The 1969 Nissan R382.
After Nissan's Japan Grand Prix victory in 1968, with their last minute built R381 (originally was supposed to use a V12, but went to a Chevrolet V8 and completely different body style in the last few months of development), Nissan aimed to step up their game for next year's GP. That meant further developing the first Japanese V12. Testing went underway with the R381 A-II, essentially the same car as the R381 but with slight bodywork improvements and the experimental V12 fitted. Halfway in the 1969 racing season, the FiA banned the high wing from competition, and thus forced the Nissan team to rethink their plans for the 1969 Japan Grand Prix, postponed to October instead of the usual May. The R381 A-II was not suited for the big and powerful V12, and the lack of a wing only made it worse. So in the last few months Nissan set out to build a car from scratch for the Grand Prix.
Despite fierce competition, the new revised Toyota 7's - a Porsche 917, the R382's smashed the Fuji record during qualifying, and even more so the race. #21 of Motoharu Kurosawa taking victory for Prince/Nissan once more.
The skins
The original AO was completely messed up, with the original decals burnt in. I fixed most of it by chipping away at it, swab by swab. Then I corrected the predefined decals texture and applied the numbers to each car. The original #21 livery did not have functioning shading on the AO, so I fixed it using my new AO.
Known issue: the decals do not have shading - this is because it is a separate DDS file, and is not affected by the car body AO files. I am not smart enough to fix this.
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Images and information all gathered by my main project, the JGT Archive. Join this archive full of Japanese racing photos accurately dated and explained from the 1930s to the 1970s: https://discord.gg/eTsX42m8h3
After Nissan's Japan Grand Prix victory in 1968, with their last minute built R381 (originally was supposed to use a V12, but went to a Chevrolet V8 and completely different body style in the last few months of development), Nissan aimed to step up their game for next year's GP. That meant further developing the first Japanese V12. Testing went underway with the R381 A-II, essentially the same car as the R381 but with slight bodywork improvements and the experimental V12 fitted. Halfway in the 1969 racing season, the FiA banned the high wing from competition, and thus forced the Nissan team to rethink their plans for the 1969 Japan Grand Prix, postponed to October instead of the usual May. The R381 A-II was not suited for the big and powerful V12, and the lack of a wing only made it worse. So in the last few months Nissan set out to build a car from scratch for the Grand Prix.
Despite fierce competition, the new revised Toyota 7's - a Porsche 917, the R382's smashed the Fuji record during qualifying, and even more so the race. #21 of Motoharu Kurosawa taking victory for Prince/Nissan once more.
The skins
The original AO was completely messed up, with the original decals burnt in. I fixed most of it by chipping away at it, swab by swab. Then I corrected the predefined decals texture and applied the numbers to each car. The original #21 livery did not have functioning shading on the AO, so I fixed it using my new AO.
Known issue: the decals do not have shading - this is because it is a separate DDS file, and is not affected by the car body AO files. I am not smart enough to fix this.
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Images and information all gathered by my main project, the JGT Archive. Join this archive full of Japanese racing photos accurately dated and explained from the 1930s to the 1970s: https://discord.gg/eTsX42m8h3
