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The Super Silhouette racing cars from Nissan

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Created on July 4, 2019

Reading time 4min

Written by:

Olivier Chanson, Balz Schreier

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Nissan Heritage

Hideaki Takahashi

Pedro Guedes

DTM

Nissan Heritage

Hideaki Takahashi

Pedro Guedes

DTM

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Ganz vorne der Nissan Skyline Turbo C, gleich dahinter der rote Nissan Skyline Super Silhouette. Der silbrige Prototyp dahinter ist ein Nissan R383, Baujahr 1970, der aber nie zum Einsatz kam.

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Nissan Violet Turbo Super Silhouette (1979)

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Nissan Bluebird Super Silhouette (1980) mit der schönen Canon / Coca Cola Lackierung

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Nissan Silvia Super Silhouette (1983), ausgestellt in der Nissan Heritage Collection in Japan

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Sucht man in Europa vergebens: Nissan Skyline Super Silhouette (1982), aka Tomica Skyline RS Turbo KDR30

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Nissan Skyline Super Silhouette (1982), aka Tomica Skyline RS Turbo KDR30

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Nissan Skyline Super Silhouette (1983) - Nismo Festival 2015

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DTM und Super GT starten gemeinsam im Jahr 2019

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Summary

Japanese racing cars are rarely seen in Europe, especially the horsepower monsters of the so-called "Super Silhouette" series, the counterpart to the DRM in Europe. Our article takes a look at all the Super Silhouette vehicles from Nissan.

This article contains the following chapters

Nissan Turbo Violet Super Silhouette (1979)
Nissan Bluebird Super Silhouette (1980)
Nissan Silvia Super Silhouette (1982)
Nissan Skyline Super Silhouette (1982)
Cooperation between today's DTM and Super GT

Estimated reading time: 4min

Preview (beginning of the article)

From 1979 to 1984, Japan had its own counterpart to the DRM (German Racing Championship, 1972-1985), which was extremely similar to Group 5. This was the "Super Silhouettes" series, which was run as part of the "Fuji Grand Championship". Racing took place on the circuits of Fuji, Tskuba and Suzuka. The rules of the series were rather lax compared to its European counterpart. The cars themselves simply had to have the same silhouette as the production version, had to bear the same name and had to have an engine at their heart that was based on that of the road version. Apart from that, there were neither rules for maximum performance nor a specification regarding the number of vehicles produced. It was therefore not unusual for the Super Silhouette cars to have more horsepower than the Formula 1 cars of the time.

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