While Nissan won the SuperGT last year with the new Z, it was a year to forget for the brand's flagship 23 car. R_Quintarelli looks back at what went wrong and says why he thinks 2023 will be a different story:
Last year was a banner season for Nissan in SUPER GT. On top of the fact it won the GT500 crown that had eluded it since 2015 with the brand new Z, it locked out the top two in the drivers’ standings, and it won the GT300 title to boot.In fact, pretty much every team in the Nissan GT500 stable had something to celebrate last year.
Nissan’s lead contender, the car whose status is bound up in the fact its number reads ‘Ni-san’, was well and truly humbled. But now the attention has turned to how Quintarelli and Matsuda can get back to winning ways in their 10th season together as team-mates. “During these tests I felt the atmosphere coming back and we had quite solid tests. I could see the motivation inside the team is very good. We still have to improve the small details, but the motivation is there and this is the most important point I felt from testing.
“I really appreciate the effort that NISMO has made to try to change some ‘pieces’ to improve things inside the team, especially on the motivation side,” says the Italian. “When you have two drivers who have been together for 10 years, plus the chief engineer [Takeshi Nakajima], sometimes you can become flat. You need some spark in the team.
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