I remember being young and watching Bathurst with my family and Brocciie in the A9X days. Imagine all the knowledge he’d be passing on if he was still here 😢
Thanks for the memories, i remember those in race interviews well. For those that don't know Peter Brock is truly THE KING OF THE MOUNTAIN, winning the 1000km race a total of nine times. He won in the years 1972, 75, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 87. He also won the 24 hour race in 2003 bringing his total wins at Bathurst to Ten. He was a true Legend and his death was a loss to motor racing in Australia.
I remember watching this race. That was Brock just having a chat with the commentators whilst flying over the hill. It wasn't practice, that just what Brock was like; the man was calm and methodical while he was fast and sideways. Unbelievable driver...miss you buddy 👊
I was lucky enough to be Brocky's passenger around a Melbourne circuit called Sandown in the 80s in this very car. Needless to say that it was an enormous privilege and a memory I will never forget. Please overlook the name dropping!! Have a look at Brocky's right elbow in the Bathurst footage. He was known for resting his elbow on the bottom of the window frame while he power-drifted through corners, often waiving to the crowd on top of the mountain when he had victory in the bag. Unfortunately the footage does not show Brocky's feet. His peddle movement was lightning fast and I remember him saying that foot speed is critical to fast lap times. Brocky won the annual Bathurst 1000 nine times, which is why he is still known as the King of the Mountain, almost 15 years after his tragic passing. Australia has had two F1 world champions in Jack Brabham and Alan Jones but Brocky is still revered as their equal in Australian motorsport. He is a true legend. On the topic of in-car cameras, the first usage was a driver called Peter Williamson, who successfully campaigned a Toyota Celica in the 70s and 80s. I believe the first time a camera was used was when Network 7, the broadcaster of the Bathurst 1000, asked Willow to try it. Williamson was a car dealer in Sydney and immediately agreed to the proposal. The in-car coverage was an immediate success and has since grown throughout the world.
@@jackmarstaeller7663 Both those cars were owned by him and both times the number 2 car was further back in the field, so those victories were even more impressive I think. In 1987 the number 10 car that he drove to victory was made up out of spare parts and only even entered to fulfil a contractual obligation, they didn't even expect it to finish the race, let alone win it
@Merduh Yurass 3 wins , lol , hardly a good go at it . 13th most wins 9 Australia Peter Brock 1972, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987 7 New Zealand Jim Richards 1978, 1979, 1980, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2002 Australia Craig Lowndes 1996, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2018 6 Australia Larry Perkins 1982, 1983, 1984, 1993, 1995, 1997 Australia Mark Skaife 1991, 1992, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2010 5 New Zealand Steven Richards 1998, 1999, 2013, 2015, 2018 4 Australia Bob Jane 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 Australia Harry Firth 1961, 1962, 1963, 1967 Canada Allan Moffat 1970, 1971, 1973, 1977 New Zealand Greg Murphy 1996, 1999, 2003, 2004 Australia Jamie Whincup 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012 Australia Garth Tander 2000, 2009, 2011, 2020 3 Australia Dick Johnson 1981, 1989, 1994 2 Australia John Goss 1974, 1985 Australia Allan Grice 1986, 1990 Australia John Bowe 1989, 1994 Australia Russell Ingall 1995, 1997 Australia Tony Longhurst 1988, 2001 Australia Rick Kelly 2003, 2004 Australia Will Davison 2009, 2016
The days of Brock and Johnson going ten-tenths around Bathurst just chatting live like they were on a Sunday afternoon cruise lol. Amazing pause, it just came so naturally to the guys. Yeah, pretty sure it was the 7 Network in Australia that pioneered in-car footage and driver commentary
Yep, Channel 7. I was working their at the time in Epping, it was an exciting time with motor sport and 18' skiff races on sydney harbour. I think it was Ian Murray who had the 7 logo on his spinnaker.
Brocky talking to commentators and waving to fans, friends and Bevo while racing was excellent but if you want classic in car commentary then Dick Johnson is your man. The broken wing coming into the Chase, the cursing buzz boxes across the top, and any comment that compared the car to a dog on lino! The seventies and eighties were the cream of Aussie racing and drivers. The sixties was bloody good too but there's less footage available. The nineties had the most coverage and incar and is great but by the end and into the 2000s the rules, highly professional big budget teams, standardising of platforms and overall management has made it an overproduced circus. Brocky, Dick, Moffat and all the other legends.Aussie race fans miss you.
Brock wasn't just a great driver. He was a great guy and a roll model for young kids. Spoke with him in the pits when I was 12. Took the time to sign my t shirt and speak with me. Something that not all of the other drivers would do. He was a genuine nice bloke.
@@Rusty_Gold85 Not as necessary these days with modern synchros but still a cool technique to hold onto. Heel toe (apart from sounding really cool LOL) alone does still give a lot of benefit to the drive train though that double clutch was needed to keep a race car alive back then.
The amount of time and respect he had for fans is unmatched in the racing world. I met Brocky a few times, line ups were long, he stayed until everyone had signed items and or shook his hand, 2 or 3 hours, didn't matter. Always had a quick yarn on the way through. Such a sad day when he passed away
Channel 7 first put Cameras in race cars in 1979. The car Peter is driving is as said a Commodore with a fuel injected 5 ltr V8 and revs to 7500 rpm, with a rev limiter on it. He would hit 280 KPH down Conrod Straight, the one downhill. Cheers from Australia.
Look up Bathurst in the rain lap. In the commodore.. American commutators couldn't believe he was doing 170mph plus with elbow on window and driving one handed..😎
An absolute legend of the sport, so dearly missed and we loved him every bit as much here in New Zealand as they did in his homeland. Whenever he jumped across the ditch for a race event or some other engagement as he often did, he was treated like an honorary Kiwi, he was respected and adored that much. A truly great Australian and will never be forgotten. An interesting aside you might not be aware of (and apologies if anybody has already mentioned this in the 600+ comments) his race number 05 was in reference to the 0.05% alcohol limit for drink driving, of which he was a strong campaigner against and every one of his cars since sometime in the 70's carried that number.
