Earlier this week reports began to circulate that Nissan Chief Carlos Ghosen is due to make an announcement regarding the future of the marque's Motorsport-division, Nismo. In the same forty-eight hours came the news from Touring Car specialists RML, that they were due to announce their plans for the foreseeable future within the 'next two weeks.'
The team successfully recorded their third consecutive driver and team championship titles in 2012, but were left in the doldrums at the end of last season after Chevrolet brought it's factory programme to an end.
Should their be any substance to my suspected link between Nissan and RML, then the partnership would surely be with a a view to enter the 2014 WTCC championship, with rule-changes allowing machines to be more powerful and more aerodynamically efficient. Such changes bring the series' closer to Nismo's current interests the Nissan's homeland, where the division runs a number of heavily race-modified Nissan GTR's in the Super GT series.
RML and Nissan last worked together between 1997 and 1999, when the latter successfully contracted RML to run it's British Touring Car Championship assault with a pair of Nissan Primera's.
With success in the past, and a promising WTCC future, many & me will be hoping that these two stalwarts are about to launch each other back into the motorsport limelight.
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