Nissan and NISMO unveil Nissan Z GT500 race car for Super GT series

[Denver the Last Dinosaur]

Now you know why there aren't any to buy at dealers yet ... they keep butchering them into race cars instead.

 

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[trackratZ]

Best wishes to the Nissan team next week!! Stiff competition.

https://www.motorsport.com/supergt/news/okayama-entry-list-42-cars/9592666/

GT500 entry list:

Manufacturer	Team	Tyre	No.	Drivers
Nissan Z GT500	NDDP Racing	Michelin	3	Katsumasa Chiyo Mitsunori Takaboshi
Team Impul	Bridgestone	12	Bertrand Baguette Kazuki Hiramine
NISMO	Michelin	23	Ronnie Quintarelli Tsugio Matsuda
Kondo Racing	Yokohama	24	Kohei Hirate Daiki Sasaki
Toyota GR Supra	Rookie Racing	Bridgestone	14	Kazuya Oshima Kenta Yamashita
Racing Project Bandoh	Yokohama	19	Yuji Kunimoto Sena Sakaguchi
TOM’S	Bridgestone	36	Giuliano Alesi Sho Tsuboi
37	Ritomo Miyata Sacha Fenestraz
Cerumo	Bridgestone	38	Hiroaki Ishiura Yuji Tachikawa
SARD	Bridgestone	39	Yuhi Sekiguchi Yuichi Nakayama
Honda NSX-GT (Type S)	ARTA	Bridgestone	8	Tomoki Nojiri Nirei Fukuzumi
Team Mugen	Dunlop	16	Toshiki Oyu Ukyo Sasahara
Real Racing	Bridgestone	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi Nobuharu Matsushita
Nakajima Racing	Dunlop	64	Takuya Izawa Hiroki Otsu
Team Kunimitsu	Bridgestone	100	Naoki Yamamoto Tadasuke Makino

 

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[trackratZ]

Yep, great results really, 3rd (Nismo), 5th (Nismo), and 7th (Impul Calsonic), for a maiden race on the new Z chassis. Best qualifier was 7th but too conservative on tires. Can't wait until next race at Fuji.

 

[trackratZ]

Round 2 this week at Fuji, let's see if can better 3rd, which was phenomenal being first time out.

https://www.motorsport.com/supergt/news/fuji-golden-week-schedule-info/10252182/

 

[trackratZ]

Look where the Z’s qualified at Fuji, good aero speed!

 

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[trackratZ]

Very happy considering that massive crash of the Motul Z driver is OK no major injuries! About 150mph into the barriers, what testament to the build of that new chassis!!

Race restart was wild, sort of, bec of penalties. Top Toyotas penalized for this, 20 sec penalty, no way to recover from pits. Driver cannot get out and inspect tires. Wow!

Good positive is, Calsonic Z came in 3rd, podiumed under the circumstances. Wild!

They were able to fix this barrier, amazing! One tire was lodged in there somewhere.

 

[SD_MK]

That's super fucked up. Intentional or not, that's some bullshit driving on the Supra's part. Hopefully that Z team can bounce back for the next race or so.

 

[trackratZ]

I really have that feeling it was on purpose that Supra driver caused the accident. It could've turned much, much worse!! I hope an investigation comes out of it, that's nasty tactics.

 

[LeatherWings]

I really have that feeling it was on purpose that Supra driver caused the accident. It could've turned much, much worse!! I hope an investigation comes out of it, that's nasty tactics.

If it was indeed intentional, I feel like that's the kind of thing that should get you banned for life - when you willfully pull shit that endangers other racers' lives.

I'm reminded of this guy and the absolute dirthole stuff he did:

 

[trackratZ]

Yep, admitted it.

"Although the crash was caused by a series of unusual events, not least the slow-moving GT300 car on a straight that measures more than a kilometre in length, some drivers have suggested Sekiguchi shouldn’t have left it so late to duck out of the slipstream when he had two cars running behind him.

Wakisaka, himself a three-time champion in GT500, strongly suggested that Sekiguchi could have acted differently to avoid the incident that brought a premature end to the race."

https://www.motorsport.com/supergt/news/sard-sekiguchi-takaboshi-fuji-crash/10282254/

 

[LeatherWings]

Yep, admitted it.

"Although the crash was caused by a series of unusual events, not least the slow-moving GT300 car on a straight that measures more than a kilometre in length, some drivers have suggested Sekiguchi shouldn’t have left it so late to duck out of the slipstream when he had two cars running behind him.

Wakisaka, himself a three-time champion in GT500, strongly suggested that Sekiguchi could have acted differently to avoid the incident that brought a premature end to the race."

https://www.motorsport.com/supergt/news/sard-sekiguchi-takaboshi-fuji-crash/10282254/

Disgraceful. Sekiguchu has brought dishonor to himself, his team, and his family. The only option left is seppuku... but I suppose it'd be ok to settle for a hefty fine and lengthy suspension.

 

[DevonK]

Yep, admitted it.

"Although the crash was caused by a series of unusual events, not least the slow-moving GT300 car on a straight that measures more than a kilometre in length, some drivers have suggested Sekiguchi shouldn’t have left it so late to duck out of the slipstream when he had two cars running behind him.

Wakisaka, himself a three-time champion in GT500, strongly suggested that Sekiguchi could have acted differently to avoid the incident that brought a premature end to the race."

https://www.motorsport.com/supergt/news/sard-sekiguchi-takaboshi-fuji-crash/10282254/

Looks like he got instant karma, though - his win was forfeit when he got assigned a 40 second penalty for touching the car in pits and as a result was dropped to 13th. Righteous.