Todd Kelly, the team owner of V8 Supercars, expressed his enthusiasm when the Nissan parts arrived at the team's base located in Melbourne. This Nissan parts are going to be utilized for the V8 Supercars 2013.

The change to Nissan for the V8 Supercars 2013 was a big decision but it looks like that its going to pay off as the pieces are beginning to fall in place. By 2013, the team will utilize Nissan Motorsport and would be featuring 4 brand-new Nissan Altima under the new Car of the Future regulations in the V8 Supercars championship. Todd Kelly, together with his brother, Rick are making sure that everything is in place. Nissan has already shipped 20 pallets of freight as a start of the team's preparation.

Tod Kelly expressed his sentiments about this mentioning that "We've got one chance to get this project done and there is no choice. If we miss deadline, we don't go car racing so it's a pretty serious thing. At the moment, we are pretty much on track to what we would have hoped to achieve, which is good because normally when you have a design program of this magnitude, it normally runs over by quite a bit once you actually get into it."

Todd Kelly also participated in a Q&A segment with OZ Racing Wrap wherein a wide range of topics regarding the V8 Supercars 2013 and the partnership with Nissan was addressed. Here is an excerpt from the interview:

"QUESTION: There must be a significant level of cooperation between the race team and Nissan in establishing this supply chain. There is now not only communication between Braeside and Japan on the engine side to both Nissan and NISMO, but also a huge amount of cooperation between North America and Braeside, getting a lot of equipment here on what is a very new model.

TODD KELLY: It's not just the actual, raw parts. We really couldn't do anything with this whole project until we had the CAD (computer aided design) of the Altima. As you could imagine, the process to go and get all of the computer designs of a complete car three or four months before it was even released to the media, I knew that was going to be quite difficult. But again I was extremely surprised at how quick and effective the whole communication system works internally at Nissan. Initially we went into Nissan's Australian head office and did a number of conference calls to Japan and America to set this whole process up, setting the scene for the entire program and what we require to build a race car out of the road car.
The flow on of that was, even in such a large company, a fast, streamlined and effective supply chain, which was pleasantly surprising for myself and all of our engineers. We got the CAD of the car and isolated the components that we needed to build the race cars, then it was all systems go to get these parts put into production if there weren't already and try to get them air freighted over. Now we have a factory full of them and we have enough parts that we could build nine Nissan Altima V8 Supercars.

It's a pretty big statement given what a lot of the other teams already have in their stock and inventory to build next year's car. Even though we have a massive design task ahead, in certain areas we are already a long way in front of it. It's good to have that luxury with the way Nissan works."

The arrival of the parts certainly made the V8 Supercars team excited about the V8 Supercars 2013. Based on Todd Kelly's reply, everything seems to be in place just in time for next year's big event.