To truly understand how the Nissan GT-R earned its monster moniker, you need to travel back more than 30 years, to the holy grail of Australian motorsport, Mount Panorama.
The year was 1992, and a rain-slicked Bathurst 1000 had just reached its controversial conclusion, with a red flag sent flying after officials deemed the conditions too treacherous to continue.
Officials backdated the race standings to determine the victor, handing the trophy to Jim Richards and Mark Skaife in the Nissan GT-R, despite Richards having already crashed his car in all the chaos.
The year was 1992, and a rain-slicked Bathurst 1000 had just reached its controversial conclusion, with a red flag sent flying after officials deemed the conditions too treacherous to continue.
Officials backdated the race standings to determine the victor, handing the trophy to Jim Richards and Mark Skaife in the Nissan GT-R, despite Richards having already crashed his car in all the chaos.
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00:00And Jim Richards now going to the yellow pole, as we said, with over 1.15, regulating glint
00:45Nothing was too hard. You had guys that could do every job you needed to do. And basically
01:09I think Fred re-engineered the GT-R to become Australianised, you might say. So it was a
01:16lot stronger and probably a quicker car than what the Japanese had.
01:19To see the cars and the famous nature of what those cars mean to Australian motorsport,
01:24but especially to our group, is extraordinary. And for Fred in particular, but for Jim Richards
01:30and I and plenty of the other drivers, the cars are a very special part of the history
01:34of this sport, and especially, you know, Nissan's involvement in the game.