Nissan Pulls The Plug On GT-R LM Nismo Racer

Nissan's motorsport arm Nismo has confirmed that it will retire the GT-R LM Nismo prototype racer after just one season of competition, citing poor on-track performance as the reason behind its early exit from racing.

The unorthodox front-wheel-drive GT-R LM was withdrawn from the World Endurance Championship and relegated to a testing role in August following its poor showing at Le Mans, where just one GT-R LM out of three finished the race, winding up in 40th position overall - well behind the rest of the LM P1 pack.

Nismo blamed issues with the car's energy recovery system, which hobbled the hybrid GT-R LM and forced it to run on engine-only power for much of the race. 

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