No, it would've been during the race, he was well known for his relaxed driving and often can be seen waving to the crowd as he was going over the mountain,
Yea I discovered that later on when they showed wide shots, I laughed because he was so chill and relaxed! Thought no way he’s racing other cars hahaha Peter Brock seemed great, in his ability, and in personality too
If you watch his knee when he down shifts you will see that he is double clutching so as to match his clutch plate rpm with the engine rpm before re engaging the engine with the drive train. His expert treatment of a car during a race was unsurpassed and the reduction in mechanical stress gave him a great many more finishes with an entirely sound machine than was usual. He put a car on like a quality suit and kept it wrinkle free for the duration. I watched him live many times and he was the only driver that has ever truly fascinated me. He was, absolutely, a legend.
I cannot recall who is was but i saw an interview with a driver who raced against Brocky at Bathurst in the wet, and he said that he came onto Conrod and Brock had his car pretty well sideways and was looking back at him and grinning.
Mate, he is not talking to the race boss or his pit crew, he is actually talking to the media race call team on live broadcast television at 150 to 180 mph in a professional competitive race ( I was there and know) and if you watch the whole thing very carefully you will note he cuts talk very occasionally to talk to his tech support team. Peter Brock or Peter Perfect is an Icon and deservedly so. LEGEND MATE!!!!!!!
Glad to see you're loving our Aussie racing mate, watched a few of your reacts today haha. I've been around and all over the States a couple of times and the folks over there love our racing and love John Farnham - You're the Voice (equivalent to Neil Diamond), when they get introduced to it! Great content mate, keep it up! Pleasant to listen too.
This. The engine size was lowered from 308ci (5047cc) under Group C rules to 304ci (4982cc) for the Group A regulations to avoid additional weight penalties. As for the incline going up the mountain I can confirm that the camera DOES NOT come close to showing it. I did a lap of the mountain on a bicycle and had to take a rest before the cutting because I was gassed. Coming down, I barely pedaled coming down through the esses and onto forest elbow and took it easy on Conrod and still hit 70km/h.
@@PiDsPagePrototypes the 304 was an Australian engine, they destroked the engine to lower it from 308cu to 304ci. The Holden valves and Chev valves are similar, but not the same, slight difference in installed height / length. Same shaft diameter, different head diameters. From memory the Chev valves were slightly shorter. You could fit them if you did some serious seat / head work.
The engine is the Australian Holden V8, in this VK version in 86 it was a 304 cube, slightly destroked from it's traditional 308 cube to fit under the five litre regulations for international Group A. Being under five liters allowed 500kg less weight under the regs.
Hey Doug it allowed a weight drop from 1400kg to 1325kg, so 75kg not 500kg. The 304 also got a double row timing chain and uprated rocker gear. There was also a new conrod very quietly homolated just before the 1986 bathurst race, apparently the HDT supplied them to the privateer teams but Perkins was denied access to the new rods until Larry jumped up and down so much about this that 2 sets arrived mysteriously at his workshop “without invoice”. Strangely enough the Grice/Bailey chickadee roadways team had these rods already installed before LP even knew of their existence!
500kg??!! Wow. They would be utterly mad not to reduce the cubes. I'm over 50, but never knew about that weight stipulation. I was a quite a fan of Peter Perfect in the 80s. Guess I still am.
Big thanks for your respectful commentary on all your videos. I remember this actual race, I was a CL teenager and each October watched Bathurst. Peter Brock was actually racing in the video. They did in car chats and laps with a few drivers Dick Johnson had a few too. Peter Brock’s car was a 308 V8 which is a 5 Litre V8 as we say here in Oz. Peter was the King at Bathurst however Dick Johnson usually finished the each year with the highest points overall across all the races. You can drive around Bathurst as it is a street with farms and various homes along it. The track is very very step and on the way down I was driving about 30 kilometres (about 19mph) and that was scary. Be careful though many tourists drive the track and on the straight they speed down it only to see the police sitting there with a radar. Thanks again. Come down under mate and bring the family.
He's racing that's just how much of a legend he was, he knew his babies (cars) inside and out even working on tuning his own cars, got to meet this great man twice
Race cam is an Aussie invention and transformed Motorsport to something taken for granted now. The first prototypes were massive cameras bolted to the roll cage and relayed pictures to the helicopter above following the car. Peter Brock was an intruiging fellow with many issues but he was and still remains the greatest touring car driver this country has produced. Unfortunately he passed away competing in a Targa road rally in 2006. Race fan or not, everyone knew Peter Brock. The whole country stopped in shock. I count myself lucky to have met him many times and never would he leave an event until every last autograph was signed and every picture taken. Despite his personal flaws, he was and still is, the greatest we’ve ever had.
Yes, In Car Race Cam was invented in Australia, by engineers and techs at HSV7, a cousin of mine was on that TV team, and he advised me, when I stuck a camera in the wing of a Sprintcar, being first to live link that back to a mobile control, back in '95. Now you need to look at some Dick Johnson videos of Bathurst 😁
Wasn’t that the HSV7 sponsored car that won it in 1976 that carried the first in-car camera? From what I remember it was basically a standard OB camera that they bolted in the passenger’s side seat well. Fitzpatrick brought the thing home on 6 cylinders.
@@michaeljudd4319 Not the 'standard' camera, which were huge then and are huge now. It was called a 'mini' camera, about the size of a shoebox with somewhat lesser picture quality and small lens, plus a bigger box for the radio link to the helicopter that relayed back to the OB Truck. You could out-perform it with the analog cameras mounted on FPV race drones these days, let alone the digitial systems DJI now sells, without needing to relay.
Peter Brock was known as "The King of the Mountain". Did you notice he often rests his arm on the door sill and drives just as hard. The VK was his favorite model of Holden (GM). The engine was a 308 ci naturally asperated engine de-stroked to 304ci and was originally designed (in the 60s) off the best bits of Chev, Olds and Buick engines.
@@paspax In 1985, a destroked version of the 308, known as the 4.9L or 304, was introduced to allow the VK to compete with a lower minimum weight (1325kg, a saving of 75kg) under the 4501-5000cc regulations of Group A touring car racing.
