For a team that nobody really expected to win at Le Mans, Nissan sure got a lot of attention this year. But that’s pretty understandable, as Nissan’s LMP1 car, the 2015 Nissan GT-R LM Nismo, is pure lunacy on wheels. The front-engine and front-wheel-drive machine is unlike anything else that was competing at La Sarthe. The car is still very much a work in progress, so where it finished in the race wasn’t as important as it just making it the full 24 hours, which it did manage to do. Good thing too, because it was very, very slow compared to all of the other LMP1 cars, and even a lot of the LMP2 and LMGTE cars.
What was most perplexing to most racing fans though, was the question of what it must be like to try and drive something with such an insanely long hood on a racetrack, especially one as crowed as this. The video here shows some in-car footage of the GT-R LM Nismo being driven at Le Mans at dusk, and it certainly doesn’t look easy. It’s not the first racecar to offer poor visibility, but it’s still something you have to see to believe.
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