This car showed how jealous the Australian public were of this awesome car. They banned it after 2 years of domination. They whinged about its 4WD and how it rendered Holden and Ford obsolete. An absolute engineering marvels. This car and the team under Fred Gibson were first class professionals and fans hated them for it.
1990 's. Nissan is by Group A. Toyota is in WRC. Honda is by Formula One. Mazda is in Le Mans. Subaru and Mitsubishi are also in WRC. A champion was a Japanese car.
'Godzilla' was an absolute monarchy in Australia! That's why she only toured here very briefly, before being completely banished from Oz Motorsport due to her unmistakably devastating performance.. She's still, even to this day, one of the properly fast! I💚U r32!
@@PiDsPagePrototypes A long while! Hopefully they will let the Nissan Bluebird turbo into TCM soon, it's more or less meeting the age criteria now that VB Commdores and XD Falcons are racing. But TCM seems to be rather V8 centric -- hopefully the TCM rule makers aren't anti-turbo...
Imagine if Ford and Holden had adapted instead of complaining, where the Falcon and Commodore would be today. Not to mention the possibility of later model Skylines being sold at Dealerships in Aus.
@@blumie006 The Barra came out 20(?) years after this. This is the era of the EA/EB Falcon with the issue filled 3.9 and then the 4.0. The 3.9 had no more power or torque then the Valiant's Slant Six in the '60's. From the 4.0, through the F6 motors, and then the Barra, Ford Australia developed something special, but the US management tried and eventually got rid of Ford Aus production.
Si hacemos memoria esos colores le han dado tantas victorias a nissan, con el zx cunningham de Steve millen, con el r90 y 92 cp, co los 180 sx en imsa, es algo a tener en cuenta, tal vez si los r390 gtr de 1998 hubieras salido con esos colores hubieran tenido un poco más de fortuna, pero un tercer lugar no está tan mal, es la kabala de nissan.
Joseph Elias we had to, they were way too op. But it was Japan that was hurt the most, in their all Japan gt championship the r32's went undefeated in 4 seasons. Winning 29 races from 29 starts. Even in these videos you could see the r32's had unmatched reliability, acceleration, braking and cornering and were unbeatable in the wet.
group a was also coming to an end with europe going down a 2 litre path and we never hear about how the europeans changed the rules. Ford was racing the sierra rs500 at the time and not a v8 falcon. So we had the option of going down the 2 litre path like europe or the v8 formula which has been extremely successful in attracting crowds to events and entrants.
@@carisi2k11 Not exactly ! Mostly the rules changed to ban Japaneses brands from victories! And simply sometimes there was no rules changed and just a ban ! The R32 was banned from Australian racing because of It's amazing AWD SYSTEM the famous ATTESA ET-S ! A good excuses to put out Nissan which was grabing almost all the victories in the seasons ! Mazda banned Rotary engine from LeMans 24h again because other brands complaints ! In WRC in the era of 2L 4WD, they changed rules and displacements to cut off the 10 years victories of Toyota Subaru and Mitsubishi !
Fred Gibson Motorsport brought Nissan Motorsport to the world. They almost won the championship in the R31. That's how good Fred's team was. (Jim Richards and Mark Skaife were talents no doubt too.)
I was enthralled at the GTR's abilities as a teenager. At the time, Bathurst was a production car race, it was several races in one with the different classes. Anyone who watched could see the potential of their favourite car, from the NA four banger corollas to the eternal kings of the mountain, the GTRs. The irony is that there was already an AWD turbo car in that race, it had a ford badge on it, and was allowed to race...........even though it was never available in the Aussie market. The fact that the Japanese had engineered a production car that could spank everything, and did so very reliably, should have been the catalyst for domestic car improvement and a glimpse into the trend of technology vs the old formula of more cylinders/displacement. When they banned these cars I tuned out, I have never watched the V8 'stupidcars' as it is an insult to the intelligence of anyone with a triple digit IQ. End of rant..............flame away low tech bent 8 fanboys
If i were you, id get into watching the Supercars. Forget that they are token holden and fords, now other makes as well. They share nothing with the road cars, they are bespoke race cars and the racing is epic. The development of the cars is very advanced. If you ever spoke to some of the people involved in the engineering and manufacture of the cars, it just gives you more appreciation. They are far more wild than F1, way more cut and thrust and the race atmosphere is fantastic.
