In 1992 Nissan brought a laser-guided missile to a gunfight.
The Skyline GT-R-32 was already nicknamed ‘Godzilla’ due its monster like performance which had already claimed the 1991 Australian touring Car Championship for Jim Richards.
With twin-turbos and four-wheel-drive, nothing else stood a chance.
Richards and Mark Skaife had won Bathurst in the Skyline -R the previous year, so for 1992 the GT-R was made to carry an extra 100kg of weight to slow it down.
Ford Hero Dick Johnson claimed pole in a Sierra RS500, and most blue oval fans thought he’d won when the race was stopped on the 145th lap after the leading Skyline had crashed into the wall then slid off at Forrest’s Elbow.
But rules meant the race had to be wound back to the previous completed lap, then another due to the number of crashed cars.
The result of all this was Richards and Skaife were declared winners.
With Ford fans booing - and Richards already distressed after being told that his friend Denny Hulme has died after suffering a heart attack on lap 33 – he delivered that infamous victory speech
“This is bloody disgraceful. I'll keep racing but I tell you what, this is going to remain with me for a long time, you're a pack of arseholes.”
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