These R32's particularly in the Nissan warpaint are automotive Gods. What a gathering of people and machinery. Mark Skaife's face when Jim Richards called the crowd "a pack of arseholes" in 92, Neil Crompton gave the crowd the middle finger on the same podium. Even as a kid I knew it was pure gold!
Sadly that was the last Bathurst I could watch. I was 26 years old and probably still a bit naive as to what some Australians were really like (even when drunk). That podium probably had a greater effect on me watching it on TV than it did the race drivers.
I love your plan for Bathurst, Andrew! A great move to keep the legacy alive for the younger generations to experience... As a community, you deserve our thanks for everything you do for the mighty Skyline... Cheers 👍
Not sure if you guys from Down Under fully appreciate this, but where you are is about the best place on the planet if you love the BNR32 !?! Events galore, Absolute Top Engine builders, pretty much the best of everything GTR ! I’m so envious Living in western Canada. Great video and thank you 🙏
Yeah, to those of us a bit older like myself- it's just part of Aussie car culture. They're been around in such numbers here for so long, there's always been a huge enthusiast scene for them and all their RB powered cousins... They've just matured like fine wine over here, their cult car status will never die
@@danielbrealey2924 would love to get into it as a younger bloke, but you're out of luck if you weren't picking them up for cents to the dollar 5 years ago compared to what they cost today
Hell yeah Andrew!!! Australia has lead the way with RB & kept it alive really, NZ has done well too but OZ development now is really what will keep the RB alive & going harder forever by the looks 👍👍👍
@@glensubtorq wrx's were 1994, rx7s, well Mazda exited in 1985? because of various reasons. GSR was a Rally car just like the liberty rs. all not comparable to the GTR and the multi million dollar budget they had.
The Skaife car was found in Thailand by Carey McMahon a good few years ago, brought back and restored by him and my mate Rod Starr. He should never have sold it, even at the 7 figures he got. Worth soooo damn much now, pretty sure Nissan has offered well over 8 figures for it since
@@garageredzone haha he's still got the B&H car, what a weapon. His Pantera though is amazing. Temperamental beast but so mad. Can't wait to see the Corvair sport sedan finished though, F5000 chassis goin under it hahaha
Thank you for sharing this. I fondly remember watching both Skaifey and Richo steer these weapons around Bathurst, Oran Park and Amaroo Park. Even though we’re talking 30 years ago, it only seems like yesterday. These cars were years ahead of their time and were the best racing examples in the world, driven by arguably 2 of the best drivers ever to race touring cars. It was a privilege to say I watched them race and win.
I was fortunate enough to sit in Skaife/Richard's GTR back in 2006. I think i was 12 years old at the time... Looking back on it now i had absolutely no idea how lucky i was. I wish i could go back and experience it again, i rekon i would appreciate it a lot more.
A beautiful piece of nostalgia! Sure, "my hat's off" to Fred Gibson and the team but, by far the biggest reason for this car's success is in the opening narration of the video - "the R32 GTR was designed from the outset to go Group A racing and win." In essence, Nissan took the rule book and asked themselves, what did their car need to beat the Sierra? Answer - 6 instead of 4 cylinders, twin turbo instead of one and the trump card, AWD instead of RWD! A recipe that was always going to be hard to top. Is it any wonder Larry Perkins called it a race car and not a touring car and from memory, Dick Johnson also commented along the lines that the GTR had more rubber pulling it around a corner than a formula 1 car.
Great video! Lets not forget the R32 won the Sandown 500 in 91 in it's only entry to the event, along with it being run by a privateer team in Bob Forbes Racing, prior to the Bathurst 1000 that same year.
Was an amazing era of motor racing, have fond memories of meeting Skaifey and Richo at a promo event in Wellington NZ before the street race. Loved the GTR back then still do now!
My dream is to take two of the Gibson R32's and an R31, as well as a Bluebird to Japan for Nissan Day at Fuji Speedway. Have Mark and Jim drive, if at all possible as well. That would be something truly unique and for Japanese Nissan fans, something they might never ever see again. Of course, i'll need a lotto win and some influential friends, but one can dream.
oh dammm.... this where it all began for me. it was literally these Bathurst GTR that showed the potential of the platform. This was the beginning of love for GTR's
Having read Jims' various comments and autobiography Gentleman Jim I get the feeling that perhaps the R32 was not his favourite car from a purist racing driver point of view. I get the strong feeling it was his previous E30 M3 and the GTS-R two wheel drive predecessor that were his favourites. He never outright says that but he praises the older cars as a pure racing driver might enthuse over them and was rather more clinical about the ability of the R32 to simply destroy the opposition (even when handicapped) and consequently reward the hard work of the Gibson team.
