
Nissan R390 GT1 #33 S. Motoyama / T. Kurosawa / M. Kageyama 24 Hours of Le Mans 1998 GT Spirit 1:18

About the Nissan R390 GT1 #33 S. Motoyama / T. Kurosawa / M. Kageyama 24 Hours of Le Mans 1998 GT Spirit 1:18
TL;DR: GT Spirit's 1:18 resin Nissan R390 GT1 reproduces car #33 from the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans, driven by Shinichi Motoyama, Toshio Kurosawa and Masahiko Kageyama. Sealed resin construction carries the purpose-built prototype's low, wide GT1 bodywork.
The R390 GT1 was built specifically to challenge Porsche and Toyota at Le Mans, and it remains one of Nissan's most focused factory racing efforts of the 1990s.
Sealed Resin for a Purpose-Built Racing Shape
Unlike a road-derived GT racer, the R390 was designed from the outset as a Le Mans prototype wearing a GT1-legal skin, and its low, aggressively vented bodywork gives GT Spirit's resin tooling genuinely fine surface detail to render, from the deep front splitter to the sculpted rear haunches. Sealed construction keeps those thin, structural panel edges sharp, avoiding the seam lines an opening diecast shell would need to accommodate around such a purpose-built shape. The #33 livery's sponsor graphics and number panels demand precise printing on a smooth resin base to read correctly at 1:18, and that print quality is really where this piece is judged. As with most dedicated racing resin, there are no opening features, a trade that suits a subject built entirely around competition bodywork rather than road-car practicality.
Nissan's 1998 Le Mans GT1 Campaign
Nissan developed the R390 GT1 specifically to compete at the top level of Le Mans's GT1 class in the late 1990s, fielding a multi-car effort against strong factory competition from established European manufacturers. The driver line-up of Motoyama, Kurosawa and Kageyama reflects Nissan's reliance on experienced domestic talent for its European campaign. For a Historic GT and GTE shelf, this piece documents a genuinely serious factory effort rather than a privateer entry, worth pairing with other late-1990s GT1 machinery from the same period.















