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in 1992 after having their minimum weight increased to 1500kg!!! in the leadup to Bathurst. they were restricted to 1.3bar boost, and loosing a further 0.1bar boost at Bathurst due to altitude which Gibson claimed to be worth about 40bhp, the Skaife/Richards GT-R qualifyied on pole with a 2:13.820, and was the only car in the 13's during normal qualifying.

The Toohey's top 10 was a different story! The DJR Sierra, who like all other turbo cars was free to run whatever boost they want, turned the wick up for the Top10 Shootout and got pole. The GT-R ended up in 3rd with Skaife not able to equal the earlier qualifying times.

V8 Supercabs are 1350kg, have massive areo advantages and aren't hamstrung by having to use any factory parts or suspension pivot points or anything like that. The pole time this year was 2:06.9764 = 6.8436 faster than the production based GT-R, or in rallying terms, 1.1sec per km faster after 14 years of development into a silhouette series bearing no mechanical resemblance to the production car, and with massive aero packages and 150kg less weight.

Take the restrictor off and drop the extra ballast from the GT-R and I know which car I'd put my money on!