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The Skyline GT-R later earned the nickname "Godzilla", as a play on its "monster" track performance and country of origin. The R32 GT-R dominated the Japanese Touring Car Championship, won all 29 races it entered in the series, as well as taking the series title every year from 1990 to 1993. A Nissan R34 GT-R GT500 competition car
The first Skyline was introduced on 24 April 1957, at the Takarazuka Theater, in Hibiya, Tokyo, [3] for Fuji Precision Industries, marketed as a luxury car.It featured a 1.5 L (1,482 cc) GA-30 engine (also known as FG4A-30) producing 44 kW (60 hp) at 4,400 rpm, which was previously used in the prototype Subaru 1500, Subaru's first car. [4]
The Gibson Motorsport run Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R's were basically as they had finished 1990. The 4WD, twin-turbo cars nicknamed "Godzilla" were producing approximately 640 hp (477 kW; 649 PS), though CAMS made the cars carry an extra 15 kg to bring them to a total of 1360 kg, the heaviest car on the grid.
The third-placed Nissan Skyline GT-R of Mark Gibbs and Rohan Onslow, pictured in 2015. The 18th-placed Toyota Supra of John Smith and Geoff Morgan, pictured at the 1991 race. The 1991 Tooheys 1000 was a motor race which was staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst in New South Wales , Australia on 6 October 1991.
Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32) Nissan RB26DETT 2.6 L Twin Turbo I6: 2 Kenji Tohira: Y: 1–2 Hiroyuki Kawai: 1–2 Nissan Skyline GT-R (R33) Kenji Tohira: 3–6 Hiroyuki Kawai: 3–6 Hasemi Motorsport: Nissan: Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32) Nissan RB26DETT 2.6 L Twin Turbo I6: 3 Masahiro Hasemi: B: 1 Nissan Skyline GT-R (R33) Masahiro Hasemi: 2–6 ...
The series had its start from the late 1960s and was dominated by the C10 Skyline GT-Rs until the Mazda Savanna RX-3 ended its dominance of the series. With the emergence of Group 5 cars in the latter half of the 1970s, the series was succeeded in 1979 by the Super Silhouette class, which was held as a support race to the Fuji Grand Champion Series.
Nissan Skyline (R32) Naganori Ito ( 伊藤 修令 , Itō Naganori , born 1937) is a Japanese automotive engineer, and was responsible for the development of the eighth generation R32 Nissan Skyline including the BNR32 Skyline GT-R .
The winning Skaife/Richards Nissan GT-R. The race was won for the second year in a row by Jim Richards and Mark Skaife driving a Gibson Motor Sport prepared Nissan Skyline GT-R, the pair becoming the first back-to-back Bathurst winners since Peter Brock and Larry Perkins won in 1983 and 1984. Richards and Skaife had to be declared the winners ...