7:24 you have no idea how tight and steep that twist is, I took my r34 back when I was on my L plates and you almost think the car won’t make it through! Crazy road indeed!
Yeah brilliant stuff. Racecam was developed by one of our techo's John Porter (I was a supervising camo at channel 7 back then) the chopper pilot who was responsible for tracking the uplink had himself some skills too. Good times working for 7 sport back then
Engine is a carburettored 304ci holden v8 to fit in with international group a rules. Brock ran a business that built the road going cars these were based on. Search Holden Blue Meanie to see the road going version.
@@thewoomelanghotel8756 304ci. The same 304ci block that was produce right up until they were stopped for the SeriesII VT Commodore. Biggest difference they had was fuel injection. Those same 304ci engines are still produced and built for today’s Supercars, as the 5L rule was never changed.
308ci, the installation of the EFI gear and reduction in size to 304 was to fit inside the 5L cap rule. back with this motor is was still the 308 running a Carby
I grew up watching Brocky during the 80s & early 90s and continued watching him driving the Targa's and other races around Australia. He was an amazing driver, with so much passion and determination. I'll never forget the times he had the window down, his arm resting on the window sill and hand on the steering wheel and just waving at everyone! My absolute favourite driver, even to this today and probably till I go! Absolutely gutted and shattered when he died! Brocky will always be a legend in my eyes.
They do 120-130mph through the slow bits like the curves coming down the mountain. I have driven that section of road several times (doing the speed limit, not wanting to get booked) but the first time I came through there I couldn't believe how they ever did the speeds they did. My car was squealing the tyres at the speed limit. Granted I was staying on the correct side of the road and not using the whole road like they are doing, but they would be doing close to three times the speed I was going. Being it was a open public road I wasn't game to give it a blast through the racing line through there, although I was very tempted. There are apparently speed cameras on that road and I didn't know where they were hidden.
@@DodgyBrothersEngineering Myself and a mate did some silly things through that area in an old LH Torana years ago. Even using more than our share of the road, doing more than 60-70kmh was fairly scary.
Mind blowing to think about, any racer that can run that course, over and over and win races, hell even just complete the race without crashing… ought to fell alright because every time I see this track it looks challenging. One of the most unique tracks I’ve ever seen
@@IWrocker i live in the track area its funny having grown up here and done night runs my whole life around the track it doesn't feel like a hard track to me, if anything i have issues on flat tracks when i do track days
@@NoMatureContent I have been around it in 3 different vehicles a Ford KC Laser TX3, in a Nissan 180SX, and my Kawasaki ZX-10R. If the road was blocked coming up, I reckon I could do 100kph coming down through the Esses, but that is still no where near what the V8 Supercars do, they are still doing probably double that. The turn coming onto the main straight was probably the most surprising corner, I swear I picked up a wheel coming through there in the Laser.
Oeter Brock was a legend in touring car racing in Australia. He was so precise in his driving the press coined the phrase, Peter Perfect. One year in Bathurst, he held pole position and didn`t relinquish the first position from the start to the finish of the race. It was often common for him during the last lap of the race to try for a lap record to prove how good his car was and how good the set up and crew work was. The first racecam was in a Toyota Celica in 1979 and the driver was Peter Williamson. Technology improved over the coming year and cameras that could turn on their own axis and cameras mounted in headlights were just some of the innovations during the next year. Much of the tricky racing at Bathurst occurs across the top of the mountain. It is only when you hit Forests Elbow, a tight left hander and go down the hill into Conrod Straight does the driver really descend. I have driven a standard 4 cylinder Toyota over the mountain when races were not onb and it is tricky to even drive doing regulation speed limits..and YES the police do regular trips across the mountain to catch the hoons who think they want to try out a real race track.
This was back in the day when the race cars were taken straight from the production line, stripped down and modified into a race car. The shell of this Commodore is identical to the normal family sedan. Going by the footage it looks as though the original dashboard was still there, albeit modified. Every year since, the cars evolved away from the factory model a little bit every year up until 2013 when they became like NASCAR with a tubular frame with stuck on panels just to look like a sedan. They might use a plastic grill or tail light from the manufacturer but that's about it. Everything else is built from the ground up. The current (and last) Commodore being raced is based on a front wheel drive V6 sedan, yet the race car is RWD with a V8. So that explains where they're at now..
I miss those days when they raced real cars. Go back a bit further than this and they used to change tyres with a jack and a wheel brace. None of these quick change brakes, if you ran out of brakes back then you just backed off a bit until they came back or they went to the floor and you had to stop (one way or another).
@@micksmith-vt5yi up until 1990 when the Ford Sierra's & Nissan Skylines which you couldn't buy were racing. However the VN SS Commodore, which you could buy hadn't sold enough to race
I remember my neck nearly snapping as a kid the first time I saw a VK when they came out. I thought it looked like a car from the future haha. There were kids named Brock after this guy. It's interesting the stuff you pick up on from these vids. Enjoyed it, cheers!
Man if you drove a Honda Civic you gotta check out Jordan Cox overtake Bathurst!!!!! It's short but mind blowing. Thanks for another great reactions video.
A lot of Australians thought we lost a legend when Steve Irwin died. Peter Brock was killed only four days later and we then really knew we had lost someone very special.
We lost both Steve Irwin and Peter Brock in the same week in 2006 there's a great sketch of Steve standing on the side of the road with a crocodile under he's arm and brockey has pulled over in 05 and says jump in mate I'll give ya a lift.
That’s heartbreaking honestly… wish I would’ve discovered Peter Brock earlier, I even had a couple somber days when Steve Irwin passed, grew up watching him in the 90’s. And that sketch sounds like a great and clever reminder of 2 legends
No, it was not Richard Carlton. He passed on due to a heart attack, covering the Beaconsfield mine collapse and rescue. This person died either the day before or the same day as Steve Irwin.
My mates and I as kids used to sneak under the fence at Amaroo raceway to watch the races. We were spotted this one day by Security who began to frogmarch us out of the venue. We were also spotted by Brocky because it was near the rear of his team’s tent that we entered. Brick approached, told Security that were with his pit crew and we spent the rest of the raceday watching from the Marlboro dealer tent. Legend!!!