the insane ramblings of a self proclaimed 3-digit IQ … yea cos all other race series in the world run factory road cars... you're basically stating you have no real interest in motorsport or put any thought about the financial viability of our tiny manufacturers doing fuckton of R&D to produce niche AWD sports cars let alone anything else 'revolutionary', how stupid! This 'trend of technology' hasn't really improved since the 2000's so I don't even know what you're talking about - and EVERYONE drives in shitbox SUVs anyway which drive like shit in every way, cost a fortune and have terrible fuel consumption (look at new car sales figures, it's fucked). by the way actual motorsport fans would have V8 'stupidcars' as one of the most respected series right next to WRC and F1 in the world as one of the last series in the world to have good 'driver racing' with hauling heavy ass cars with no driver aids, little power steering, clutch on downshifts (these shit on Eurocentric GT series like Blancpain imo).
Nissan Japan freaked out how fast the Australian developed R32 was. I don't think they were allowed to race in Japan because it would have embarrassed all their countries R32s, which were winning everything at the time.
2.4 ltr? The r32’s were the best touring cars ever, but tony longhurst drove the best season in 91 against all those sierras and v8’s in his little m3, would have one any other year. Best driver of 1991 in my books!!
2.4L was the initial displacement during the development of the R32 GT-R when the car was going to be RWD. This was changed to 2.6L after ATTESA-ETS was introduced to the car to combat the weight increase.
Was up to the manufacturers to create the winning car, not complain about other cars being too fast -_-". This car did amazing things but also ruined Australian Motorsport. Aussie Companies & Fans didn't like Japanese Cars winning Aussie Races. Even though the Sierra's dominated the V8's for multiple years prior. But it was an amazing vehicle and I will always love it. Cannot say that for every car that raced that it was banned entirely for being too fast and the competitors too slow.
@@Artecius92 That's because Australia is a racist country, even now. What utter boneheads booing one of the greatest cars over the line. Wouldn't happen anywhere else.
Those were the days. Two decades ahead of the rest !! The R32's spawn the R35 is now bargain mega performance machine that defies physics and any other wannabes that get in its way :)
They banned it because it was built to go fast from the ground up....2.6ltr...twin turbo.. Computer controlled 4wd...and 4ws...it was a super car destroyer.....and unfortunately it was unleashed into a world of " ordinary " cars...the sierra rs500 came with a2ltr twincam turbo 2wd...224bhp and a bit of downforce from the factory..and was born in the mid 80s....developed from a mundane saloon car....I know I've a stock 2dr sierra not even a cosworth. ...they're nothing compared to the skyline...a full generation of development went into it...that's just how it is...in road and race cars...
There was also a promotional video uploaded a while ago that introduced the r32 Gibson GT-R and explained the technical details. Does anyone know where this is?
they are a lovely drive, wish I hadn't sold mine now; mind you, you have to watch them going out of roundabouts on wet days when the turbo spools up and flicks the tail out! thats when I would have liked the 4wd!
The GTRs were brutal but the Sierra cosworth RS500 were right there with them and the 3 series BMW.wonder how thay would fair now a days against mustang and Camaros
It was Wheels magazine that originally coined the term "Godzilla" for the R32 in one of their articles. The name, fittingly, stuck. In their day, they were a beast on & off the track.
Only 80,000 Views in 5 years, Wow. I find this hard to believe, given the popularity of these cars now. This Documentary covering the history of the Domination of these cars in Australia Should be sparking a little bit of interest these days you would think. Unless, perhaps many people are still trying to Forget this embarassing period of auto racing History.
probably not at all because why would you go through all the R&D costs to develop a niche AWD turbo sports car and compete with a car that is already good at it's job?
If Ford continued with Dick Johnsons XE Ford Falcon experiment with the Ford 250 crossflow motor that was being developed, perhaps it could've been spectacular. It was an inline 6 turbo being trialed, however it did not proceed as Ford did not believe adding a turbo was the way forward, but V8 was far superior. I wonder if Dick ever asked them "how does that humble pie taste.......?" when the turbo vehicles arrived and the GODzilla kicked arse
Japanese cars in Australia at that time were just not appreciated and well liked like they are today. I remember most people actually hated them and the banning of the cars were widely supported by the fans.
Steve Lee that’s not actually true. The R32 had a lot of fans. The Sierras were the real beginning of the end. The R32 just made it a certainty. Knife in a fist fight.
