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Wolfgang Reip
CHAMPIONS, NISSAN WINS WORLD’S BIGGEST GT CHAMPIONSHIP
The #23 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 line-up of Alex Buncombe (GB), Katsumasa Chiyo (JAP) and Wolfgang Reip (BEL) has won the Blancpain Endurance PRO Driver’s Championship. Third place in a nail-biting, season-closing race at the Nürburgring in Germany sealed the title win for Nissan after a season of hard racing in what is accepted to … Continue reading
NISSAN HEADS TO NÜRBURGRING FOR BLANCPAIN TITLE DECIDER
Nissan GT Academy Team RJN heads to the Nürburgring in Germany next week for the final round of the 2015 Blancpain Endurance Series. The team is currently fourth in the PRO Teams’ Championship standings but with a gap to the leaders of 14 points and a pot of 25 points still up for grabs, there … Continue reading
NISSAN CONFIRMS DRIVER LINE-UP FOR 2015 BATHURST 12 HOUR
Nissan has confirmed that Alex Buncombe, Katsumasa Chiyo and Wolfgang Reip will return to Mount Panorama for the 2015 Bathurst 12 Hour race, driving for its NISMO Athlete Global Team. The trio will line-up in the #35 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 as the team seeks to build on the speed and potential shown at last … Continue reading
WOLFGANG REIP TO RACE IN BRITISH GT AND SUPER GT
Wolfgang Reip will get back behind the wheel of the Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 this weekend to compete alongside Sir Chris Hoy in the British GT Championship. Snetterton hosts the next two races in the championship: two one-hour sprints that take place this Sunday. In his first season of GT3 racing, Hoy’s performances have quickly … Continue reading
FOUR GAMERS TO COMPETE AT LEGENDARY LE MANS 24 HOURS FOR NISSAN
In 2011 Nissan showed the world that it is possible to take a gamer, put him through a driver development programme, unleash him at Le Mans and see him stand on the podium after 24 hours of gruelling racing. The story of Lucas Ordonez’s journey from virtual to reality goes on but there is now … Continue reading
MOTOYAMA COMPLETES NISSAN ZEOD RC DRIVER LINE-UP FOR LE MANS
Three-time Japanese Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama will join Nissan GT Academy winners Lucas Ordóñez and Wolfgang Reip on the driver line-up for the revolutionary electric Nissan ZEOD RC at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. Motoyama will make his fourth Le Mans start aboard the Nissan racer which combines a 300 horsepower electric powertrain … Continue reading
NISSAN ZEOD RC TESTING MOVES INTO HIGH GEAR WITH EUROPEAN DEBUT
As the countdown to the race debut for the Nissan ZEOD RC at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours draws closer, the testing schedule for the revolutionary electric prototype has switched into high gear. The Nissan ZEOD RC recently completed a multi-day test at Snetterton in the UK and will soon conduct its first European … Continue reading
GT ACADEMY WINNER REIP JOINS ORDONEZ IN NISSAN ZEOD RC DRIVER LINE-UP
The driver line-up for Nissan’s revolutionary ZEOD RC prototype will feature two past winners of the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy program with Belgian driver Wolfgang Reip signed to join Lucas Ordóñez at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. In 2012, Reip won the European edition of the GT Academy program that takes virtual racers from … Continue reading
FIA GT SERIES, NISMO ATHLETE HOPING FOR HOME SUCCESS
Round Two of the 2013 FIA GT Series takes to the track at Zolder in Belgium this weekend and it’s going to be a very special event for one of the Nismo Athletes. 2012 GT Academy Europe winner, Wolfgang Reip, is from Brussels and this will be his first ever home race and the first … Continue reading
BLANCPAIN ENDURANCE SERIES, 10 MINUTES WITH WOLFGANG REIP
Belgian youngster, Wolfgang Reip is going to compete in two major GT championships in Europe this season, the Blancpain Endurance Series and the FIA GT Series. In campaigns, the European graduate of the GT Academy will race a Nissan GT-R GT3 run by Bob Neville’s RJN team. It was first planned that Reip would race … Continue reading
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