Nissan and GT Academy head back to the fabled Spa-Francorchamps Circuit for their third run at the Blancpain Endurance Series flagship race. The team and drivers’ have experience on their side and are more determined than ever to take the top step on the podium in 2014.
Nissan GT Academy Team RJN will be fielding two cars in the event. 2012 Russian Champion Mark Shulzhitskiy, Nissan Global Driver Exchange drivers Masataka Yanagida & Katsumasa Chiyo, and 2013 European Champ Miguel Faisca (Portugal) will be piloting the #35 car.
Local Champion from 2012 Wolfgang Reip, 2013 German Champ Florian Strauss, 2013 US Champion Nick McMillen, and Nissan journeyman driver Alex Buncombe are taking command of the #80. Both cars belonging to the Pro-AM Cup class, which is rated second. The two cars have showed good pace in an extremely competitive qualifying session, with cars #35 and #80 achieving fourth and fifth positions in class, respectively.
Race begins at 16:30 local time (click here to convert time to your local time zone). The race will definitely be one to watch as weather always plays a part in Spa. Reports indicate rain has a good chance of affecting the race, which is good news for the ultra stable GT-R package.
Resources
- Live broadcast at Blancpain Endurance Series
- Nismo.tv’s live onboard streams
- Full race commentary from radiolemans
- The Twitter account of Nissan, @Nissan_OnTrack
- Official GT Academy flickr
- The discussion thread in our motorsports forum
Stay tuned to this thread for important updates and race wrap ups!
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Interesting. Has anyone noticed that Porsche and Audi are competing in the same categories, GT AND prototypes
When Porsche’s 962s dropped out of prototype racing in the 90s, they were replaced by Audi’s R8s. It made sense because, I figured, the parent company, VW, wanted to bring Audi into the spotlight.
Porsche, not fairing well, against Audi. I wonder how the two are working together. If at all.
Worked sweet on the ipad
Try use “Hola Better Internet” with Chrome. Im use it to watch hulu in Europe.
Anybody know of a stream that works in the US? All the Blancpain links are geo restricted :(
There is the audi and Nismo streamings, they are on the discussion thread. However I think they are only cockpit transmissions.
This sucks. Why no love for us GT fans in the US :(
Are they really restricted?? i’m from europe and got an error.
using firefox and AdblockPlus, switched off Adblockplus and got the stream.
But, i also got restricted from various US streaming sites in the past, so i stopped trying.
Ya I gave up too.
Try use “Hola Better Internet” with Chrome. Im use it to watch hulu in Europe.
Good luck RJN! :) Watch this race start to end. Watching all Endurnaces this summer :)
Go Team RJN!