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Peter Geoffrey Brock (26 February 1945 – 8 September 2006), known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain", or simply "Brocky", was an Australian
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driver. Brock was most often associated with
Holden Holden, formerly known as General Motors-Holden, was an Australian subsidiary company of General Motors. Founded in Adelaide, it was an automobile manufacturer, importer, and exporter that sold cars under its own marque in Australia. It was ...
for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other manufacturers including
BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, trading as BMW Group (commonly abbreviated to BMW (), sometimes anglicised as Bavarian Motor Works), is a German multinational manufacturer of vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Th ...
,
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,
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,
Porsche Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, usually shortened to Porsche (; see below), is a German automobile manufacturer specializing in luxury, high-performance sports cars, SUVs and sedans, headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Th ...
and
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. He won the
Bathurst 1000 The Bathurst 1000 (known for sponsorship reasons as the Repco Bathurst 1000) is a Touring car racing, touring car race held annually on the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is currently run as part of the Supe ...
endurance race nine times, the
Sandown 500 The Sandown 500 (commercially titled Penrite, Penrite Oil Sandown 500) is an annual endurance racing (motorsport), endurance Auto racing, motor race which is staged at the Sandown Raceway, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from 1964. The even ...
touring car race nine times, the
Australian Touring Car Championship The Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) is a touring car racing award held in Australia since 1960. The series itself is no longer contested, but the title lives on, with the winner of the Repco Supercars Championship awarded the troph ...
three times, the
Bathurst 24 Hour The Bathurst 24 Hour was an endurance race for GT and production cars held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales in 2002 and 2003. Only two races were held before the collapse of the management organisation PROCAR. Both r ...
once and was inducted into the
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in 2001. Brock's business activities included the
Holden Dealer Team The Holden Dealer Team (HDT) was Holden's semi-official racing team from 1969 until 1986 Australian Touring Car season, 1986, primarily contesting Australian Touring car racing, Touring Car events but also rallying, rallycross and National Sp ...
(HDT) that produced Brock's racing machines as well as a number of modified high-performance road versions of his racing cars.


Early years

Peter Brock was born at the Epworth Hospital,
Richmond, Victoria Richmond is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Yarra Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Richmond recorded a population of 2 ...
, the son of Geoff and Ruth Brock (
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Laidlay). The family lived in the country town of Hurstbridge (now an outer suburb of Melbourne) and Brock continued to live there throughout his life. He attended
Eltham High School Eltham High School is a secondary school in Victoria, Australia. It is located in Eltham, Victoria, Eltham, a suburb which is north-east from Melbourne. The school has 'free dress' policy and is the only non-uniform secondary school in the Elt ...
in Eltham, Victoria. His first car was an
Austin 7 The Austin 7 is an economy car that was produced from 1922 until 1939 in the United Kingdom by Austin. It was nicknamed the "Baby Austin" and was at that time one of the most popular cars produced for the British market and sold well abroad. ...
that he bought for £5 ( A$10). He claimed that his driving skill improved at this point of his life because the car did not have brakes (or a body, which was removed with his mother's axe). Brock was drafted into the
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in 1965 and spent his two years of National Service stationed at the
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near
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in
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. During his time in the army, Brock was against the
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's plan to send conscripts to
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. Brock was in the Medical Corps where he often served as an ambulance driver. According to his brother Lewis, Brock and his mates used to race the ambulances around the base. Although they did not know each other at the time, also stationed at the Barracks from 1965 to 1967 was a young Dick Johnson who from the 1980s would go on to be one of Brock's chief touring car rivals. It was while on leave from the army in 1966 that Brock first visited Bathurst to watch the 500-mile production car race that was to become the Bathurst 1000. It was after watching the race that he decided that he wanted to become a race driver when he left the army. His brother
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also became a racing driver, and co-drove with his brother in the Bathurst 1000 on two occasions.


Racing career

During his early career Brock raced some "wild and woolly" creations including the famous blue 6-cylinder Holden-powered
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. Brock rose to public attention in
touring car racing Touring car racing is a motorsport road racing competition that uses race-prepared touring cars. It has both similarities to and significant differences from stock car racing, which is popular in the United States. While the cars do not move a ...
.


