The angriest bunch of fans in motorsport history?

A strong rivalry between Ford and Nissan exploded after the 1992 Bathurst 1000. After a severe storm brought the race to an end short of its scheduled distance, Jim Richards and Mark Skaife were declared the winners, despite Richards crashing the car during the final green flag lap. Richards and Skaife along with teammates Anders Olofsson and Neil Crompton were met with ferocious boos and chants of "bullshit" from the pro Ford crowd as they came onto the podium.

Crompton was the first to respond, giving the crowd the middle finger as he was walking off, while Richards called the fans a "pack of assholes" during his victory speech.

[kenmograd]

Context: This was the 1992 Bathurst 1000. The race was red flagged after Lap 145 of 161 because of heavy rain. Under regulations, the race was wound back to Lap 144, but because many cars had crashed during that lap, the results from the end of Lap 143 were made the official result. This angered the fans because the team of Mark Skaife and Jim Richards, who had crashed on Lap 144, were declared the winner as they were P1 at the end of Lap 143. The crowd also didn’t like that Skaife and Richards’ car was a Nissan, as the majority of the jeers came from the supporters of Ford and Holden (a now defunct subsidiary of GM based in Australia).

[Mikeb]

‘You’re a pack of arseholes’! I love sports in the days before PR and PC!

[karmicselling]

This race should have been called off as soon as it was confirmed that Denny Hulme had passed away.

And a pretty stupid category to have turbocharged two door 4WD coupe cars competing with normally aspirated four door RWD sedan cars.

[DinoPimp]

The crowd were just pissy that their beloved cars got wasted by a Nissan.

[minibus]

got to agree with Richards on this, if the fans wanted to boo anything boo or complan about the rule that created the situation, in other words that when a race is stopped with more than the 75% compleated or for other reasons that the race cannot be contiued the result is taken from the previous lap.

[nevillekidd]

Gentleman Jim was spot on. That must have been so hard given that hostility after such wonderful driving...plus that a fellow Kiwi legend and 1967 F1 Champ Denny Hulme had died while racing. Pretty hypocritical of a cocky Johnson to moan, given he had benefited from a similiar well used rule years earlier.

[harrycallahan]

Well said Jim it wasn't the drivers fault but those poxy rules needed revamping

[philwoodward]

I love a sporting result that boils this much numbskull piss.

Every armchair expert in Australia said that team was only winning because they were able to run four wheel drive turbos, yet they came back the next year with a two wheel drive naturally aspirated car and beat the Fords again.

[rosarioyeen]

Justified considering what happened to Denny Hulme.

[kerrykelaher]

" your a pack of arseholes ?" Laugh 😃

[RyokoUeharaRR]

That was also the day that Jimmy's justified line "You're a pack of arseholes" because his fellow cpuntry man Former F1 Driver and Champion passed away due to a heart attack, i understand him and i dont think he's in the wrong

[rabidbigdog]

Absolute bogans who helped destroy their "own' car company GM's Holden.

[bjscorpio]

Part of Bathurst is giving the drivers of your rival car company a boo on the podium. I guess driving a Nissan you're going to get twice the boos.

[marcusaurelius]

I was 14 years old when I watched the live broadcast of this. I agreed with Jim, it was really bad form by the crowd. I love ford and holden touring cars too, but this was over the top pettiness and really poor sportsmanship.

[jerryboics]

The crowd wasn't even angry. They were messing around but only 2 nerds took the bait

[zenkhamas]

Haha 20+ years on and they are still hating ! V8 rubbish 😂

[peterm]

Insults his fans for not adoring him enough .

[Loony]

While I am a strong ford guy, this was disgraceful from my fellow ford fans, regardless of the circumstances, show some respect, fuck me