In 1984 i was laughed at when i said V8s time will soon be over due to engine tech, then banned Jaguar V12, 1st was the Sierra 1988 hello R32, even since 1991 race time is only 6mins faster over 1,000 km
Originally the GT-R was going to be a twin turbo 2.4L and compete in the 4L class, but they decided it would not be competitive, so increased the displacement to 2.6l and competed in the 4.5L class.
funny how there was no mention of Richards blowing up at oran park, that girls and boys is why he is not in the results the roar from the oran park crowd was deafening, I think even the Nissan fans roared , im sure jim can still hear it at night when its really quiet , they were the most hated car ever but they were without doubt the most advanced thing to hit our shores ,
With Ford and Holden not manufacting in Australia we should go down the tecnology road like the GTR. Good proving ground to introduce to family cars like the AWD giving safer cars for our roads because the 2 Aussie manufacturers we're never going to give us the safe cars that imported one's give and they wonder why Aussies stopping buying them. It's because Australians knew they could be safer than in a Falcon or Commodore.
The GTR won cuz of the AWD systems and the turbo,making the car will hit the top speed faster.Also the skyline is AWD so they are every grippy and quick in the corners.The skyline’s top speed is just 180kmh but these assholes banned it by “eW cHeAtER111!!1!!”
If they kept these sort of cars race each other it would be a million times more successful and they wonder why there rating dropped every single year as they race the exact same cars with exact same engines etc it’s just sooooo boring just one race with these GTRs and it’s known as some of the best racing in history
And hes me being laughed at in1984 when i told a V8 head that the V8s race days were numbered, i said tech is just around the corner and look what happened Sierra then the Skyline
Yeah Godzilla was a beast of a car consuming everything in its path, and what a pity that it was banned along with other turbo cars in favor of the V8 family sedans. I'm gonna now watch Jump by Van Halen, I have to get that dirty knock off out of my head, I feel nauseous from it.
Steve Johnson, Australia kept Group A Racing going until the end of 1992, 2 years after Germany gave Grp A the flick, this is an established fact. It was the FIA that abolished turbos in Group A Racing, Australia/CAMS didn't act unilaterally on that. It wasn't really the GTR that saw the demise of Group A, it was just the straw that broke the camel's back. The real problem was the dominance of the Ford Sierra RS500 in Europe......chiefly Germany and Britian. 3/4's of the field in the BTCC and the German TCC were Sierras. Did the GTR lay Australian tracks to waste in Group A? Yeah they did. But so did Johnson and Bowe before them in Sierras. As did Andy Rouse did in Britain in a Sierra......and the Texaco Sierras did in Germany
Both Germany and Britain gave group A the flick at the end of 1990, that's just the way it happened. Australian Motor Racing Fan's unwillingness to adopt Group A racing, had nothing to do with that. The close racing the FIA told motor racing fans that Group A would provide, never materialised. The dominance of the Ford Sierra in Britian and Germany effectively killed Group A Racing. In 1989 in the BTCC, literally every car on the grid was a Sierra. It's also true that CAMS in Australia persisted with Group A 2 years after Britain and Germany killed it off. Australian bogan motor racing fans had nothing to do with CAMS giving Group A the flick, that's ignorant, errant nonsense. CAMS simply followed suit by killing it off.....just like Britain and Germany did two years earlier
Some people like Ric Wood in England haven't forgotten. ua-cam.com/video/nMmFs9bLL8I/v-deo.html The R32 GTR Calsonic Replica race car that he built was in the top 10 fastest cars of All time at this year's 2020Goodwood Speedweek Timed Shootout, beating Le Mans Prototypes, Euro Nascars and Formula 1 monsters!
What an awesome car the GTR was and still is, however it was never a wise decision to compete it against the v8s of the time. The AWD and high tech v6 twin turbo was never going to make this a fair contest which is why they got banned. The v8s were great in their own way and sound awesome. Clearly if the GTR continued the situation probably would have got worse and the fans would have left in the droves. Obviously the powers that be at the time understood that critical point and accepted the unfair advantage of the GTR. Dial the turbo up and you have as much grunt as you need. Simples.
when the gtr was designed the turbo multiplication factor was 1.7... meaning it equated the 2.6 to 4.4 Lt.. really they should have also limited boost to around 10 psi.. instead they were running anywhere from 17 to 27 bar ... this approximates to 5.7 to 7.5 Lt equivelancy factor.. for more competative racing the boost on the nissan needed to be way reduced.. and then varied to get fairer racing
This car showed how jealous the Australian public were of this awesome car. They banned it after 2 years of domination. They whinged about its 4WD and how it rendered Holden and Ford obsolete. An absolute engineering marvels. This car and the team under Fred Gibson were first class professionals and fans hated them for it.
