Photography Courtesy Nissan
Nissan’s motorsports history didn’t start with BRE’s famed arrival in 1968-or even Bob Sharp’s SCCA championship a year earlier. In 1958, Nissan entered a pair of cars in the Mobilgas Trial, a 10,000-mile, 19-day odyssey around the perimeter of Australia. It was billed as the world’s cruelest rally.
Yutaka Katayama, now a familiar name to …