Even though I am ford fan great respects to the King of the mountain RIP Peter Brock, tragically killed in tarmac rally crashing into tree a few years ago. By the way talking to commentators
look where his right atm is sitting!(resting it up on the window sill) dude was so cool and calm behind the wheel... and being able to commentate while driving was amazing...
Peter Brock King of the mountain peter perfect what ever you want to call him. Was an absolute 💯 legend nerves of steel watching how relaxed he always was whenever the cameras switched to him, it was like a walk in the park for him. Amazing
@@IWrocker hey Ian check out 'brock on it', it's brock in his vn efi 5litre.. Absolutely awesome, 1991 Bathurst top ten shootout, turn up the volume ol mate, and listen to the legendary Aussie v8. Ps vn is a commodore, the ol vk, would have been a 308 carby fed, the vn was 304 efi, same engine slightly destroked , to be come under 5 litre, for different weight penalties, inflicted on cars 5litre and over
Brockie's nickname was Peter Perfect. That's why it was such a huge shock in 2006 when he ran off the road at high speed during a rally and died. He really was one of the greats of Australian motor sport.
Just discovered your vids. Love your channel! Massive fan of Mt Panorama. True story - I rode down the track on my Mountain Bike one year. Had a little bit of rust on the rims....by the time I got to pit straight I completely wore down my rubber brake pads. Crazy...
My first ever car was that make / model (i.e. GM Holden Commodore VK, 1986 - but I ran an I6 202 Black Motor with the Bosch EFI, not the 253 / 308 OHV V8's that were standard for the day) that I kitted-up with the same HDT-stamped front air dam, rear spoiler, side skirts, and grille; based on my worship of Brockie and the Holden Racing Team of my day (when he was racing with Craig Lowndes). Peter Brock was a racing legend from back in the day of his GTR XUI Torana, and I'm glad you have love for Bathurst and the V8 Supercars as well.
We are still sad about PB passing away. Been to the mountain many times for the 1000. Reed park, skyline. seen them focused eye's go past many time's. Thank you for your zeal and genuine passion for learning new stuff about us whom live "up side down" ^^. They did race motorbikes @ the mountain as well, once upon a time.
Hi from Australia, very cool you've commented on Peter and our awesome Holden 304 cubic inch V8. I was at Bathurst that year as a 15 year old kid, our Holden Commodores took on the might of Japan, and Germany and the UK during this era and won more times than not at Bathurst. Love that you commented on the sound, for me one of the best sounding race cars of all time. 👍
Glad you’re here thank you! So cool that you were actually there, and I’m telling ya what… those cars look great but they sound absolutely stellar! I could hear it sing through my headphones, when he downshifted coming hot into sharp turns, I was drooling lol
I'm delivering you the sad news that Bev Brock has passed away aged 77. I had personally seen how good a woman she was. My condolences to the Brock family
I think the first camera in a race car was 70s in a Toyota Celica, The motor is a 308 Australia built, 5sp. The police love Conrad Straight, the speed limit is 60ks ( 37mph). To see the KING OF THE MOUNTAIN at his best, '79,won by 6 laps ,A9X Torona v8 . The cars were road cars built to racing standards, not like today's supercars, which in my opinion is BORING AS .
I’ve always loved my Fords, but…..always loved the sound of both Ford and GM V8’s in our Aussie Motorsport. As a Ford fan, I also acknowledge where respect is due…..Peter Brock was and still is the best Driver this country has ever had. If I recall correct, after he retired from the competition he still would come back to race the Bathurst race.
There is NO bigger legend in motorsport than Peter Brock. Every single time you went up to him he had TIME for you, signed whatever you wanted. RIP Brocky. The very first in car camera was 1979. The engine is a Holden 5.0 litre 308 V8, all Aussie engine. Beautiful sounding. Peter won 9x Bathurst 1000 races. His first Bathurst race was 1969. His HDT road cars are also awesome, now just incredibly expensive on some models.
G'day to you, racecam started here in Australia in 1979 at bathurst.. A helicopter picked up the signal from the race car and transmitted back to the outside broadcasting vehicle.. 👍
For non locals watching, car was based on road car, Holden 4.9Lt V8, modified road car heads and block, steel crank/rods, big solid cam, and highly modified Quadrajet carb, about 420hp. Gearbox is Getrag dog leg 5 speed. Heel-toe down shifts, and H pattern is reversed so 2nd-3rd/4th-5th are in a straight line
The 1986 Bathurst 1000km race was for cars in three classes Class A For cars of up to 2000cc engine capacity, it saw a variety of cars entered. Most numerous were variations of Toyota Corollas, with individual entries of a turbocharged Fiat Uno, a Ford Escort and a Nissan Gazelle. Class B For cars of between 2001 and 3000cc engine capacity, it featured the turbos; Mitsubishi Starion, Nissan Skyline and Volvo 240, but also included Alfa Romeo GTV6, BMW 323i, Mercedes-Benz 190E and Toyota Supra. Class C For cars of over 3000cc engine capacity. Apart from a strong presence of BMW 635 CSi, the swansong of the V12 Jaguar XJS, and the first appearance of a turbocharged Ford Sierra, it was the domain of the V8; Holden Commodore SS Group A, Ford Mustang and Rover Vitesse. Commodores ran 1 and 2 then the early Nissan Skyline then the Dick Johnson Mustang ( Fox body?) Peter Brock's Commodore only made it to fifth place that year.
I remember when he was an unknown running around Oran Park (western Sydney) in his track legit Austin A30 with the Brock tuned 179CI Holden engine..he was known for his paddock bashers but he somehow got this one sanctioned for racing in the "Improved Touring" category. Improved it was, no other A30 like it on the planet. From the start Brocky knew how to make a statement.
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As an Aussie, I say thank you for the respect given to an Aussie legend.
Well said 👌I name my son after brockie
Well said brother, long live the king of Bathurst ❤
He's a legend here in New Zealand too.....he raced a lot here as well! A true blue Aussie though, nice guy and real gentleman.
The legendary VK Holden Commodore driven by the king of the mountain Peter Brock.