I touched Skaifes blue and white R32GTR in the pits at the Wellington Street Race in New Zealand ,I knew i had touched royalty and i still have him and Richards autographs
Fun Fact . The Gibson R32 Gtr's Were Told not to come race in Japan because they were too Fast and would make the Nismo Prepared cars look Bad. The Aussie Gtr's were the Reason thay got the Godzilla Name
I bet this was like your birthday and xmas day all rolled in to one mate, to meet such legands and have a drink with them, i bet your still pinching your self, i hope they do a good segment on them at bathurst
Loved this and it's great that we have been there since day one and I didn'tknow we weren't allowed to go race them. Nothing against the USA JDM scene but these guys think they know there stuff and sure some do but nothing like the shops in Australia and they even use Australian parts.
@@Myrtlebeachskyline Im not sure why you think a reunion should be a public event. Imagine these guys all trying to have a catch up and 1000 people flood in there to look at the cars and talk to them all. Would ruin it for them. The cars are normally in a private collection.
I was wondering if the R32 that Mark Skaife use was “Australianized” in 1991 Macau Guia race? 🤔 I believe it was the time the R32s were given a 140kg weight penalty….
Not gonna lie some of these guys come off being disrespectful to the Japanese. Ok yea sure you made some upgrades but don't ever forget who designed and built that solid platform you had to base your upgrades on to begin with...
It's not a sign of disrespect but more a sign of accomplishment when the fathers of the platform, to their surprise, recognised that their vehicle has become something greater in the hands of a foreign team, through dedication and determination.
Agree, and there are always two sides of the story. Actually a Gibson built car ran in the 1992 Fuji Inter Tec race, and was beaten by several laps by the japanese teams. To be fair it was with a rather inexperienced driver, so it is not much of a comparison.
@@Jarlefinken that isn't a Gibson Skyline, that's a different skyline with no association with the gibson team (apart from livery) driven by 2 Thai men. Do you really think that the Gibson Skylines would lose on a high speed track when it has a better power : weight and the same suspension geometry?
Yeah it won but not all the little baby v8s back then still gave it a run for the money lots of money when into developing the GTR here in Australia almost 700hp that’s 💯cheating titanium twin turbos the v8 did have camshaft rules todays v8s would leave the GTR for dead just NA v8s two 👍
I had 2 jdm r32 gtrs when I was 21-22 and a 33 gtr till I was 28 then a r35 gtr for 24 months I was very disappointed in the 35 sold it and now drive a f250 how life changes wish I could go back to the good old days pre woke government's no covid and gtrs were only 20k
The only reason Australia has fast gtrs is because they never made it to America!!! Just look at the current gtr… top secret who? Nitto who?? T1! AMS! ETS!! America !! F -k yeah!!!
You are Fulll of Shit Mate ! America never Raced Group A Rules , The USA at the Time raced Purpose Built Race Cars with space Frames such as Imsa, Trans Am & Nascar. So You have No Idea How to Race in a Formula where cars are Production Based and Homologated to Race with Very Strict Rules in the Category !
I hated these things still do they ruined group a I’m a group c guy but fuck they are quick all wheel drive turbo only the shell works sirerras could keep up but my favourite car of that time was the vn group a only v8 that could keep up especially brocky but that was a long time ago I still hate em but I’ll respect em for what they are there Godzilla
Let's face facts, the only real Bathurst winner was the 1991 car. Us DJR Shell Sierra fans remember the 17 car passing the R32 in 1992 after Godzilla wanted to climb Mt.Panorama's walls. 😁👍
Yes indeed lets face facts. In 1992 the GTR had 50kg of penalty weights added and was boost limited to 1.3bar as opposed to the original 1.9 bar. Long story short, even then, the GTR still won...
@@trn8061 It won on a technicality bud- if we're being really honest. Being a wet race that year, the 4WD system put the GTR's on a different level drivability wise. That No.17 Ford did a hell of a job, they aren't easy cars to drive on the limit in the dry and are a complete nightmare in the wet. I love my Nissan's bud (I own a burger with the lot R31 turbo), but give a bit of credit to those Ford Sierras... They were an awesome car too
@@danielbrealey2924 It's like trying to tell a flat earther that the world is round. Even with the weight penalty and the lower boost those gtr's should have walked away from the Sierra's in the wet.
my faher in law still has his original import delivered to him by Mark and Jim with a signed picture. First in Qld. I keep telling him he should get them to sign the car as well.
