Gentlemen Drivers

• 28 years later, Érik returns to where it all began… by the road for the GT 🚀✨ March 1998, Autodromo Nazionale di Monza. For the very first time, a Nissan R390 GT1 Long Tail fires up its engine on track and Érik Comas is behind the wheel.

The extended tail, the redesigned aerodynamics, the gearbox cooling finally sorted after the troubles at Le Mans ’97: everything starts here, on this very asphalt. Nobody, in that moment, could have imagined what was about to follow.

May 2026, same circuit. Érik drives here by road for the GT World Challenge Europe with something the crowd in the grandstands can barely believe they are seeing: chassis 009 from Le Mans 1998, restored to 95% of its original race specification and now road-registered, laps the circuit once more in a demonstration run.

Same car. Same driver. Twenty-eight years on.

But it is the livery that tells the whole story. Not the Le Mans colours. The Pennzoil yellow and black, a capsule of his Japanese racing career at its peak: the colours of his two consecutive JGTC titles with the Skyline R33 in 1998 and the R34 in 1999, wrapped across the bodywork of the endurance prototype that lived through those same years on another continent entirely. An idea born from a sketch between Comas and designer Benoit Fraylon that captures, in a single glance, the full arc of a driver and an era.

A capsule of his Japanese racing career peak

⚙️ 3.5L twin-turbo V8 · up to 1,000 hp · carbon fibre chassis · Xtrac sequential gearbox · Long Tail bodywork

🏆 Le Mans 1998: 3rd, 5th and 6th overall | JGTC Champion ’98 and ’99 | F1: 63 Grand Prix starts

Some stories do not end with the chequered flag.
They continue on public roads, twenty-eight years later, with that same roar in your chest!

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