I was looking for this comment
And note his co-driver, the great Allan Moffat. I had forgotten they shared a vehicle
The best of the best!! RIP Brocky. You are sadly missed.
PB is an Australian legend. His passing stopped the entire nation :(
Rest his concrete bones. Such a sweet man ✌️
My son was at the next corner when it happened!
It was a bad week cause Australia lost two icons. Steve Irwin died as well.
When Steve Irwin died, i said to my mates, "wow , that's like Peter Brock on the scale of Aussies who you think will live forever". A week later....
I remember
being young and watching Bathurst with my family and Brocciie in the A9X days. Imagine all the knowledge he’d be passing on if he was still here 😢
Thanks for the memories, i remember those in race interviews well. For those that don't know Peter Brock is truly THE KING OF THE MOUNTAIN, winning the 1000km race a total of nine times. He won in the years 1972, 75, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 87. He also won the 24 hour race in 2003 bringing his total wins at Bathurst to Ten. He was a true Legend and his death was a loss to motor racing in Australia.
Brock is an absolute legend of Bathurst, winning it a record 9 times. The winning trophy for Bathurst is now named in his honour.
Peter Brock in an old Commodore... I'm not crying... I have something in both my eyes...
RIP Legend
Me too mate...
Me too. Neighbours must have been cutting onions.
Arms out come in Bro we all loved him.
I remember watching this race. That was Brock just having a chat with the commentators whilst flying over the hill. It wasn't practice, that just what Brock was like; the man was calm and methodical while he was fast and sideways. Unbelievable driver...miss you buddy 👊
Brocky King of the Mountain, such a sad day when he passed 😥
Yep, me and my father idolised him… my old man came and got me from school early and told me when it happened. Such a sad day for sure
@@joshuareglin9711 I was at work it came over the radio. I cried that day.
Shit year for Australia Steve Irwin died same year
@@uteboy86 Both went doing what they loved most.
But I agree
@Xavier Wilson Peter Perfect was one of his nicknames.
scalectrix slot car track?
I was lucky enough to be Brocky's passenger around a Melbourne circuit called Sandown in the 80s in this very car. Needless to say that it was an enormous privilege and a memory I will never forget. Please overlook the name dropping!! Have a look at Brocky's right elbow in the Bathurst footage. He was known for resting his elbow on the bottom of the window frame while he power-drifted through corners, often waiving to the crowd on top of the mountain when he had victory in the bag. Unfortunately the footage does not show Brocky's feet. His peddle movement was lightning fast and I remember him saying that foot speed is critical to fast lap times. Brocky won the annual Bathurst 1000 nine times, which is why he is still known as the King of the Mountain, almost 15 years after his tragic passing. Australia has had two F1 world champions in Jack Brabham and Alan Jones but Brocky is still revered as their equal in Australian motorsport. He is a true legend. On the topic of in-car cameras, the first usage was a driver called Peter Williamson, who successfully campaigned a Toyota Celica in the 70s and 80s. I believe the first time a camera was used was when Network 7, the broadcaster of the Bathurst 1000, asked Willow to try it. Williamson was a car dealer in Sydney and immediately agreed to the proposal. The in-car coverage was an immediate success and has since grown throughout the world.
Win on Sunday , sell on Monday ?
Tks info and great memories you have, cheers
In 1979 Brock won by 6 laps, a feat never repeated, also set the fasted lap on the last lap , just to show off
@Merduh Yurass hope lowndes can get to 9
@Merduh Yurass two of those victories were when he stole his team mates car (that was allowed back then) so I like to think he and Lowndes are even
@@jackmarstaeller7663 Both those cars were owned by him and both times the number 2 car was further back in the field, so those victories were even more impressive I think. In 1987 the number 10 car that he drove to victory was made up out of spare parts and only even entered to fulfil a contractual obligation, they didn't even expect it to finish the race, let alone win it
@Merduh Yurass 3 wins , lol , hardly a good go at it . 13th most wins
9 Australia Peter Brock 1972, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987
7 New Zealand Jim Richards 1978, 1979, 1980, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2002
Australia Craig Lowndes 1996, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2018
6 Australia Larry Perkins 1982, 1983, 1984, 1993, 1995, 1997
Australia Mark Skaife 1991, 1992, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2010
5 New Zealand Steven Richards 1998, 1999, 2013, 2015, 2018
4 Australia Bob Jane 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964
Australia Harry Firth 1961, 1962, 1963, 1967
Canada Allan Moffat 1970, 1971, 1973, 1977
New Zealand Greg Murphy 1996, 1999, 2003, 2004
Australia Jamie Whincup 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012
Australia Garth Tander 2000, 2009, 2011, 2020
3 Australia Dick Johnson 1981, 1989, 1994
2 Australia John Goss 1974, 1985
Australia Allan Grice 1986, 1990
Australia John Bowe 1989, 1994
Australia Russell Ingall 1995, 1997
Australia Tony Longhurst 1988, 2001
Australia Rick Kelly 2003, 2004
Australia Will Davison 2009, 2016
@Merduh Yurass Nobody was comparing him though
The days of Brock and Johnson going ten-tenths around Bathurst just chatting live like they were on a Sunday afternoon cruise lol. Amazing pause, it just came so naturally to the guys. Yeah, pretty sure it was the 7 Network in Australia that pioneered in-car footage and driver commentary
Yep, Channel 7. I was working their at the time in Epping, it was an exciting time with motor sport and 18' skiff races on sydney harbour. I think it was Ian Murray who had the 7 logo on his spinnaker.
@@Mark.Brindle I’m from Epping nice to know a little more about the shit hole
@@jakewilliamson8868 lol
Don't forget Peter Williamson did it as well.
Brocky talking to commentators and waving to fans, friends and Bevo while racing was excellent but if you want classic in car commentary then Dick Johnson is your man. The broken wing coming into the Chase, the cursing buzz boxes across the top, and any comment that compared the car to a dog on lino!
The seventies and eighties were the cream of Aussie racing and drivers. The sixties was bloody good too but there's less footage available. The nineties had the most coverage and incar and is great but by the end and into the 2000s the rules, highly professional big budget teams, standardising of platforms and overall management has made it an overproduced circus.
