1992 Australian Touring Car Championship

The 1992 Australian Touring Car Championship was an Australian motor racing competition for Group 3A Touring Cars, commonly known as Group A cars. It was sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as an Australian National Title. The championship began on 23 February at Amaroo Park Raceway and ended on 21 June at Oran Park Raceway after nine rounds. It was the 33rd running of the Australian Touring Car Championship.

Mark Skaife, driving a Nissan Skyline GT-R for Gibson Motorsport, won his first Australian Touring Car Championship. His teammate and defending series champion Jim Richards finished second, with BMW M3 driver Tony Longhurst in third place.

Although Mark Skaife was the overall winner of the opening round at Amaroo Park, Peter Brock's win in Heat 1 of the round in his Mobil 1 Racing Holden VN Commodore SS Group A was the first race win by a Holden in the ATCC since Brock had won Round 6 of the 1986 ATCC at Surfers Paradise.

In an effort to reduce costs and to even out the cars, CAMS imposed a number of changes for 1992. Notably, the Holden Commodores and Ford Sierra RS500's were restricted to a 7,500 rev limit and the BMW M3's had an extra 50 kg added to their minimum weight limit.

However the biggest change came to the Nissan GT-R's. Before the start of the season the cars were given an extra 40 kg, bringing them up to a total of 1400 kg. CAMS also directed that the cars were to run Formula One style pop-off valves on the twin turbos to restrict their power, bringing them down from 1991's 640 bhp to around 450 bhp. Gibson Motorsport continually protested against the imposed penalties on the car (after winning the ATCC the cars were given an extra 100 kg to bring them 1500), and even took CAMS to court (unsuccessfully) in a bid to be able to run the GT-R as they were in 1991 claiming that they were no longer competitive. However most saw this as a false claim since the team won both the ATCC and the Tooheys 1000.

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers competed in the championship:

Team	Manufacturer	Car model	No	Driver
Winfield Team Nissan	Nissan	Skyline R32 GT-R	1	NZL Jim Richards
2	AUS Mark Skaife
Lansvale Racing Team	Holden	VN Commodore SS Group A SV	3	AUS Trevor Ashby
AUS Steve Reed
GIO Racing	Nissan	Skyline R32 GT-R	4	AUS Mark Gibbs
Holden	VN Commodore SS Group A SV	21	AUS Mark Gibbs
AUS Rohan Onslow
Mobil 1 Racing	Holden	VN Commodore SS Group A SV	05	AUS Peter Brock
7	AUS Neil Crompton
Alf Grant	Nissan	Skyline HR31 GTS-R	6	AUS Tim Grant
Caltex CXT Racing	Ford	Sierra RS500	8	AUS Colin Bond
Perkins Engineering	Holden	VL Commodore SS Group A SV	11	AUS Larry Perkins
Ampol Max 3 Racing	Holden	VL Commodore SS Group A SV	12	AUS Bob Jones
Warren Jonsson	Holden	VL Commodore SS Group A SV	14	AUS Warren Jonsson
Shell Ultra-Hi Racing	Ford	Sierra RS500	17	AUS Dick Johnson
18	AUS John Bowe
Benson & Hedges Racing	BMW	M3 Evolution II	20	AUS Alan Jones
23	AUS Paul Morris
25	AUS Tony Longhurst
Wayne Douglass	Holden	VL Commodore SS Group A SV	22	AUS John English
Terry Finnigan	Holden	VN Commodore SS Group A SV	27	AUS Terry Finnigan
Playscape Racing	Ford	Sierra RS500	28	AUS Kevin Waldock
Peter Jackson Racing	Ford	Sierra RS500	30	AUS Glenn Seton
35	AUS Wayne Park
AUS David Parsons
Phil Johnson	Holden	VL Commodore SS Group A SV	31	AUS Phil Johnson
Pro-Duct Racing	Holden	VN Commodore SS Group A SV	33	AUS Bob Pearson
Ron Masing	Mitsubishi	Starion	36	AUS Ron Masing
Brian Callaghan	Holden	VL Commodore SS Group A SV	37	AUS Brian Callaghan Jr.
Challenge Motorsport	Holden	VL Commodore SS Group A SV	39	AUS Chris Smerdon
John Leeson	Holden	VL Commodore SS Group A SV	40	AUS John Leeson
Daily Planet Racing	Holden	VL Commodore SS Group A SV	41	AUS Andrew Harris
Garry Willmington Performance	Toyota	Supra Turbo	41	AUS Garry Willmington
Stuart McColl	Holden	VL Commodore SS Group A SV	44	AUS Stuart McColl
Ian Love	Holden	VL Commodore SS Group A SV	45	AUS Ian Love
Bryan Sala	Ford	Sierra RS500	50	AUS Bryan Sala
Mike Steele	Ford	Sierra RS500	55	AUS Mike Steele
Holden Racing Team	Holden	VN Commodore SS Group A SV	61	AUS Tomas Mezera
Reda Awadullah	Holden	VL Commodore SS Group A SV	68	Egypt Reda Awadullah
Adrian Brooke	Toyota	Corolla SX	72	AUS Brad Stratton
Frank Binding	Toyota	Corolla SX	74	AUS Frank Binding
Barbagallo Motorsport	Holden	VN Commodore SS Group A SV	77	AUS Alf Barbagallo
John Holmes	Toyota	Corolla SX	78	AUS John Holmes
Scotty Taylor Racing	Mitsubishi	Starion	86	AUS Stephen Bell
Malcolm Rea	Toyota	Sprinter	88	AUS Malcolm Rea