Nissan GTR Racer news - Super GT? Too easy… - 2008

The GT-R is taking over the world. Nissan's new Godzilla-based racer dominated the first round of the Japanese GT series in Suzuki last weekend, finishing first, second and in most of the other scoring positions.

Satoshi Motoyama and Beniot Treluyer's Nismo GT-R took victory in the first race in front of a crowd of 32,000, edging out the Autech GT-R of... you don't really care about this bit, do you? Point is, the GT-R is so quick that some Japanese commentators are predicting that the GT organisers will impose limitations on the GT-R before the next race in Okayama in mid-April.

Which seems a bit unfair, really. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, every man for himself and all that. If the GT-R does end up being, erm, pruned, we hope it'll retain its scarier-than-a-clown-convention looks.

Or its noise. This quick video only shows the GT-R in winter testing (if you've got anything better, please do email it over) but it's enough to imagine the noise of a gridful of GT-Rs at full throttle.

Oh, and see that white car in the final shot? That's a regular GT-R playing safety car for the big boys. Looks almost understated in that company, doesn't it?