Nismo unveils Nissan Z race car for Fuji 24 Hours

The 2023 Nissan Z will contend in the Japanese Super Taikyu Series’ 24-hour race at Fuji Speedway, scheduled for June 4.

Two cars will enter the ST-Q course, Nissan’s Nismo general performance division explained in a push release Thursday. Just one will be raced by a Nismo manufacturing facility crew, the other by privateer workforce Max Racing. A few motorists will be assigned to every single car or truck.

Nissan formerly debuted a Z race car for the premiere GT500 course of Japan’s Tremendous GT sequence. This model appears a lot closer to stock. Nismo failed to launch any complex technical specs, but the ST-Q Z lacks the GT500 car’s large body and substantial rear wing. We do, even so, see a smaller sized rear wing, a roll cage, added cooling cutouts on the hood, and significant brakes guiding what look to be lighter wheels.

Nissan Z race auto for 2022 Fuji 24 Several hours

While the GT500 Z is powered by a procedures-mandated 2.-liter turbocharged inline-4 creating 650 hp, it’s attainable the ST-Q Z will have anything closer to the highway car’s 3.-liter twin-turbo V-6, which generates 400 hp in stock sort.

The ST-Q class is for “enhancement vehicles” that you should not correspond to other Tremendous Taikyu Series classes, so it truly is doable this will be a one-off hard work. The collection has been open to producer experimentation, allowing for Toyota to race a Corolla Activity hatchback with a prototype hydrogen combustion engine in 2021. Nismo said it will assemble details from the Fuji race as it explores the possibility of racing the Z in other types.

Given the Z’s prosperous heritage of racing in the U.S. with the likes of Paul Newman, it would not be astonishing for Nissan to extend its racing system for the new model beyond Japan. For now, the highway-likely Z is scheduled to access U.S. dealerships this summer months as a 2023 product.