Mark Skaife technical feature on 1991 Bathurst 1000 winning Nissan GT-R R32

Mark Skaife shows Michael Caruso around the car he drove to victory in the 1991 Bathurst 1000, the legendary Nissan GT-R R32.

[r.gilbert]

It came, it dominated...it got banned; the ultimate compliment to any race car.

[JoeyTeson]

I could listen to skaifey go on like this for hours...

[xxxclusv]

It's awesome to see how much Skaife praises this car... Crazy how this car was ahead of its time.

[ogmoustachemalefacialcompa]

Won in 1991 and

Instantly killed by rule changes.

[simobrogaming]

I love how passionately he spoke about the car, you can see just how much it meant to him.

[escort]

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.

[JossRickard]

Awesome to see how passionate Skaife is over the car, still. Shows where the real interest is.

[turboN]

Car is immaculate. Hats off to the current owner/s. Very impressive.

[johnlowe]

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.

[djshotty]

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.

[MattStreeter-gexw]

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

[cyclonicleo]

Without a doubt, the best Group A car ever made. Utterly brilliant.

[garry]

Beautiful statement, Mark Skaife team effort, it was crazy that car

[mikejovi]

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..

[davidlyon]

Just a legendary car the R32 GTR is, big respect.

[Legotruck]

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.

[sammy]

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

[VFVAL]

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.

[mostlyauthentic]

They really lost the plot when they stopped using actual production cars.

[bigrobsydney]

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.