Bathurst

Brock made his debut at Bathurst in the
1969 Hardie-Ferodo 500 The 1969 Hardie-Ferodo 500 was the tenth running of the Bathurst 500 production car race. It was held on 5 October 1969 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia. Cars competed in five classes based ...
in a Holden HT Monaro GTS 350 alongside Des West, with the pair finishing third behind their winning HDT teammates
Colin Bond Colin John Bond (born 24 February 1942) is an Australian former racing driver. Bond reached the highest levels in Australian motorsport in 1969 when he was recruited by Harry Firth to the newly formed Holden Dealer Team. He quickly found succ ...
and Tony Roberts. He won the Bathurst 500 for the first time in
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(the last year the race was run over 500 miles and the last year in which driving solo was permitted). Brock would win the event a total of nine times between 1972 and 1987, a feat that has not been equalled. His
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win was remarkable in that he and co-driver Jim Richards claimed victory by six laps, a record that, due to changes in race regulations introduced in the mid- to late 1980s, most notably the introduction of the Safety Car in
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, may never be broken, and broke the circuit lap record for touring cars on the 163rd and final lap of the race (the record would stand until Brock himself broke it in
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). Brock had tried to set the lap record on the final lap of the 1978 race, but he was inadvertently baulked by the
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of
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through The Dipper. In 32 starts at Bathurst he claimed pole position a record six times (
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,
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, 1978, 1979,
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and
1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...
), with all bar his 1989 pole in a
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being for Holden. Brock also sat on pole for the
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V8 Supercars race but the time was set by his co-driver
Mark Skaife Mark Stephen Skaife (born 3 April 1967) is an Australian former racing driver. Skaife is a five-time champion of the Supercars Championship, V8 Supercar Championship Series, including its predecessor, the Australian Touring Car Championship, a ...
. His record at this race earned him the popular nickname ''King of the Mountain''. Peter Brock also won the second (and last)
Bathurst 24 Hour The Bathurst 24 Hour was an endurance race for GT and production cars held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales in 2002 and 2003. Only two races were held before the collapse of the management organisation PROCAR. Both r ...
race in
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driving a 7.0L V8-powered
Holden Monaro 427C The Holden Monaro 427C was an Australian built and designed GT style race car based on the Holden Monaro CV8 road car. The car ran in the Procar Australia-run Australian Nations Cup Championship and at the short-lived Bathurst 24 Hour race a ...
for
Garry Rogers Motorsport Garry Rogers Motorsport is an Australian motor racing team. It is owned by retired racing driver Garry Rogers who began the team to further his own racing efforts. Based in Melbourne, originally out of a Nissan dealership owned by Rogers, the t ...
. Brock won the race, which although not the Bathurst 1000, he regarded as his tenth Bathurst win driving alongside V8 Supercar drivers
Greg Murphy Gregory David Murphy (born 23 August 1972) is a New Zealand professional racing driver, best known as a four-time winner of the Bathurst 1000. Greg Murphy joined Jeremy Clarkson and James May presenting Top Gear Live, when it had its first in ...
,
Jason Bright Jason Paul Bright (born 7 March 1973) is a retired Australian racing driver who competed in the Supercars Championship, Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He drove the No. 56 Ford Falcon (FG X), Ford FG X Falcon for Britek Motorsport, a ...
and
Todd Kelly Todd Evan Kelly (born 9 October 1979) is a retired Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Supercars Championship, Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He is the older brother of fellow Supercars driver and former Bathurst ...
. The #05 Monaro won the race by less than half a second from the
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race winning GRM Monaro 427C driven by
Nathan Pretty Nathan Pretty (born 7 July 1973) is an Australians, Australian racecar driver. Career He first rose to prominence racing Australian Stock Car Auto Racing, AUSCAR Superspeedway sedans (a Holden Commodore), becoming rookie of the year in his ini ...
,
Garth Tander Garth Dirk Tander (born 31 March 1977) is a multiple-championship winning Australian motor racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship's Enduro Cup, co-driving for Grove Racing. He was the 2007 series champion for th ...
,
Steven Richards Steven James Richards (born 11 July 1972) is a New Zealand-Australian racing driver, currently competing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. Richards, the son of seven-time Bathurst 1000 winner Jim Richards (race driver), Jim Ri ...
and
Cameron McConville Cameron Eric "Conkers" McConville (born 22 January 1974) is an Australian racing driver and motorsport celebrity. While retired from full-time competition, McConville still races occasionally and is an in-demand endurance event co-driver. McConv ...
. The two Monaros finished 12 laps in front of the third-placed Porsche 996 GT3 RC of Peter Fitzgerald, Paul Morris, John Teulan and Scott Shearman.


