Nissan has made something of a habit of winning the SUPER GT title with new GT500 models in their first year of service. Its works NISMO team did so with the R34 variant of the GT-R in 1999, then again four years later with the 350Z. In 2008, the then-new R35 GT-R also took the title at the first time of asking.
And now, in the first year of competition for the all-conquering new Z, Nissan is in a brilliant position to end a long, painful title drought stretching back to 2015, with two of its crews occupying the top two spots in the standings ahead of this weekend’s Motegi finale.
