THE CAR THAT DEVOURED THEM ALL! The Story of the Nissan R32 GTR 'GODZILLA'
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- Cars come and go, rulesets come and go too. But one car turned up in Australia and destroyed everyone so hard for three years they had to get rid of it and re-wrote the rule book to suit the 'home grown' cars in the series.
Turbocharged, four wheel drive, four wheel steering and utterly dominant. Dominating the already popular and fast Ford Sierra Cosworths. There's a reason they called it Godzilla!
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It never hurt that Jim Richards was driving Godzilla. That man was like a metronome on the race track, lap after lap he would be on the exact same line and the exact same speed. Rarely the outright quickest when I saw him but always the smoothest. Best driver I have ever seen on a racetrack in Australia (excluding the Grand Prix of course).
Say what you like, he is the best touring car driver to ever set foot in Australia. No one has ever been as adaptable, consistent, fast and with the longevity of Jim. The closest would probably be SVG, or Scotty Mac.
I mean. Jim drove everything and was competitive in everything. Targa? Won it. Touring Cars? Won everything. NASCAR/AUSCAR? Won. Super Tourers? Won that too. Carrera Cup? You bet.bAnd of course, many years of Touring Car Masters with huge success.
Peter Brock is the King of the Mountain, with Craig Lowndes the Prince. Larry Perkins is the Endurance Man. Glenn Seton the Baby-Faced Assassin, Dick Johnson was Tricky Dicky, and virtually owned Lakeside, but Jim was the King of Australian Tin Tops.
@formulafish1536 the irony that all those who you say came close to him were also kiwis.
Well said!
@@MurphysLawNZ Shhh when it suits they are aussies :D
like Russel Crowe
I’ve gotta say, Denny Hulme was such an underrated F1 champ. Tragic way to go yet fitting track to permanently retire at. RIP Denny. 🇳🇿
I think he’s the most forgotten F1 champion. I’ve run into a few people that think it was Brabham that won in 67
I think his attitude of wanting to be as far away from the limelight is why he's forgotten. There were 3 kiwis fighting at the top in f1 in the 60s, Bruce, Chris and Denny. Denny is the one most kiwi race fans haven't heard of yet he's our only f1 world champion. Every one knows the name McLaren, so many know of Amon thanks to being call the best driver not to win a Grand Prix. But Hulme is largely forgotten
110%
Still mad to think Bruce McLaren was never F1 champ. Imagine a fantasy 26-man F1 grid of non-champions? Moss, McLaren, Gilles Villeneuve, Ickx, Reutemann, Webber, Massa, Barrichello, DC, Irvine, Berger, Alesi, Patrese, Amon, Fisi, Trulli, McNish, von Trips etc etc.
"Godzilla" actually got its name from a local motoring magazine, "Wheels" who back in 1989 gave the car it's moniker on the front cover of its July issue before the car had even made it on to an Australian racetrack, and never has a name been more apt. As one of the few fans who had been following the Gibson Motor Sport Nissans since the days of the Bluebirds in 1982/83/84, Godzilla will always be my favourite Australian Touring Car. The ATCC was at its most exciting in the decade before the start of the Supercar era, it was ruined by the Ford v Holden battles we have been forced to endure for the last 30 years.
Didn't the Godzilla moniker sort of a sneer at first? Because it kept beating the Ford & Holdens
"You're all a pack of arseholes"....that to me is one of thr classic lines of all time
Didn't that become a t-shirt people bought the following year, I'm an arsehole???
@@JohnSmithShields likely. I am not an Aussie but I imagine that would sell
@@JohnSmithShieldsi believe it said something like “i’m an arsehole, Jim Richards told me so” haha 😂
As much as I like to chuckle, I also do not blame Jim for his outburst.
The crowd weren't even the biggest arseholes on that day.
That prize goes to Dick Johnson for stirring up the crowd the way that he did.
Dick's remark about being "beaten by a crashed car" reeked of unprofessionalism.
As a frequent visitor to the Australian Grand Prix when it was in Adelaide (helps that I live there lol), I saw the Aussie GT-R's first hand. Out of the final hairpin on the Adelaide Street Circuit, only the Formula One's and the Formula Holden's (both open wheel) were quicker than the GT-R. Their biggest strength was always the 4WD.
