the same PR exposure as the ones that are actually racing"


lmao what a bitch


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First round of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo USA has been cancelled with the plan being to kick off in 3 weeks at Lime Rock with an extra race. No reason given, just silently dropped from the Mid Ohio Grand-Am schedule but probably down to too few entries/cars ready to race.


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:57 pm 
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the LFA GTE that never existed:

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news ... -revealed/

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Toyota Motorsport GmbH, the Japanese marque’s top level motorsport subsidiary developed a GTE car to race in the 2012 WEC season. It had planned to race a single GTE car and a single LMP1 car that year and built cars to both specifications, the TS030 went on to contest the Le Mans 24 Hours, but the GTE car never officially existed.

:O

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:10 pm 
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Dammit Toyota. That car looked so epic.

No team like Stefan GP that can take over the project?


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GT3 Viper: http://www.drivesrt.com/racing/viper-gt3r/

The right kind of livery :p

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:29 pm 
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See, this is what happens when you have 2 threads about the same type of cars :p


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The GTE Toyota(Lexus LFA) is indeed a very nice looking car. Hope the project will be carried on at some point in the near future for Le Mans, also.


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