YOKOHAMA, Japan – To celebrate the upcoming 20th edition of NISMO Festival supported by Motul, Nissan and NISMO have picked their top 20 Nissan/NISMO race cars of all time and have gone to the fans to determine the greatest.
It has been a tight battle through the first four days of competition as fans debate on social media over the result. Ultimately, a quartet of Nissan GT-Rs have swept the first four rounds of Twitter polls and guaranteed themselves a place in the semifinals.
On day one, the Nissan GT-R Super GT from 2008 beat out the competition, scoring 61% of the vote ahead of the Nissan R381 / R382, the 2017 Nissan DPi and the current Nissan Altima Supercar. See day one results here.
Day two’s winner was also a Super GT champ, with the GT-R NISMO GT500 from 2014-15 taking the win over the Nissan R92CP, the Datsun 510 and the Le Mans pole-winning Nissan R90CK. See day two results here.
The ever-popular Skyline GT-R R32 won on the third day, earning 59% of the vote. Second place went to the Nissan R390 GT1 (third place at Le Mans), third to the R91CP (Daytona 24 Hour winner) and fourth the 1982/83 Skyline Super Silhouette. See day three results here.
GT-R fans had a tough choice on day four with the Bathurst 12-hour, Super GT GT300 champion and Blancpain GT Championship-winning Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 beating the famous Pennzoil-backed GT-R from Japan from 1998. The Daytona and Sebring-winning 300XT from 1994 finished third ahead of the 1966 East African Safari-winning Datsun Bluebird 1300SS. See day four results here.
Today’s final round features Nissan’s World Championship-winning GT1 GT-R, the legendary IMSA GTP ZX-Turbo, the 1999 British Touring Championship-winning Nissan Primera and the 2003 Japanese GT Championship-winning GT-R. Vote below:
Vote for one of these great championship-winning machines in #NISMOtop20. You get to help choose the greatest @Nissan racecar of all time.
— Nissan NISMO (@NISMO) October 31, 2017
The top eight cars from fan voting will go into two semifinals. The top two from each semifinal will then go head-to-head to determine the ultimate Nissan/NISMO race car.
Follow @NISMO on Twitter to follow the fan vote.
All champions today in #NISMOtop20 – ’03 GT-R from Japan; ‘11 World title-winning GT1; legendary @IMSA GTP ZX-Turbo and ‘99 BTCC Primera. pic.twitter.com/RaH1bE7GIl
— Nissan NISMO (@NISMO) October 31, 2017
Another #OMGTR victory in the #NISMOTop20 as the Nissan Skyline GT-R R32 takes the win on day 3!
Today’s poll: https://t.co/pw2EQV25tn pic.twitter.com/FPuduR3cmE— Nissan NISMO (@NISMO) October 30, 2017
Today in #NISMOtop20 – Pennzoil Skyline; Datsun Bluebird 1300SS, @NIssan GT-R NISMO GT3 the @DISupdates / @SebringRaceway-winning 300ZXT. pic.twitter.com/S1bVLxc7Ji
— Nissan NISMO (@NISMO) October 30, 2017
Next up in #NISMOtop20 – Skyline Super Silhouette; @Nissan Skyline GT-R R32, Nissan R390 GT1 – 3rd place at LM24 and @Rolex24 winning R91CP pic.twitter.com/kiDhr4E7FC
— Nissan NISMO (@NISMO) October 29, 2017
NISMO Calendar
November 3-5
Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, Pukekohe Raceway, Auckland, New Zealand
November 11-12
Super GT, Twin-Ring Motegi, Japan
November 26
NISMO Festival, Fuji International Speedway, Japan
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Contact
Anna Teslik
Nissan
Global Motorsports Communications Manager
Phone: +33 7 7614 7286
ATeslik@nissan-europe.com
Paul Ryan
Global Motorsport Communications
Nissan/NISMO
Marketing and PR Manager
Phone: +1 678 644 0404
paul@nismosupport.com
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