Nissan to miss the next few WEC rounds, focusing on pace and reliability

Nissan announced yesterday (7/8/15) that it will not enter the next few rounds of the World Endurance Championship with its new Nissan GT-R LM Nismo starting from Nurburgring onwards later in the month, opting to focus on improving performance and reliability.



No word when Nissan will return to World Endurance Championship, the brand may return for the final two races of the FIA WEC calendar in Shanghai, China and Bahrain in November.

The main problem for Nissan is with their radical front-wheel-drive, front-engine GT-R LM Nismo is their hybrid system. When at Le Mans earlier in the year, Nissan had problems with their hybrid system failed at Le Mans, with all three cars qualified around 20 seconds off the pace back in June, and ran without its hybrid system engaged during the 24 hours race with all three cars failed to finished. With the hybrid system is failing, Nissan had no option to withdraw the next few rounds of the World Endurance Championship which includes their home race in Fuji, Japan.

With no word on Nissan's return to the World Endurance Championship, will Nissan ever return to series with their radical GT-R LM Nismo? time will tell.

End of blog for now. New post soon. Bye.