Sandown

Along with his record at the Bathurst race, Brock also claimed victory in the traditional lead up race to Bathurst, the
Sandown 500 The Sandown 500 (commercially titled Penrite, Penrite Oil Sandown 500) is an annual endurance racing (motorsport), endurance Auto racing, motor race which is staged at the Sandown Raceway, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from 1964. The even ...
, nine times, including a string of seven consecutive wins from 1975 until 1981. He won a total of 37 races during his career in the Australian Touring Car/
V8 Supercar The Supercars Championship, also known as the Repco Supercars Championship under sponsorship and historically as V8 Supercars, is a touring car racing category in Australia and New Zealand, running as an International Series under Fédération I ...
championships, a record only eventually equalled by
Mark Skaife Mark Stephen Skaife (born 3 April 1967) is an Australian former racing driver. Skaife is a five-time champion of the Supercars Championship, V8 Supercar Championship Series, including its predecessor, the Australian Touring Car Championship, a ...
in 2006 and beaten in 2007.


Other Australian racing

Brock had a brief foray into
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when he raced a
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powered
Birrana 273 Birrana was the name of two motor racing organisations, both associated with South Australian racing driver and engineer Malcolm Ramsay. From 1971 to 1978 Birrana constructed a series of successful open-wheel racing cars under the Birrana name. ...
to 8th place in the
1973 Australian Formula 2 Championship The 1973 Australian Formula 2 Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title open to Australian Formula 2 racing cars.Australian Title Conditions, 1973 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, pages 84-85 It was the seventh Australian Formula 2 Champi ...
. Although he had some minor, non-championship wins in the car, his best placing in the national championship series was second behind series champion
Leo Geoghegan Leo Francis Geoghegan (16 May 1936 – 2 March 2015) was an Australian racing driver. He was the elder of two sons of former New South Wales car dealer Tom Geoghegan, both of whom become dominant names in Australian motor racing in the 1960s. ...
in Round 2 or Oran Park in Sydney. Brock's HDT boss Harry Firth later told that he let Brock race the Birrana to get formula racing "out of his system". Later in early 1984, Brock tested a
Ralt RT4 The Ralt RT4 is an open-wheel formula racing car, designed, developed, and built by Ralt for Formula Atlantic (and was also occasionally raced in Formula Two categories) in 1980. It was later converted into a closed-wheel prototype and used in the ...
with a view to possibly driving one in the
1984 Australian Drivers' Championship The 1984 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title open to drivers of racing cars complying with Formula Mondial regulations.CAMS Manual of Motor Sport 1984, page 90 The winner of the title, which was ...
and the end of year
Australian Grand Prix The Australian Grand Prix is an annual Formula One motor racing event, taking place in Melbourne, Victoria. The event is contracted to be held at least until 2035. One of the oldest surviving motorsport competitions held in Australia, the Gran ...
(which at the time were run to
Formula Mondial Formula Mondial was an international motor racing category which was introduced to replace both Formula Atlantic and the similar Formula Pacific''The Macquarie Dictionary of Motoring'', 1986, page 171 in 1983.''Australian Motor Racing Yearbook, 198 ...
rules), and put in some competitive lap times at Calder Park. However, he later decided that with the road car business, touring car commitments and the planned Sports Car races at
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and
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, he simply could not devote enough time to the project to make it worth doing. Brock and the Holden Dealer Team worked in partnership, with full factory approval and assistance, to produce a number of high-performance modifications to the Commodores under existing CAMS