Brocky, Dick, Moffat and all the other legends.Aussie race fans miss you.
Typical Peter Brock....one arm resting on the door and looking so relaxed. LEGEND!
Probably hours after flogging his Mrs like a piece of meat and trying to sell his idiot fans a box of rocks to make their shitpieces go faster
@@sriley064 go eat an ounce of salt will ya?
Brock wasn't just a great driver. He was a great guy and a roll model for young kids. Spoke with him in the pits when I was 12. Took the time to sign my t shirt and speak with me. Something that not all of the other drivers would do. He was a genuine nice bloke.
Yeah, he was a good bloke ....except when he was being unfaithful to his wife !!
Peter Perfect in his prime.
Not only Heel toe, on the down shifts he was double clutching.
Was about to say this, such skill! Nice pick up to mention that mate.
I loved double clutching in my manual
@@Rusty_Gold85 Not as necessary these days with modern synchros but still a cool technique to hold onto. Heel toe (apart from sounding really cool LOL) alone does still give a lot of benefit to the drive train though that double clutch was needed to keep a race car alive back then.
Still love the heel toe
Yeah racing box. No synchros. So?
The amount of time and respect he had for fans is unmatched in the racing world.
I met Brocky a few times, line ups were long, he stayed until everyone had signed items and or shook his hand, 2 or 3 hours, didn't matter.
Always had a quick yarn on the way through. Such a sad day when he passed away
There has been a doco made in memory of this legend, It's called. Peter Brock- Over the top. It shows his history as a driver and the man he was
Channel 7 first put Cameras in race cars in 1979. The car Peter is driving is as said a Commodore with a fuel injected 5 ltr V8 and revs to 7500 rpm, with a rev limiter on it. He would hit 280 KPH down Conrod Straight, the one downhill. Cheers from Australia.
He used to be that relaxed in races he drove with his arm resting on the door as back then they had the windows down
Yes ahahaha i remember some bugger jad his arm out and a ciggy lol ...Australians man...dgaf...legendary races for decades
I think that was bob jane smoking the cigarette, reckons he had plenty of time down conrod straight.
That is such a boss move haha legendary
Look up Bathurst in the rain lap. In the commodore..
American commutators couldn't believe he was doing 170mph plus with elbow on window and driving one handed..😎
@@dosdahrk4504 John Faulkner was a mad fella for the durry during a race haha. Open face helmet just so he can
An absolute legend of the sport, so dearly missed and we loved him every bit as much here in New Zealand as they did in his homeland. Whenever he jumped across the ditch for a race event or some other engagement as he often did, he was treated like an honorary Kiwi, he was respected and adored that much. A truly great Australian and will never be forgotten.
An interesting aside you might not be aware of (and apologies if anybody has already mentioned this in the 600+ comments) his race number 05 was in reference to the 0.05% alcohol limit for drink driving, of which he was a strong campaigner against and every one of his cars since sometime in the 70's carried that number.
No, it would've been during the race, he was well known for his relaxed driving and often can be seen waving to the crowd as he was going over the mountain,
It was during the race
@@quackyduck1499 yes
Yea I discovered that later on when they showed wide shots, I laughed because he was so chill and relaxed! Thought no way he’s racing other cars hahaha Peter Brock seemed great, in his ability, and in personality too
@@IWrocker no he was a legend in this country.
Yep during the race
If you watch his knee when he down shifts you will see that he is double clutching so as to match his clutch plate rpm with the engine rpm before re engaging the engine with the drive train. His expert treatment of a car during a race was unsurpassed and the reduction in mechanical stress gave him a great many more finishes with an entirely sound machine than was usual. He put a car on like a quality suit and kept it wrinkle free for the duration. I watched him live many times and he was the only driver that has ever truly fascinated me. He was, absolutely, a legend.
1979 was first racecam. Peter Williamson in a Celica.
Yeah developed here in Australia by the Ch7 techs (I think, happy to be corrected)
@@holidaymail correct was Channel 7 where it all started.
Wow that’s awesome, would’ve never guessed that early, very impressive!
Not quite true. CBS introduced the in-car camera for the 1979 Daytona 500. Channel 7 debuted their in-car camera 9 months later.
He was such a huge star/legend!! 👏 A really special humble Aussie! 👍
Other cars on the track, LOL. This is during the 1000km race.
Yea I saw that later on, he was so damn relaxed and talked so well, made me think there’s no way he’s in the middle of a race lol
Brocky in his VL drifting the mountain in the rain is pretty sweet
I cannot recall who is was but i saw an interview with a driver who raced against Brocky at Bathurst in the wet, and he said that he came onto Conrod and Brock had his car pretty well sideways and was looking back at him and grinning.
Also Larry Perkins in 1994.
Yes 1987 Bathurst, also Glen Seton in the wet same race
@@russellchristison8425 During that race he made sure to let everyone know that he capable of anything. The legend he was
RIP Brooky, you were the best.
*brocky
Peter perfect will forever be a part of Aussie history 🤘😭. Respect
Mate, he is not talking to the race boss or his pit crew, he is actually talking to the media race call team on live broadcast television at 150 to 180 mph in a professional competitive race ( I was there and know) and if you watch the whole thing very carefully you will note he cuts talk very occasionally to talk to his tech support team. Peter Brock or Peter Perfect is an Icon and deservedly so. LEGEND MATE!!!!!!!
Glad to see you're loving our Aussie racing mate, watched a few of your reacts today haha. I've been around and all over the States a couple of times and the folks over there love our racing and love John Farnham - You're the Voice (equivalent to Neil Diamond), when they get introduced to it! Great content mate, keep it up! Pleasant to listen too.
The King of the mountain at his prime. I was only 2yo when this was shot, but remember his later career well. RIP legend.
Definitely a Holden Aussie 4.9 ltr 304 Ci engine. Not Chev. Cheers
This. The engine size was lowered from 308ci (5047cc) under Group C rules to 304ci (4982cc) for the Group A regulations to avoid additional weight penalties.