You should do a video on Zakspeed's Vipers on the Nurburgring in the early 2000s. Another car that was massively dominant for years with numerous attempts to nerf it.
I'd never heard of those until a brilliant video popped up in my feed about them.
Hearing that they were forced to run as V8s one year and still won was super interesting.
ua-cam.com/video/MGVL2Qksxyo/v-deo.htmlsi=Vc62HlLC-O9liSpQ
Part of the reason the podium got so rowdy was the track announcer. Back in those days the TV commentary wasn't broadcast around the track like it is today, the track had its own announcer commentating on the race. When the race was red flagged the idiot track announcer told everyone that Dick Johnson had won, so all the Ford fans flocked to the podium only to find out that wasn't true. That's why it got so out of hand.
I was there that that year with a group of mates, one of whom was clued up on racing rules and he suggested that as it had been red flagged the results would be wound back to previous laps. Of course he was right, but we clearly heard the track announcer say that DJ had won and he was doubtful that that was correct. We were legging it to the carpark to get the hell out of there (mostly because of the weather - as is well documented it was a doozy of a rainstorm and it caused total chaos) so we didn't witness the podium shenanigans. Confusion reigned, and as we were driving out we still didn't know who had officially won, but we watched it later when we got home and saw the podium. We all agreed we made the right decision to leave when we did. It didn't turn violent in the end, but it easily could have.
A friend's dad used to work at the Ford research plant at Dunton in Essex. His friend was head of a department and got a skyline "on appraisal" (to go and thrash and see what's worth nicking basically). He took my friend for a test "flight", they screeched to halt in front of me 10 minutes later, my friend falls out dizzy and your man looks at a 16 year old me and says "hop in, your turn"......... Needless to say I'm a complete petrol head ever since.
He was a bona fide race driver too, I'm still crapping myself all these years later.
Fun fact. During the 1990 Bathurst 100, the Nissan team did indeed have 4wd issues as mentioned in the video. They also had a test or "T" car on hand all weekend that was used in practice. So in order to fix the 4wd problems, they swapped all the body panels over to the T car. The TV network guys were especially annoyed since the Racecam onboard camera install had to be moved across too.
There was also a third GTR in the ATCC at the time, the GIO car primarily driven by Mark Gibbs with Rohan Onslow co-driving in the endurance races. It was also quite fast but had a tendency to fade as the races wore on.
The Group A era was absolutely the best years for Bathurst. BMWs, Jags, Sierras and the Nissans, all great stuff. I lost interest when the Supercar era came...
There were three Skylines running at the Silverstone Classic last year in a pre 93 touring car event.
They murdered the opposition.
IMO the car was the pinnacle of Group A design, as the class(as I remember) gave stairs of tire width per displacement of the engine, with a penalty given for turbo use. And the philosophy of R32 was like(if I'm correct):
1. R31 was bumped into a higher class with 10-inch tires by the turbo penalty
2. To better use the given traction, an AWD system was designed
3. AWD made the car too heavy to be competitive, so the engine was enlarged to increase the power
4. The enlarged engine bumped the car into an even higher class with 11-inch tires, an entire step of jump from before
To me, it was like the rocket equation of the relationship between payload and thrust: To increase payload, more thrust is needed. More thrust equals more fuel use so a bigger fuel tank is needed. A bigger fuel tank means an even higher payload so more thrust is added. The ongoing chase leads to an overgrown monster that leaps and jumps over anything before it. The creation of Godzilla was inevitable under the ruleset.
it was either going to be a gtr or escort cosworth honestly
The Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 also featured 4 wheel steering but it came out later in the year 1990. Japan during the 80s seemed to fully believe that 4 wheel steering or rear wheel steering was the future yet so many people ended up removing those systems from their cars to improve handling (or to go drifting).
4 wheel steering is something that have made a comeback in recent decade so i guess it is the future after all, Japanese was just too far ahead of the time. But you know, all Japanese sports cars that had 4 wheel steering back in late 80`s-90`s kinda beat other sports cars in terms of handling. Btw i had 3000GT VR4 few years ago, such a cool car.
