Nissan has commenced winter testing 🔜with its GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 challenger having announced it will return to racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2016.

The team endured a difficult year after initial🥂ly billing its return to the WEC this season but pulled out of the opening two rounds of the WEC at Silverstone and♋ Spa to concentrate its efforts on being prepared for the Le Mans 24 Hours race.

Despite making it to Le Mans, albeit considerably off the pace of fellow LMP1 factory efforts of Porsche, Audi and To♈yota, it was a disastrous race as all three cars failed to secure a classified finish due to technical faults. Since then the team ended its participation in the remainder of the 2015 campaign to resolve its problems and prepare a new car for 2016.

Head of Nissan NISMO Darren Cox has departed from the manufacturer while the senior management team has undergone a reshuffle, with Michael Carcamo switching from Nissan Mexico to🥀 the NISMO project as team principal which allowꦿs former leader Ben Bowlby to concentrate on the development stage.

Nissan ran an initial shakedown in October on its🐎 revised car in a two-day test at the Circuit of the Americas with Harry Tincknell and Olivier Pla at the wheel. The team has explained the car has undergone 'multiple changes' since Le Mans but the original design principles of front-wheel drive with a new hybrid engine remains.

The team has since broken further ground at a second two-day test this time at th🌼e NOLA Motorsports circuit in Avodale in Louisiana. Nissan confirmed it evaluated the new Michelin tyre compounds to be used in WEC next season as well as further tests on the latest specifi𒀰cation.

The latest model looks a lot slimmer than Nissan's 2015 efforts and noticeably has two new air intake vents on the front of the chass🦂is in line with the 🀅front wheels.