Gtr Supertaxi's New Safety Car

[Whiplash]

couldn't find a topic n this so...

Nissan will be supplying the GTR's as safety and course cars for the V8 supercars this year as well as soft roaders for the medical/ chase cars

Edited January 7, 2009 by Whiplash

[Bliksem]

Nice too bad they arent racing them though.. Any links?

[N1GTR]

Good stuff!

[Beer Baron]

can the V8 supercars keep up with an R35 though? hehe.

[DRD-00F]

Yeah, I'm going to laugh when the drivers request the safety car to please slow down

[zZzDanzZz]

damn everyone beat me to it

[BoyWhoCriedWolf]

lol me too.

At least the spoontas in the tower wont be saying "pick up the leader" over and over again. They will need to make sure the light bar is well and truley secured though.

[Damo_R34]

what a waste of a perfectly good GTR. can i have it between rounds?

[Max_ST-R]

Wow!, considering Nissan's history in the Australian Touring Car scene, that is a very significant move. How ironic that the car that effective formed the V8 Taxi circus we see now will be back again leading the pack. Speaking of pack, I wonder if the top-o-the mountain bathurst yobs will hurl empty VB tins and once again act like a "pack of ar$eholes"??

[YLD-CHLD]

Wow!, considering Nissan's history in the Australian Touring Car scene, that is a very significant move. How ironic that the car that effective formed the V8 Taxi circus we see now will be back again leading the pack. Speaking of pack, I wonder if the top-o-the mountain bathurst yobs will hurl empty VB tins and once again act like a "pack of ar$eholes"??

totally agree the V8 circus must feel like a bunch of hypocrites,but must admit will be good to c.

[lingeringsoul]

the more GTR here the better.

[Reggi34dr]

is there a press release or a link to a media site to back this up just a lil coz i'm finding it a bit hard to believe.

don't get me wrong, it would be awesome, yes but atm it's just seems like a rumour on a car forum. am happy to be proved it is true.

[raps86]

there is an article in the latest auto action magazine on it. nissan has the contract for a few years to be the safety vehicles

[FrangaR33]

Because of this I will actually watch the warm up lap of a V8 Supercar race for only the 4th time in my entire life before switching it off and watching something more fair, competitive and interesting.

[zillaman]

anyone got pics or anything? and i checked the v8s website and they said thety were keeeping the 300C's

[Ultimategtr]

I hope they have more restarts during the big race. Wonder if itl be the Vspec or just the base model.

[Whiplash]

chrysler hasn't renewed the contract this year due to the cost

In a move that is certain to bring some irony to the sport, Nissan’s iconic GT-R is coming back to the V8 Supercar series.

Why irony? Well, for those of you old enough to remember, the GT-R simply flogged the home made metal years ago, leading to the infamous “pack of arseholes” quote from Gentleman Jim Richards - not so gentlemanly at the time, though.

This time, however, the GT-R won’t be racing - although a few of us would like to see how competitive it would be.

The GT-R will be the new V8 Supercar Pace Car for the 2009 series. The reason? Well according to Nissan spokesperson Jeff Fisher, GT-R could use the exposure.

Mr Fisher has said, “We’re looking at numerous ways of giving GT-R continued exposure over the life of the vehicle. The V8 Supercar program could be an appealing way to do that.”

Edited January 10, 2009 by Whiplash

[Jet 20]

would love to see a few lap race against the v8's at bathurst..

kill to see it..

[Ant97GTR]

is there a press release or a link to a media site to back this up just a lil coz i'm finding it a bit hard to believe.

don't get me wrong, it would be awesome, yes but atm it's just seems like a rumour on a car forum. am happy to be proved it is true.

Well I can pretty much confirm that the R35 GTR is the new pace car for the supertaxis. Apparently it will end up with yellow flashes down the sides and a supercar logo on the bonnet I guess thats needed so the supertaxis can spot it when they can't keep up and its on the horizon :)

[eeiko321]

id say get rid of all the V8s and get the GT-R racing...............