Mark Skaife technical feature on 1991 Bathurst 1000 winning Nissan GT-R R32
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2016
- Mark Skaife shows Michael Caruso around the car he drove to victory in the 1991 Bathurst 1000, the legendary Nissan GT-R R32.
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It came, it dominated...it got banned; the ultimate compliment to any race car.
It cheated with high boost, and had 4 times the money in parts compared to other cars. Watch the video it was far from dominating!! All it proves is most money wins!!!
It proves that innovation wins and shit boxes like commodores and falcons no longer exist.
@@spilmer1 its idiots like you that talk up a slow shitbox ricer, that always loses on the street, that killed holden and ford! Get a clue and some pride in your country.
Have fun in your 32 rb20 2 litre hairdressers car
@@samjohns5622 You okay mate? A lot of hostility. I wrote that comment over a year ago...you comment 4 hrs ago, then come back again to the same video, same comment 3&1/2hrs later? Honestly...are you okay? If your not, you can put it out there here...no one will know who you are anyway.😉👍
I was just reading how after the 1991 Bathurst Victory, the team were then set to take the race winning GT-R to the Fuji Speedway in Japan for the 1991 Fuji 500 race, but were asked not to do so by the head of NISMO in Japan.
The Japanese company were fearful that the Australian built car would easily outpace and defeat the Japanese GT-Rs at Fuji after having seen the speed of the Gibson built car at Bathurst.
NISMO claimed that it would be bad for business for their own factory backed cars, as well as those of their customers, to be soundly beaten by an overseas built (although still factory backed) GT-R.
Gibson Motorsport were in a league of their own in the early to mid 90’s.
I believe Holden also considered making GMS their official factory team if Walkinshaws team didn’t start to match or better the results of GMS but then with the demise of Cigarette sponsorship and HRT’s signing of Lowndes, it never eventuated.
I could listen to skaifey go on like this for hours...
Same
Same
Ross Mitchell same.
Same
and he never said 'watch for the crisscross'
Won in 1991 and 1992.....
Instantly killed by rule changes.
What were the rules after 1992? Did Nissan race at all ?
@@hansolo6827 I think it was a massive weight penalty given to the GTR, ballast weights to slow the car down
yea. look at it now. both holden and ford talk cry about parity. back then they just banned the turbos and went to just v8s.
@@shadowvella5719 they also banned AWD and AWD steering as well, Nissan brought a machine gun to a knife fight....☠️
@@hansolo6827 Group A fell over internationally and every country adopted their own regulations. We took the V8 formula which became V8 Supercars.
It's awesome to see how much Skaife praises this car... Crazy how this car was ahead of its time.
Yep i get chill just thinking how good this car and how dominant this car was & controversial due the the horsepower & 4WD & steer. Made Dick Johnson very mad. The development of this car was so advanced.
I love how he knows so much tech about the car. Most drivers these days are just jump in drive guys.
@@SirDaffyD that's why he was so successful, not only for Holden, but Nissan as well. Knew the car he was driving, studied it and pushed it to it's limits. Knew where he could find time if certain things where tweaked on the car setup
It was designed to be like the Porsche 959, except more advanced & aerodynamic.
Porsche developed the 959 & sold it at a loss.
The price they charged for the 959 was half of what it costed to develop one.
The R32 GTR had a significantly more powerful engine than the 959, it was actually a 500hp motor that was heavily detuned for the street veer the ECU, Exhaust & one other area - can't remember which.
But it was a rather radical car for a Group A & took a tremendous amount of racing victories.
@@brantleyfoster021
959 was designed for group B rally and also entered in Dakar, where engine longevity was more important that ultimate horsepower..(engine detuned to 400 hp.)...959 - 2.8L engine was developed from Porsche 956 / 962's Group C and can easily give 680 hp at 1.4 bar (versus 959's 0.9 bar)..
I think Skaife says they ran R32 at 1.8 bar boost for 700 hp?
I love how passionately he spoke about the car, you can see just how much it meant to him.
Car is immaculate. Hats off to the current owner/s. Very impressive.
Awesome to see how passionate Skaife is over the car, still. Shows where the real interest is.
The amount i've seen him and this car together makes me think he owns it.
