- Nissan invites the fans to join NISMO’s birthday party across the world - #30YearsOfMaverick used to bring the 30th celebrations to the digital world YOKOHAMA, JAPAN – Wednesday 17 September 2014: To mark NISMO’s 30th anniversary, Nissan is celebrating 30 years of maverick engineering with a week of events around the world including activity at major motorsport events in the US and Europe.
Since 1984, NISMO’s engineers have been creating Nissan’s unique Japanese performance DNA through a series of maverick performance projects. In its 30th year, the company is embarking on its biggest project yet: the creation of the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO, Nissan’s LM P1 challenger. #30YearsOfMaverick begins today on NISMO’s 30th birthday in Yokohama, Japan, where the anniversary will be marked by the people who have played a role in the NISMO story. It will then take in world-class motorsport events at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas and the Nurburgring in Germany.
Nissan is inviting the fans of motorsport to celebrate NISMO’s birthday by giving away tickets, via local car clubs, to the events in the US and Germany this weekend: the FIA World Endurance Championship round at the Circuit of the Americas in Texas, USA and the Blancpain Endurance Series season finale at the Nurburgring in Germany.
“Starting from the company’s first president, Yasuharu Namba, today’s NISMO owes its success to the hard work and sacrifice of our many predecessors,” NISMO President, Shoichi Miyatani said. “It could also not have grown to this extent had it not been for the support of all our fans, sponsors and collaborating companies. I would like to thank everyone for all their support throughout the years.” “Since the company’s founding 30 years ago, everyone has diligently worked together to build up our success and performance on the race track. As a result of the passion and achievements that come about from this success, ‘NISMO’ has now become a symbol of Nissan performance. “We will continue to enhance our technical capabilities, retain our commitment to winning, preserve our pioneering spirit and further enhance the admiration of the Nissan brand. Next year we will be participating in the top category at the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time in 17 years. I want us, as well as our fans, to head into this new challenge with everything we’ve got.”
