Electramotive Engineering's IMSA GTP program was an epic failure when it appeared in 1985. Faced with immediate disappointment, its paymasters at Nissan USA wanted to kill the project, with haste.A stay of execution was arranged by Nissan's new motorsports manager, R. W. "Kas" Kastner, upon his arrival in 1986, but...

John Knepp, co-founder of sports car racing powerhouse Electramotive Engineering, has died in Southern California at the age of 75.Knepp's vehicular expertise was honed at Brock Racing Enterprises – the famed BRE Datsun team led by Peter Brock – before he moved on to form Electramotive with Don Devendorf in...

Steve Millen dominated IMSA Exxon Supreme GTS competition in the early 1990s, driving a red, white and blue Nissan 300ZXT prepared by Clayton Cunningham.Red, white and blue Nissans figured prominently in American sports car races since the mid-1970s, when Bob Sharp raced Datsuns carrying those colors. Sharp, Jim Fitzgerald, Paul...