Without a doubt, the best Group A car ever made. Utterly brilliant.
I saw it in action at Oran Park during the 1991 ATCC season. It came down through the dipper, left onto the main straight and disappeared like it had been fired out of a slingshot.
DJShotty I was at the lakeside round the same year as a 7 year old. I still remember Jim Richards going past me like a fighter jet. After a few laps it seemed like an eternity before the rest of the field came through.
Mark Skaife is a legend!
full feature on this car with skaife/richards/gibson commenting please Nissan. Some footage of it being driven on a track would be awesome too.
The car that single handedly changed Australian motorsport , that good they had to create a complete new series to stop it .
I'm a mopar man but that car is in my top 10 dream cars. Such a beautiful shape and design simple yet purposefully engineered to absolutly decimate the competition. And it did just at the mountain. Twice.
It didnt absolutly dominate. You fanboys are hilarious. Skaife didnt even finish in the same car! Unreliable pos. And brock was on his hammer the whole time. But what u gunna do when nissan had literally 4x the budget. Most money wins, thats all
@@samjohns5622 it dominated. Got alot of flak for technically advanced and yes while it did have a big budget, anybody could use the same resources that nissan used. Just like the dodge daytona and Plymouth superbird they got penalised so much that nascar rewrote the rule books for the 71 season essentially killing what any other manufacturers could but fraud gm an co couldn't afford it. So an icon of an was stopped by bureaucracy and politics
@@samjohns5622 stop sooking , your dinosaur v8s got flogged by this and the 4 banger Sierra
Theres a part on bathurst named skyline. Because you see the sky. Nissan obviously named there new car after the track and launched it at bathurst, coz to sell cars u had to win motorsport. Nissan did a deal and was never gun lose. It wall all a campaign tp sell foreign cars. Which untill paul walker, did not sell because we were patriots
Skaifey really is a aussie racing legend!.. one of our all time greats, a living monument to Australian motorsport
Good point and I agree. Far cry from the direction woo woo brocky went with his energy polariser and ugly Vl director. Skaifey has been underrated by the Aussie fans for far too long.
Just bought be a stock standard r32gtr now I can say my dream accomplished. Skaife you’re a hero to Aussie car racing next to Brock.
What a car! I had to pull out my die cast replica and have a play! lol
Just awesome...............What a legendary car the R32 GTR is, big respect.
I've owned a lot of cars over the years. Fords and Holdens, V8s etc but nothing compares to my GTR for pure exhilaration each time I drive it. I dont put the boot in to it too often and have never thrashed it, no need, the sound of the twin turbos kicking in is just so sweet, its incredible to think its all coming from just 2.6 ltrs.
met a bloke who use to race in the bathurst back in 91, dunno his name, was just as random convo at autobahn. He bought himself a r32 gtr after retiring
Sobe Sao because they’re cheap and parts are everywhere. Well, they were cheap... they’ve inflated massively in the last 5 years.
We're just getting our hands on them here in the U.S., due to the 25 year import law on foreign cars. I'm saving my pennies for a '93.www.hemmings.com/blog/2016/12/02/petition-asks-the-federal-government-to-drop-25-year-import-rule-to-10-years/
@@Buccaneer9 Land of Free..USA USA LOL yeah Freely overregulated ! land of the free?? What a con like your Fknuckle President Tramp
I call bull... where’s the proof?
Just imagine how much faster the holdens would have been now if they where made to suck up a concrete pill and stop winging like girls..
They tried but they accidentally stuck it up their arse and just talked shit.
ford complained 10 times worse than holden
Holden made some awd monaros, they could of put twin turbos on that! And there was a ford falcon back in the day that was awd too. V8s are nice and all but when you slap some spooly Bois on
id reckon the skaifes vx would smash it.
This car needs to be in a Museum
the winfield car is, so no need to have 2
Yoshisuke Aikawa we thank you and owe you so much for giving us nissan
So good, so competitive, even unfair ballast couldn't stop it.
You can tell Skaife loves this car just the way he talks about it and smiles knows it's in and outs it's little thing that make it unique
This was and still is my favourite atcc car. My father owned a 200b sx and dreamed of him upgrading to the road going version of this, unfortunately it never happened. However I stuck with Mark Skaife and enjoyed his successes. Damn I’d still love to own a 91 GTR
An absolute work of art.