Group C Group C was a category of sports car racing introduced by the FIA in 1982 and continuing until 1993, with ''Group A'' for Touring car racing, touring cars and ''Group B'' for Grand tourer, GTs. It was designed to replace both Group 5 (motorspor ...
regulations from 1980 to 1987. Some of these were HDT "
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specials", one step away from race cars. It was around this time that Brock began his run of six Bathurst 1000 wins in seven years with a pair of hat trick wins from 1978 to 1980 (with Jim Richards) and 1982 to '84 (with
Larry Perkins Larry Clifton Perkins (born 18 March 1950) is a former racing driver and V8 Supercar team owner from Australia. Biography Early years Growing up on a farm in Cowangie in the Mallee region of Victoria, Larry, the son of racing driver Edd ...
and
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), including his record-breaking six-lap victory in the 1979 event. While Brock was always
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in a Holden, he did have 'brief flirtations' with other makes in touring car racing. After his 1987 Holden split, he campaigned a
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in
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, becoming the official BMW Australia backed team for the year (his only win in the BMW would be in the 1988 Pepsi 250 at Oran Park), before driving a
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in
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and
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. As the turbo-charged Sierras were the Group A cars to have at the time it was seen as a logical move to return to the front end of the field. During 1988 Brock also campaigned a V8 Ford XF Falcon in the
Calder Park Thunderdome Calder Park Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The complex includes a dragstrip, a road circuit with several possible configurations, and the "Thunderdome", a high-speed banked oval equipped to race either cl ...
-based AUSCAR series, though unlike touring car rivals such as Jim Richards,
Allan Grice Allan Maxwell Grice (born 21 October 1942), known to motor-racing fans as "Gricey", is an Australian former racing driver and politician, most famous for twice winning the prestigious Bathurst 1000 (1986 and 1990), and as a privateer driver of ...
and Brad Jones, Brock's foray into
Superspeedway Oval track racing is a form of motorsport that is contested on an oval-shaped race track. An oval track differs from a road course in that the layout resembles an oval with turns in only one direction, and the direction of traffic is almost uni ...
racing was brief. With the increasing costs of running two Sierras, and with the teams technical support from the UK-based
Andy Rouse Andrew Ernest Rouse (born 2 December 1947) is a British racing driver, most notably in the British Saloon Car Championship. He won the BSCC in 1975, 1983, 1984 and 1985. Andy Rouse is one of the most successful drivers ever to appear in the ...
also stopping thanks to Rouse moving to drive for
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, Brock returned to driving a Holden in 1991, teaming with former HDT co-driver Perkins (who had left the HDT in mid-1985) to run a pair of VN SS Group A Commodores. The association with
Perkins Engineering Perkins Engineering was a team contesting the Australian V8 Supercar Championship Series, operating as an active racing team between 1986 and 2008. From 2009 onwards, the involvement of Perkins Engineering in the championship was wound back i ...
only lasted for one year, though Brock continued to run the ATCC driving in Commodores. A further flirtation away from Holden was in 1994 when he raced a
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in the one-off Eastern Creek 12-Hour. He also competed for the same
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team in the
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in
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, finishing 6th in the championship with a best finish of second in Round 7 at Lakeside in
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.


