{"id":180291,"date":"2025-12-12T14:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/180291\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:21:16","slug":"skaifes-championship-prize-to-be-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/180291\/","title":{"rendered":"Skaife\u2019s championship prize to be sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE road car which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-90-Mark-Skaife\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Skaife<\/a> was given as prize for winning his first Australian Touring Car Championship is hitting the market.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Hocking Special Vehicles has announced it is overseeing the sale of the stunning \u2018red pearl metallic\u2019 Nissan Skyline GT-R, which previously belonged to Skaife and is one of just 96 road-registered examples, early next year.<\/p>\n<p>With only 15,313km on the odometer, this particular car came into Skaife\u2019s possession as a reward from Gibson Motorsport boss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-294-Fred-Gibson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Gibson<\/a> for winning the 1992 title.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/the-great-race-60-years-of-the-bathurst-1000-book?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/great-race-book_d21c3de0-8a54-426b-b505-0a3cd27f85e0_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That year, Skaife got the job done by 20 points over Nissan teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-159-Jim-Richards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Richards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to win another four championships, all in Holdens: one more for Gibson Motorsport (1994) before his Holden Racing Team three-peat (2000-02).<\/p>\n<p>Skaife continues to have a presence in the sport as a prominent broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>No price tag has been outlined yet for the GT-R, with further details promised to come in due course.<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut \u2013 Unpacking the Grand Final drama!<\/p>\n<p>The team return to break down all of the big talking points from Adelaide and season 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE road car which Mark Skaife was given as prize for winning his first Australian Touring Car Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-180291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}