I am literally overjoyed at seeing this. This brings back so many memories. I don't watch any Australian car racing these days, because it has no relevance to what you can buy, and I haven't watched it for the better part of 30 years now.
I stopped watching in 93...it was just Yawn boring..F&H had any and all competition banned...You could almost see the Steam coming out of Brocky's ears when his mighty V8 Commodore got passed by a Lil M3 on some circuits and he could do nothing about it...Realistically the days of the V8 Family Car's were over in the ATCC...so F&H wouldn't have it so created a 2 make/brand race as their whole sales campaign was based on...Winning on Sunday...Selling on Monday...Didn't work out well for them did it. And what have we got left with in 2023?...Damn Yankie Nascar basically
@@23yearsand76 Group A was great. You could see the actual cars that raced, and buy the street version of that direct car. What they ended up with was crap, and they dont even sell a falcon or commodore, and havent for years. The entire Aussie manufacturing landscape is gone, and not to mention the complete and utter lack of anything remotely connected to racing cars. How could it, when they dont even sell the products any more? (Or do they? I havent looked at anything for years now, and I only buy Japanese cars for their reliability).
Cool to see how skaife was and still is so keen on the nissan, not just another car he drove during his career.
It was that good, they banned it. Instead of progressing we regressed.
Group A fell over internationally. It never was banned and if you wanna say it was banned well then we can all say the Turbo Sierras were banned too. Each country made their own race category and Nissan was welcome to join but they needed to put a V8 in a sedan but they chose not to
@@sparkdestroyer3184 oh come on....Ford and Holden had it banned because they couldnt build something competitive...F and H lived by the "Win on Sunday...Sell on Monday" philosophy and marketing.
@@justaname1862 they could have competed but they would have lost their Ford and holden DNA.. better just to ban... even then supercars were looking ahead to the future and what brand they wanted to be.. as good as the skyline was it didn't fit the strategic goals of the organization.. easier to remove 1 car than rebrand, redirect and re work your objectives... it had nothing to with jealousy or or not being able to compete... the skyline was threatening to change the sport... I'm glad they got rid of it because of all the Ford v holden moments we have had since then...
This video is about an hour too short I reckon. Very interesting
Gozilla the king for ever ❤️🏁
what i find funny about racing is that as soon as something quick and different rocks up they ban it, r32 was banned here after it DECIMATED, the 787b was banned after it flogged le mans and that thing was a tiny light engine compared to its competition. You cant advance technology if things get banned for being better than the competition
Rotaries weren't banned at Le Mans because they had any sort of advantage, is a common myth that isn't true.
So what were the regulations after 92? Did Nissan race after 92 at all?
@@hansolo6827 the regulations basically stated that Class A cars (the precursor to V8 Supercars) had to be Australia-made 5.0-litre V8's, however the bigger teams used American engines ironically. Nissan didn't enter the Australian touring car scene again until 2013 with the Altima
@@mr8I7 100%. There is so much shit about the Mazda 787b spouted by people who are ignorant of facts. In the main era of Group C it was an also ran, it was not close to fast enough to compete at the front. It won when the competition was not what it was and was handicapped. A 1 race victory car that is elevated because of a computer game. It also sound crap after 30 minutes, just a noise and I know because I was there.
@@housey4297 get some taste, you uncultured swine.
Love Shaife's enthusiasm. Second to none.
You can tell how much passion Skaifey has for this stuff.
They really lost the plot when they stopped using actual production cars.
thats when l stopped following it
it was so much more fun to watch when all the models of cars were so different in different ways, sierras toranas big falcons and commodores minis cortinas etc etc
@@bjorn1583 thats when i stopped following it as well......Until the new Liqui Moli 12hr in Feb...its more like ATCC...and guess who is always up the front?...a GTR...and never a Commodore or Falcon.
Awesome car and the reason I had to have one. The original V8 Killer. The true Godzilla. Skaife and Richards,legends.