International racing

Brock's first international race came in 1971 when Harry Firth made a late decision to enter the HDT in the Guia touring car Race at the
Macau Grand Prix The Macau Grand Prix (; ) is an annual motorsport road racing event for automobiles and motorcycles held on the Guia Circuit in Macau. The event includes the Formula Regional and Motorcycle Grand Prix title races, with other races for Touri ...
. Driving one of the team's old Series Production LC Torana GTR XU-1s, Brock finished second behind 1971 European Touring Car Champion
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, who according to Brock in his regular "Auto Action" column, drove a full works
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2600. Ford rival
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also raced in his GTHO Falcon, but struggled throughout the meeting with tyre troubles and wasn't a factor in the race being some 20 seconds per lap slower than the Torana. Brock claimed that scrutineering was almost non-existent at Macau, while Firth would describe Glemser's Capri and the
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of third placed
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driver Albert Poon as "pretty damned rude" for not being strictly production cars as they were supposed to be. Unlike several other Australian drivers, including Alan Jones and Larry Perkins, Brock did not seek a full-time racing career outside Australia. He did attempt the
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three times in privateer vehicles, firstly in
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in the Team Brock BMW 3.0CSL which was bought in South Africa in late 1975 and shipped to Melbourne, where it was completely stripped and rebuilt. His co-driver was former Aussie and UK resident Brian Muir with the BMW lasting 17 hours before a head gasket blew. He then returned for the 1981 race teamed with former HDT teammate
Colin Bond Colin John Bond (born 24 February 1942) is an Australian former racing driver. Bond reached the highest levels in Australian motorsport in 1969 when he was recruited by Harry Firth to the newly formed Holden Dealer Team. He quickly found succ ...
and Bathurst co-driver Jim Richards in the
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Cars Australia #74 Porsche 924 Carrera GTR but while the team practised, they were only named as a reserve, not participating in the race itself. While at the
1983 Australian Grand Prix The 1983 Australian Grand Prix was a race for Australian Formula 1 cars held at Calder Park Raceway on 13 November 1983. It was the forty eighth Australian Grand Prix and the fourth to be held at Calder. The race was also the sixth and final ro ...
meeting at Calder Park, sports car racer and
1976 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 The 1976 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 was the 17th running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race. It was held on 3 October 1976 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia. The race was open to cars complying wit ...
winner John Fitzpatrick challenged Brock, that having won everything there was to win in Australia he should try his hand overseas with the 'big boys', meaning Le Mans. After millionaire businessman and racer
Bob Jane Robert Frederick Jane (18 December 1929 – 28 September 2018) was an Australian race car driver and prominent entrepreneur and business tycoon. A four-time winner of the Armstrong 500, the race that became the prestigious Bathurst 1000 and a ...
got involved with sponsorship through his
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, a deal was completed to race a
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B rented from John Fitzpatrick Racing in 1984. This car was a well-worn 956, chassis number 956-102 previously seen in J. David and Skoal Bandit colours. With regular HDT co-driver Larry Perkins, Brock finished 21st at the 1000 km of Silverstone after spending time in the pits fixing a broken rear suspension. The pair then drove in the
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. Perkins qualified the car 15th with a time of 3:35.340 which was 18.29 seconds slower than the pole winning works
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of
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(Brock was 2 seconds slower than Perkins, though his times were set on race tyres while Perkins was given a set of qualifiers). After a good start by Perkins in the hot conditions, Team Australia were running as high as 5th at one stage of the race before retiring after Perkins crashed in the Esses on lap 145 while trying to make up for lost time, which included a lost wheel while Brock was in the car, and a broken rear bolt which caused Perkins to almost spin the Porsche at close to while racing flat out through the kink on the famous
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. The Team Australia assault on the race, and the fortunes of the other Aussies including
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winner
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,
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World Champion Alan Jones and
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, was covered extensively in the Peter Mckay/Barry Naismith book "LeMans The Australian Assault". While in Europe in 1984, Brock was in the unusual situation (for him) of being the second billing in his driver pairing with Perkins. From 1974 until 1977 Larry Perkins had made 11 starts in F1 and, to the large number of European motoring press covering the two World Endurance Championship races, ex-F1 driver Larry 'Larrikins' Perkins was the star driver with Brock seen as nothing more than a saloon car driver. According to Perkins, "The Porsche exercise at Le Mans was great although PB (Brock) struggled with the 'Euro media' because no one knew who he was!" Brock also drove a
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with British driver
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to a surprise second place in the 1977
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. He also shocked many when he won the 1979
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Round Australia Trial driving for the HDT in a 6cyl Holden VB Commodore along with co-drivers Noel Richards and Matthew Philip. The shock came as many in the motoring press regarded Brock as a circuit racer and seemed forgot about his extensive Rally and Rallycross experience with the Dealer Team in the early 1970s. The press saw his inclusion merely as a publicity stunt by Holden and the race organisers in order to generate interest in the race. The Repco was a long-distance endurance rally that drove
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around Australia featuring some dirt road sections completely different to the circuit racing where he made his name. The Round Australia Trial was revived in 1995 (sponsored by Brock's long time backer
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) with Brock again racing for Holden in a
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prepared VR Commodore. Brock finished 3rd in the trial which was won by teammate (and former Australian Rally Champion) Ed Ordynski.


