To truly understand how the Nissan GT-R earned its monster moniker, you need to travel back more than 30 years, to the holy grail of Australian motorsport, Mount Panorama.<br /><br />The year was 1992, and a rain-slicked Bathurst 1000 had just reached its controversial conclusion, with a red flag sent flying after officials deemed the conditions too treacherous to continue.<br /><br />Officials backdated the race standings to determine the victor, handing the trophy to Jim Richards and Mark Skaife in the Nissan GT-R, despite Richards having already crashed his car in all the chaos.
