The No.2 Audi R18 e-tron quattro, driven by Benoît Tréluyer, Marcel Fässler and André Lotterer has won the coveted 24 Hours of Le Mans after a fierce battle with the challenging Toyotas and Porsches in the LMP1 category. Audi’s No.1 car managed an exceptional 2nd place too after suffering a major accident in qualifying whereby […]
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It features thousands of parts, brand new technology, has taken countless hours of design, engineering, construction and testing and now Nissan has revealed what is under the skin of the revolutionary prototype. With every single component on the car down to the smallest nut and bolt modeled in computer aided design (CAD) technology, Nissan has
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With the Le Mans 24 hour race just around the corner, teams are preparing their cars for an onslaught like no other. In the words of famed McLaren designer Gordon Murray who knows a thing or two about both Formula One and endurance racing at Le Mans, “Le Mans is like doing an entire season
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GT Academy winners Wolfgang Reip and Lucas Ordóñez – plus three-time Japanese Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama – have a totally new set of buttons to learn when they jump behind the wheel of the Nissan ZEOD RC. While Reip and Ordóñez began their racing career pushing buttons on their PlayStation controllers, the talented racers
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Three-time Japanese Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama will join Nissan GT Academy winners Lucas Ordóñez and Wolfgang Reip on the driver line-up for the revolutionary electric Nissan ZEOD RC at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. Motoyama will make his fourth Le Mans start aboard the Nissan racer which combines a 300 horsepower electric powertrain with a 400 horsepower/40 kilogram/1.5 liter turbocharged petrol engine. The Japanese ace completed his first
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Nissan have announced their line-up of vehicles for the forthcoming Geneva Motor Show and included in the range will be the new and exciting electric BladeGlider concept. Inspired by Nissan’s innovative ZEOD RC Zero Emission on Demand race car – set to take part in the 2014 Le Mans 24hr race under the event’s ‘Garage
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Nissan’s ZEOD RC Le Mans prototype electric racing car has had a new addition added to it’s drivetrain; a 1.5 litre three cylinder turbo engine weighing an incredibly light 40 kilograms. Travelling under electric only power at Le Mans for a single lap per stint, the ZEOD RC’s new 1.5 litre turbo engine will provide
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Nissan’s revolutionary ZEOD RC electric prototype had its on track debut in Japan last weekend with Michael Krumm at the wheel of the car that will race at next year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. The car was unveiled at Nismo headquarters in Yokohama on Thursday and performed three demonstration runs at Fuji Speedway in conjunction
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We previously wrote about Nissan’s exciting electric Le Mans racer, the ZEOD RC back in June. For the last long eight months, Nissan’s team have been working furiously on the development, design and construction of the electric racecar and today unveiled it at the headquarters of Nissan’s performance arm, Nismo, in Yokohama. In a mere
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Japanese fans will have the first opportunity to see the revolutionary Nissan ZEOD RC in action when the car makes its public on-track debut at this year’s Fuji Speedway round of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Running in pure electric mode, the Nissan ZEOD RC will undertake demonstration runs on October 18, 19 and 20
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