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1958 also saw victory for a Datsun racing team. A 210 named the "Fuji-Go", won the Australian Mobilgas Trial rally, with the second team car coming in 4th. The Team was lead by a Marketing exec by the name of Yutaka Katayama. The win was seen as a huge event in Japan, a country that had had little to cheer about since the end of the war. Katayama and the racing team became instant heroes and spent several months touring Japan. It was about this time that Nissan, like many other manufacturers, started using racing as a test platform for engineering upgrades.
(But I'd like them both.)
