Those GT-R's were a weapon. I remember seeing Jim Richards in his at the Grand Prix during this era and the F1's aside obviously ... but no one came out of the hairpin final turn at Adelaide faster than those 4WD GT-R's. Not even the Formula Holden's or the sports sedans (some with 600+bhp 6.0L Chevy V8's) that used to run as a support category at Adelaide were as quick out of the hairpins as the 4WD Nissan twin turbo. The old GTS-R HR31 Skyline sounded better, but these things were built to dominate Group A ... and they did. Through the quicker turns such as the esses at Sandown or across the top of the mountain at Bathurst, the GT-R's weren't any faster than the Sierra's or Commodore's. And their top speed wasn't all that different (at the Adelaide AGP meetings, the Nissan's top speed was actually slower). But obviously their strength was that they accelerated so much faster and thus got to their top speed much faster. And being 4WD the cars actually looked after their tyres better than anything but the BMW's because they weren't constantly getting copious amounts of rear wheel spin whenever they hit the gas.
Those GT-R's were a weapon. I remember seeing Jim Richards in his at the Grand Prix during this era and the F1's aside obviously ... but no one came out of the hairpin final turn at Adelaide faster than those 4WD GT-R's. Not even the Formula Holden's or the sports sedans (some with 600+bhp 6.0L Chevy V8's) that used to run as a support category at Adelaide were as quick out of the hairpins as the 4WD Nissan twin turbo. The old GTS-R HR31 Skyline sounded better, but these things were built to dominate Group A ... and they did.
Through the quicker turns such as the esses at Sandown or across the top of the mountain at Bathurst, the GT-R's weren't any faster than the Sierra's or Commodore's. And their top speed wasn't all that different (at the Adelaide AGP meetings, the Nissan's top speed was actually slower). But obviously their strength was that they accelerated so much faster and thus got to their top speed much faster. And being 4WD the cars actually looked after their tyres better than anything but the BMW's because they weren't constantly getting copious amounts of rear wheel spin whenever they hit the gas.