Nissan Gt-R Lmp1 Nismo Unveiled [Video]
Nissan today declared itself prepare to accept on the world’s best sports motorcar manufacturers afterwards revealing a glimpse of its Le Mans competition – the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO – during the commercial intermission for Super Bowl XLIX.
Last year’s Super Bowl was the close watched boob tube plan inwards U.S.A. boob tube history alongside over 110 meg viewers. The 2015 game was hence the perfect chance for Nissan’s “With Dad” commercial (view at www.withdad.com) to air for the maiden off time, revealing the much-anticipated Nissan GT-R LM NISMO, the motorcar that volition accept on the best inwards the footing inwards the race to glory at the Le Mans 24 Hours.
In a bold move, the Japanese manufacturer has interpreted the sport’s technical regulations inwards an innovative way, producing a front-engined, front end cycle crusade motorcar that is powered past times a V6 3.0-liter twin turbo gasoline engine together with a kinetic unloose energy recovery system.
“It gave us nifty pride to give away the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO during the Super Bowl,” said Roel de Vries, global caput of Marketing together with Brand Strategy at Nissan. “The combination of the Super Bowl together with the Le Mans 24 Hours – 2 of the close watched sporting events inwards the footing – presented us alongside a unique chance to showcase our close ambitious motorsport plan inwards recent times. The GT-R is our flagship route car. This, the ultimate GT-R, continues a sporting bloodline that goes dorsum iii decades alongside NISMO, the motorsport together with surgical operation arm of Nissan. Le Mans drives innovation, together with so success on the runway volition Pb to greater excogitation inwards our route motorcar range. We are the novel kids at Le Mans. Our opponents are the best inwards the world, but nosotros are ready.”
The novel motorcar volition competition the LM P1 shape of the FIA World Endurance Championship, the highest category inwards footing sports motorcar racing. Starting at Silverstone, Great Britain on Apr 12, the serial travels around the footing to Spa inwards Belgium, onto the Le Mans 24 Hours together with Germany’s Nürburgring, earlier going global alongside races inwards the U.S., Japan, Communist People's Republic of China together with the Middle East.
The FIA World Endurance Championship is the ultimate proving footing for automotive companies every bit technological gains on the runway tin deport through to route cars. Racing motorcar engineers are facing the same challenges every bit route motorcar engineers every bit the spotlight falls on unloose energy efficiency. With to a greater extent than technical liberty than Formula 1, the LM P1 engineers cause got ample chance to innovate.
“This is excogitation that excites,” said Shoichi Miyatani, president of NISMO. “Sustainability is at the go past times of our agenda, together with the technical regulations for Le Mans laissez passer us the liberty to pursue novel ideas inwards this area. Our tape at Le Mans is 3rd house overall, together with so nosotros cause got unfinished describe of piece of job concern there. We desire to win together with nosotros cause got the noesis to practice that – for our customers, our employees together with our fans. The competition is exceptionally potent together with nosotros are excited past times the challenge.”
“Our LM P1 plan makes the connecter betwixt NISMO on the route together with NISMO on the track, showcasing our build deoxyribonucleic acid to a global audience,” said Darren Cox, global caput of Brand, Marketing & Sales, NISMO. “We are taking motorsport to the masses, telling tales of technical excogitation but besides human stories via all of the exciting communications channels that are opened upward to us now. We volition nowadays off the runway every bit good every bit on it, together with so you lot tin last assured that this is simply the get down of the story.”
The intensive exam plan for the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO that began inwards Arizona final yr continues inwards the U.S.A. Nissan’s total LM P1 driver line-up volition last revealed soon.
New LM P1 Partnerships Revealed
Nissan besides announced iii multi-year partnerships that volition characteristic prominently inwards its LM P1 program.
Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer is the Official Watch Partner together with Official Timekeeping Partner. The LM P1 drivers volition all apparel TAG Heuer watches, together with the partnership volition last activated globally past times both parties alongside several exciting developments to last announced inwards the coming months.
Motul is the Official Lubricants Partner for the program, working closely alongside NISMO’s engine subdivision to educate high-performance products to elevate competitiveness together with efficiency. Motul has enjoyed a long-standing human relationship alongside NISMO over the past times 2 decades, together with this natural expansion into the LM P1 plan comes presently afterwards the Super GT Championship victory for the iconic #23 MOTUL AUTECH GT-R.
The LM P1 plan volition utilisation tires supplied past times Michelin. The French manufacturer has developed tires particularly for the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO together with been an integral purpose of the car’s extensive exam program.