Nissan withdrew from the 2016 World Endurance Championship because it would have had to develop and race a new version of its front-wheel-drive GT-R LM NISMO at the same time.The Japanese manufacturer confirmed it had shelved the LMP1 program on Tuesday.Mike Carcamo, who took over the running of the project...

Nissan has axed its troubled FIA World Endurance LMP1 Program. The Japanese manufacturer alerted employees via e-mail Tuesday morning the Indianapolis-based front-engine GT-R LM NISMO P1 hybrid program has been shuttered. Most employees were on holiday at the time, and according to one team source, those attempting to enter the...

Nissan motorsport boss Darren Cox, the driving force behind the Japanese manufacturer's return to top-line sportscar racing in LMP1 this season, has left the company.Cox has relinquished his role as global motorsport director and marketing boss of the NISMO brand to end a 13-year stint at Nissan. During that time,...

Nissan's ongoing testing program for its GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 prototype will continue immediately following this weekend's FIA World Endurance Championship round at Circuit of The Americas.A team official confirmed the front-wheel-drive coupe design will begin its latest run at COTA on Tuesday – after all of the WEC containers...

Celebrated Corvette Racing crew chief Dan Binks brought his son Phil to Le Mans for the first time in 2007. At 13, the junior Binks was quickly put to work by the blue collar team, and before long, the die was cast. The familiar tale of a son wanting to...

Nissan believes it had a positive first run at Le Mans with its GT-R LM NISMO even though the LMP1 car failed to match the times of the leading LMP2s.Sunday's Le Mans test day still represented a success for the the front-wheel-drive GT-R LM, according to the Japanese manufacturer's global...

The three Le Mans newcomers in Nissan's LMP1 squad for the 24 Hours will undertake their rookie laps at the wheel of a Ginetta LMP3 car at the official test day.Max Chilton, Alex Buncombe and Tsugio Matsuda will undertake the 10 laps of the Circuit de la Sarthe necessary to...

Former grand prix driver Marc Gene is likely to return to Nissan's World Endurance Championship lineup this season, despite stepping down into an advisory role for next month's Le Mans 24 Hours.Nissan global motorsport boss Darren Cox insisted that the Spaniard had an ongoing agreement with the Japanese manufacturer that...

Nissan is focusing on endurance testing as it resumes running its GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 prototype today ahead of its race debut in the Le Mans 24 Hours in June.The GT-R LM will run for four days on the Chevrolet test track at Bowling Green, Ky., this week and the...

A second wave of drivers announced for Nissan's 2015 assault on the World Endurance Championship with the radical GT-R LM NISMO includes LMP2 frontrunners Harry Tincknell and Olivier Pla.Tincknell and Pla have been unveiled as full-season drivers in the Japanese manufacturer's two-car LMP1 assault on the WEC along with reigning...