2015 Nissan Contingency Program

dkmura

Nissan Motorsports has released the latest contingency award program for the 2015 SCCA Majors road racing program. The 370Z will be supported at the highest level as a "current" model, along with the R35 GT-R and latest Versa. The popular 350Z passes into the same category of racecar as older models like the Datsun 240Z, 510 or Nissan 300ZX and 200SX in the program.

For the SCCA Majors series, properly registered Nissan Z34 racers can earn $500/$250/$150 for 1st/2nd/3rd placings, if there are at least five cars competing. Nissan racers using either current and past Nissan models who win a Majors season title in any conference earn an additional $1,000 for the class championship.

Not sure if there are that many Nissan road racers left here, but further details are available at SCCA.com under the SCCA Majors program. Since the Z34 won Touring 3 car at the Runoffs last year, I wonder how many 370Z pilots will compete in the "semi-pro" Majors series for the coming year?

dkmura

Over 100 views of this thread in two days, but no responses from anybody interested in road racing the 370Z?

mdxj

I would love to break into road racing at some point but I move around to much. I am curious to see what happens when more Z's are used though

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Rangerz

NASA is our organization. I will run TT3 this year but, I don't think thier is any contingency for TT. I'll be at 11 to 1 so not to competitive yet. I would love to get into Spec Z which has pretty good support from Nissan I'm told.

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gomer_110

Was really hoping this was SCCA Solo instead of road racing. Simple fact is road racing requires a pretty hefty bank account while autox is a little kinder to the bank account.

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dkmura

As far as road racing goes, there used to be quite a few 350Zs racing in SCCA. But the 370Z has not been quite as popular- it's expensive to prepare and the T3 rules don't favor it either.

Good luck on making it into road racing at some point!

dkmura

Any Nissan racer can register with Nissan Motorsports and get discounted parts support, but time trials have never gotten much manurfacture support. Spec Z will have a similar payout to the Nissan SCCA program, but also receives help from BFG tires.

dkmura

Unfortunately, solo is truly the entry point for motorsports and doesn't garner much manufacturer support until you make it to Nationals. Nissan Motorsports may have a contingency program for Nationals later in the year, but that's about it for cash prizes.

gomer_110

I just wish Nissan would take a page out of Mazda's book. I know Mazda has a contingency for national level events for SCCA solo.

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Rangerz

Just noticed your from CO. Shoot me a message if you make it out to MMP for any events this year.

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martin82

not much you can do with this really, they need to open this up to any timed event really besides just SCCA, ie Global Time Attack, Redline Time attack etc would be awesome

GSS138

Yeah, call me when they support time attack. I have emailed them about it and it's still "no".

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dkmura

Mazda is the only company I'm aware of that has a marketing campaign built around motorsports. Nissan's program is pretty much in line with what Toyota, Honda, BMW and VW offer. Ford, Chevy, Hyundai/Kia and Dodge have even less (or nothing). Most of those marketing decisions are based on return-on-investment (ROI) data. Mazda's program, while admirable, has been far from the norm for many years now and there's little to no ROI data to support copying it.

dkmura

I've raced at MMP many times and wish there were any SCCA road race events there this year!

GSS138

Although maybe there isn't a direct number attributable to it, their support get's its ROI in different ways imo. Namely things like Spec Miata and all its awesome glory, a zillion people that will buy the new Miata, goodwill etc. Let's face it, no one buys American muscle as a track car.

Nissan's biggest problem is name brand recognition. They have started to step it up with pushing the Nismo brand, but they have a lot of make up work to do. For example, this year at Mazfest in CA, there were over 5,000 people attending in California. Subi fest had probably 15,000- they completely packed AAA speedway. That's probably as many as they get at nascar races. In comparison, I bet 1000 people would not show up for a Nissan/Nismo event.

Don't get me wrong I love my Z, and I think nismo is moving in the right direction, but they need to put their mouth where their money is so to say-it's guys like you and me that are out doing track day events, amateur competitions, time trial events, and car shows.

They are missing out on a lot of free press.

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