You know what's hard? Building a race car. You know what's harder? Building a fundamentally new type of race car like Nissan is attempting with their . It's therefore not a huge surprise that Nissan is skipping the first two World Endurance Championship races to focus on Le Mans.

The news comes via racer-turned-NISMO-sales/marketing-chief Darren Cox who called earlier this afternoon to tell us, and also to thank, which has to be a first.

This is as and seem to have added challenges to an already ambitious schedule. DailySportsCar is also .

"We failed the monocoque crash test; the front roll hoop missed by a small margin, but we're fixing it and will have an updated chassis for [crash testing] next week."

If you're in Kentucky, we've been informed that they'll be testing in Bowling Green in the near future. They love front-engined race cars in Bowling Green so the Nissan should fit right in.