Correct my friend because of jealousy the haters will always hate because they're jealous.
1990 's.
Nissan is by Group A. Toyota is in WRC. Honda is by Formula One. Mazda is in Le Mans.
Subaru and Mitsubishi are also in WRC.
A champion was a Japanese car.
@Andy KA with their r32 aswell
@Andy KA Oh yeah youre right. Sorry for false claims hah. I was thinking about the gt500 one😬
Well said by all, JDM' s time for sure.👍
@Andy KA R32 did participate in endurance races though, and dominated as well.
How is Mazda le mans? They won once and lucked into it, thier car wasn't fast it was loud and disturbing.
'Godzilla' was an absolute monarchy in Australia!
That's why she only toured here very briefly, before being completely banished from Oz Motorsport due to her unmistakably devastating performance.. She's still, even to this day, one of the properly fast!
I💚U r32!
Wonder when it'll qualify for TCM ? :)
@@PiDsPagePrototypes A long while! Hopefully they will let the Nissan Bluebird turbo into TCM soon, it's more or less meeting the age criteria now that VB Commdores and XD Falcons are racing. But TCM seems to be rather V8 centric -- hopefully the TCM rule makers aren't anti-turbo...
@@TassieLorenzo - hope so too.
The Bluebirds were an under rated weapon, same goes with Longhurst in the M3
Imagine if Ford and Holden had adapted instead of complaining, where the Falcon and Commodore would be today.
Not to mention the possibility of later model Skylines being sold at Dealerships in Aus.
Agreed, imagine if Ford focused on the 4.0l Inline Six to combat the RB engine.
We have the Barra it will match any inline 6
Well said!!
@@blumie006 The Barra came out 20(?) years after this.
This is the era of the EA/EB Falcon with the issue filled 3.9 and then the 4.0.
The 3.9 had no more power or torque then the Valiant's Slant Six in the '60's.
From the 4.0, through the F6 motors, and then the Barra, Ford Australia developed something special, but the US management tried and eventually got rid of Ford Aus production.
Would've been cool to have the Mitsubishi GTO/3000gt in there too lol,over shadowed by the Evo
The Nissan white Red blue livery is amazing
Si hacemos memoria esos colores le han dado tantas victorias a nissan, con el zx cunningham de Steve millen, con el r90 y 92 cp, co los 180 sx en imsa, es algo a tener en cuenta, tal vez si los r390 gtr de 1998 hubieras salido con esos colores hubieran tenido un poco más de fortuna, pero un tercer lugar no está tan mal, es la kabala de nissan.
Old comment, but I agree. That's iconic, I still picture the R32 in that livery.
It came from Datsun 510
LOOOOOOOOL the Australians 'changed the rules ' to stop the GTR from comminting motorsport genocide against the Australian car market
Joseph Elias we had to, they were way too op. But it was Japan that was hurt the most, in their all Japan gt championship the r32's went undefeated in 4 seasons. Winning 29 races from 29 starts. Even in these videos you could see the r32's had unmatched reliability, acceleration, braking and cornering and were unbeatable in the wet.
group a was also coming to an end with europe going down a 2 litre path and we never hear about how the europeans changed the rules. Ford was racing the sierra rs500 at the time and not a v8 falcon. So we had the option of going down the 2 litre path like europe or the v8 formula which has been extremely successful in attracting crowds to events and entrants.
@@carisi2k11 Not exactly ! Mostly the rules changed to ban Japaneses brands from victories! And simply sometimes there was no rules changed and just a ban ! The R32 was banned from Australian racing because of It's amazing AWD SYSTEM the famous ATTESA ET-S ! A good excuses to put out Nissan which was grabing almost all the victories in the seasons ! Mazda banned Rotary engine from LeMans 24h again because other brands complaints ! In WRC in the era of 2L 4WD, they changed rules and displacements to cut off the 10 years victories of Toyota Subaru and Mitsubishi !
