What happened to this thing? I really wanted them to succeed. I have not been in touch, because apparently Nissan is thinking of pulling the plug already and I missed it entirely.
Help me out.
What happened to this thing? I really wanted them to succeed. I have not been in touch, because apparently Nissan is thinking of pulling the plug already and I missed it entirely.
Help me out.
In reply to tuna55:
Hopefully it has something to do with the fact they showed up at le mans with 3 cars that couldn't keep pace with LMP2 & GT cars......lots of falling on swords probably.
Well, It's one of the most complicated LMP1 cars out there and at lemans they couldn't get hybrid system working in time so it was way down on power to the peers. Also, they were running FWD only on the car since the Hybrid drives the rear wheels. Overall not a good showing so far. I haven't heard of them looking to pull the plug yet though.
You want gossip... Try this... Nissan to review program
yamaha wrote: In reply to tuna55: Hopefully it has something to do with the fact they showed up at le mans with 3 cars that couldn't keep pace with LMP2 & GT cars......lots of falling on swords probably.
Yeah, I actually thought the same thing as Tuna after the race "All this news of LeMans but no news of Nissan?". Then I checked the race results and it looked like all three Nissans pegged the bottom of the class.
"The technology is rumored to be making its way to the next GT-R..." Yikes.
In reply to rcutclif:
You needed to look at the overall results to see the hilarity of it. Even their first misguided attempt with the deltawing was a better showing(aside from thinking flat black was an appropriate color for a race car in a 24hr event).
Look at the 2014 running for further embarrassment, the highly touted "looks like a deltawing but we can't call it that" entry didn't even make it 1 BERKLEYING LAP!!!!!
I said it in the Fort GT thread, and I'll say it here, I sincerely hope the ACO strips at least 2 entries from the nismo gtr team when they make space for the 4 ford GT's next year.
The ACO was rumbling that Nissan did not complete enough laps and might be ruled that they didn't actually complete the race and don't have a result.
pinchvalve wrote: The ACO was rumbling that Nissan did not complete enough laps and might be ruled that they didn't actually complete the race and don't have a result.
If that is the case, then they should paint the cars yellow and white, put "Renault" in three foot letters on the side, set up a garage at the Renault factory in the city of Le Mans and have Carlos Ghosn personally send a request to the ACO to allow these this local French team to compete. 
In reply to MCarp22:
Totally apt and awesome chop job!
In reply to Type Q:
Buwahaha, Oreca is still around aren't they?
I remember years ago when the 3 factory Peugeot diesels blew up running down the Audis, then all their engineers ran down to the oreca pit and turned up the wick on that car, which had it held together, would have had the pace to win that year. 
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