@@kebabaluba Nice, the 3000GT VR4 is a car that deserves more love for being a great combination of looking good and being technologically advanced and forward thinking.
@@CyanRooper I miss my old VR4 badly
I worked (on a YTS - that will date me for anyone old enough to know what that was) at the factory that built the Sierra engines. The bosses pretty much all had Sierras (obviously every car in the carpark was a Ford). The lads on the shop floor were very proud of their jobs. They were great days!
Back in the day I owned an R32 Skyline GTS-25. Fantastic drivers car which felt absolutely glued to the road. That is until a friend of mine let me drive his R32 GT-R. Compared to it, my car felt like it could fly off the road at any given moment. Love the R32. To me it looks timeless. Like, if that car came out today and no one had seen it before, I think it would still wow people with how modern it looks.
Funny story regarding Gibson Motorsport that may be apocryphal. Back in the day when they were still running turbo Bluebirds (or they may have just switched to the first Skylines they ran), they tried to sign John Bowe, because their two current drivers (Mark Skaife and Glenn Seton) we're getting the results that Fred Gisbon wanted. So Bowe turns up to drive their car at a test, goes out and his times are just terrible. A couple seconds per lap slower than Skaife and Seton. So he comes back into the pits and basically tells Gibson "That car is undrivable. Your drivers must be supremely talented to get the times they are. You should pay them more."
Aiden, if you're reading this Glenn Seton would be an excellent addendum to your Unlucky Drivers list. Seton went on to drive Fords, but I don't know a single Holden fan that wouldn't have gladly given up a Holden Bathurst win to see him win it. Excellent driver. Won a couple touring car championships but never conquered Bathurst.
And if you're wondering, I was a GT-R and then Holden fan back in the day.
A brilliant car that is actually fondly remembered by most Aussie race fans. I watched that Bathurst race live and, well Jim Richards was right.
I personally think that the Sierra's and the Skyline were a bit before their time. There is still a lot of love for V8's here, but for roughly a couple of generations the average race fan and streetcar enthusiasts are a lot more open to different ways of going fast and making power happen.
Great vid btw.
last time i was this early beer cans were being thrown in Australia at a GTR
You might wish to consider T-Rex, a car that won one race at Charlotte. After it won, it was forever banned. Not sure it's a monster, but as Godzilla made the video, T-Rex might be a candidate. It even had Jurassic Park Livery.
Now there's a green Trex Porsche running around devouring racing drivers too
It's a damn shame that all entrants to V8 Supercars that have tried to compete in the two car GM and Ford show have been basically brushed aside and never could get proper footing as the third manufacturer. Nissan, Volvo, and Mercedes-Benz all tried and all ended up bowing out for some reason or another. Now Ford is stumping to drag someone into the series or they may bow out by the end of next season. It kind of draws a bit of a parallel to Honda in IndyCar atm, as they have been willing to help along a new manufacturer to ease the burden of engines it needs to supply only now weighing considerations to leave by 2026 if something isn't done about the costs. And in both cases, the one that seems to be holding both Ford Australia and HPD in America back is GM. Great video as always Aidan.
I think another cool car to talk about for this topic of dominant fast cars was the Penske Porsche RS Spyder LMP2. An LMP2 car so good that it could keep up and sometimes outrun the more powerful LMP1s. It also forced the officials to change the rules to make sure the LMP1s were the top class and to stop the LMP2 class from being overpriced to oblivion.
but if I recall LMP675 and then LMP2 was meant for privateers but it was never meant to be the slower class
The issue was really the Penske car was the only proper works LMP2 car.
3:47 thanks for that ‘funniest moment of today’ :)
Mine is the Authentic Milward Turbo Noise.
Never heard a Uk/english "SU-tu-tu-tu."
Cracked me right up!😂
If cars had intro 'walk down' music, 'Blue Oyster Cult's', 'Godzilla' would be most appropriate for this car.