As for the incline going up the mountain I can confirm that the camera DOES NOT come close to showing it. I did a lap of the mountain on a bicycle and had to take a rest before the cutting because I was gassed. Coming down, I barely pedaled coming down through the esses and onto forest elbow and took it easy on Conrod and still hit 70km/h.
That'd be the 304 that still had the chev valve layout, didn't the Aussie version with the better valve set up come with the VL?
Unlike current holden supercars that use ford engines ffs
@@PiDsPagePrototypes the 304 was an Australian engine, they destroked the engine to lower it from 308cu to 304ci. The Holden valves and Chev valves are similar, but not the same, slight difference in installed height / length. Same shaft diameter, different head diameters. From memory the Chev valves were slightly shorter. You could fit them if you did some serious seat / head work.
@@DodgyBrothersEngineering correct Dodgy
The engine is the Australian Holden V8, in this VK version in 86 it was a 304 cube, slightly destroked from it's traditional 308 cube to fit under the five litre regulations for international Group A. Being under five liters allowed 500kg less weight under the regs.
Hey Doug it allowed a weight drop from 1400kg to 1325kg, so 75kg not 500kg. The 304 also got a double row timing chain and uprated rocker gear. There was also a new conrod very quietly homolated just before the 1986 bathurst race, apparently the HDT supplied them to the privateer teams but Perkins was denied access to the new rods until Larry jumped up and down so much about this that 2 sets arrived mysteriously at his workshop “without invoice”. Strangely enough the Grice/Bailey chickadee roadways team had these rods already installed before LP even knew of their existence!
500kg??!! Wow. They would be utterly mad not to reduce the cubes. I'm over 50, but never knew about that weight stipulation. I was a quite a fan of Peter Perfect in the 80s. Guess I still am.
When I grew up I remember the race starting at 8.00 am. They have shaved so much time off the laps it now starts at 9.30
Yep and often didn't finish before 6pm. Those were the days.
I think you are confusing the start of the broadcast with the start of the race.
The Race Starts at 11am, it's down to 6hrs
Big thanks for your respectful commentary on all your videos.
I remember this actual race, I was a CL teenager and each October watched Bathurst. Peter Brock was actually racing in the video. They did in car chats and laps with a few drivers Dick Johnson had a few too. Peter Brock’s car was a 308 V8 which is a 5 Litre V8 as we say here in Oz. Peter was the King at Bathurst however Dick Johnson usually finished the each year with the highest points overall across all the races.
You can drive around Bathurst as it is a street with farms and various homes along it. The track is very very step and on the way down I was driving about 30 kilometres (about 19mph) and that was scary. Be careful though many tourists drive the track and on the straight they speed down it only to see the police sitting there with a radar.
Thanks again.
Come down under mate and bring the family.
He's racing that's just how much of a legend he was, he knew his babies (cars) inside and out even working on tuning his own cars, got to meet this great man twice
Race cam is an Aussie invention and transformed Motorsport to something taken for granted now. The first prototypes were massive cameras bolted to the roll cage and relayed pictures to the helicopter above following the car. Peter Brock was an intruiging fellow with many issues but he was and still remains the greatest touring car driver this country has produced. Unfortunately he passed away competing in a Targa road rally in 2006. Race fan or not, everyone knew Peter Brock. The whole country stopped in shock. I count myself lucky to have met him many times and never would he leave an event until every last autograph was signed and every picture taken. Despite his personal flaws, he was and still is, the greatest we’ve ever had.
Yes, In Car Race Cam was invented in Australia, by engineers and techs at HSV7, a cousin of mine was on that TV team, and he advised me, when I stuck a camera in the wing of a Sprintcar, being first to live link that back to a mobile control, back in '95.
Now you need to look at some Dick Johnson videos of Bathurst 😁
Yeah, Dick Johnson was great on in-car, had some of the best one-liners ever
We also invented the lipstick cameras in the track for the F1's.
Wasn’t that the HSV7 sponsored car that won it in 1976 that carried the first in-car camera? From what I remember it was basically a standard OB camera that they bolted in the passenger’s side seat well. Fitzpatrick brought the thing home on 6 cylinders.
@@michaeljudd4319 Not the 'standard' camera, which were huge then and are huge now. It was called a 'mini' camera, about the size of a shoebox with somewhat lesser picture quality and small lens, plus a bigger box for the radio link to the helicopter that relayed back to the OB Truck. You could out-perform it with the analog cameras mounted on FPV race drones these days, let alone the digitial systems DJI now sells, without needing to relay.
Peter Brock was known as "The King of the Mountain". Did you notice he often rests his arm on the door sill and drives just as hard. The VK was his favorite model of Holden (GM). The engine was a 308 ci naturally asperated engine de-stroked to 304ci and was originally designed (in the 60s) off the best bits of Chev, Olds and Buick engines.
@@paspax In 1985, a destroked version of the 308, known as the 4.9L or 304, was introduced to allow the VK to compete with a lower minimum weight (1325kg, a saving of 75kg) under the 4501-5000cc regulations of Group A touring car racing.
7:24 you have no idea how tight and steep that twist is, I took my r34 back when I was on my L plates and you almost think the car won’t make it through! Crazy road indeed!
Glad to have lived when this was on live TV. Amazing skill and so casual like he's doing a Sunday drive to the beach 😅
As a 11 year old mad holden fan l remember watching Peter Brock win his first at Bathurst 1972
I will never forget when his gear shift broke in his commodore at bathurst and he finished the race changing gears with vice grips
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Nah bro, this is during the race. And, as usual, Brocky has his elbow on the window sill.
Yeah brilliant stuff. Racecam was developed by one of our techo's John Porter (I was a supervising camo at channel 7 back then) the chopper pilot who was responsible for tracking the uplink had himself some skills too. Good times working for 7 sport back then
Engine is a carburettored 304ci holden v8 to fit in with international group a rules. Brock ran a business that built the road going cars these were based on. Search Holden Blue Meanie to see the road going version.
308 Holden V8!!! by another name - same block, beefed up rods - slightly modified de-stroked crank from memory - was the Black Motor?
@@thewoomelanghotel8756 304ci. The same 304ci block that was produce right up until they were stopped for the SeriesII VT Commodore. Biggest difference they had was fuel injection. Those same 304ci engines are still produced and built for today’s Supercars, as the 5L rule was never changed.
