{"id":55450,"date":"2012-08-12T02:35:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T00:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=55450"},"modified":"2013-07-19T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T12:04:18","slug":"video-the-nissan-gt-r-and-the-24-hours-of-nurburgring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2012\/08\/12\/video-the-nissan-gt-r-and-the-24-hours-of-nurburgring\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Nissan GT-R and the 24 Hours of N\u00fcrburgring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nissan has released a video showing the preparations to their entry in the N\u00fcrburgring 24-hour race, and what this means to the Japanese car maker. In this video GT-R engineer and team director Kazutoshi Mizuno speaks about the significance of participating in the challenging endurance race. <\/p>\n
The recent retirement of Mizuno has fuelled speculations<\/a> that a successor to the current model (R35) hasn’t been approved, and perhaps never be developed at all. But Mizuno, the father of Nissan’s spectacular GT-R<\/a>, mentions something interesting in this video. Starting from 2:15, Mizano suggests there may be a future for the GT-R after all since their experience on the famous German circuit will be poured into the evolution of future GT-Rs. <\/p>\n Nissan entered the 24-hour race at N\u00fcrburgring not to win the race, but for the evolution of the GT-R in the future. So, the evolution of the GT-R will continue, which also could explain why development of a successor hasn’t received green light yet. Whatever the future might hold for the Nissan GT-R or its potential successor, it would be a waste of time, money and resources to let their supercar retire together with Mizano, wouldn’t it? <\/p>\n