These R32's particularly in the Nissan warpaint are automotive Gods. What a gathering of people and machinery. Mark Skaife's face when Jim Richards called the crowd "a pack of arseholes" in 92, Neil Crompton gave the crowd the middle finger on the same podium. Even as a kid I knew it was pure gold!
Sadly that was the last Bathurst I could watch. I was 26 years old and probably still a bit naive as to what some Australians were really like (even when drunk). That podium probably had a greater effect on me watching it on TV than it did the race drivers.
I love your plan for Bathurst, Andrew! A great move to keep the legacy alive for the younger generations to experience... As a community, you deserve our thanks for everything you do for the mighty Skyline... Cheers 👍
To me, these were the absolute golden years. Awesome stuff!
Not sure if you guys from Down Under fully appreciate this, but where you are is about the best place on the planet if you love the BNR32 !?! Events galore, Absolute Top Engine builders, pretty much the best of everything GTR ! I’m so envious Living in western Canada.
Great video and thank you 🙏
Yeah, to those of us a bit older like myself- it's just part of Aussie car culture. They're been around in such numbers here for so long, there's always been a huge enthusiast scene for them and all their RB powered cousins... They've just matured like fine wine over here, their cult car status will never die
@@danielbrealey2924 would love to get into it as a younger bloke, but you're out of luck if you weren't picking them up for cents to the dollar 5 years ago compared to what they cost today
Hell yeah Andrew!!! Australia has lead the way with RB & kept it alive really, NZ has done well too but OZ development now is really what will keep the RB alive & going harder forever by the looks 👍👍👍
When group A rules changed to a two horse race I lost interest and left the sport. I really miss these days.
Same....the best racing was group c.
It was boring to watch GTR's win every race, it was a one horse race at the point you thought was good.
@@andgate2000 yes. Lots of variety, power levels, grip.
@@Low760 The WRX, Evo & FD RX7 came along at that time...that would have been an interesting time to see 😎
@@glensubtorq wrx's were 1994, rx7s, well Mazda exited in 1985? because of various reasons. GSR was a Rally car just like the liberty rs. all not comparable to the GTR and the multi million dollar budget they had.
The Skaife car was found in Thailand by Carey McMahon a good few years ago, brought back and restored by him and my mate Rod Starr. He should never have sold it, even at the 7 figures he got. Worth soooo damn much now, pretty sure Nissan has offered well over 8 figures for it since
Carey stopped racing it because he was sick of being so far in front of the Sierras lol
@@garageredzone haha he's still got the B&H car, what a weapon. His Pantera though is amazing. Temperamental beast but so mad. Can't wait to see the Corvair sport sedan finished though, F5000 chassis goin under it hahaha
He shouldn't have sold the HR31 TBH
Money talks…
Can recommend seeing the Linfox owned gtr at their museum in Melbourne. It's a small museum but has some seriously cool bits of kit in it
That it does
Thanks Andrew for taking us along to this once in a lifetime event. Super awesome stuff ! GTR forever !
Thank you for sharing this. I fondly remember watching both Skaifey and Richo steer these weapons around Bathurst, Oran Park and Amaroo Park. Even though we’re talking 30 years ago, it only seems like yesterday.
These cars were years ahead of their time and were the best racing examples in the world, driven by arguably 2 of the best drivers ever to race touring cars.
It was a privilege to say I watched them race and win.
I was fortunate enough to sit in Skaife/Richard's GTR back in 2006. I think i was 12 years old at the time... Looking back on it now i had absolutely no idea how lucky i was. I wish i could go back and experience it again, i rekon i would appreciate it a lot more.
A beautiful piece of nostalgia! Sure, "my hat's off" to Fred Gibson and the team but, by far the biggest reason for this car's success is in the opening narration of the video - "the R32 GTR was designed from the outset to go Group A racing and win." In essence, Nissan took the rule book and asked themselves, what did their car need to beat the Sierra? Answer - 6 instead of 4 cylinders, twin turbo instead of one and the trump card, AWD instead of RWD! A recipe that was always going to be hard to top. Is it any wonder Larry Perkins called it a race car and not a touring car and from memory, Dick Johnson also commented along the lines that the GTR had more rubber pulling it around a corner than a formula 1 car.
Great video! Lets not forget the R32 won the Sandown 500 in 91 in it's only entry to the event, along with it being run by a privateer team in Bob Forbes Racing, prior to the Bathurst 1000 that same year.