You AMERICANIZED people dont know how to lose.. v8s? V8 my ass
Which lead to the downturn of the Australian built car market. Instead of rising to the challenge.
Man, I forgot about the moving interior on-board cams, tracking the other cars on the overtakes. Good to watch.
Better than anything you see today
So amazing, never seen footage this age this good
Fred Gibson Motorsport brought Nissan Motorsport to the world. They almost won the championship in the R31. That's how good Fred's team was. (Jim Richards and Mark Skaife were talents no doubt too.)
Well they did win with the 31, 6 of the 8 races that year were in the 31.
"The enormous power of the GTR"
8:58 holy shit that is some quick and slick manual shifting!
GTR ...What a year.
Holy shit that is really scary, the other cars never had a chance.
Thats why it was banned.
They were cheating with turbo computer chips to give 1000 horsepowers
@@ArtVandelayOfficial How can it cheat is only 2,6litre engine turbocharged engine but V8 bigger engine over 5 litres engine.
@@ArtVandelayOfficial most it ran was 600hp. stop pulling bullshit out of your arse.
The 91 Gibson gtr is my most favourite car in the history of cars
Beautiful race car..I was A Vl Walkinshaw fan,but this Nissan was a weapon
Loved the nostalgic video. Had an R32 GTR from 1993 to 1999. Nothing new at the time even came close 🎉
my favourite nissan of all time
I was enthralled at the GTR's abilities as a teenager. At the time, Bathurst was a production car race, it was several races in one with the different classes. Anyone who watched could see the potential of their favourite car, from the NA four banger corollas to the eternal kings of the mountain, the GTRs.
The irony is that there was already an AWD turbo car in that race, it had a ford badge on it, and was allowed to race...........even though it was never available in the Aussie market. The fact that the Japanese had engineered a production car that could spank everything, and did so very reliably, should have been the catalyst for domestic car improvement and a glimpse into the trend of technology vs the old formula of more cylinders/displacement. When they banned these cars I tuned out, I have never watched the V8 'stupidcars' as it is an insult to the intelligence of anyone with a triple digit IQ.
End of rant..............flame away low tech bent 8 fanboys
and the truth is that the Holdens were a lot further away from the road car than the GTR was, with Chevy engines moved way back in the engine bay.
If i were you, id get into watching the Supercars. Forget that they are token holden and fords, now other makes as well. They share nothing with the road cars, they are bespoke race cars and the racing is epic. The development of the cars is very advanced. If you ever spoke to some of the people involved in the engineering and manufacture of the cars, it just gives you more appreciation.
They are far more wild than F1, way more cut and thrust and the race atmosphere is fantastic.
TRUE
the insane ramblings of a self proclaimed 3-digit IQ … yea cos all other race series in the world run factory road cars... you're basically stating you have no real interest in motorsport or put any thought about the financial viability of our tiny manufacturers doing fuckton of R&D to produce niche AWD sports cars let alone anything else 'revolutionary', how stupid! This 'trend of technology' hasn't really improved since the 2000's so I don't even know what you're talking about - and EVERYONE drives in shitbox SUVs anyway which drive like shit in every way, cost a fortune and have terrible fuel consumption (look at new car sales figures, it's fucked). by the way actual motorsport fans would have V8 'stupidcars' as one of the most respected series right next to WRC and F1 in the world as one of the last series in the world to have good 'driver racing' with hauling heavy ass cars with no driver aids, little power steering, clutch on downshifts (these shit on Eurocentric GT series like Blancpain imo).
Your loss.
Nissan Japan freaked out how fast the Australian developed R32 was. I don't think they were allowed to race in Japan because it would have embarrassed all their countries R32s, which were winning everything at the time.
R32 GT-R is still popular in Japan!
They sound so good. These guys had to have had some of the first screaming RBs in the world
This shows the power of all wheel drive vs rear wheel drive.
This car is such a classic. Body, engine, drive train. It's not perfect, but it's very special.
Simply the Best ! Good tech in the car and a awd system for any corner or straight. Love It forever.
How good was that grass pass from skafiey!!! Definitely worth it, for entertainment purposes
This car was weapon in its day
I miss those days
watching this has taken years off me, taa
Cuando nissan era un pura sangre.. Excelente.
2.4 ltr?
The r32’s were the best touring cars ever, but tony longhurst drove the best season in 91 against all those sierras and v8’s in his little m3, would have one any other year.