I remember watching that infamous Bathurst of 92. The race wasn't about the Nissan's, as they were just so far in front. Reminds me a lot of the F1's this year, where it was just expected that Verstappen would win. At least the team mates were competitive with each other.
Gibson Motorsport did such an outstanding job that NISMO knocked back their request to race in the Fuji 500, citing their cars as simply being too fast.
There are videos of all the 1990/1991/1992 seasons on UA-cam as well. Makes for great watching, though the bias from the commentary team, especially Mike Raymond, against the GT-R's became more pronounced as the season wore on.
Gibson were the kings of “pushing” rules also… nismo intercoolers wrapped in Nissan packaging and various other things like they made the poppet valves test equipment.😂
Most Japanese sedans in the late 1980s had 4-wheel steering. You could buy a normal Mitsubishi Galant as a 4WD 4WS in the early 1990s. Mazda Xedos 9 and Honda Prelude still sported 4WS at the end of 1990s. Surprising how many 'gear heads' and 'motor heads' are ignorant of the fact these days.
fun fact, Nissan Japan were so scared of the Gibson GT-Rs that when they were invited to a race at Fuji. nissan blocked the gibson cars from racing as the competitiveness of the ATCC meant the car was developing at a much faster rate than the JGTC cars were and likely would've run rings around the factory GT-Rs. From memory they were invited to race at Macou and one of the other teams racing a GT-R wrote their one off and instead off trying to buy one of Nissan, they went straight to Gibson and offered i think a million for one of their cars, Been a while since i read it but there's a great issue of Motor celebrating 30 years of the R32 in Australia with a ton of behind the scenes infor from Gibson and Skaife on the ATCC cars as well as a deep dive on JUN II amongst other things
OMG, this video is awesome!!! Your sarcastic humor is absolutely great 👍 😂
While the Skyline winning Bathurst by a lap in 1991 is impressive, it's not even close to the biggest winning margin. In 1979, Peter Brock won by six laps.
They called him "King of the Mountain" for a reason.
I think the 4WD Audi A4 BTCC car would have been as dominant as the Nissan R32 GTR if TOCA didn't make the Audi heavier in 1997. That how the Group A rules were. If it was on the road car then you could have it on the race car too. The R32 was dominant in Japan too. That's why the JGTC/Super GT series was created. The R32 GTR won everything by a Distance.
29 out of 29.
That is the R32’s record in Japan.
Literally unbeatable!
The car that got the "Banned" title......because ford and other complain about the monstrosity....
What a name! Dick Johnson 😂😂😂😂😂 Absolutely hilarious!
For many years afterwards tshirts could be found in the crowd of Australian motorsport events proclaiming "I'm an asshole, Jim Richards told me so in '92"
Then when he won with Skaife a few years later he called them a pack of lovely people.
I always wondered why Nissan didn’t enter this car in Group A rally as well
They did and the Pulsar GTI-R wasn't particularly good or set the world on fire.
GT-R was too big, heavy, and engine was too large for Group A rallying.
The GTI-R was too slow and underdeveloped.
The Skyline GT-R was too big and heavy.
The Silvia was never considered.
Nissan lost interest in Group A rallying a year after debuting the GTI-R. Nissan switched focus to the F2000 category and used the Sunny GTI. This might be due to budget reasons, since they were also focusing on Le Mans and the R390.
It’s hilarious how nearly every time 4WD/AWD competes for a motorsport, it effectively dominates and gets banned almost immediately. Godzilla, the Trans-Am/IMSA Audis, even the Jeep Wagoneer that won the Press On Regardless Rally in 1972 that got AWD banned in the WRC until the 80s.
And weight has never been a proper handicap for AWD systems, considering how heavy those Jeeps were and still won. The driver even stopped before the finish to get it washed just for extra showboating.
When it comes to Nissan, it's the 300ZX Twin Turbo IMSA GTO for me :)
awesome video, fun fact Matt Neal raced one of these in the National Saloon Car Championship over here, prior to his arrival in the BTCC
due to the japanese gentleman's agreement. Which was broken at every turn, The GT-R was marked at 276bhp. As was the limit of horsepower the japanese companies agreed at. so that they wouldn't get into an extreme spending spree of competing. As well as easier for customers to insure.