You're forgetting the RX7's in 1984. They did a great job for their time
Greg Whitbread until the Godzilla Zilla beat the V8s and sierras too
It still is, if they updated it with new technology & ran it at full boost; it would pose a serious threat to current V8 Supercars.
They never ran it at it's full potential, but they didn't need to in order to win.
Arghhh, they were killed way before then. Jag V12/BMW 635CSi in '85, Volvo 240T in '86 ATCC and E30 M3 and Sierra in '87 (ATCC and Bathurst). The V8 Commodore was struggling to be competitive all throughout the Group A era (the V8 Ford Mustang only lasted two seasons).
The original V8 killer was actually the Z18ET Nissan Bluebird which got pole driven by George Fury in Bathurst 1984. Beat all the V8s and set the group C lap record in the process at 2 min 13.85 sec
Beautiful statement, Mark Skaife team effort, it was crazy that car
This is great. Two racing LEGENDS...Skaife and the R32 GT-R. I could watch Mark Skaife talk about this car, all day.
Want more! Great technical insights there Mark, would be good for a 30 min run down showing some more details, such as adapting the gear box to engine, the rear diff etc.
Lateral thinking at it's finest. Aussies built the fastest Group A Nissan GTR's and Group A Ford Seirras in the world when Group A was at its peak.
When nissan knew how to make cars...
Check Mate they still do.
Check Mate , still do 2.
What cars?
Cant say any of the gtrs are shit.. Even the new one is a weapon to drive!
That's right, but the new one is more computer controlled than anything.
I am never get sick of the R32 shape and stance it is lethal!
& the competition against the old shutting down the new...is all around us even today
Amazing video and history. What a car
This is the car that made me fall in love with motorsport, and still makes me love it today
I still marvel at how awesome that car was and still is
Awesome piece of engineering.
Such a great car. :) definitely a big part of the history book with Bathurst this one :)
What a car and what a team 🙇♂️
Between this and top spec R35 GTR? I'll take this monster any day.
I love race cars like this. the way everything looks, pretty high tech for such an old car now.
Untimate race car even for 2021. Banned? That's a compliment really. The feather in the cap so to speak. Mark's technical tour was amazing.
I love the r32 GTR, it paved the way for my favourite car the r34 GTR
Just a beautiful car👏👏👏👏❤️
One word... beautiful. Nuf said.
I love that area what a time and I got to see it live in qualifying trim and race trim what a beast, it sounded amazing bang!! through the gears
That car is such a legend.
This car was a landmark is NISSAN history & the love people back then & now have for NISSAN GTR'S The history the legendary NISSAN SKYLINE GTR
Beautiful piece of machinery
Clearly his favorite racing car. Mine too along with the '97 Subaru WRC. . Would love to have one in the garage.
One of the best racecars in motor racing history!
Awesome nissan and Driver's 👍💚
A stunning weapon of the time. Still formidable.
Legend skaifey
This is literally the coolest gtr ever
25+ years later and I still miss the GTR, the ultimate Group A Touring car. And in the 1991 livery it looked sensational as well.
Wow. What a car and great vid.
Even up to todays standards, this car still kills!
Could you release a longer version of this? This car was such a game changer back in the day. Still eclipses everything out and about in the field of modern V8SC equipment.
The Original Godzilla!!!! Mark Skaife is a champ.
All that power and almost no downforce. Madness.
Never liked skaife growing up as a falcon boy, but when you think about it he was the best supercar driver of the five speed manual era, and he is the perfect commentator with Compton, when skaife talks you listen. Good bloke I reckon.
I remember my time at Bathurst. It just insanely fast and all Holdens and Fords whined, complained and protested Nissan's win eventually later, got banned. Nissan GT-R had shattered spectator's hearts and broke Bathurst's history.
fucking love the r32 I've been wanting one since I was in high school saving saving saving they got dearer and dearer haha now I just gotta find one relatively stock or as close to stock as possible
Gonna be hard. The USA has started importing them from japan now, the prices are going up, and the world collectively has realised they are now a classic car worthy of a high status.
Most of the GT-Rs for sale in australia these days are quite well kept with owners that love them for their history rather than just turning them into street fighting weapons, demanding high price tags.
