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@Thrasha79 13 күн бұрын

Now look at the shitty cars they run in v8 supercars now just crap to even watch now

@avakinkobe224 Ай бұрын

It's such a shame nissan are on the brink of bankruptcy. I hope we don't lose another legendary manufacturer. I tell people my pathfinder has GTR DNA

@chrisjackson1295 Ай бұрын

Still love watching reruns of those races.The GTR getting chased by the pocket dynamite fire breathing sierra.Miss those days.

@イソスケ Ай бұрын

SALE

@stevebrown4568 2 ай бұрын

People refer to “hating” the GTR; likely most prevalent due to their dominance at the time. But the Group A era had good variety throughout the field, with cars of differing strengths and weaknesses. This made the racing far more exciting than today’s Supercars. GTR’s weren’t unbeatable. The little Longhurst/Jones BMW M3’s beat them at Lakeside. But the GTR’s were an amazing car, and addition to the group A field. It wasn’t “hate”; it was competitive and fan base ‘emotional stirring’. Ultimately benefiting the racing era of the time.

@NTTTTTTTTTTTTT 2 ай бұрын

What a B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L Car. A Masterpiece

@peterherriott237 2 ай бұрын

As good as it all was, Group A should never have allowed a 4WD to compete.

@darcykeddell4930 2 ай бұрын

that red r32 in the video out front of Nissan HQ has just recently been stolen 😭

@ronaldmurray7746 2 ай бұрын

That will always be the best years of racing, GODZILLA, was absolutely awesome.

@Dan-yc6vi 3 ай бұрын

The godzilla what a car, japanese made and australian built!!! This was a great vid on the insight of how great this car truley was

@uraniumcranium2613 4 ай бұрын

It was a boosted, 2 door, awd car racing against n/a family cars. Overhyped.

@itsmegilbo 4 ай бұрын

I remember as an 8 year old watching Bathurst and watching these cars. These guys helped forged my love of cars

@incolink 4 ай бұрын

Can some one explain to be why we had what i call a sports car racing against sedans ? and why no one ever tried to race other sports cars in this category a 911 turbo or 3000GT supra etc ? the GTR became very formidable as a road car as it was bench marked against the 911 turbo it had 94% the performance for about 60% the price

@incolink 4 ай бұрын

" the engine management was well advanced even by todays standards" from electromotive ? I find that hard to believe as electromotive has vanished from Australia and has no significant market share globally bit sad they weren't using motec. Awesome iconic story As these cars pioneered the development of a car that has gone to have 3 more generations and become a global cult I would speculate that these race cars should be the highest value cars ever built in Australia

@longdatto3 4 ай бұрын

it still is dominant

@neilperry2224 4 ай бұрын

Richards was upset cause his close friend and race driver Denny Hulme had died out on the track in his racecar.

@bengepp9314 4 ай бұрын

Just in case you missed it , its written on the grill . 🇯🇵🇦🇺🎌🏁

@michaellowe5980 4 ай бұрын

And in typical Australian lack-of-sportsmanship standard, when they couldn't beat it, they banned it. Now look at the standard of Australian supercars🤣🤣 Its more exciting to go to your local circuit and watch the street class meets.

@mrporsche4236 4 ай бұрын

I used to import them in the 90s. In standard form they are not good. They are a godzilla when you spend ridiculous amounts of money on them. I still love them but thats the truth

@garyjanssen5388 4 ай бұрын

Having met a Nissan GTO Which by the way was Freckin Fast I nearly ran up his backside cos he was limited to 250 kph, needless to say I passed him I was in my VZ Maloo, When I got home my ute was buggered and so was I. NZ

@stevegraham3817 4 ай бұрын

Everyone said it was the car, but that was only the starting base line, it was every person, every engineer, every driver, and every modified component that made it fast. The saddest part is that Larry campaigned to CAMS to get the car banned, eventually getting his wish in 1993, when he should have been campaigning to GM and GMH to get some AWD components from their international parts bin. He was an Engineer who played inn F1, you would think he would have wanted the technology to exploit. I still can't understand why Ford didn't homologate an AWD Sierra alongside the RWD, they already had them in their car model line up. BMW also had AWDs in other models that they could have homologated as well. International Group A rules were supposed to improve the racing, improve the technology, and have the world competing on an even playing field. All it did was show what a bunch of closed minded sooks that Australia was back then. How good would it have been to have a 355 Holden with AWD in the early 90s, instead we had to wait until the mid 2000s for them to finally catch up.

@chrometemple3291 4 ай бұрын

Agreed that the people is what we took from this story the most. The foundation car was great, but it was the people at Gibson Motorsport that mate it globally recognised as amazing.

@harrisionstan3773 2 ай бұрын

You do realise that the whole Gp A farce was dying by 1992? Was the Sierra banned? Or the Volvo 242? Or any other Gp A car? None were banned. The whole series had run it's course by then. But don't let the facts get in the way of your pity fest.