Now these cars did not make 276bhp and made much more . When purchased at a nissan dealership they'd slip you a pamphlet on how to pop a seal that would generate much more horsepower. The speedos were also much under the limit. Only being at 180 KPH or 111 MPH. These cars made much more speed then 180 KPH. (also why you'll be difficult to find an R32 with a stock speedo and not a nismo or Mine's aftermarket speedo).
There's a lot of other wacky info of this time, but the 90s was a very interesting time for these sports cars.
GTR32,.....the purest and most beautiful skyline ever ❤
A R32 Skyline was entered in a support race at Bathurst in 2023, and it was SO fast and powerful, it was banned, again.
The car did ultimately crash in this race, but it has been banned and I understand has been put on display.
In the day I did the advertising for Nissan. Through RML I imported an R32, the first in the country I believe. Janspeed Who looked after the Nissan BTCC team sorted it for me. Unbelievable car. From memory, they did not use the four wheel steering in Aus….I bloody did. Love your vids, thank you.
Fun fact #1. The rules that the Australian Touring Car Championship ran under from 1993 was called Group 3A.
Fun Fact #2. The Gibson Motorsport Godzilla's were forbidden to race in Japan by Nissan. They were a lot more powerful than what the factory could come up with.
Fun Fact #3. Wynfield provided a budget of $6 million to Gibson Motorsport to ensure that they win as they wanted as much publicity as possible before cigarette sponsorship was banned. As such Gibson Motorsport would clearly have the biggest budget than any of the other teams that were racing in the ATCC at that time.
There's a certain group of people who shudder at the thought of anything besides a commodore or falcon even turning a lap around Bathurst.
Those people conveniently forget that Japanese cars raced in aussie touring cars before the commodore even existed.
Tony Longhurst was killing it in his M3. Every time he won he was given a 20 kg penalty. They wanted Holden V Ford and got it.
And last year they wanted a Holden winner and got it and this year wanted a GM winner and got it
Supercars is quite corrupt when you think about it.
Nah, yah dont need to grab my attention!
Aidan Milward F1/racing videos are some of my favorite things!
So, thank you, from the UsA, its been a long Monday, its a simple pleasure to have en Englishman assist my carguy nerdiness.
Hope it aint too cold wherever you are!
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your turbo sound killed me
Solid hat choice.
Nissan Skyline r33 GTR for ever ✌️🤘🇯🇵🇦🇺
You should have had Blue Oyster Cult’s “Godzilla” as your intro music to this video.😊
Or at least a smooth jazz rendition of it... 😂
Yukmouth had a song and album Godzilla almost 20 yrs ago.
Group A was peak touring car and rally car. Because it was not _THAT_ expensive, every manufacturer want to go make one. And because they have to make lots of road cars for homologation purpose, normal people can buy one.
I still want those Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione II but now they're asking GBP150-250k for one. At least the R32 GT-Rs, while expensive, is not as atrociously expensive as the Delta Integrale... and R34 GT-R.
thank you for the great vid, aidan! I have a video-idea that might be interresting: I stumbled over 1984, Laudas last title-winning season where he beat Prost by half a point. Curiously Lauda was usually seconds away from Prost in Qualifying and I was really wondering how he managed that.
Ooh sounds interesting 👍🏻
Lauda always set his car up for race pace whereas Prost (back then) used to set up his car for qualifying. So Prost used to have blistering one lap pace and therefore qualified higher whereas Lauda was slower but more consistent. Lauda also relied on his extensive experience on all of the tracks he raced on to pick his overtaking moments perfectly and he never fully went flat-out balls-out fast unless it was absolutely necessary. Lauda's clinical driving style (and Didier Pironi's career ending crash at the 1982 German Grand Prix where he crashed into the back of Prost's Renault) led to Prost to change his driving style and he became "The Professor" and ultimately became one of the most successful drivers in the history of the sport.
They would have had more of a challenge from Derek Warwick and Patrick Tambay, if the Renaults had been more reliable. The amount of times they were running in the top 3 in 1984 was huge, even leading races, only for the car to fail.
