Reigning Blancpain Endurance Series champion Katsumasa Chiyo suffered a spinal injury in his crash in last week's Super GT round at Fuji, it has emerged.The MOLA team's Nissan GT-R, which Chiyo shares with Japanese folk hero Satoshi Motoyama, had brake failure at 180mph on the approach to Turn 1. Although...

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's all-new 2015 World Endurance Championship LMP1 contender is scheduled to run for the first time in the first week of November. This means that the first run of the GT-R LM NISMO is more or less on schedule after an October test debut was announced when the program was...

RACER.com's extensive coverage of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is presented by Circuit of The Americas. Visit circuitoftheamericas.com/wectudorNissan is increasingly confident that its ZEOD will complete the first all-electric lap of Le Mans during the 24 Hours after hitting its target of 300km/h on the Mulsanne Straight.The Japanese manufacturer's...

RACER.com's extensive coverage of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is presented by Circuit of The Americas. Visit circuitoftheamericas.com/wectudorNissan will not attempt an all-electric lap of Le Mans with its experimental ZEOD RC racer before the 24 Hours starts on Saturday.The Japanese manufacturer has so far been prevented from trying...

Nissan has not ruled out fielding its radical ZEOD RC Le Mans 24 Hours racer in subsequent rounds of the World Endurance Championship this season.The gasoline-electric hybrid, which is scheduled to make its race debut at Le Mans on June 14-15 in the Garage 56 grid slot reserved for experimental...