Shell Australian Touring Car Championship

1992 index

1992; the final year of Group A in Australia. The ATCC saw a change in format, with a short preliminary for the top-6 qualifiers and now two heats to decide the outcome of the race. A lot was done trying to equalise the very different cars with a lot of bickering to the point were the championship winning Nissan team threatened to abandon the most high profile event of the year, Bathurt. But it was actually a cracker of a championship, and produced some great racing between the top contenders. While ultimatly the Nissan was still the car to have, it was comparitively very slow in a straight line compared to the Sierra, as was shown at Sandown early in the season.
CAMS kept throwing weight at it (which was the crux of the Bathurst pull-out threat) to the point where the team declared the cars dangerous, and Bob Forbes team abandoned their private GTR at Lakeside for their old VN Commodore. (Jesper Hansen/ten-tenths)