Retirement activities

After 1991 when teamed with
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, Brock continued to race in his own privately supported
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Commodores in
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and
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, before joining the factory
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in
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. Brock retired from full-time driving following the 1997 Australian Touring Car season. In the 1998 PlayStation Rally, formerly known as the Australian Safari, Brock Competed in the Production Class, racing a showroom-condition
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, with only safety modifications fitted to the vehicle. Alongside co-driver Wayne Webster, Brock took on the 22-day event, which covered over 18,000 kilometres starting in Adelaide and circumnavigating Australia. Despite the Jackaroo's standard production specifications, Brock and Webster performed exceptionally well, finishing second overall and winning the Production Class. After his nominal 'retirement' he made two returns to Bathurst. In
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he paired with Team Brock lead driver
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to a 23rd-place finish in the teams Commodore VX, Brock finished 25 laps down due to engine temperature problems. He then returned to the Holden Racing team for the 2004 Bathurst 1000, teaming with
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in a Commodore VY. The pair failed to finish after Plato was involved in a spectacular accident coming out of Caltex Chase with the
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of
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while Cleland was lapping the Commodore (which was limping to the pits with a blown tyre) on lap 29. The clash caused the Falcon to roll and enough damage to the HRT car to be out on the spot with Brock failing to get a drive in his last Bathurst race after Plato had started the car and was due to hand over to Brock a few laps after the crash. Brock also drove a
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for
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(GRM), winning four from four races in what was thought to be a one-off appearance in the support races for the
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in Melbourne. This led to him driving a 2nd Monaro built and run by GRM in the
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, a GT-type championship for highly modified and exotic road cars in 2003 before setting up his own team for himself and stepson
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in 2004 (with Monaros supplied by GRM). He achieved a tenth Bathurst endurance win in 2003 at the
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, when he won, with
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,
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and
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in his GRM Monaro, controversially powered by a 7.0L 427 cui V8 engine rather than the 5.7L Gen III as used by the production Monaro CV8 (the controversy came from no other car in Nations Cup being able to run a different size engine from the production model it was based on. Triple Nations Cup champion Jim Richards labelled the Monaro as a ''"Better V8 Supercar"'' when it first appeared at the 2002 Bathurst 24 Hour). In 2002, he returned to top-level touring car racing as a team patron with
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in V8 Supercar Commodore and drove in that year's Bathurst 1000 with the team was renamed 'Team Brock' as a branding exercise. The 'Team Brock' branding exercise was revived for
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this time with
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but this time Brock's role was as a mentor rather than a driver. Frustrated with the lack of control he held over a team bearing his name, Brock and the team parted company at the end of the season. He occasionally competed in various enthusiast-level motorsport events such as the
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with the Monaros he drove actually constructed by Holden Special Vehicles. His smooth on-camera persona and familiarity to older Australians continued to sell products, including
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(including a 2000 United States television commercial) and
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tyres, as the controversy of the Energy Polariser had been largely forgotten.


Other activities


Motor safety campaign

Brock worked with the
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authorities promoting the campaign against
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. The most obvious sign of this association was the race car number 05 which related to the 0.05%
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in Victoria, which he utilised constantly from the mid-1970s. Most cars he raced in, regardless of the motor racing division, bore this number, including the car in which he died.


Car modifications

Brock began publicly supporting and, eventually, began to fit to all Holden Dealer Team specials a device called the "Energy Polariser" containing crystals and magnets in an epoxy resin that, it was claimed, improved the performance and handling of vehicles through "aligning the molecules". The device was based on the principles of
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. The "Polariser" is being sold once more in an official HDT, Brock tribute upgrade pack. The overwhelming majority of the Australian motoring community regarded the device as
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, and Brock's promotion of it drove away HDT drivers like John Harvey, Allan Moffat and
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. Brock also recommended tyre pressures of 22
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(150
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) for his polariser-equipped vehicles, a level which many regarded as near-dangerously low. Holden, fearing the consequences of being associated with the device and a resulting breakdown in communications over Brock's plans for new models, cut ties with Brock and set up an alternative racing/modification operation,
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. During this period, Brock also became involved in the importation and even the modification of the Lada Samara, a cheap
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-built hatchback a world away from the high-performance V8-powered Commodores he was famous for. The Lada deal came at the right time for the Brock organisation as it saved the struggling outfit from potential bankruptcy. After his work with
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, Brock, during the period 1988–1990 sold around 200 personally modified EA-series Ford Falcons, Fairmont Ghias, Fairlanes and Mavericks through Austech Automotive Developments.


Media work

Due to his extraordinary success on the racing track Brock became the Australian racing driver with the highest-profile as he undertook several media commitments. When not racing he often appeared on New Zealand television screens as a presenter; hosting motoring shows such as TV3's '' Police Stop'' (1996–1998) and TVNZ's ''Love That Car'' (2000). In Australia, Brock hosted a show similar to ''Police Stop'' known as ''Police Camera Action'' which was shown on the
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(1996–98). Brock has been the subject of several
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documentaries—''The Legend'' (1997; updated 2004), ''Peter Brock - Nine Times a Champion'', Holden First Around Australia'' (Repco Trial VB Commodore)'', 25 Years of HDT Special Vehicles Collectors Edition (2006) and ''35 Years on the Mountain'' (2005). He was also due to star in a racing film ''King of the Mountain'' in early 2007.