Yep that's the GIO car :)
Totally awesome video guy's! Being a kiwi, always loved watching our man Jim Richards racing!!
Awesome!
Thanks Andrew and team 🙂
Was an amazing era of motor racing, have fond memories of meeting Skaifey and Richo at a promo event in Wellington NZ before the street race.
Loved the GTR back then still do now!
My dream is to take two of the Gibson R32's and an R31, as well as a Bluebird to Japan for Nissan Day at Fuji Speedway. Have Mark and Jim drive, if at all possible as well. That would be something truly unique and for Japanese Nissan fans, something they might never ever see again. Of course, i'll need a lotto win and some influential friends, but one can dream.
oh dammm.... this where it all began for me. it was literally these Bathurst GTR that showed the potential of the platform. This was the beginning of love for GTR's
Absolutely loved this Era of racing. Great work!
Isn't it beautiful seeing the cars that the die hard Ford and Holden fans absolutely despised all together 😊
Is it just me or does everyone else want the 1991 Bathurst winner to race alongside the fords and Holden’s for one last time?
Wonderful to see these cars and the men who built them.
i liked the dr30 skyline days with seaton and skaife . i had an mr30 and always wanted a dr30 .
Thanks so much for sharing this with us old Nissan Fans !
The story of this car is so good. Historic.
That era was the best to watch !
When you have a over dozen makes racing
The Castrol 6 hour bike race was great to watch as well
"Over a dozen" is a bit of an exaggeration mate
Having read Jims' various comments and autobiography Gentleman Jim I get the feeling that perhaps the R32 was not his favourite car from a purist racing driver point of view. I get the strong feeling it was his previous E30 M3 and the GTS-R two wheel drive predecessor that were his favourites. He never outright says that but he praises the older cars as a pure racing driver might enthuse over them and was rather more clinical about the ability of the R32 to simply destroy the opposition (even when handicapped) and consequently reward the hard work of the Gibson team.
Loving this series
What a cool gathering to be a part of. It's really cool that Japan was nervous of the Aussie spec cars. Well done Australia!🦘
I touched Skaifes blue and white R32GTR in the pits at the Wellington Street Race in New Zealand ,I knew i had touched royalty and i still have him and Richards autographs
I love seeing stuff like this. wish it was longer. nice little history lesson.
I'm old enough to remember watching the ATCC when it was Group A, and completely losing interest in it when they switched away from that formula.
One of my favorite cars of all time! And I have one with only 77.000kms 😎🔥🇵🇹
Havent watched touring cars since the Group A & Group C days (watched the EL Falcon era V8 Supercars for a bit, but was too boring).
I miss those days
0:21 a beautiful still,💚💚💚🍀🍀🍀
Damn those group A r32’s butter my biscuit
Bathurst Top 10 Shoot out . Larry Perkins said the Nissan GTR was a racing car not a touring car .
Fun Fact .
The Gibson R32 Gtr's Were Told not to come race in Japan because they were too Fast and would make the Nismo Prepared cars look Bad. The Aussie Gtr's were the Reason thay got the Godzilla Name
I bet this was like your birthday and xmas day all rolled in to one mate, to meet such legands and have a drink with them, i bet your still pinching your self, i hope they do a good segment on them at bathurst
Loved this and it's great that we have been there since day one and I didn'tknow we weren't allowed to go race them. Nothing against the USA JDM scene but these guys think they know there stuff and sure some do but nothing like the shops in Australia and they even use Australian parts.
The last 2 minutes of the video literally gave me goosebumps but can the R30/31 get some love....... 😉
This video is about the 30th anniversary of R32, so we spoke about R32s.
Definitely. The GTS/R was my favourite of all the Group A cars. I think number 2 is owned by Jim Richards. They sounded great.
Yeah boy! RB royalty right here
mmmmm... new video(s) on Group A R32's
Goose bumps watching the whole vid 👊🏿💯🔥
Even though I like the Japanese / JTCC Gr. A R32, I think I would love the Australian/ ATCC Gr. A R32 more 😍
Love the bogans getting angry 😂
video came out alright man! i see you found some interviews haha
So cool 🇦🇺
What a great vidieo 👍👍👌
Sucks they didn’t include the fans. Wouldn’t be where they are without them.
Should they invite fans to a high school reunion? It was literally a reunion. The whole point is it is just for them.
@@MotiveVideo yeah and that sucks.
