人間はスリルを楽しむ生き物なんです。だからジェットコースターが遊園地にあるんでしょうし、スカイダイビングやバンジージャンプが流行るんでしょうねぇ。そして、遊園地に行かずとも、そらから墜ちなくても、人に笑顔をもたらすのがGT-Rであることが発覚しました(笑)。To the floor.comというサイトがYouTubeにあるGT-R加速同乗動画のコンピレーションを作ったようです。
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Human is thrill seeking animal. Roller coasters, sky-diving, bungy jump… you name it. We have just found out that you don’t have to go to a theme park nor do you have to fall out from the sky to smile… To the floors.com has come up with a GT-R video consisting of various people having to sit on passenger seat and experience GT-R’s brethtaking acceleration.
Young or old, male or female, everyone smiles in the end, no matter how scared they may initially be. It is, probably, fair to say that GT-R is one hell of dopamine secreting machine…lol
GT300クラスの#3 S Road NDDP GT-R(星野一樹/佐々木大樹)は、予選2位からスタート。オープニングラップに首位をとらえると、前半はレースをリードしました。そののち後続に攻められ続けられましたが、なんとか上位に留まりました。45周目にピットインして佐々木に交代した後、他車と接触してステアリングロッドを折損。レース続行が困難となり、リタイアしました。
#23 MOTUL AUTECH GT-R Third in Okayama
OKAYAMA, Japan – The #23 MOTUL AUTECH GT-R placed third at the opening round of the 2013 Super GT season in Okayama, with Honda’s Raybrig HSV-010 and Keihin HSV-010 taking the top spots on the podium.
On race morning, heavy rain gave way to cloudy skies that occasionally let the sun through. The track surface was dry, but low temperatures and windy conditions made for challenging conditions on and off track.
Despite the weather, 16,000 fans attended, as pole-sitter Ronnie Quintarelli increased his lead in the #23 GT-R, quickly building up a comfortable margin over his pursuers.
The driver switch took place at the halfway point of the race, with Masataka Yanagida’s swift change ensuring the MOTUL AUTECH team maintained its position.
But the pace of the Honda HSV entries occupying 2nd to 4th increased during the race’s second half, closing in on Yanagida in the GT-R. If any car in the trio were to drop out, the time difference to Yanagida would instantly be instantly shortened.
Yanagida’s s pace fell away after picking up tire ‘marbles’ (discarded pieces of rubber that litter the track) towards the end, allowing a pair of rivals to get past on lap 77, just four laps from the flag, relegating MOTUL AUTECH to a creditable third place.
“Due to the fall in temperature, we picked up a lot of marbles and this led to a vibration that itself was the cause of locking brakes,” Yanagida said after the race.
“With that, we lost pace and were unable to realize our proper potential. I must apologize, as Ronnie handed me the car in top spot. I am sorry. I would like to improve so we can demonstrate performance in the cold also.”
Teammate Quintarelli said third was a reasonable result for the first round.
“Since conditions were good and the tire grip was also good, I was able to drive my stint at a solid pace,” he said. “Having started in pole position, naturally I wanted to take the victory. As I haven’t been on the podium in the opening round before now, I feel that this is a reasonable start to the season.”
New channel to take YouTube viewers behind the scenes of Nissan’s motorsport activity and showcase new NISMO-branded products
Launch of new TV channel on YouTube, NISMO.TV
Iconic Nissan GT-R race cars to carry YouTube branding
Content-focused approach to give unparalleled access to motorsport content
A fan-focused approach to help attract new fans to motorsport
New features to be added including live streaming
Yokohama, Japan – Today automotive innovator Nissan outlined a new collaboration with YouTube that will include the world’s largest digital content platform hosting a brand new channel to be known as NISMO.TV. Launching in April, NISMO.TV will curate, aggregate and commission global Nissan Motorsport and performance product content at NISMO.TV.
Nissan will capture its motorsport stories 52 weeks of the year and provide constant behind-the-scenes access to YouTube’s viewers. Projects such as Nissan’s experimental Le Mans electric prototype and gamer-to-racer GT Academy will see the focus of the attention alongside more traditional motorsport coverage.
Part of the collaboration will see YouTube branding feature on the cars of the NISMO Athletes as they compete across Europe in prestigious events in their Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 racing cars.
The YouTube Nissan GT-R will compete in the Blancpain Endurance Series and the new for 2013 FIA GT Series in the hands of the first winner of Nissan’s revolutionary driver discovery and development program, GT Academy. Lucas Ordonez has raced all over the world for Nissan since winning GT Academy in 2008 and for the FIA GT Series Lucas will be joined in the YouTube GT-R by Nissan regular Alex Buncombe and for the longer Blancpain Endurance Series races by one of the newest NISMO Athletes, American Steve Doherty, who completes the line-up.
NISMO.TV will follow the exploits of the NISMO Athletes – the GT Academy winners who have risen from being PlayStation gamers to real world racing drivers – illustrating that the transition from virtual to reality, from PS3 to podium, is now a bona fide route into the fiercely competitive world of racing.
Julie Kikla of YouTube commented, “We’re delighted to welcome NISMO.TV on to the YouTube platform. Working in the content space with Nissan creates an exciting new dimension to our existing motorsport content offering which is fast becoming a valuable genre.”
“By launching NISMO.TV on YouTube we’re creating a new template for leveraging motorsport content and taking it beyond the purist, on a truly global level. This new relationship with YouTube, like our collaborations with Gazprom Neft and PlayStation, shows what a new generation of motorsport-led marketing will look like,” said Nissan’s Director of Global Motorsport Darren Cox. He added, “Innovation is what Nissan does best and with YouTube we can go out there and break the rules when it comes to engaging with our audience: the current and future motorsport fans. There is no better platform for our content than YouTube so we are excited to see how far we can go with NISMO.TV.”