If you have a lot of coin, you might be able to snag one of the 100 australian delivered skylines.
On the plus side, nissan has re-started production of spare parts for the R32 in recognition of its classic car status in order to keep as many healthy as possible, so you will once again be able to go to nissan and get factory spares.
slickstrings
That's awesome, I'm definitely getting one now
awesome video thanks Mark, this was the best car ever I really want to buy an R32 Godzilla now and deck it out in the 1991 kit. I am Ford now but this is my all time favourite car in Bathurst!!!!
Perfection
back 28 years ago when nissan had a spirit and made many top models across many segments.
Steve Curtis was a major factor in the success of this car (the brains who worked for Gibson motorsport)
how does this only have 100k views
perfection
Fred Gibson and I are the only people to ever engineer a GTR to win a National Motorsport Championship Series with these cars. Funny thing about the title we won was my wife was driving!
Godzilla, king of the mountain. You did well bringing this one to life skafie.
Legend
I love Group A, and Godzilla was the pinnacle of it. Some facts though, by '92 Group A was in its death throws - the manufacturers had had enough of the 5000 (and 500 evolution) homologation requirements. Internationally, the WRC concept had failed and everyone was going their own way - Germans with their DTM and the BTCC with the 2.0ltr category.
Australia had to make a call and we went the V8 route. Outside of Japan, Godzilla would not have a been eligible anywhere in the world much after '93.
'The banned' hype is only sort of correct as Australia could not have stayed with Group A.
That being said, even with its huge weight handicaps in '92 Godzilla was still trousering everything that moved.
The KING 👑
The saddest thing about this car, due to ATCC, and the Australian public, was the demise of marks team mate and arguably the greatest but underrated driver in Jimmy Richards. It was disgusting the crowd boo-ed when they were on the podium. Stand tall Jimmy!
Young Champion talent at 1991
When they started banning all these beautiful cars, I started to fall out of love for the sport. The manufacturers should have just got on with building better cars to compete. I no longer watch today. It just not the same. I do switch on for the TCM races. I still remember when Mark passed Win on the dirt at Winton, that's how good the car was.
There were a few cheeky things in this car that were a little naughty. One thing that comes to mind was the turbochargers weren't allowed to be changed as per rules. They wanted bigger turbos but we're not allowed. So to increase the size and keep them looking factory the housings were extrude honed to increase flow, effectively increasing the A/R ratio and hiding it from officials.
I stopped following the sport after the GTR was banned...ive started watching the Liqui Moli 12hr in Feb though...its more like the racing of that era but with todays production cars...and guess whats always up the front? A GTR...and no fords or holdens to be found anywhere.
would Lov to have a Japanese Nissan r32 version spec compared to our ausie versions wow and marks a real mechanic he was not a driver but he was a real know how in the mechanical side too great story
They day they banned this, was the day they killed Touring car racing in Australia. Since then, they have struggled to attract new manufacturers. Maybe if they hadn't banned them all in the first place...
One of the Fathers of Godzilla. Amazing driver. Great man. Awesome Car.
legend
It happened with Allen Moffat in the Mazda RX 7 that got black flagged at sundown 1884 I think
What a car
This is, quite simply, fucking awesome.
Innovation that excited 29 years ago!
simply one of the greatest racing cars - of all time. Stomped the competition, and fast enough to ensure Nissan told them they couldn't bring it back to show off at home lest they be embarrassed by some gaijins
"...And that kids, is what a unicorn looks like..." 😍
GOLD, when NISSAN mattered here
First time I've heard anyone involved with these cars admit to near 700hp
Thats what the fanboys dont get!! I always knew they were running way more power then claimed. Cheaters!!!
The ultimate award a race car can be given is being so good it was banned
Wasn't banned. Group A fell over internationally after 1992 and each country adopted its own race series. Australia decided on the 5.0L V8 formula as the market was surrounded by sedans with V8's. If you want to say it was banned then we can all say the Sierras were banned too. Nissan were welcome to join the series and all they needed to do was put a V8 in a sedan and homologate it for the series but they didn't
Anyone else here miss seeing them race through Wellington?
You know it's a serious car, when they change the rules so it can't compete anymore rather than just trying to beat it at its own game.