Nissan's GT Acadamy Team RJN is refused it's entry for both of their cars in the new British GT Championship. This decision is based on the anticipated speed of the drivers in their new Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3. They are simply classified as "too fast" for the national Pro-AM catagory.
British GT Championship manager Benjamin Franassovici said: "I have a lot of admiration for GT Academy. It has shown itself to be a great way to source raw talent and turn that into real racing talent as we saw in British GT last year with Jann Mardenborough. However Nissan’s ability to find such amazing raw talent means that we cannot accept their full season entry for British GT in 2013. Their new recruits have very little racing experience so they have to be on the lowest performance grade. Their talent, going on Jann’s speed last year, doesn’t reflect this lack of experience so it is not fair to put them up against our Pro/Gentleman grid, the basis of British GT3. Hats off to Nissan though and I should point out that there are no closed doors here".
Nissan's Global Motorsports Director Darren Cox declared he is both disappointed by the choice of the British GT Championship, but at the same time feels flattered. "Being told you are too fast isn’t something that happens very often in any competitive sport. We’re working hard now to make sure our new graduates have a great race programme this year."