DORAN Racing Nissan Motorsports 370Z RC Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series

[Dwnshift]

For Immediate Release



Doran Racing / Nissan Motorsports To Campaign
Nissan 370Z NISMO RC In Grand Am Continental
Tire Challenge Series


Lebanon, Ohio - Doran Racing announced that it will enter a Nissan 370Z NISMO RC in conjunction with Nissan Motorsports in the Grand Am Continental Tire Challenge Series, competing in the GS class.

The effort will reunite both team owner Kevin Doran and lead driver BJ Zacharias with Nissan. Doran fielded a Nissan GTP car in the early 90’s in the IMSA Series and Zacharias drove the first 350Z in the Grand Am Cup Series for Schuitemaker Motorsports/350EVO during the 2003 – 2005 seasons.

“The Nissan 370Z NISMO RC has great potential and we’re really excited about this program and our partnership with Nissan Motorsports,” said Doran. “The 370Z NISMO RC is built by NISMO in Japan as a turnkey race car. However, we did need to make some changes to meet specific Grand Am rules and safety requirements. This is definitely an area where we can help NISMO with future cars for the series.”

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The team will start the season at the Grand Am Barber Motorsports Park (AL) event, March 29 – 31, after missing the opening round at Daytona. Zacharias’ co-driver at Barber will be Bryan Heitkotter, last year’s winner of the Nissan/PlayStation GT Academy reality TV Competition. “Both BJ and Bryan have experience in these cars, which will help quicken the learning curve, and BJ’s knowledge of the Barber track should also be a great help” said Doran.

Regarding the partnership with Doran Racing, Ron Stukenberg, Nissan Senior Manager, Motorsports Marketing Communications, said “We are looking forward to working with Kevin Doran and the Doran Racing team on this new project in the Grand Am Continental Tire Challenge Series. The Nissan 370Z NISMO RC has the potential to be a winning race car and with Kevin’s experience combined with BJ’s driving talent we’re confident we’ll have a strong season.”

In addition to Nissan Motorsports, Doran has also partnered with Rays Engineering, OS Giken, Hotchkis Tunning and HD Graphics.

About Doran Racing
Doran Racing has prepared and fielded race cars in a wide variety of series for many years, from Indy cars to NASCAR trucks. It is legendary for the many championships and events it has won in endurance sports car racing. It became the first and only team in U.S. history to win the 24 Hours at Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring and the Watkins Glen Six-Hour race in the same year.


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Doran Racing secured its second victory at Daytona in 2002 and a third in 2004. Additionally, a DORAN designed and built JE4 Daytona Prototype(DP) won both the Grand-Am Rolex Series team (Bell Motorsports) and the driver (Terry Borcheller) championships in 2003.

About Nissan
Nissan’s competition history runs deep. With more than 100 U.S. racing championships spanning nearly a half century, Nissan is proud to now be a part of Grand Am racing.

Nissan is now the number two Asian automotive brand in the Americas, with nearly 1.6 million sales in the region in 2011. Nissan America's operations include automotive styling, engineering, consumer and corporate financing, sales and marketing, distribution and manufacturing

[Dwnshift]

2012 CONTINENTAL TIRE SPORTS CAR CHALLENGE BROADCAST SCHEDULE

Race Broadcast Date Broadcast Time

Barber Motorsports Park April 8th 12 PM
Homestead-Miami Speedway May 12 12 PM
New Jersey Motorsports Park May 26 2 PM
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course June 17 12 PM
Road America July 8 12 PM
Watkins Glen International July 14 1 PM
Indianapolis Motor Speedway August 5 12 PM
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca September 16 1:30 PM
Lime Rock Park October 13 12 PM
Lime Rock Park October 14 1 PM

[TreeSemdyZee]

Very cool. I was pretty bummed when I found out AM Performance was sitting out this year.

[takjak2]

See you in Alabama!

[takjak2]

Nissan Owner's corral and paddock tickets. $85 for the weekend.

Nissan Z and GT-R Owners Indy Grand Prix of Alabama Weekend... - Eventbrite

[sixpax]

...I'll be at Watkins Glen to cheer you on. As long as Porsche don't win I will be happy.

[Dwnshift]

The car is turning out really nice and has been quite the transformation.
Am Performance really started hitting their stride right at Mid Ohio was really coming along with their program.
This car is actually NISMO RC chassis 001 to which Doran Racing has been upgrading to Conti Tire series specs and a some our our own designed features. Its been a process for sure and its not quite completed just yet...but when it is..we think it will be one of the nicest GS cars in the field.
We looking to our initial shakedown as soon as the end of this coming week....but we shall see.
(fingers crossed)

[gomer_110]

Great news. Just a little sad they missed Daytona since I was there watching the race with no car to cheer for. Atleast there's always Mid-Ohio and Belle Isle.

[Dwnshift]

Mid Ohio...but Conti doesnt race at Belle Isle this year.....but hey...Indy

[gomer_110]

Originally Posted by Dwnshift

Mid Ohio...but Conti doesnt race at Belle Isle this year.....but hey...Indy

My bad I was thinking of World Challenge. Too much racing to keep track of.

[sig11]

Awesome! Good luck! Do you plan on running the full season? I sure hope so!

Wish CTSS was coming to Belle Isle but I should be able to make it to Mid-Ohio this year anyway.

[Reaper42]

Can we get some pics of the fuel cell set up and cage??


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[Reaper42]

Bump?


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[Dwnshift]

A couple people were taking pics at Barber earlier this year and posted them somewhere.
The cage was built by Nismo and then we had to change the door bars and address a couple other areas to get the car into Grand Am specs.
Dwnshift

[Reaper42]

how bout the fuel cell? i would like to build a rc spec z out of my car, is why im asking