@@CyanRooper Great reply. But still would make for a good topic right?
@@broeretop1 Absolutely. Prost's growth from hotshot racer to the Professor is something that hardly gets talked about (well, Prost as a whole doesn't get talked about much except when it comes to his rivalry with Senna).
It was just a case of sour grapes. To rewrite the rule book was an act of childishness. I'm an Australian who really enjoyed the Aust.Touring Car Championship back then and to have the whole thing suddenly change was a kick in the arse. The whole idea of the championship was to allow any car sold here to enter , not be disqualified because it won races.
I think its time for a story on the Audi A4 BTCC car that Frank Beila drove
It was the most interesting time in racing and the ban was complete bs. Also, I notice there was not a single photo of a Holden in this video
of the fuw vids i have seen of the first v8s i remember a rs500 going down the inside of 1 at the chase corner at the batherst track with the v8 screaming and the ford passing it like it was nothing
R33 and r34 are the best modern cars ive ever driven
Don’t forget the 89 Mazda Mx6 gt had all wheel steer also! 😊
Had a pair of r32s (a gtr and a 4 door gts-2, which is rwd and 2.0 single turbo). You can't comprehend the handling, and the speed is ok (but you can't beat a police edition camero, in a straight line). The 2wd was so predictable in a drift (better than my rx-8 or m3) and an absolute sleeper for daily driving (looks like an accord). The gtr was a monster, purely stock, handles better and is way more fun to drive than my current carrera 4. The thought of getting ahold of a gtr that wasn't burdened with safety/environmental restrictions and having some open road/track to run it on is right up there in appeal with a Dormer/Johansson threesome.
I quote the "You're a pack of arseholes" line so much, I just enjoy it.
We Need A Story About The Chrysler Stratus That Raced In The North American Touring Car Championship Between 1996 And 1997
How about the story of Nissan/Datsun as a whole, the little company that could? Between the 240Z, 787B and R32 (plus the Nismo cars post-2000), they managed to blow away everyone despite being third in a two horse race in Japan.
Not necessarily on topic, but this video was the first one to prompt me to google if my country had its own touring car series, and they do, kinda... The USTCC is a thing apparently, but it's nothing like other touring car series with everything from Honda Civic and Prelude SI to Audi R8 and Chevy Corvettes on track at the same time in a multiclass format. There's even a Factory Five GTM kit car.
The 2nd gen Mazda RX7 (FC2) had passive rear wheel steering setting the rear hub in a rubber bushing and using suspension links to change the toe as the car rolled though corners.
There's a classic TV scene, during the Bathurst 1000 race, of Dick Johnson, in his RS500 Sierra, and Jim Richards, in His Skyline; both barreling up Mountain Straight. The in car TV camera is filming from Dick's passenger side, across Dick to record Jim Richards pull up alongside, both doing over 200km/h. And Jim just gives a little wave and overtakes Dick before the 2nd corner before the Cutting
Is that from the 1990 race? I remember Dick and his iconic in car commentary, he said "Jimmy's thing is really quick", or words to that effect.
I think Jim gave him a thumbs up.
I was on the mountain that day and along with mu brother witnessed Jim hit the wall on the way up the mountain before the crash that was on TV. By the time the race was red flagged the rain had stopped, all the remaining cars were on wets and lined up behind the safety car. Having said that Jim was right, the crowd below the podium were a "Pack of assholes"
Hello Aidan: The first model of the Skyline, looks exactly like a big version of the Ford Anglia. When I first heard that a Nissan had won Bathurst, I was incredulous, "What, a Nissan has won Bathurst!". Have a good day.
Back in the day when Australia ran it's own Group C touring car rules (not to be confused with Group C sports prototypes), Nissan ran the Nissan Bluebird Turbo and took pole in Bathurst qualifying in 1984. The time would stand as a record for the pre Caltex Chase version of the track. The car won a number of races with George Fury coming second in 1983 ATCC championship, but never won Bathurst.
@@alexjenner1108 Hello Alex: You know infinitely more about this than I do. Have good day.
The 4 wheel seering system on the Nissan was electronic-hydraulic while the Honda system was pure mechanical, a system beautifull by it's deciving simplicity.
