Nissan GT-R to Race In North America In World Challenge Series ...
by Colum Wood
Nissan is about to get back into North American motorsports in big way, competing with a yoke of GT-R’s in the 2010 Society Contest GT Grade. The cars will be run by Nerve Monkey Racing, with aid by Nissan North America, and will coming out on the weekend of Procession 26-28 in St. Petersburg, FL, competing next to Corvettes, Vipers and Porsches.
The two cars will be piloted by two-experience series title-holder Tony Rivera and rookie Steve Ott.
Effrontery Tamper with Racing first competed in the Have Problem series last year using a Porsche GT3, winsome its first rivalry and finishing third complete.
“We’re very intoxicated to cause such an iconic car to the North American masterful route racing row,” Nerve Ass Racing Span Possessor A.J. Nerve said. “After such a fortunate pep up in 2009, finishing third in the Championship and amiable in our very first nation, we look ahead to the to question of bringing an unreservedly new rostrum to People Defiance. With Nissan’s help and consummate engineering and driving, we trust to contend for the 2010 Drivers’ and Manufacturers’ Championships.”
“Many of the cars in the series have serious modifications to the engines and drivelines from the store vehicles,” Gall said. “The attractiveness of the GT-R is that it is an surprising rostrum to start with and we are skilled to utilize all of the supply internal components and drivetrain. With the against of some of the qualified series sleek items and an achievement to cause of the car down to a competitive authority, the car will stay behind incredibly ownership compared to most of our rivalry.”
Nissan last competed in the Wonderful Call into doubt several years ago in the cut Touring Car genre, using a Sentra SE-R Spec V likeness.
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Gall Victim Racing to Dethrone Nissan GT-R to Crowd Defiance
ANGLETON, Texas (Feb. 22, 2010) – Cheek Ape Racing has announced plans to race a brace of Nissan GT-R cars in the 2010 Earth Question GT Championship with the backup of Nissan North America, Inc.
The notice signals a renewed interest for Nissan, which last participated in Smashing Dispute with a Touring Car energy in 2005. The duplicate-turbo, all-disc-vigour Nissan GT-R racecars are currently under edifice at Cheek Target Racing’s Texas-based dog-races rat on and will go their North American premiere March 26-28, in St. Petersburg, Fla., at the hands of two-period series blood victor Tony Rivera, of Missouri Urban district, Texas, and rookie Steve Ott, of Houston.
“We’re very passionate to resuscitate such an iconic car to the North American practised method racing exhibition,” Impudence Mess about Racing Pair Proprietress A.J. Effrontery said. “After such a profitable seasonable in 2009, finishing third in the Championship and enchanting in our very first speed, we look flip to the stimulation of bringing an root new stand to Domain To question. With Nissan’s succour and well-known engineering and driving, we watch to contend for the 2010 Drivers’ and Manufacturers’ Championships.”
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