日産とNISMOは今日、2010年のモータースポーツ体制発表を行いました。日本のスーパーGT選手権では、NISMOの枠は1枠減り、3チームとなってしまいました。2008年は5チーム、2009年は4チームでした。

2010年スーパーGT選手権GT500クラスは以下のチームで参戦します。

• #23 Nismo モチュール・オーテック GT-R （本山哲／ブノワ・トレルイエ）
• #12 IMPUL カルソニック・インパル GT-R （松田次生／ロニー・クインタレッリ）
• #24 KONDO RACING HIS ADVAN KONDO GT-R （ジャン・パウロ・オリベイラ／安田裕信）

今シーズンのGT-RはスーパーGTのレギュレーション改訂に伴い、今までのVK45 V8 ユニットから VRH34A 3.4 リッターエンジンに変更になりました。VRH34Aに関するテクニカル情報が入り次第詳細をGTRBlogではお伝えする予定です。

SuperGTレースカーに加え、NISMOは2010 FIA GT選手権に2010 FIA GT1 Nissan GT-Rで出場するチームのサポートを行います。2チームの参戦が決まっており、4月中旬にUAEのヤス・マリーナ・サーキットでシーズンが開幕します。

FIA GT選手権に参戦するスモウ・パワーGTとスイスレーシングチーム の活躍を期待します。

リンク: Nissanモータースポーツウェブサイト
リンク: 日産自動車プレスリリース
リンク: SumoPowerGT ウェブサイト

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If you’re a manufacturer of anything even remotely sporty these days you’re no doubt testing at the Nurburgring. Fine tuning and tweaking the performance because of just how well the Nurburgring represents a wide variety of driving conditions.

You wont be the only one testing your final product there however because, if it’s a real sports car, then Germany’s Sport Auto magazine will put it to their famous Supertest.

The Nissan GT-R had to do it and passed with flying colours setting a 7:38 laptime with editor Horst von Saurma (HvS) behind the wheel. Well now the Corvette ZR1′s time has come to be put to the same test.

Despite the weight and power advantage over the GT-R, the ZR1 only managed to equal the GT-R’s 7:38 lap time on the 13 mile long Nordschliefe circuit in the hands of the same test driver, HvS.

Quite an interesting data point this considering each manufacturer previously set times in the 7:26 region. To then set a 7:38 in an independent test…

Other tracks were also compared in the German article, the ZR1 beating out the GT-R’s Hockenheimring laptime (1:09.7 to the GT-R’s 1:10.7) and then the ZR1 losing out to the GT-R in the wet handling course (1:36.8 to the GT-R’s 1:32.4).

リンク: Sport Auto Magazine ウェブサイト
ソース: NAGTROC Forums

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East Texas Muscle Cars is where you can point and begin laughing as they reckon they’ve got the know how to slap together a GT-R killing Camaro based on the cooking variety V6. Edmunds Inside Line is reporting that the V6 will be upgraded with forged internals and a remote mount turbo kit. Add to that a few other off the shelf tuning parts and they think they can tweak it to 500hp and slay the GT-R at the Nurburgring.

Their answer to improving the Camaro’s handling … ?

Other changes include a Baer big brake kit, lightweight 20-inch iForged wheels and Pedders coil-overs and bushings to address “the stock Camaro’s tremendous understeer and cradle walk.”

Edmunds Inside Line

I really gotta hand it to these guys in Texas, they brightened up my Friday with this. Whatever they’re smoking get me some.

リンク: Edmunds Inside Line – Read the full story
Image: Autoblog – Click to see their gallery

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When you’ve got thousands of tourists attacking your public race track each year you’re going to run into the odd occasion when someone makes an error. If that error gets serious you’re going to want to be able to get to the scene of an incident quickly. On a 20km circuit like the Nordschliefe this is no job for an ordinary fire truck.

So proving to the world it’s not only one of the worlds fastest production cars ever to lap the ‘Ring, it’s now the most practical after receiving a full “fire engine” conversion.

That’s right, the car is fitted with a fire retardant tank fully consuming the rear passenger area, followed by a functional hose reel and equipment bay in the trunk. The car is also kitted out with a full roll cage and carbon fibre Recaro racing seats for safety. This is no joke!

Photographs used with permission.

Images/ソース: NissanSportz.com – Is This The World’s Fastest Roadgoing Fire Engine?

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The assault on the Nurburgring for 2009 has begun as promised. After just a few testing days Nissan Chief Test Driver Toshio Suzuki-san has managed to beat his previous best of 7:29 in a base model series II Nissan GT-R with a 7:27.56 lap. The car was standard except for being fitted with optional Nismo ClubSport package Rays 20″ forged aluminium wheels. Dunlop tires were fitted to the Rays wheels.

The laptime was set at 6.52pm on the 15th of April. Ambient temperature was 21 degrees C, track temp was 26 degrees and relative humidity was 25%. They’re back out again today trying to go faster again.

As promised, to keep everything above board, members of the press were in attendance as well as representatives from Porsche Stuttgart.

Why exactly they’re using this combination of wheels and tires we will hope to find out soon. We’re also chasing up some further imagery to show you. As for the photo you see above – it is not the car in question but is a SpecV Nissan GT-R being tested at the Nurburgring earlier this week.

ソース: NissanSportz.com
Photo: Mark aus Moers

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