{"id":136,"date":"2011-02-11T16:38:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T20:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredericknissan.com\/blogs\/52\/?p=136"},"modified":"2011-02-11T16:38:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T20:38:01","slug":"nissan-motorsports-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youngernissan.com\/blogs\/52\/uncategorized\/nissan-motorsports-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Nissan Motorsports in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredericknissan.com\/blogs\/52\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Brass_Monkey_GT_R97__mid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-137\" title=\"Nissan Brass Monkey GTR R97\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fredericknissan.com\/blogs\/52\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Brass_Monkey_GT_R97__mid.jpg\" alt=\"image of Nissan Brass Monkey GTR R97\" width=\"461\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Nissan in Motorsports in 2011<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nissan-motorsports.com\/ENN\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nissan Motorsports<\/a> has announced it will be expanding its motorsports  involvement in 2011 by supporting teams in several professional racing  series and enhancing their contingency program for grassroots racing  teams.  The racing series are diverse and include World Challenge with  the Nissan GT-R, TORC off-road racing with the Nissan Titan and numerous  grassroots series throughout the country.  <\/p>\n<p> \u201cNissan has always believed in creating a partnership between the  company and the dedicated teams who compete in our vehicles\u201d said Ron  Stukenberg, Senior Manager, Nissan Motorsports. \u201cWe will be expanding  our support with several professional teams as well as increasing our  contingency program for grassroots teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Nissan will support the following series this season:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TRAXAS TORC Series (<strong>T<\/strong>he <strong>O<\/strong>ff-<strong>R<\/strong>oad <strong>C<\/strong>hampionship)<br \/>\n &#8211;         PRO 2WD Truck Class \u2013 Driver\/Owner Chad Hord will pilot  the Boss Snowplow\/AMSOIL Nissan Titan after placing 4th in points last  year.<br \/>\n &#8211;         PRO LIGHT 2WD Truck Class \u2013 Driver\/Owner Casey Currie will  defend his 2010 PRO LIGHT 2WD Championship in the Monster Energy Nissan  Frontier.<\/li>\n<li>World Challenge<br \/>\n &#8211;         GT Class \u2013 Brass Monkey Racing will return with a 2-car  Nissan GT-R team.  Tony Rivera and Steve Ott will be driving these  iconic race cars in the emerging World Challenge Championship Series.<\/li>\n<li>American Le Mans Series<br \/>\n &#8211;         LMP2 Class \u2013 Signature Racing (based in France) intends to  campaign a Nissan powered LMP2 entry in the ILMC (International Le Mans  Championship) and the Le Mans 24 Hour race.  The ILMC includes 2 races  in the U.S. \u2013 The 12 Hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.<\/li>\n<li>Grassroots Amateur Racing<br \/>\n &#8211;         Nissan is in the process of finalizing and expanding its  support of grassroots racing including: SCCA Club Racing, NASA, Formula  Drift, Grand-Am Continental Tire Series and the Lucas Oil Off-Road  Series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to competitive success in all Motorsports venues where  Nissan products are involved.\u201d said Stukenberg.  \u201cFrom the Trans Am 510s  in the \u201870s to the fire-breathing IMSA GTP and GTS cars in the \u201880s and  \u201890s and off-road racing trucks 2000s, Nissan has a long history of  winning professional championships in the U.S.  In grassroots racing  Nissan has a record total of 89 SCCA Runoffs National Championships,  well ahead of every other manufacturer, and we\u2019re looking to add more  championships all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> In North America, Nissan&#8217;s operations include automotive styling,  design, engineering, consumer and corporate financing, sales and  marketing, distribution and manufacturing. More information about Nissan  in North America and the complete line of Nissan and Infiniti vehicles  can be found online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nissanusa.com\/\">www.NissanUSA.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infiniti.com\/\">www.infiniti.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nissan in Motorsports in 2011 Nissan Motorsports has announced it will be expanding its motorsports involvement in 2011 by supporting teams in several professional racing series and enhancing their contingency program for grassroots racing teams. The racing series are diverse and include World Challenge with the Nissan GT-R, TORC off-road racing with the Nissan Titan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youngernissan.com\/blogs\/52\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youngernissan.com\/blogs\/52\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youngernissan.com\/blogs\/52\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngernissan.com\/blogs\/52\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngernissan.com\/blogs\/52\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngernissan.com\/blogs\/52\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youngernissan.com\/blogs\/52\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngernissan.com\/blogs\/52\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngernissan.com\/blogs\/52\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}