Brock also trundled around in a M3 after his falling out with Holden
Ooo, 95.4k subs, not far now Mister.
This reminds me of the time Audi Quattros raced in the USA. There is a hilarious video about it in UA-cam :D "Secrets Of Speed: Unfair Advantage"
Stars......
Fred told me that when the R32 arrived, they were disappointed to find it had an inline 6 fitted (which would impact under-steer).
He was originally told it was to be fitted with a V6!
Im ganna be surper nit-picky here and say that, yes "skyline" and "GT-R" are interchangeable from the sales point of view, but the performance model, and every iteration after the R-32, are always distinctly GTR's. I say this because the GTR spec itself wasnt allowed for sale in some countries(USA included) and we got the skyline model rebadged as infinite. So for us watching on tv in countries that couldnt buy the GTR got to sit by and cry a little bit. 😅
The R31 entered selected rounds of the etc. Win Percy & Allan Grice.
One of my dream cars is the Nissan Stagea 260RS.
Basically a R33/34 Skyline GT-R (ie twin turbo, 4WD, 4 Wheel Steering etc) but with a 4 door estate body.
PS: Going by the flag in the background I assume that you are a proud Yam Yam, right?
These were later modified (briefly) into GT1 cars for the 1994 JGTC season. They were even faster and crazier there.
The biggest miss on the GTR was them never figuring out how to make the turbo go "screee", and the blow off go "ooonnggg"
Kudos for the pants on the radiator.
Like there did in the BTCC with the Audi when that arrived had 4wd if you not done a video on it then you should
The Super Touring Cars Must Group A Machinery As Well
Can't resist taking a dig at the 787b, eh?
When people stop pretending that it was banned for being too quick I'll stop the cheap shots.
Fact remains it wasn't the world beater people want to believe it was.
People say that it was this car that killed the ATC. It was the series that rolled over and killed itself. Holden and Ford Australia are dead now and for what? I would’ve rather seen them stick up a fight and die trying. Instead of evolve in to an overweight cab and become a completely unrelated and unimportant racing series.
On the topic of cars named after monsters, consider Jeff Gordon's 'T-Rex'. The experimental car, chassis number 2429, was set to run in the 1997 running of the Winston - an all-star race with a million dollar prize.
Despite a huge mistake in qualifying putting Gordon in the rear of the field, he proceeded to tear his way through the pack and took home a win in such convincing fashion that NASCAR banned it immediately. Wearing a bright red paint job to promote the movie "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", it quickly earned the nickname if T-Rex.
So the reason that thing is not valid in anyway is because it wasn’t built to comply with a rule book, I North America most rule book start out with this key sentence “ if it’s not in here you can’t do it “
Dick Johnson... what a name.
The R32 basically turn the top class of the JTC which is the JTC-1 into a GT-R One Make Race by 1992
They also call it God of War in Asia to commemorate the victories it achieved
Awesome video, Didn’t something similar happen with Audi entering the American touring car championship with the 90 Quattro that were dominant that the American series banned awd from then on?
In 1988 Audi entered a pair of 200 Quattros, run by Group 44, in the SCCA's Trans-Am series. The cars were hit with weight penalties during the season to slow them down, but they'd managed to dominate the early season so badly they were champions by the end. For 1989 Trans-AM banned four wheel drive and any non-domestic engines. Audi moved to IMSA's GTO division, where it dominated until outsmarting themselves with development parts that blew engines, giving the championship to Ford. After that, Audi concentrated on European racing
@@arthuralford yup they also missed the first two races of the season do to development was so late but was still like 6 months? Audi still won most of the races that season of IMSA.
Audi did this in SuperTouring as well as in Trans-Am and IMSA.
AWD race cars seem like they break a series.
@@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo they skipped the two endurance races at Daytona and Sebring for reliability. Most of the teams were used to do that actually: the Roush Racing's Mercury Cougars were using 6.2 V8s for the endurance races but for the usual 200-mile races of the IMSA GTO schedule they used the European-derived turbocharged inline-4 engines, very similar to the old Group 5 DRM Capris.
