The Holden V8 Supercar that never was

This video footage recorded in early 1992 shows the Holden Racing Team testing the prototype wing package for the first Commodore VP touring car racer.

The footage shows the team evaluating the aerodynamics of the prototype rear wing fitted to a Commodore road car travelling on a Melbourne highway, and being track tested on the existing HRT Commodore VN Group A racer at the Phillip Island track. A rudimentary front splitter design was also tested at Phillip Island.

This was the basis of the aero package the HRT intended to fit to the VP Commodore 5.0-litre touring car – effectively the first Holden V8 Supercar racer.

However, the final homologated wing and front spoiler fitted to the Commodore VP which made its race debut in the ’92 Sandown 500 turned out to be very different from what the HRT itself had originally planned on running.

Get the behind-the-scenes story on the difficult birth of the first Holden Commodore V8 Supercar racer, plus the saga of the Dick Johnson Racing Falcon EB that was banned before it got to turn a single race lap, in issue 134 of Australian MUSCLE CAR magazine – on sale now.