@@Myrtlebeachskyline Im not sure why you think a reunion should be a public event. Imagine these guys all trying to have a catch up and 1000 people flood in there to look at the cars and talk to them all. Would ruin it for them. The cars are normally in a private collection.
Great vid lad 🤙
Great video.
I wonder if Skaifey had his glory hole booth there?
I was wondering if the R32 that Mark Skaife use was “Australianized” in 1991 Macau Guia race? 🤔
I believe it was the time the R32s were given a 140kg weight penalty….
Even with the ballast on some tracks and weather conditions it made them faster
Not gonna lie some of these guys come off being disrespectful to the Japanese. Ok yea sure you made some upgrades but don't ever forget who designed and built that solid platform you had to base your upgrades on to begin with...
It's not a sign of disrespect but more a sign of accomplishment when the fathers of the platform, to their surprise, recognised that their vehicle has become something greater in the hands of a foreign team, through dedication and determination.
Agree, and there are always two sides of the story. Actually a Gibson built car ran in the 1992 Fuji Inter Tec race, and was beaten by several laps by the japanese teams. To be fair it was with a rather inexperienced driver, so it is not much of a comparison.
@@Jarlefinken the only cars that got beaten by the Japanese gtr's in the 1992 fuji intertec by 7 laps was a honda eg6 civic and a ae101 corolla
@@therisingblocks4606 Incorrect. Here is a video of the race czcams.com/video/sKFsKZAYcms/video.html
@@Jarlefinken that isn't a Gibson Skyline, that's a different skyline with no association with the gibson team (apart from livery) driven by 2 Thai men. Do you really think that the Gibson Skylines would lose on a high speed track when it has a better power : weight and the same suspension geometry?
👍🤙
fucking love it!!!!
I'd like to purchase one if I'm allowed
Yeah it won but not all the little baby v8s back then still gave it a run for the money lots of money when into developing the GTR here in Australia almost 700hp that’s 💯cheating titanium twin turbos the v8 did have camshaft rules todays v8s would leave the GTR for dead just NA v8s two 👍
have you heard of this thing called a full stop or comma?
Easy peasy japanese
I had 2 jdm r32 gtrs when I was 21-22 and a 33 gtr till I was 28 then a r35 gtr for 24 months I was very disappointed in the 35 sold it and now drive a f250 how life changes wish I could go back to the good old days pre woke government's no covid and gtrs were only 20k
Would be a perfect video without skaife
The only reason Australia has fast gtrs is because they never made it to America!!! Just look at the current gtr… top secret who? Nitto who??
T1! AMS! ETS!!
America !! F -k yeah!!!
You are Fulll of Shit Mate ! America never Raced Group A Rules , The USA at the Time raced Purpose Built Race Cars with space Frames such as Imsa, Trans Am & Nascar.
So You have No Idea How to Race in a Formula where cars are Production Based and Homologated to Race with Very Strict Rules in the Category !
I hated these things still do they ruined group a I’m a group c guy but fuck they are quick all wheel drive turbo only the shell works sirerras could keep up but my favourite car of that time was the vn group a only v8 that could keep up especially brocky but that was a long time ago I still hate em but I’ll respect em for what they are there Godzilla
Let's face facts, the only real Bathurst winner was the 1991 car. Us DJR Shell Sierra fans remember the 17 car passing the R32 in 1992 after Godzilla wanted to climb Mt.Panorama's walls. 😁👍
Yes indeed lets face facts. In 1992 the GTR had 50kg of penalty weights added and was boost limited to 1.3bar as opposed to the original 1.9 bar. Long story short, even then, the GTR still won...
@@trn8061 It won on a technicality bud- if we're being really honest. Being a wet race that year, the 4WD system put the GTR's on a different level drivability wise. That No.17 Ford did a hell of a job, they aren't easy cars to drive on the limit in the dry and are a complete nightmare in the wet. I love my Nissan's bud (I own a burger with the lot R31 turbo), but give a bit of credit to those Ford Sierras... They were an awesome car too
@@danielbrealey2924 It's like trying to tell a flat earther that the world is round. Even with the weight penalty and the lower boost those gtr's should have walked away from the Sierra's in the wet.
@@Gooie69 Exactly... They had a hell of an advantage with their complex 4WD system in THOSE conditions
Rules are rules, DJR actually won with a crashed car on the same count back rule a few years later in V8 Supercars..
One of the greatest videos you've posted of all time. !!!
my faher in law still has his original import delivered to him by Mark and Jim with a signed picture. First in Qld. I keep telling him he should get them to sign the car as well.