'ahhh Memories'

[Ryan.R34]

Toe to toe with Mark Skaife's GTR & Dicky in his Cosworth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE4T0YWI8_A

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Jim richards " You pack of Assholes "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ATwXUtxPA

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[Poida]

nice videos

[Staffo]

Man thats an awesome vid I was kinda too young to remember the GTR's at Bathurst

That Siera certainly had some stick

very cool

Edited February 19, 2007 by Staffo

[Ryan.R34]

I was there either in 91 or 92 can't remember ( Maybe 91 don't remember it raining ?), too many beers since then.

I do remember though the sound of the Siera's and GTR's coming over the top of the mountain, they screamed, there would be a long silence then the V8's rumbled past in slow-mo. Was sad to see the V8's getting their arses handed to them.

[AzzurrA]

Lol... those interior shots of the sierra bring back some memories of mine... *sniff* ah the memories....

goddamn that car was a P.O.S.

[SMR33]

This was when motorsport in Australia was entertaining - thanks for posting Ryan

Hehe I remember Jimmy Richards saying his most famous sentence. Most memorable motoring event EVAR

[Crossie]

who do you have to talk to, to get the full coverage of the race?

[Genesis®]

Great video!

so much history & arguements on why the GTR was banned from Bathurst but i think that video pretty much answered all the questions.

[djr81]

The GT-R wasn't banned. Can we stop propagating that myth now, please?

Oh and as for the comment that touring car racing was interesting then. Well I beg to differ. 91 & 92 were two of the most stultifyingly boring & predictable years of racing I have ever had the misfortune to sit through. The fields were thin, the races short (20 minutes each!) & the tv coverage dire. The wonder is that Touring Car racing in this country survived at all, let alone prospered.

Edited February 20, 2007 by djr81

[FineLine]

The GT-R wasn't banned. Can we stop propagating that myth now, please?

Oh and as for the comment that touring car racing was interesting then. Well I beg to differ. 91 & 92 were two of the most stultifyingly boring & predictable years of racing I have ever had the misfortune to sit through. The fields were thin, the races short (20 minutes each!) & the tv coverage dire. The wonder is that Touring Car racing in this country survived at all, let alone prospered.

In many ways you are on the money with your comments with one glaring exception. It was boring as batshit for the blue oval and bowtie brigade but it was the birthplace of the fun we now have driving skylines.

Whoda thunk that lurking behind the unreliable bluebird of george fury and the piss poor chasis dynamics of the gibson 3b 30 lines lurked the superb piece of kit we know as the skyline of today.

And so f**king what if the liners want to say the gtr was banned, heck we ate enough crap from the bent eight brigade that its nice to have some stones to throw back at them even if it isnt true.

From a traditional point of view I agree with the decision to revert to the classic holden v ford battle on the mountain. It kept motor racing alive and growing in this country and even made it yuppy respectable to a degree. But, they can never take away those images of the red and white gtr's sweeping all before them in what was at the time the most advanced performance vehicle in the world in its class and beyond.

Jim Richards you thong wearing sheep molestor......YOU ROCK

[djr81]

Gee I don't know. There is a statistic from the 1991 season somewhere (I will did it up later). Showed how many laps the GT-R's were in front of the total. Something like 70 odd percent. You only wondered which GT-R was going to win, ie Skaife or Richards. 92 wasn't so bad, but they had handicapped everyone by then. I don't want to resurrect the awfulness that was the Peter Jackson Dash for Cash. People would work their arses off to qualify on pole only to literally pull a number out of an envelope to see where they started a 3 lap "dash". Terrible, just terrible.

But don't get me wrong. The best thing about group A racing were the homologation specials it spawned. Everything from Cosworth Sierras, Escorts, BMW M3's, Supras (Yep), Maseratis, Alfa's, MB !90's, Corollas, Jaguars - you name it & it was probably there. Even Holden had a go.

Even the Pulsar GTiR owes its existance to Group A rally rules. Then there is the Lancia Delta Integrale, the Evo's..........

[LightAssassin]

Got this on DVD, great to watch.

It would be great to see this brought back, Group A touring that is.

djr81, just because they lead by so much didn't mean they were going to win. Really the other car companies needed to come to the plate with their cars and build something decent. Instead they changed the face of australian racing to give the cheaper local manufacturers a go.

Just because back then the rules needed to be tweaked and cars needed to catch up to the GTR doesn't mean it was a bad time. But instead of everybody coming to the plate to create better cars, they changed the rules and changed australian racing forever.

Talk on the net, a lot of the older people still remember the Bathurst races and they were known world wide.

I'd love to see Todays M3, Evo's, GTRs and WRX's getting around the track along with Monaros, XR6 Turbos and Ford GTs. But instead we are stuck with the v8 super cars...

[Genesis®]

geez.. never knew that my post would spark another debate again about Bathurst.

Let's just f**king watch the video, lighten up abit and enjoy our rides.

[Triptych]

I have a full version of the 92 race sitting on my computer. I would upload it somewhere but being 644mb big and my upload speed is capped by optus it is abit of problem.

I would actually be interested in finding a R32 GTR Nismo Edition (I think only 500 were made) that if I remember correctly they had to make so they had a production car closer to spec of the race car.

[R33S2]

Talking about cars of that era, one team that really impressed me, a bit less than the GTR, but still an awesome piece of kit, was the Tom Walkinshaw's Jaguars, both of those cars did some ass handing as well.

[nF]

first video is broken

heres another video from the gtr era

start of first race of the 91 season

they were seriously quick cars

[Ryan.R34]

I have a full version of the 92 race sitting on my computer. I would upload it somewhere but being 644mb big and my upload speed is capped by optus it is abit of problem.

I would actually be interested in finding a R32 GTR Nismo Edition (I think only 500 were made) that if I remember correctly they had to make so they had a production car closer to spec of the race car.

I found this freebie

Converts your video files into Flash, saves heaps and still reasonable quality after it converts. Great for Youtube.

http://www.download.com/Riva-FLV-Encoder/3...&tag=button

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[Bunta]

I have 91 and 92, shoot me a pm if you want me to burn you a copy

[Ryan.R34]

I have 91 and 92, shoot me a pm if you want me to burn you a copy

You mean do the community an invaluable service by insuring visually recorded history is backed up into digital format and storing the material into a safe secure enviroment whilst individually absorbing all the costs of reproduction.

Nice bud

[Spook's_Skyline]

i know the sierras were running massively high boost, i remember watching them when i was a kid

i was so stoked when we went to the UK with the family, that our hire car was a sierra (non turbo, bodge version)