A race car that helped put the Nissan name on the map will star at the 2024 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca.
The original IMSA GTP class produced some of the best racing to ever grace U.S. road courses. It featured powerful cars and fierce competition among many well-funded, factory-backed teams.was one of the most formidable GTP cars in the class from 1985 to 1990, even managing to eclipse the dominant Porsche 962. Geoff Brabham secured the 1988 drivers' title behind the wheel of a GTP ZX-Turbo, and Nissan would secure the constructors' title the following year.
which runs at Laguna Seca from on Aug. 14-17. It will be chassis number 8801, which recently underwent a full restoration at Z Car Garage in San Jose. This was the car driven by Brabham together with John Morton in 1988, a season in which it enjoyed eight straight wins. The first examples of the GTP ZX-Turbo were built by Lola Cars in the U.K., and originally referred to as the Lola T810. Later examples were fully developed by Electramotive Engineering in California, which Nissan partnered with for its North American racing effort. The aim was to help build up the Nissan name after Datsun was phased out in 1986.on sale at the time, hence the use of the “ZX” in the name.
Nevertheless, the car and its successor, the NPT-90, marked the high point for Nissan in prototype sports car racing. Multiple attempts to win in top-level endurance racing in the 1990s failed, as did a later campaign in 2025 with the ill-fated
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