The Peter Brock Foundation

He announced to a packed race track he was forming 'The Peter Brock Foundation', a philanthropic organisation funded by corporate sponsors and donations from the public. Aimed at disadvantaged youth and others experiencing difficulties in Australia. As of 2021 the Foundation still continues operating and has financed many activities and people.


Standing in community

As the lead driver for the
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in a succession of both 6- and 8-cylinder
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s and, later, V8
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, Brock became a household name that transcended motor racing as he emerged to be one of the best-known modern Australia and New Zealand racing drivers, spoken of with the same reverence as Formula One World Champions
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, Alan Jones and
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. In 1986, Brock was crowned '' King of Moomba'' by the Melbourne-based festival committee. His public standing was dented by controversy over his promotion of the "Energy Polariser" and domestic violence allegations levelled by an ex-wife, with calls to keep him out of the Australian Motor Sport Hall of Fame.


Personal life


Relationships

Brock married Heather Russell in 1967. The marriage ended in divorce two years later. Several years later, Brock met 1973
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pageant winner and Channel Seven weather presenter Michelle Downes. They married in April 1974 and divorced after only one year. In 2006, Downes said Brock assaulted her on a number of occasions, and forced her to have an abortion. Brock next entered into a relationship with Beverly "Bev" McIntosh, the wife of a member of his motor racing team. After two failed marriages, Brock was hesitant to marry McIntosh; and, although the couple never married, Peter always called Bev his "wife", and she changed her surname to Brock by
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. They had two children together. Her oldest,
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, is Bev's son from a previous marriage. Bev wrote Peter's biography herself in 2004 after finding most potential authors had incorrect preconceived notions about him. She also expressed a desire to show his human side, to encourage others that they, too, can achieve their goals. "Even
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said it's okay for him—it's us mortals that have the problem," she said. Bev described Brock as an imperfect but never violent man. Brock split with Bev in May 2005 after 28 years together. Their daughter gave birth to their grandson in 2006, two months before Brock's death. According to Bev, Brock was not an entirely faithful partner. She has described in a book her eventual tiring in the early 1990s of his relationships with "one too many secretaries". After splitting with Bev, Peter began a relationship with Julie Bamford, whom he had met through his former partner Bev some 20 years previously. Subsequently, Bamford's estranged husband Ron McCurdy, who had once been a close friend of Brock's, assaulted Brock during a chance meeting outside the Peter Brock Foundation's office.


Lifestyle

Brock, who lived hard in his early years, changed his lifestyle considerably after the failed 1984 Le Mans attempt left him physically and emotionally drained. After his return from Le Mans, Brock began to consult Melbourne-based chiropractor Eric Dowker. He gave up
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and
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and became a
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; five years later he became a
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. Eventually he returned to being a vegetarian.


Death

On 8 September 2006, while driving in the ''
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'06'' rally, Brock was from the finish of the second stage of the race at Gidgegannup, about from
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, when he skidded off a downhill left-hand bend on Clenton Road for over in his 2001 Daytona Sportscar and hit a tree sideways, in the driver's door. The 61-year-old Brock died within a couple of minutes of the impact. His co-driver, Mick Hone, was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition. Video footage of the crash (provided by a fan and the in-car camera) was reviewed by Western Australian police to help determine the cause of the crash. Coroner Alastair Hope decided that his death was caused by high speed and that no coronial inquest would be held. The video was not released to the public. Brock's children accepted the offer of a
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, with former partner Bev telling ABC Radio: :"
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was loved. He was in the public eye, and everything had to be done with a flourish and with a bang. It's probably the way he would want to go out (and how), he would want to be remembered." The editor of ''
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'', Ged Bulmer, said that Brock would be remembered for his nine victories at Bathurst, for "He had a long and very successful career there, he was the 'King of the Mountain' as he came to be known." Brock was farewelled with a state funeral at
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's St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral, on 19 September 2006. A permanent memorial was placed at Peter Brock's "home" raceway,
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, on 22 September.


Estate

Brock left three wills and a complex estate. The court battle between his family members was protracted and took over three years to complete.


