Silverstone, UK (3rd May, 2009)
The NISSAN Motorsport entered NISSAN GT-R made its race debut at the first round of the 2009 FIA GT Championship held on 1st - 3rd May at the Silverstone Circuit (Northamptonshire, UK, Length 5.140 km). The #35 NISSAN GT-R driven by Michael Krumm (Germany) and Darren Turner (Great Britain) started from 11th on the grid but retired in lap 28 when running in 8th place due to a rear suspension problem.
"The development has been going very well since the shakedown in December last year, in fact, before coming to Silverstone, our car has completed more than 6,000km through a number of pre-season tests without any major troubles. For sure the race result is disappointing for the team, but we were successful in confirming the performance of NISSAN GT-R in the race when our car was leading the Ford GT which is believed to be built according to the next-generation 2010 FIA GT1 regulations like our car. We learnt a great deal of lessons over the weekend, and will tackle them with solutions when we return to the workshop so that we can make the car fully ready for the 24 hours of Spa-Francorchamps, the biggest challenge of the year for us." said Yasuharu Kemei, the team principal of the NISSAN Motorsport.
The next race for #35 NISSAN GT-R will be the 3rd round of the FIA GT Championship at Oschersleben in Germany on 21st June.
