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05/06/2011 Nissan motorsports press release: Partnership with JR Motorsports Expands to FIA GT3 Project

NISSAN Motorsports International Co., Ltd. (Headquartered in Minami-Ooi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. President: Shoichi Miyatani; hereafter NISMO), following its FIA GT1 World Championship project with JR Motorsports (Headquartered in Rye, East Sussex, UK. Executive Director: James Rumsey; hereafter JRM) has entered into a partnership tie-up with the firm to run its FIA GT3 project using the NISSAN GT-R.

NISMO is jointly advancing the development of the FIA GT3 specification NISSAN GT-R with JRM, with the car scheduled to make a number of test appearances in Europe and Japan during the 2011 season, ahead of the car becoming available to customer teams in 2012. JRM will be the official motorsport partner of NISMO for the project, in charge of on-going testing, development and production of the car & parts in Europe, whilst also taking care of customer sales and support throughout UK, Europe, Russia and the Middle East territories.
 
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JR Motorsports (JRM) is a British motorsports company, widely known for its successes in FIA GT1, Group N rally and production circuit racing where it is an established rally/race car manufacturer with factories in Rye, East Sussex and Daventry, Northants, UK. In addition JRM is also the parent of Sumo Power which is widely known for the sale of tuning components as well as Sumo Power GT, its FIA GT1 race team. In 2010, NISMO and JRM concluded a partnership agreement for the FIA GT1 World Championship project. JRM started the Sumo Power GT team, commencing their participation in the FIA GT1 World Championship with the NISSAN GT-R. For 2011, in addition to Sumo Power GT, the new JRM Racing team was set up as a subsidiary of the JRM Group. In Round 3 of this year’s championship (in Algarve, Portugal) the team’s cars won both the Qualifying and Championship races.