Wolfgang Reip -- winner of the European GT Academy in 2012, the Blancpain Pro Cup Endurance GT Series in 2015 and the Bathurst 12H in 2015 -- thought he would be racing the rest of his life.Now, he can barely drive on the highway.Reip started karting as a child growing...

Reigning Blancpain Endurance Series champion Wolfgang Reip's signing by Bentley is the "final seal of approval" for Nissan's gamer-to-racer academy program, according to the architect of the scheme.Former Nissan global motorsport boss Darren Cox, who launched the academy with Playstation in 2007, said that the recruitment of the 2012 winner...

Former Nissan GT Academy winner Wolfgang Reip will defend his Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup title with the M-Sport Bentley team. The 29-year-old, winner of Nissan's gamer-to-racer scheme in 2012, has been signed to race alongside Andy Soucek and Maxime Soulet in M-Sport's #8 Bentley Continental GT3 in the five...

Former Nissan GT Academy winner Wolfgang Reip could defend his Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup title with the M-Sport Bentley team.The Belgian won Nissan's gamer-to-racer program in 2012, and what was then the Blancpain Endurance Series last year with the RJN Nissan squad alongside Alex Buncombe and Katsumasa Chiyo. After...

One spectator has died and others have been injured in an accident involving Jann Mardenborough's Nissan in the VLN Endurance race on the Nurburgring Nordschleife.The Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 that Mardenborough was sharing with Kazuki Hoshino and Wolfgang Reip went over the debris fence in the crash at the Flugplatz...

Nissan will bid for overall honors in the Blancpain Endurance Series for the first time this year with an all-professional factory lineup.The RJN Motorsport team, which has run the Japanese manufacturer's programs in the series since its creation in 2011, will field a GT-R NISMO GT3 in the Pro class...

Nissan has confirmed that Alex Buncombe, Katsumasa Chiyo and Wolfgang Reip will return to Mount Panorama for the 2015 Bathurst 12 Hour race, driving for its NISMO Athlete Global Team.The trio will line-up in the #35 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 as the team seeks to build on the speed and...

Two-time Super GT champion Masataka Yanagida will join Nissan's lineup for this month's Spa 24 Hours.The long-time Nissan driver, who won the GT500 title in 2011-12 with Ronnie Quintarelli, has been placed in one of the Japanese manufacturer's RJN-run GT-R GT3 NISMOs for the double-points Blancpain Endurance Series round on...

RACER.com's extensive coverage of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is presented by Circuit of The Americas. Visit circuitoftheamericas.com/wectudor The Nissan ZEOD RC experimental racer completed the first all-electric lap of Le Mans in this morning's warm-up. Wolfgang Reip set a 4m22s lap of the 8.47-mile Circuit de la Sarthe...

The driver lineup for Nissan's revolutionary ZEOD RC prototype will feature two past winners of the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy program with Belgian driver Wolfgang Reip set to join Lucas Ordonez at this year's Le Mans 24 Hours.In 2012, Reip won the European edition of the GT Academy program that...