Best driver of 1991 in my books!!
GTRs had 2.6 engines from factory. Wouldn’t imagine they’d change displacement for these races.
2.4L was the initial displacement during the development of the R32 GT-R when the car was going to be RWD. This was changed to 2.6L after ATTESA-ETS was introduced to the car to combat the weight increase.
What a beautiful car❤️👍👏👏👏👏👏
Legendary car. Nuff said.
Great shot and action at 13:48. Wonder how the 4WD acts when too much rear brake bias is present......
1. Nissan
2. Nissan
Thats why they called it Godzilla
Back when cars didn't have to be on an even playing field.
Was up to the manufacturers to create the winning car, not complain about other cars being too fast -_-". This car did amazing things but also ruined Australian Motorsport. Aussie Companies & Fans didn't like Japanese Cars winning Aussie Races. Even though the Sierra's dominated the V8's for multiple years prior.
But it was an amazing vehicle and I will always love it. Cannot say that for every car that raced that it was banned entirely for being too fast and the competitors too slow.
@@Artecius92 That's because Australia is a racist country, even now. What utter boneheads booing one of the greatest cars over the line. Wouldn't happen anywhere else.
@@rudicon4u that's right mate. We're secretly racist, just gutless to admit it.
@@Artecius92 Because they are a bunch of sore loser excuses all the time just a straight banned.
@@Artecius92 V8s my ass outdated technology Japan is the most advanced technologies when it comes to cars and electronic.
Love this!
Geez this car is op! No wonder some country ban Skyline
Those were the days. Two decades ahead of the rest !! The R32's spawn the R35 is now bargain mega performance machine that defies physics and any other wannabes that get in its way :)
how good is the gtr ,great vid love seeing some of the old driver rivalries aswell
Jim Richards and Mark Skaif are literally playing forza on easy difficulty.
Godzilla is born. Simple as that.
that car was so good that it managed to make passes at Amaroo Park
it's such a damn shame that they banned the car, it's a real downer for GTR fans
lmao these dingos had to ban Godzilla because they were too scared to compete against it
GT-R: The Legend.
Godzilla.
Godzilla is even faster on dirt compare to other cars on tarmac. That bad-ass launch
Le Sigh,... Back when the racing was worth watching.
Imagine , banning the coolest car just because it's frickin fast.
They banned it because it was built to go fast from the ground up....2.6ltr...twin turbo.. Computer controlled 4wd...and 4ws...it was a super car destroyer.....and unfortunately it was unleashed into a world of " ordinary " cars...the sierra rs500 came with a2ltr twincam turbo 2wd...224bhp and a bit of downforce from the factory..and was born in the mid 80s....developed from a mundane saloon car....I know I've a stock 2dr sierra not even a cosworth. ...they're nothing compared to the skyline...a full generation of development went into it...that's just how it is...in road and race cars...
As a musician hearing that knock off of jump was pretty impressive
The R32’s were unstoppable in 1991 before they were penalised
There was also a promotional video uploaded a while ago that introduced the r32 Gibson GT-R and explained the technical details. Does anyone know where this is?
I bought my Nissan gt 2.5 de coupe m spec back in 2000 and I still have it sigh drive it to work every day, pity about the petrol prices these days
they are a lovely drive, wish I hadn't sold mine now; mind you, you have to watch them going out of roundabouts on wet days when the turbo spools up and flicks the tail out! thats when I would have liked the 4wd!
@@racketman2u
Yup even my 2.5 de can get tail happy on a wet day and it still has its original clutch
@@brettmciver432 Yes the Nissan GTR is a beast on the tracks.
A car so good they had to ban it.
@ 12.44 did he just say 6cylinder 2.4 litre engine?
My physio in Liverpool , Sydney (NSW) had a GTR Nissan in 1990 or ‘91 .
From memory it cost him $105,000.
RIP oran park 😢
The GTRs were brutal but the Sierra cosworth RS500 were right there with them and the 3 series BMW.wonder how thay would fair now a days against mustang and Camaros
That '31 at the start sounds mint
Yep love it, Jim now owns that car.
So this is why the R32 GT-R was called Godzilla.Cars in that race never had a chance against it lol
It's difference between war gear and fun toys
It was Wheels magazine that originally coined the term "Godzilla" for the R32 in one of their articles. The name, fittingly, stuck. In their day, they were a beast on & off the track.
