Datsun 240Z BRE

Description

This Assetto Corsa mod adds new race class car: Datsun 1970 year of production. Limited top speed of Datsun 240Z BRE is with 240 bhp power. Current version of the vehicle is 1.0.

All credits to: ed. deCarrera

Original description:

The BRE Datsun 240Z proved the Japanese could build sportscars – and race cars – that could compete with the best from the United States and Europe.

Fifty years ago John Morton and Brock Racing Enterprises won the SCCA National Championship in this very car. It was the first time a Japanese production-based car had won, and it proved the 240Z was a serious drivers' car.

Like Porsche’s 911 coupes, its even faster 914–6 roadsters, and Triumph’s equally impressive TR6s, Datsun’s new 240Z had all been assigned by the SCCA’s contest board to the C Production class. And it was into this seething cauldron of top pros and big money that BRE and Katayama dove to challenge the finest American “amateurs” in SCCA production car racing with Nissan’s untested 240Z.

It went on to win Nissan/Datsun to win the 1970-1971 National Championships. By the time BRE’s racing contract with Datsun ended in 1973, the manufacturer’s import sales in America had climbed from number seven to number one in the nation.

Even more telling of Datsun’s competition success: Every other manufacturer in C Production had moved away, looking for another class or type of competition in which to excel.