In its constant search for excellence throughout all areas of motorsport, Europe’s leading specialist in high performance competition lubricants, Motul, has announced a new technical partnership with Zytek Engineering Limited.
The British engine experts are one of two European distributors and a service centre for LMP2 endurance engines for the Japanese motor manufacturer, Nissan. Motul has been named as Zytek’s official lubricant and will be working closely with them on development of the engines, supplying oils for all Nismo (Nissan’s motorsport arm) power plants and offering on-track technical support. The fluids will be provided for the manufacturing of the engines through Motul’s associate company, MotulTech.
John Manchester, Operations Director of Zytek Engineering Limited, which is part of the Zytek Group of companies, said of the new partnership: “We’re delighted to be working with Motul, a company with a very strong heritage and which has successfully taken part in many championships. We have used many different lubricants in the past, across the different series for which we provide engines, and have been very impressed with the performance Motul’s oils showed. We hope that this new partnership between ourselves, for use on the Nissan engines we provide to sports car teams in endurance racing, will help us both with our product development and to achieve further success.”
Motul already has a strong relationship with Nismo and Zytek through its technical partnerships with two of the world’s leading LMP2 teams. Greaves Motorsport, last year’s class winner at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and 2011 Le Mans Series champions, joined LMP2 winners Jota Sport on the podium at the recent second round of the World Endurance Championship at Spa, Belgium. Both teams use Zytek chassis as well as engines, and will be beneficiaries of the extended working relationship between Nismo, Zytek and Motul.
Based on the principle that there is no better laboratory than motorsports to prove the quality of its products, endurance racing has always been a key priority for the company. For more than 50 years, Motul has therefore been regularly present at the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a technical partner, alongside prestigious teams like Pescarolo Sport, Larbre Competition, Kremer Porsche, Spyker Squadron, Aston Martin Racing and also Nismo. Drawing on this experience, the famous 300V 100% synthetic lubricant has been constantly upgraded to become the reference lubricant for several decades on the racing scene and especially in endurance thanks to the 300V ‘Le Mans’, specially formulated to face the most severe conditions met in this extremely demanding discipline.
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