Gibson Motorsport Skyline In Car Footage

[88silhouette]

well usually i'd wait for hooksy to post it up on here but i'm too impatient

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIasNcIrZcM

in car of Rod Markland's GMS HR31 winning race # 3 at Wakefield a month or so ago. Wait til the last part of the last lap for the best part

some great driving from Rod's son Craig.

cheers, Mark

[benm]

Bit rude of him wasn't it....

[T04GTR]

hefty

[2rismo]

My god that thing makes a good noise.

[88silhouette]

sure does adrian

sounds fantastic downshifting on the straigh at oran park

if you wanna see for yourself, come to the historics @ Oran Park 1,2,3 June

[dontfeelcold]

did he hit the other car at all?

[Roy]

I so love that footage. The RB20 is easily the best sounding Grp A motor out there.

[Beer Baron]

sounds magic.

[Starionturbo]

Car sounds intense I would LOVVVVE to drive it

[screamin']

What an animal passing manover! Did he take out the Falcon or what?

[Jetwreck]

Nup the Nissan doesn't hit....bit close I might say though...like about 1mm!!!!

[Dale FZ1]

Had to use a bit of real estate to get by on the inside. Looked like he was sizing things up for the previous lap or 2, probs with getting power down out of the corner but plenty of legs up the straights before braking wiped out the ground gained and do it all over again The old Falcon Group C grunter certainly had punch out of the corners.

Two things impressed me from the in-car. The engine sound was really good, and the closeness of the gearing. Notice the engine rpm did not drop much at all on the up-shifts?

To be honest though, the R31 or any of the turbo cars from that era didn't sound great from the outside. Leave that to the M3 BMW; no muffling effect from a turbo, and running up to 9000rpm they were brilliant sounding.

Edited May 2, 2007 by Dale FZ1

[31GUN]

Maaaaate!

You've gotta hear the HR31's from the outside!

Just as awesome. They've got a real scream to them.

On that particular weekend the track marshals voted the '31' the best sounding car out there.

Also on that weekend were V8 Supercars, utes, and some other stuff.

Hooks

[benm]

Side pipes certainly do make an engine sound different don't they.

[Dale FZ1]

Maaaaate!

You've gotta hear the HR31's from the outside!

Just as awesome. They've got a real scream to them.

On that particular weekend the track marshals voted the '31' the best sounding car out there.

Also on that weekend were V8 Supercars, utes, and some other stuff.

Hooks

I did hear them - in their heyday when they ran at Lakeside in the Group A era. I was also a Nissan fan then, regardless of whether they copped a pounding from the Sierras (and they did - clearly outpaced as a rule). Sorry, those turboed Group A touring cars just didn't have "it" for exhaust note. BUT - the in car with engine noise sounded magnificent.

I'm just happy to see them brought out for a run now as a historic class.

[Jetwreck]

Might be a BIT biase here but......The JPS M3 of David Towe although sounding great does not sound neally as good as either Terry's or Rod's R31.....But that is my opinion and everybody is entitled to there own opinion...I tell you what though(and I am not selling the event)....come our to Oran park at the beginning of June and all the cars will be out there racing....I think you might find that you change your mind....Make sure you put new batteries in you hearing aid's though....only kidding...LOL

[monkeykplunk]

God the sound of that thing..... *drools*

Is the box in that still some sort of H pattern?

I tell ya though, after seeing that and the inside of todays V8 race cars it makes the V8 look like a family car!

I can't imagine having to drive that for 1000kms at full race pace....

[88silhouette]

the beemer does sound fantastic

but my vote is still with the GMS HR31. wait til you hear it fly past on the straight, particularly downshifting

bloody unreal

[Beer Baron]

God the sound of that thing..... *drools*

Is the box in that still some sort of H pattern?

I tell ya though, after seeing that and the inside of todays V8 race cars it makes the V8 look like a family car!

I can't imagine having to drive that for 1000kms at full race pace....

yeah it's H pattern. you can see him shifting throug the gears.

[Dale FZ1]

Might be a BIT biase here but......The JPS M3 of David Towe although sounding great does not sound neally as good as either Terry's or Rod's R31.....But that is my opinion and everybody is entitled to there own opinion...I tell you what though(and I am not selling the event)....come our to Oran park at the beginning of June and all the cars will be out there racing....I think you might find that you change your mind....Make sure you put new batteries in you hearing aid's though....only kidding...LOL

That's the great thing about the category - you're seeing and hearing a variety of machinery. And I reckon it's a good thing if different aspects of the different makes are what gets us going as spectators. The R31 as I said was something I followed as a fan during that era. Same as the Group C Bluebirds, DR30 and the R32. It was a bit of an interest kicked off by Howard Marsden's professional approach to running a team. Way ahead of his time, and the machines were different too.

Two things count against me here though - Oran Park is a bit far to travel, and those bloody hearing aids keep buzzing when I turn them up... :laughing-smiley-014: Seriously, I hate it when there is some good motorsport that's just too far away.