British sportscar racer Jann Mardenborough has lost his SUPER GT drive with Kondo Racing and been left without a seat in Nissan’s GT500 roster for 2021.
The 29-year-old has been affiliated with the Japanese marque since he became the third winner of the Nissan-backed GT Academy gamer-to-racer competition in 2011, and was the last of the GT Academy drivers still on the factory’s books after original winner Lucas Ordonez was dropped after the 2018 season.
Mardenborough has raced in SUPER GT since 2016, stepping up to the top GT500 class for 2017 after a single race-winning GT300 campaign alongside Kazuki Hoshino in a B-Max Racing-run Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3.
His best finish remains a third place at Sugo in 2018 for Team Impul, with a fourth place at Buriram in 2019 the high point of his two-year stint with Kondo…
