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| 29-06-2011 at 10:00: Nissan Looks To Emulate Silverstone Success | |
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At Silverstone, Michael Krumm and Lucas Luhr, in the no.23 JR Motorsports car, took victory in the Championship Race to add to second place in the previous day’s Qualifying Race, and with it secured their names on the prestigious RAC Tourist Trophy whilst also moving up to first place in the GT1 driver standings. A repeat of the German duo’s performance is what all eight Nissan drivers across the JRM and Sumo Power GT teams will be aiming for in Northern Spain, but they will also be able to take inspiration from last year’s corresponding race when Jamie Campbell-Walter and Warren Hughes (no.22 Sumo Power GT) clinched third spot in the Championship Race in a Nissan GT-R much less competitive than the one running in the 2011 series. Only completed in the second half of 2010, the Navarra complex is state of the art being awarded Formula One-worthy grading by the FIA. At 3.93km (2.644 miles), the course is well over a mile shorter than the GP circuit used last time out at Silverstone, with three less turns than its British counterpart (15 to Silverstone’s 18). The track also has fewer of the fast, sweeping corners that benefitted the Nissan GT-R at Silverstone, with more turns of the ‘tight and twisty’ variety that could potentially count against the car’s high centre of gravity. However, there are also a number of long straights and overtaking opportunities spread across the circuit, attributes that certainly play to the Nissan’s strengths. Speaking ahead of the race, Jamie Campbell-Walter, driver of the no.21 Sumo Power GT alongside Australian race ace David Brabham, said: “David and I are personally not where we want to be at this point in the season, so we have to put that behind us and get back on form for the second half of the year. Therefore, our objective this weekend must be to score two top-three finishes. Lucas Luhr added: “Like Silverstone, I have never visited Navarra, but that didn’t seem to make a difference before and I hope it won’t again. I aim to learn the track on Friday and then I think the weekend will be about scoring as many points as possible, especially taking into account the success ballast* we will now have to carry over from Silverstone..” *The no.23 JRM will be carrying an extra 35kg of success ballast weight in Navarra due to its high placing in both of the Silverstone weekend races (30kg for 1st in the Championship Race and 5kg for 2nd in the Qualifying Race). |
There was Championship Race celebrations for Nissan in the previous round of the FIA GT1 World Championship at Silverstone and the two teams running Nissan GT-Rs this year will be looking for more of the same during the sixth race of the series in Spain, next weekend on a Navarra circuit that saw a Nissan success in 2010.^ Back to top ^
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