With nigh on 30 years having passed since Jaguar had decided to quit top flight Sports car racing, the British firm made a big splash with a high profile return mid-way through the 1985 season using…
Read MoreAfter their disappointing run at Le Mans in 1997, TWR and Nissan pledged to return in 1998 with an uprated R390: more speed and improved reliability was the order of the day. The R390 programme…
Read MoreFollowing the best part of a ten-year period when the Le Mans 24 Hours was contested exclusively by purpose-built Sports Prototypes, 1993’s event marked the return of production-based GT cars to…
Read MoreHaving been founded in 1976, Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR) quickly became renowned for its work with privateer BMWs. The firm then picked up a manufacturer contract with Mazda for the British…
Read MoreChassis 4301021 was the M1 Procar supplied to professional Austrian racing driver, Dieter Quester. Having started his career with an Alfa Romeo Giulietta in 1961, Quester raced a variety of Porsches…
Read MoreAlthough Nissan had one of the fastest GT1 cars at the 1997 Le Mans 24 Hours, they were let down by poor reliability. It transpired that, to accommodate the mandatory 125-litres of luggage space…
Read MoreAfter the 1997 debacle at Le Mans where two of the three R390s had to be sacrificed to ensure there would be enough parts for the lead car to finish, Nissan and their motor sport partner, TWR, returned…
Read MoreHaving successfully managed Jaguar’s European Touring Car Championship effort with the XJS between 1982 and ‘84 (a programme that yielded 16 wins and the 1984 Driver’s title), Tom Walkinshaw…
Read MoreAfter a disappointing display at the 1997 Le Mans 24 Hours, Nissan returned for 1998 with the much improved R390 Long Tail. The factory team ran three brand new cars while Nova Engineering…
Read MoreChassis R4 was the most fancied of Nissan’s R390 trio taken to the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1997. Allocated to ex-F1 driver, Martin Brundle, and Arrows test driver, Jorg Muller, it promisingly set fastest…
Read MoreFor the 1997 Le Mans 24 Hours, Nissan entered a team of three R390s. The cars were designed, built and run by Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR). Chassis R2 was allocated to ex-F1 driver, Erik Comas, and…
Read MoreChassis R1 was one of three Nissan R390 team cars that contested Le Mans Pre-Qualifying and the 24 Hour race in 1997. Uniquely, it also did the same events in 1998, when it was loaned to the Nova…
Read MoreAt the end of the 1992 season, Nissan withdrew from sports car racing. A Group C programme that began in 1985 had produced a series of spectacular vehicles and culminated with Nissan winning…
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