They were that quick they changed the rules!
Because they are a bunch of sore losers.
6:46 just overtake on grass nothing unusual here
Nismo 4x4 power mate, can't beat it
The Godzilla was built to win, and win it did... EPIC CAR !!!!!!
lol on the music, make it sound like "Jump" but not really.
I love the knock off Van Halen song, what’s it called? Hop?
Only 80,000 Views in 5 years, Wow. I find this hard to believe, given the popularity of these cars now. This Documentary covering the history of the Domination of these cars in Australia Should be sparking a little bit of interest these days you would think. Unless, perhaps many people are still trying to Forget this embarassing period of auto racing History.
Godzilla gets banned!
What a shame, imagine how the others would have upped their game?
probably not at all because why would you go through all the R&D costs to develop a niche AWD turbo sports car and compete with a car that is already good at it's job?
Imagine if Fords and Holden didn’t complain Godzilla might still be racing today in Australia.
If Ford continued with Dick Johnsons XE Ford Falcon experiment with the Ford 250 crossflow motor that was being developed, perhaps it could've been spectacular. It was an inline 6 turbo being trialed, however it did not proceed as Ford did not believe adding a turbo was the way forward, but V8 was far superior. I wonder if Dick ever asked them "how does that humble pie taste.......?" when the turbo vehicles arrived and the GODzilla kicked arse
Because they are a bunch of sore losers.
What is the music played from 0:42 onwards?? :-) Thanks!
A complete rip off of "Jump" by Van Halen... just listen to the original haha....
Get yo ass back in the kitchen!
Western car companies don't let Nissan be number one. Japanese manufacturers can easily bankrupt them I think.
haha Nissan almost went bankrupt, and was rescued by a merger with Renault.
@@kit266022 no, this was years ago, Ghosn was appointed at the time of the Nissan Renault merger.
Unforgettable weapon 😂😂💪👍
Japanese cars in Australia at that time were just not appreciated and well liked like they are today. I remember most people actually hated them and the banning of the cars were widely supported by the fans.
Steve Lee that’s not actually true. The R32 had a lot of fans. The Sierras were the real beginning of the end. The R32 just made it a certainty. Knife in a fist fight.
True to a point, hence why Jimmy Richards gave the two fingers salute to all the haters.
@@EVOETR1 Because they are V8 fan's and jealous can't handle the losing .
18年前なのに画質いい と思ったらOPだけは16:9だったｗ
I owned one, best car ever!
any one know the colour codes for the red and blue gtr?
You mean the car in the race? Or original color when they came out?
Ar_Ai_Ayy Ar_Ai_Zek race car
In 1984 i was laughed at when i said V8s time will soon be over due to engine tech, then banned Jaguar V12, 1st was the Sierra 1988 hello R32,
even since 1991 race time is only 6mins faster over 1,000 km
Nismo Power💪
It sounds like a remix of van halen jump
Yeah hahaha, how blatant can you be....
When you buy a karaoke cd but they dont have copyright to the original songs.
LOL at the Van Halen Jump rip off music
Do we forget the Datsun of George's back few years earlier?
Loved this UNTIL i heard @12:40 into the clip: straight six, two point FOUR!? Litre engine.. commooon..
Originally the GT-R was going to be a twin turbo 2.4L and compete in the 4L class, but they decided it would not be competitive, so increased the displacement to 2.6l and competed in the 4.5L class.
Probably got their stats from when it was still in the design phase.
Yet it cleary says RB26 on the rocker cover 🤣
11:58 Nice lappy Skaifee.. sort sort of IBM bullshit I'm presume...
funny how there was no mention of Richards blowing up at oran park, that girls and boys is why he is not in the results the roar from the oran park crowd was deafening, I think even the Nissan fans roared , im sure jim can still hear it at night when its really quiet , they were the most hated car ever but they were without doubt the most advanced thing to hit our shores ,
With Ford and Holden not manufacting in Australia we should go down the tecnology road like the GTR. Good proving ground to introduce to family cars like the AWD giving safer cars for our roads because the 2 Aussie manufacturers we're never going to give us the safe cars that imported one's give and they wonder why Aussies stopping buying them. It's because Australians knew they could be safer than in a Falcon or Commodore.
