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Nissan is Official Car for the FIA GT1 World Championship

By Anthony Crawford |
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The Stephane Ratel Organisiation (SRO) promoters of the new FIA GT1 World Championship and Nissan have announced an agreement, which will see Nissan as the Official Car Supplier of the FIA GT1 World Championship for the 2010 inaugural season.

Nissan will supply four cars at each event as well as a GT-R becoming the official Series Safety Car.

The GT1 Series has been awarded full world championship status by the FIA World Motor Sport Council and will compete in 10 countries across four continents featuring automotive brands such as Aston Martin, Chevrolet Corvette, Ford, Lamborghini, Maserati and of course, Nissan themselves.

The first race of the season will kick off at the stunning Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi on April 17 and ends with an event around a volcanic lake at the San Luis track in Argentina on December 5.

Nissan will campaign two Nissan GT-R teams, Sumo Power (love the name) out of the UK and the Swiss Racing Team, from you guessed it, Switzerland.

The GT1 Series marks Nissan’s first move into an FIA World Championship in over 20 years. The platform will allow the Japanese car company to showcase their cars alongside their full-blown GT1 race spec GT-R’s.

If you’ve seen the You Tube footage of the stock standard Nissan GT-R lapping Nurburgring in a time of 7:26.7 in 2009, you can expect some intense competition from these two teams.

NISMO President, Soichi Miyatani, said: “At Nissan the idea of the FIA GT1 World Championship is a very exciting one, seeing the GT-R on track in competition with these other world famous brands will be spectacular.

The Series has also secured strong Television coverage, which they believe will heighten the brand’s exposure with a core car-loving audience on a worldwide scale.

There is no question that Nissan will use the Series exposure to push other high performance models such as the Z-line of cars.

Let’s just hope the GT1 Series will be broadcast on Australian Pay Television, as I for one, will be watching.

  • ABMPSV

    That is a good news. First round is in Abu Dhabi this weekend. Aston Martin DB9, Ford GT, Corvette Z06, Lamborghini Murciélago R-SV, Maserati MC12 and now Nissan GT-R it should be an excellent race!!

    • My Cars Called T-Rex

      I watched this race and must say the cars are very fast,corner on rails and look hot but the racing is boring apart from the first part were the ford gt was coming thought the field,half the footage was of the three GTR(almost a nissan ad)and a lambo batting not too come last and at the finish there was large 400m gaps between each of the competitors,hardly close racing.IF you want to watch these cars race watch GT3,its closer racing and more manufactures in it,but GT1!V8 Supercars is better.

  • Jester

    Why pay tv – I hope its on OneHD, and I reckon it will be. Phark pay TV – they are useless, one good channel, and the rest are junk.

    • jp

      beg to differ. Atleast you can see motorsports inc superbikes, wrc, motogp, nascar, gt1 and there support catergories LIVE.

      Unlike free to air who are finally getting their act together with One HD, but has taken them how long….still cant see v8 supercars here live because of the footy. I agree with the latest ad campaign should be able to watch stuff like local v8 racing on free to air… but dont mind paying my $60 bucks a month to see my sport live and majority of the time with far better commentators! plus u see the odd episode of fifth gear etc.

      Reckon this will attract a big viewing from v8 supercars fans. All the cras are rwd with 8′s or 12′s…. think there may have been a 10 with about 600 to 650hp and 700nm of torque. Plenty of manufacturers and world wide exposure…… hmm sounds a bit like a tony cochrane wet dream. Why would any other manufacturers join ford and holden v8 racing for exposure with something like this now racing!

      • robbo

        I’d rather pay $60 a month on my car than on TV. should be free hands down

  • milobob

    Finally something different to F1 :P

  • F1MotoGP

    First race won by Ford GT Matech. Here is the result.

    Pos. Car Car Laps Gap
    1 5 Ford GT Matech 28 0
    2 13 Corvette Z06 28 23.061
    3 14 Corvette Z06 28 26.485
    4 1 Maserati MC12 28 34.075
    5 25 Lamborghini Murcielago 670 R-S 28 49.496
    6 2 Maserati MC12 28 53.059
    7 34 Maserati MC12 28 01:00.6
    8 24 Lamborghini Murcielago 670 R-S 28 01:12.7
    9 33 Maserati MC12 28 01:24.5
    10 11 Corvette Z06 28 01:26.3
    11 7 Aston Martin DB9 28 01:26.8
    12 22 Nissan GT – R 28 01:28.2
    13 40 Ford GT Matech 28 01:37.6
    14 3 Nissan GT – R 28 01:59.5
    15 12 Corvette Z06 28 02:01.2
    16 23 Nissan GT – R 27 40.752
    17 37 Lamborghini Murcielago 670 R-S 24 02:33.6
    18 10 Aston Martin DB9 22 11:00.1
    19 9 Aston Martin DB9 15 28:28.2
    20 38 Lamborghini Murcielago 670 R-S 12 24:59.3
    21 4 Nissan GT – R 1 58:23.9
    0 8 Aston Martin DB9 0 0
    0 41 Ford GT Matech 0 0