@Lazerus2008 4 ай бұрын

The legacy and greatness of the Skyline GTR can be placed squarely at the feet of Gibson motorsport.

@chrometemple3291 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely

@tonydownunder5703 4 ай бұрын

Talk about putting man on the moon,, Godzilla R32 GT-Rs Out dose all of that ✊💪💪👌

@Danger_mouse 4 ай бұрын

The Gibson team, Alan and co built the best cars in the category, anywhere. The GTR was a revolution in the sport and it made me proud as a Nissan fan and mechanic to see what the car was capable of! The Ford/Holden faithful all cry about the car being too good, but they were quick to forget that the VL Commodore had a Nissan heart in base trim and that even the great Peter Brock switched to the Ford Sierra to stay in touch... Group A was the pinnacle of motorsport, both in touring cars and the more widely followed Rallying classes. Every manufacturer could be involved and the non-race version of the cars were a product you could buy at a dealer somewhere in the world.

@Danger_mouse 4 ай бұрын

22:25 Oh please do it!! Then we'll see a whole new pack of arseholes 🤣

@toddalcock6879 4 ай бұрын

Australia should have never stopped Group A

@njclsx4252 4 ай бұрын

Rb's are still disturbing the peace more then ever in 2024

@dons1932 4 ай бұрын

Man Alan really knows his shit. I had no idea he was the head for Gibson on this car.

@michaeljames1857 5 ай бұрын

Nice video

@petewitt2867 5 ай бұрын

Increadabke engineering and design. But if you understand design or engineering using art as a superlative isn't really a complement.

@chrometemple3291 5 ай бұрын

How so Pete?

@petewitt2867 4 ай бұрын

@chrometemple3291 art is about expression. Design and engineering isn't about the designer/engineer, it's about solving a problem. In this case the problem is how do we go fast and wipe the floor with everyone else. Art isn't the pinicle of design. It's a while different category, with a different purpose.

@chrometemple3291 4 ай бұрын

@@petewitt2867 I guess that's where the expression about art being in the beholders eye came from then...

@petewitt2867 4 ай бұрын

@chrometemple3291 that's beauty, not art. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" Art isn't always beautiful, and things that are beautiful aren't always art.

@rs5001988 5 ай бұрын

Them were the dayz

@aisrael13 5 ай бұрын

What an era! I loved group c as a young lad, but these things were phenomenal!

@VincentViolence 5 ай бұрын

Makes me a proud owner!

@chrometemple3291 5 ай бұрын

Us too Vincent

@brucerobertson5919 5 ай бұрын

So did Alan, at 15:34, admit to cheating by having special blocks made for the Bathurst cars? Group A regulations require the block to be the same as that in the homologated production car.

@alexrogers1248 4 ай бұрын

Items pretty common for manufacturers to throw things into their production cars to benefit the racing. The N1 block is rumoured to have been developed for the road cars due to Group A.

@corriegillett2536 5 ай бұрын

I’ve been lucky enough to work on a few of these cars and under Allan, he is genuinely one of the nicest, smartest and most interesting men in Motorsport. He is as humble as they come and deserves finally being in the limelight for what he and the team achieved with these cars. Loved this video and makes me miss messing with them.

@chrometemple3291 5 ай бұрын

Well said! We had the pleasure of a few days with Alan and his knowledge and passion was amazing. Glad you loved the doco.

@metricstormtrooper 5 ай бұрын

And then supercars destroyed Australian Motorsport for good.

@ELZ-R 5 ай бұрын

Bloody legend Alan! Learned more from him now than when we met Fred and Jim a few years back. Incredible 35yr old tech and Aussie ingenuity. Best feeling owning one of these.

@rabidbigdog 5 ай бұрын

To all the Ford and Holden bogans, that somehow convinced the US owners of those brands that what everyone in Australia wanted was V8s "you're all a pack of a-holes".

@SpeedBrazilOficial 5 ай бұрын

AMAZING GUYS ❤

@filmntvguy1977 5 ай бұрын

Wow, what a video guys. Well done to cover such traversed ground, and yet being fresh insight to such an innovative icon of touring car racing.

@nnoddy8161 5 ай бұрын

Awesome interview with an outstanding Australian. Thank you. I love the story how Nissan Japan insisted that Gibson Motorsport could not run in the Fuji 500 so as too 'save face' and not show up the Japanese teams.

@ThunderAppeal 5 ай бұрын

Really dont give a fu.q

@Aaron_Hanson 5 ай бұрын

I actually had a brake pad damaged tyre from Mark Gibbs GIO Nissan. I asked for a tyre and they gave me one. It was placed on top of a brake pad during a pad change apparently. The pads had melted three grooves into the tyre and I’m guessing it was no longer useful for anything. I also got the rear tyre off Scotty Doohan’s Peter Jackson sponsored motorcycle. I think it was ‘93 or ‘94. It was at Oran Park Raceway. I was about 12 - 13 years old at the time.