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Racing’s great lateral thinker 

3 years ago

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Writer:

Dan Prosser | Ti co-founder

Date:

18 February 2022

The unvarnished facts make for grim reading. Of the three LMP1 cars Nissan took to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2015, only one finished.

Worse, it wasn’t even classified in the final standings because it completed only 242 laps, falling short of the 276 laps (or 70 per cent of the distance covered by the winning car) it needed to be ranked among the finishers.

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