The situation didn't improve in 1997 with the team having to miss some rounds due to funding issues and Skaife leaving the team at the end of the championship to first partner (at Sandown and Bathurst), then replace the retiring Peter Brock at the Holden Racing Team. 16 sold, 12 available. After Fury took four round wins in the 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship and finished an unlucky runner-up in the series to the Volvo 240T of Robbie Francevic, the Peter Jackson sponsored team scored its first big win when Fury and Seton led Scott and new team driver Terry Shiel to a 1–2 win at the 1986 Castrol 500 at Sandown Raceway, the traditional warm up event for the Bathurst 1000. See Details. THIS IS A FAN APPRECIATION PAGE, Mark Skaife fan page, Former V8 Supercar Championship driver. Skaife would finish 3rd in the championship, winning Round 4 at Mallala in South Australia (the same day that Skaife gave the Nissan GT-R its ATCC debut) and Round 5 at Oran Park. Some of the former race team personnel work on the cars, while former GMS drivers Jim Richards and Mark Skaife have both driven their former Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS-Rs in historic competition, while George Fury has also reunited with his Bathurst pole winning Bluebird Turbo.[18][19][20]. [7] Richards went on to finish the turbo era in style when he drove the GT-R to win both of the "Clarke Shoes Group A Finale" races at the 1992 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide. It was later leased to Paul Weel Racing and today is Garry Rogers Motorsport's base. In spite of this and the team's year long claim that the cars were no longer competitive (which even led to court action in a failed attempt to have the handicaps lifted), Mark Skaife won the 1992 Australian Touring Car Championship, and then again teamed with Jim Richards to win the crash shortened Tooheys 1000, with teammates Anders Olofsson and Neil Crompton finishing in third place. Despite the new cars tendency to be unreliable, especially with its transmission, Seton and Fury showed enough speed in the ATCC to give hope to an end of the Ford Sierra domination, though in reality the team was playing catch-up all year having to develop the car as they raced it. Nissan) rather than to an individual driver or team. Unfortunately for the team parts for the car were late in arriving as Nissan also had to supply to teams in Japan and Europe (the European Nissan team was in fact run by Howard Marsden). 29 Morris Neal Bathurst 2000 Paul Morris, Matt Neal, Big Kev Commodore, Bathurst 2000. Mark Skaife and Jim Richards on the podium after their 1992 Bathurst 1000 victory. [citation needed], After sitting out 1985 while Nissan sorted out the homologation of its first Group A car, Nissan reappeared in 1986 with two Nissan Skyline RS DR30s, one driven all year by longtime team driver George Fury, and the second shared between Gary Scott and Glenn Seton, with Scott claiming pole position for the 1986 James Hardie 1000 (Seton partnered Fury who qualified 3rd). This saw the pair ultimately finish 2nd to Pirro/Winkelhock in the 1991 Nissan Mobil series.[6]. Gibson Motorsport was an Australian motor racing team that competed in the Australian Touring Car Championship from 1981 until 2003, though the team had its roots in Gibson's "Road & Track" team which ran a series of Ford Falcon GTHOs in Series Production during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mark Skaife, Holden Racing Team VT Commodore, Clipsal 500 Race 2 Winner, Adelaide 2000. !PAYMENT & ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONPAYMENT IS ONLY ACCEPTED VIA PAYPALOVERSEAS PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL ONLYCAN I PLEASE ASK ALL BUYERS TO COMPLETE CHECKOUT ASAPI WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS OR DAMAGED CAUSED BY AUSTRALIA POSTFULL REFUND OFFERED IF CUSTOMER NOT 100% SATISFIED (ONCE ITEM IS RETURNED) WITHIN 10 DAYS OF PURCHASE. After leading early, various suspension problems on the bumpy street circuit saw Richards and Skaife finish 5 laps down in 3rd place. A week later for the Pukekohe 500 on a fast, open circuit which suited the twin-turbo Nissan, Skaife easily qualified on pole before he and Richards went on to a 43-second win over the Schnitzer BMW of Pirro and Joachim Winkelhock with the Holden Commodore of Peter Brock and Larry Perkins finishing 3rd. The pair finished the race in 19th place after numerous mechanical problems which had started within the first 10 laps.

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