Scottish based Promotorsport Ltd has announced that it has entered a Nissan 350Z in the 2008 European FIA GT4 Championship. Drivers will be Rick Pearson, who took the Tracsport Lola-Nissan to 3rd in the 2004 LMES LMP2 Championship, and Derek Palmer Jr., his driving partner in the Dutch Supercar Challenge for the last two years.

“I am extremely pleased that I will once again be in a Promotorsport engineered car and also to be returning to an International GT Championship,” says Rick Pearson (on the right, with Derek Palmer). “We firmly believe that the Nissan will be the car to beat in 2008 and whilst this deal has come together very late in the day, we hope to be on the pace early enough to mount a realistic challenge for the Championship. In fact, given the way the points system is going to work for shared cars, there is a real chance your biggest rival could be your own co-pilot, so I shall have to keep a close eye on Derek Jr!”

“We would like to take this opportunity to thank Dick Van Elk and his team for two fabulous years of racing in the excellent Dutch Supercar Challenge. From a personal point of view, this will be my 12th year at the wheel of a Nissan/Renault-engined car and I cannot understate the importance of their motorsport programmes in supporting racing at every level.”

RJN currently has the Promotorsport 350Z in build and this will be followed through the workshop by the replacement for its own car, which was sadly destroyed in testing at Silverstone last Friday. Chris Sanders broke a bone in his neck in the accident, but is already on the road to a full recovery.

Promotorsport has an entry for the Nissan in the British GT Championship as well in Europe, and the team is currently looking for drivers with budgets for this campaign.