Legacy

In honour of his achievements and in recognition of his contribution to Australian motorsport, the
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winner's trophy now carries his name. The Peter Brock Trophy was first incorporated for the
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. The race was won by
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and
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driving a
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. Lowndes had long been regarded as Brock's
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, and was a teammate of Brock in
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
. Lowndes and Whincup would go on to win three Bathurst 1000s in succession, matching the feat that Brock achieved twice. Next to the site of his most famous motor racing achievements at Mount Panorama, a memorial statue was built adjacent to the
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in Bathurst. Unveiled in 2008, the statue features Brock standing on his
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
Bathurst-winning
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. Two roads in
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have been named Peter Brock Drive: in Oran Park as part of the housing development that replaced
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, and in
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, near
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. In 1997, the Skyline section at the top of the Mount Panorama race track was renamed Brock's Skyline in his honor. A two-part television miniseries entitled '' Brock'' was aired on
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in October 2016, with
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playing the title character. However, the miniseries received criticism for trivialising and titillating his life.


Awards

In addition to his racing championships, Brock's efforts to society have been recognised in various ways: *
Member of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an Australian honours and awards system, Australian honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Monarch ...
(9 June 1980) – AM QB80. For service to the sport of motor racing. * Bent Spoon Award (1986) Awarded by the
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for his promotion of the "Energy Polariser" device. *
Australian Sports Medal The Australian Sports Medal is an award given to recognise achievements in Australian sport to commemorate Australian participation in major sporting events. Original recipients of the award included competitors, coaches, sports scientists, off ...
(24 October 2000) *
Centenary Medal The Centenary Medal is an award which was created by the Australian Government in 2001. It was established to commemorate the centenary of the Federation of Australia and to recognise "people who made a contribution to Australian society or g ...
(1 January 2001) For outstanding service to the community through fundraising. * National Service Medal (14 February 2006) – For Military Service (1965–67) * Simeone Foundation Spirit of Competition Award (2016)


Career results


Complete Australian Touring Car Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)


Complete World Endurance Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)


Complete FIA European Touring Car Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)


Complete World Touring Car Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Not eligible for series points


Complete Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)


Complete Bathurst 500/1000 results

Peter Brock won the Bathurst 500/1000 a record 9 times including winning the 1979 Bathurst 1000 by a record margin of 6 laps (still the race record as of
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). *
Super Touring Super Touring, Class 2 or Class II was a auto racing, motor racing touring car category defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) for national touring car racing in 1993. It was based on the "2 litre Touring Car Form ...
race


Complete Sandown endurance results

As he did at Bathurst, Brock won the Sandown Endurance race a record nine times during his career, including seven wins in a row from 1975 to 1981. He also finished on the podium in
1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
(2nd) and
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
(3rd).


Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results


Complete Spa 24 Hours results


Complete Bathurst/Eastern Creek 12 Hour results


Complete Bathurst 24 Hour results


Endurance wins

Peter Brock's other touring car endurance race wins (not including Bathurst or Sandown) include: *
1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
– Chesterfield 300 at
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and Phillip Island 500K at
Phillip Island Phillip Island (Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung: ''Corriong'', ''Worne'' or ''Millowl'') is an Australian island about south-southeast of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The island is named after Arthur Phillip, Governor Arthur P ...
*
1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
Phillip Island 500K at Phillip Island *
1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
– Rothmans 300 at Surfers Paradise *
1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...
– ABE Copiers 250 at Oran Park, Rothmans 300 at Surfers Paradise and McEwan Spanners Twin 250 at Calder Park *
1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...
– CRC 300 at
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and Adelaide 250 at
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*
1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...
– CRC 300 at Amaroo Park and Adelaide 250 at Adelaide International Raceway *
1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...
– Humes Guardrail 300 at Adelaide International Raceway *
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
– Motorcraft 300 at Surfers Paradise * 1986 –
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at Wellington Street Circuit (
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) * 1987 – Wellington 500 at Wellington Street Circuit (New Zealand) * 1988 – Pepsi 250 at Oran Park * 1990 –
Pukekohe 500 The Pukekohe 500 was an endurance motor racing event first held in 1963 at Pukekohe Park Raceway, Pukekohe, New Zealand. History The Pukekohe 500 had its origins in the Wills Six-Hour race that was first held in 1963 as a production car race, ...
at
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(New Zealand)


See also

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List of Australian Touring Car and V8 Supercar Champions The Australian Touring Car Championship, presently known as the Repco Supercars Championship, is a motor racing competition open to Australia's premier touring car category. A driver's title has been awarded since 1960 and titles for teams and ma ...
*
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Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an Australian honours and awards system, Australian honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Monarch ...


References


External links


Peter Brock Foundation

Chequered Flag Motorsport's Tribute to Brocky


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