{"id":7449,"date":"2015-05-14T14:28:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7449"},"modified":"2015-05-14T14:28:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:28:29","slug":"nissan-vans-deliver-hassle-free-logistics-for-red-bull-f1-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7449","title":{"rendered":"Nissan vans deliver hassle-free logistics for Red Bull F1 team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/red-bull-nissan-1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Red Bull Nissan van\" width=\"350\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/red-bull-nissan-1-sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/red-bull-nissan-1-sm-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/red-bull-nissan-1-sm-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>It&#8217;s no secret that Red Bull&#8217;s on-track efforts this year have been a touch disappointing. Headlines such as\u00a0<em>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/formula1\/32688667\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull &#8216;will quit F1&#8217; over engines<\/a>&#8220;<\/em> tell their own story.<\/p>\n<p>However, the\u00a0Infiniti Red Bull team continues to benefit from its partnership with Nissan (Infiniti is Nissan&#8217;s luxury car brand), which provides a comprehensive fleet of\u00a0vans and pick-ups for the team.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;s\u00a0commercial vehicle partnership with Nissan is now in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3379\">its fourth year<\/a>,\u00a0and this year the Japanese manufacturer will provide around 80 vans and pick-ups for Red Bull to support their operations during the European Grand Prix season.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Nissan will supply around 80 light commercial vehicles from its class leading range, including the all-electric Nissan e-NV200 and the standard\u00a0NV200, as well as the Nissan NV350 and the larger\u00a0Nissan NV400.<\/p>\n<p>According to Christian Horner, Team Principal, Infiniti Red Bull Racing, the Nissan LCV partnership\u00a0brings notable benefits to\u00a0the team:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This partnership with Nissan LCV has brought significant benefits to our team and demonstrated the value of working with the right commercial vehicle partner.\u00a0One of the biggest challenges we face is managing the logistically complex operations of transporting people and equipment, and we are delighted to continue working with Nissan LCV in 2015.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect Mr Horner is hoping some of Nissan&#8217;s off-track success &#8212; for example <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6793\">with the e-NV200<\/a> &#8212; soon starts to rub-off on his Renault-powered racing cars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nissan is the light commercial vehicle partner for the Red Bull F1 team for the fourth consecutive year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[492,1913],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7451,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449\/revisions\/7451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}