{"id":5902,"date":"2013-02-26T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=5902"},"modified":"2013-02-26T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T21:56:33","slug":"nissan-poised-to-return-to-le-mans-24-hours-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=5902","title":{"rendered":"Nissan poised to return to Le Mans 24 Hours in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nissan will return to the Le Mans 24 Hours\u2014the world&#8217;s oldest active sports car race in endurance racing\u2014in 2014 with an innovative project that promises to continue the pioneering spirit of last year\u2019s award-winning Nissan DeltaWing experimental entry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Nissan-24-Hours-of-Le-Mans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5903 alignleft\" alt=\"Nissan 24 Hours of Le Mans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Nissan-24-Hours-of-Le-Mans-256x300.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Nissan-24-Hours-of-Le-Mans-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Nissan-24-Hours-of-Le-Mans.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>Nissan president and CEO Carlos Ghosn made the pledge to return to Le Mans during a special event in Yokohama, Japan to open a new headquarters for NISMO, Nissan\u2019s global performance and motorsports brand.<\/p>\n<p>Ghosn hinted that a new approach to innovation and excitement will be at the project\u2019s core, while confirming that the company will return as the \u201cGarage 56\u201d entry for innovative concepts with an all-new race car incorporating electric technology.<\/p>\n<p>The entry will test innovative new powertrain technology and provide the Automobile Club de l\u2019Ouest (ACO) and the Federation Internationale de l\u2019Automobile (FIA) with data to enable all parties to evaluate the incorporation of this breakthrough technology ahead of a potential return to endurance racing in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will return to Le Mans with a vehicle that will act as a high-speed test bed in the harshest of environments for both our road car and race car electric vehicle technology,\u201d said Mr. Ghosn.<\/p>\n<p>Ghosn\u2019s revelation promises a continued commitment from Nissan to performance and motorsport innovation \u2013 and a bold ambition to change expectations of what is possible in performance.<\/p>\n<p>Nissan will reveal further details about the new project in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nissan will return to the Le Mans 24 Hours\u2014the world&#8217;s oldest active sports car race in endurance racing\u2014in 2014 with an innovative project that promises to continue the pioneering spirit of last year\u2019s award-winning Nissan DeltaWing experimental entry. Nissan president and CEO Carlos Ghosn made the pledge to return to Le Mans during a special<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=5902\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorsport","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5917,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}