And history repeats itself too - the Godzilla 'replica' that was built the other year to go in classic touring car racing, upset a few people. I can see why, it did exactly the same trick as in 1990, and monstered the field.
In Australia they are very particular about historic race car classes like Group C and A as there really isn't anything else you can run them in and keep them original. Some asshole comes in with a Replica wort $$$$ and trashes your original worth $$$$$$$ it isnt really fair on the others and an unnecessary risk. Also to actually build a Gibson Replica would be a 7 figure investment as they were very different to the Japanese cars and were even asked not to compete in Japan as they were 2 seconds a lap faster I was told. Nismo had to save Face.
If you're talking about Brad Sherriffs car I see it's being enshrined in the museum. It certainly caused some controversy, but not because it wasn't a Holden or a Ford. Brad got into hot water with officials because Mount Panorama has a 300kmh speed restriction (imposed by the FIA) and he was regularly (and willfully) exceeding it by quite a lot down Conrod Straight. They were willing to let that slide because it was a short race and a great spectacle for the crowd but when the TV coverage showed slow motion pictures of the car lifting the rear wheel under braking into the Chase at well over 300kmh they deemed it unsafe (which it was really, that was a big crash waiting to happen). As it tuned out it didn't matter because the car went into the wall at Sulman shortly after and was out of the race.
It was blindingly fast in a straight line but was pretty unstable across the top due to not having much aero and being essentially a road car chassis with lots of flex, it was interesting to see it drive away from the MARC Mustang on the straights and then the Mustang would take absolute chunks out of its lead across the top and be on the bumper by Forrest Elbow. It was a great contrast between a very souped up road car vs a purpose built race car. Most of the front half of the field were Sports Sedans, all capable of exceeding the max speed allowed (but didn't, because they knew it would mean being DQ'd), but Mr Sherriff flouted that rule and consequently got into strife.
@@woopimagpie Sherrifs car was utterly mad. No one was prepared for what it could do.
Interesting how much Lotus input is in the R35.
@Aidan Millward you forgot that the zexel sponsored gtr won the spa 24hr in 92.
No I didn’t.
7:00 is a DR30 Skyline, not an R31 7:26 is the R31
What did Europe call the car we got in the US as the Merkur XR4TI? Amazing little cars. Little turbo 4 cylinder that could easily hold boost up to around 450 whp with just a stronger spring in the waste gate.
The Sierra.
Same way the Taurus is the Mondeo, the Escape is the Kuga and the Nissan Altima was the Primera.
@@AidanMillward The Mondeo is a twin of the US market Fusion, not the US market Taurus. The current Chinese market Taurus is derived from the Mondeo, however.
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 Yeah late 90's we got Taurus and mondeo here in australia. Taurus was terribly ugly.
Okay so I’m not sure if I’m just daft or if I’m missing something, but the R32 Group A car ran in JTCC and the Australian touring car championship and made well over 500 wheel horsepower, meanwhile the Mercedes and BMW cars than were under the same Group A rules in DTM tan around 300 horsepower? Are there different classes within Group A? I know the Group A WRC cars like the Evo and Delta integrale also ran similar hp figure (300s)
From what I’ve seen in JTCC vids, GTRs and Sierras ran in division 1, M3s in division 2 and Honda Civics in division 3, this is off top my head maybe someone else will reply with some more detail
There were different weight limits depending on engine capacity and a lot of races had classes/prizes for 0-1600cc, 1601-2500c and 2501 to 6000cc. The under 2500cc cars like the Alfa GTV6 and later on the BMW M3 and Mercedes 190E 16V could run at 960kg.
The car shouldn't have been in touring car racing. The GTR is for GT. Le Mans racing. Touring car racing is for regular car models that a jacked up a bit.
2:01 group 4? Am I right on that one?
Missed opportunity to put the 1954 Godzilla intro score into the video at some point.
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Are you allowed to use photo that a regular person has taken? I have pictures of Evo, Celica and Colin McRae WRX. They had a rally exhibition at the Toyota museum in Nagoya. Anyway I live in Japan and would hand over any pictures I have free if charge. I even have the 787b
Who else said it with him?