The GTR won cuz of the AWD systems and the turbo,making the car will hit the top speed faster.Also the skyline is AWD so they are every grippy and quick in the corners.The skyline’s top speed is just 180kmh but these assholes banned it by “eW cHeAtER111!!1!!”
@@initialdoge8528 because they a bunch of sore loser.
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reminds me of the opening of full house lol
so Aussie V8 supercars is now not aussie, it is American and European cars
If they kept these sort of cars race each other it would be a million times more successful and they wonder why there rating dropped every single year as they race the exact same cars with exact same engines etc it’s just sooooo boring just one race with these GTRs and it’s known as some of the best racing in history
Rip Godzilla
And hes me being laughed at in1984 when i told a V8 head that the V8s race days were numbered, i said tech is just around the corner and look what happened Sierra then the Skyline
0:35 Nissan-approved knockoff "Jump" by Van Halen. Doubt anyone's ever said that before
Good to see Holden and Ford have stuck around....😃
Unfortunately not for much longer
They weren't that much quicker down the straight, but they went round corners like they were on rails. Just shows you how pi$$ poor the v8's were.
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Just wondering how the Audi V8 DTM would fare against the Nissan GT-R R32...
Yeah Godzilla was a beast of a car consuming everything in its path, and what a pity that it was banned along with other turbo cars in favor of the V8 family sedans. I'm gonna now watch Jump by Van Halen, I have to get that dirty knock off out of my head, I feel nauseous from it.
Steve Johnson, Australia kept Group A Racing going until the end of 1992, 2 years after Germany gave Grp A the flick, this is an established fact. It was the FIA that abolished turbos in Group A Racing, Australia/CAMS didn't act unilaterally on that. It wasn't really the GTR that saw the demise of Group A, it was just the straw that broke the camel's back. The real problem was the dominance of the Ford Sierra RS500 in Europe......chiefly Germany and Britian. 3/4's of the field in the BTCC and the German TCC were Sierras. Did the GTR lay Australian tracks to waste in Group A? Yeah they did. But so did Johnson and Bowe before them in Sierras. As did Andy Rouse did in Britain in a Sierra......and the Texaco Sierras did in Germany
Both Germany and Britain gave group A the flick at the end of 1990, that's just the way it happened. Australian Motor Racing Fan's unwillingness to adopt Group A racing, had nothing to do with that. The close racing the FIA told motor racing fans that Group A would provide, never materialised. The dominance of the Ford Sierra in Britian and Germany effectively killed Group A Racing. In 1989 in the BTCC, literally every car on the grid was a Sierra. It's also true that CAMS in Australia persisted with Group A 2 years after Britain and Germany killed it off. Australian bogan motor racing fans had nothing to do with CAMS giving Group A the flick, that's ignorant, errant nonsense. CAMS simply followed suit by killing it off.....just like Britain and Germany did two years earlier
Some people like Ric Wood in England haven't forgotten. ua-cam.com/video/nMmFs9bLL8I/v-deo.html The R32 GTR Calsonic Replica race car that he built was in the top 10 fastest cars of All time at this year's 2020Goodwood Speedweek Timed Shootout, beating Le Mans Prototypes, Euro Nascars and Formula 1 monsters!
motor racing Australian style if holden and ford can't beat it you outlaw it
Insane footage! Could I use a clip from it in my Skyline review? Thanks!
Twelve dislikes from Ford Sierra fans.
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@12:42 - "Powered by a 6 cylinder, 2.4 litre engine..." - LOL!!
What an awesome car the GTR was and still is, however it was never a wise decision to compete it against the v8s of the time. The AWD and high tech v6 twin turbo was never going to make this a fair contest which is why they got banned. The v8s were great in their own way and sound awesome. Clearly if the GTR continued the situation probably would have got worse and the fans would have left in the droves. Obviously the powers that be at the time understood that critical point and accepted the unfair advantage of the GTR. Dial the turbo up and you have as much grunt as you need. Simples.
it only became "unfair" when Nissan proved that maybe cast-iron pushrod V8s weren't the ultimate!
Straight 6 twin cam....not v6....
when the gtr was designed the turbo multiplication factor was 1.7... meaning it equated the 2.6 to 4.4 Lt.. really they should have also limited boost to around 10 psi.. instead they were running anywhere from 17 to 27 bar ... this approximates to 5.7 to 7.5 Lt equivelancy factor..
for more competative racing the boost on the nissan needed to be way reduced.. and then varied to get fairer racing