Nissan Motorsports (NISMO) Awarded Rookie of the Year honors in 2024 Pirelli GT4 America finale
Nissan Z NISMO GT4 racers gave outstanding results at the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway to close out the 2024 SRO Motorsports America season for Nissan’s customer teams. Highlights of the weekend included Damir Hot’s two podium places in the GT America races and his GT4 Rookie of the Year victory.
“2024 marked our sophomore season with the GT4 program, and thanks to our teams’ efforts, we’re now competing head-to-head with Porsche, BMW, Aston Martin, Mercedes AMG, McLaren, and Toyota,” said Mike Carcamo, program director, Sports Cars, NISMO Cars and Motorsports, Nissan Motor Corporation. “With our first series win and over a dozen podium finishes this season, Nissan and NISMO thank everyone at Flying Lizard Motorsports, TechSport Racing and Blackdog Racing for their dedication. We look forward to challenging for the championship in 2025.”
A tech presentation hosted by the Indy Z Car Club and the SAE Indiana branch on Wednesday night at Andy Mohr Avon Nissan marked the beginning of the Indianapolis weekend. Nissan amused spectators at the track with racing simulators, motorsports trivia, and a new product display. Nissan fielded three championship-caliber teams with four Nissan Z NISMO GT4 race cars to represent the brand during the 2024 Pirelli GT4 America and GT America seasons.
The 2024 Team highlights goes as follows, Blackdog Racing made history with a Pro-Am class victory at the fourth race of the season at Sebring. Tony Gaples secured fifth place in the Pro-Am standings, the highest for any Nissan driver this year. Flying Lizard Motorsports competed in the full Pirelli GT4 series and two GT America series events, with Damir Hot earning podium finishes in all four GT America starts and receiving the GT4 Rookie of the Year award. TechSport Racing as the lead development team, TechSport continued to build on their experience with podium finishes at Sonoma, Road America and Barber Motorsports Park.
The 2025 Pirelli GT4 America Championship will begin at Sonoma Raceway in California on March 28–30, 2025. Without factory teams competing, the championship is still the top event for privateer teams using homologated race cars. Live coverage of every Pirelli GT4 America race can be found on the SRO Motorsports GTWorld YouTube channel. Nissan Motorsports competes in Formula E, the Nissan Sentra Cup (Canada), Super GT (Japan), and Pirelli GT4 America worldwide.
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