Super GT's GT500 class runs some of the most technically regulated silhouette machinery in contemporary circuit racing, and the Nissan Z NISMO entry from Team Kondo Racing represents one of the series' most storied manufacturer-team relationships. For 2025, car No. 24 pairs one of Nissan's longest-serving GT500 pilots with a driver whose résumé spans European single-seater competition at the highest level, making this pairing one of the more compelling entries on the grid.
Introduced for the 2022 Super GT season, the Nissan Z NISMO GT500 is a purpose-built racing machine developed by NISMO whose silhouette bodywork references the road-going Nissan Z (RZ34). Like all GT500 competitors since 2020, it is powered by the common NR20A 2.0-litre turbocharged inline-4, producing approximately 500 hp under the series' shared-engine formula. The bodywork regulations ensure a close visual relationship with the production car while the engineering beneath is full GT500 racing specification. At just three full seasons old entering 2025, the Z-bodied GT500 is still relatively early in its competitive life.
Matsuda, Natori and the Kondo No. 24 Legacy
Team Kondo Racing, based in Aichi Prefecture, has fielded GT500 entries since the JGTC era and has run Nissan machinery through successive generations of the championship. Tsugio Matsuda, who claimed the GT500 drivers' title in 2014 with Nissan, has been central to that partnership for years. His 2025 co-driver, Teppei Natori, brings a distinctly international profile: a Red Bull Junior alumnus who competed in FIA Formula 2, Natori returned to Super GT for 2025 to share the No. 24 cockpit with Matsuda. The combination of established marque heritage and crossover single-seater appeal gives the car a broader following than most GT500 entries.
Spark Model's 1:43 Scale Model — Resin, Super GT 2025 Series
Spark Model produces this 1:43 scale model in resin as part of their systematic annual coverage of the Super GT GT500 grid. Spark's Super GT series follows a consistent naming convention that identifies scale, series, season year and car number, and 2025 continues that practice across both GT500 and GT300 classes. Resin construction allows the accurate reproduction of the Z NISMO's complex GT500 aero package — the wide-body panels, fin configurations and wing profiles — at this scale without the compromises of diecast tooling.
In the Display Cabinet — Building the 2025 GT500 Grid
Collectors assembling a complete 2025 Super GT GT500 grid in 1:43 will find the No. 24 an essential Nissan representative alongside the other Z NISMO entries from that season. The car also works as a focused Tsugio Matsuda career retrospective — pairing naturally with his earlier Nissan GT500 entries — or as the starting point for a Teppei Natori cross-series collection that spans his European F2 campaigns. Spark's consistent finish and livery accuracy mean it sits coherently alongside GT500 models from other seasons and other manufacturers in the same scale.