@@thewoomelanghotel8756 304, they were de-tuned to fit the under 5l rules
308ci, the installation of the EFI gear and reduction in size to 304 was to fit inside the 5L cap rule. back with this motor is was still the 308 running a Carby
cheers. i enjoyed that. been watching Bathurst since i was a kid. hardy ferado 500.
Heel toe technique being used yes and a casual arm resting on the door
That's how you get Torana arm (one arm tanned because it hangs out the window all the time)
@@timp1390 Ah, my teenage years cruising up and down the Pacific Hwy in our Torana SLX, good times.
1995 Bathurst 1000. Larry Perkins and Russell Ingall win after being a lap down. The last 20 laps are incredible!
Brocky the King 💕
The arm on the window. Gets me every time. RIP BROCKY
I cried for about a week after he passed. He was taken from us way too soon. R.I.P Brocky 😭
I grew up watching Brocky during the 80s & early 90s and continued watching him driving the Targa's and other races around Australia. He was an amazing driver, with so much passion and determination. I'll never forget the times he had the window down, his arm resting on the window sill and hand on the steering wheel and just waving at everyone! My absolute favourite driver, even to this today and probably till I go! Absolutely gutted and shattered when he died! Brocky will always be a legend in my eyes.
Going up that road (its a public road) at around 30mph is scary. These guys are doing about 120-130mph.
They do 120-130mph through the slow bits like the curves coming down the mountain. I have driven that section of road several times (doing the speed limit, not wanting to get booked) but the first time I came through there I couldn't believe how they ever did the speeds they did. My car was squealing the tyres at the speed limit. Granted I was staying on the correct side of the road and not using the whole road like they are doing, but they would be doing close to three times the speed I was going. Being it was a open public road I wasn't game to give it a blast through the racing line through there, although I was very tempted. There are apparently speed cameras on that road and I didn't know where they were hidden.
@@DodgyBrothersEngineering Myself and a mate did some silly things through that area in an old LH Torana years ago. Even using more than our share of the road, doing more than 60-70kmh was fairly scary.
Mind blowing to think about, any racer that can run that course, over and over and win races, hell even just complete the race without crashing… ought to fell alright because every time I see this track it looks challenging. One of the most unique tracks I’ve ever seen
@@IWrocker i live in the track area its funny having grown up here and done night runs my whole life around the track it doesn't feel like a hard track to me, if anything i have issues on flat tracks when i do track days
@@NoMatureContent I have been around it in 3 different vehicles a Ford KC Laser TX3, in a Nissan 180SX, and my Kawasaki ZX-10R. If the road was blocked coming up, I reckon I could do 100kph coming down through the Esses, but that is still no where near what the V8 Supercars do, they are still doing probably double that. The turn coming onto the main straight was probably the most surprising corner, I swear I picked up a wheel coming through there in the Laser.
Oeter Brock was a legend in touring car racing in Australia. He was so precise in his driving the press coined the phrase, Peter Perfect. One year in Bathurst, he held pole position and didn`t relinquish the first position from the start to the finish of the race. It was often common for him during the last lap of the race to try for a lap record to prove how good his car was and how good the set up and crew work was. The first racecam was in a Toyota Celica in 1979 and the driver was Peter Williamson. Technology improved over the coming year and cameras that could turn on their own axis and cameras mounted in headlights were just some of the innovations during the next year. Much of the tricky racing at Bathurst occurs across the top of the mountain. It is only when you hit Forests Elbow, a tight left hander and go down the hill into Conrod Straight does the driver really descend. I have driven a standard 4 cylinder Toyota over the mountain when races were not onb and it is tricky to even drive doing regulation speed limits..and YES the police do regular trips across the mountain to catch the hoons who think they want to try out a real race track.
This was back in the day when the race cars were taken straight from the production line, stripped down and modified into a race car. The shell of this Commodore is identical to the normal family sedan. Going by the footage it looks as though the original dashboard was still there, albeit modified.
Every year since, the cars evolved away from the factory model a little bit every year up until 2013 when they became like NASCAR with a tubular frame with stuck on panels just to look like a sedan. They might use a plastic grill or tail light from the manufacturer but that's about it. Everything else is built from the ground up.
The current (and last) Commodore being raced is based on a front wheel drive V6 sedan, yet the race car is RWD with a V8. So that explains where they're at now..
I miss those days when they raced real cars. Go back a bit further than this and they used to change tyres with a jack and a wheel brace. None of these quick change brakes, if you ran out of brakes back then you just backed off a bit until they came back or they went to the floor and you had to stop (one way or another).
Took a while for Bathurst 500 race cars to be allowed to put a roll cage into the car. Was it 69 or 70?
Race on Sunday buy on monday was the saying lol. See the car race on Sunday and you could walk in and buy it monday
This was a VK Group A Blue Meany for the race track. Remember they had to build 500 to sell to the public to be able to race.
@@micksmith-vt5yi up until 1990 when the Ford Sierra's & Nissan Skylines which you couldn't buy were racing. However the VN SS Commodore, which you could buy hadn't sold enough to race
you should try to find Peter Brock driving his holden torana
When he won by 5 laps setting g the fastest lap on the last.
Which one, the A9X?
Yes! The XU1! Good call
He won by 6 laps and set the track lap record on the final lap 🇦🇺❤️05
Thank you for doing these videos with commentary, good to hear your view from the US
Peter Brock has the most Bathurst wins still, to my knowledge. 9 i think.
Yes he does would of been 10 but his door came off his car 😞
10 times if you count his Bathurst 24hr win in 2002.
@@daveretzlaff8391 Beat me to it, I was about to say that too.
Yea, the rx7
I remember my neck nearly snapping as a kid the first time I saw a VK when they came out. I thought it looked like a car from the future haha. There were kids named Brock after this guy. It's interesting the stuff you pick up on from these vids. Enjoyed it, cheers!
Man if you drove a Honda Civic you gotta check out Jordan Cox overtake Bathurst!!!!! It's short but mind blowing. Thanks for another great reactions video.
I mentioned this in the comments of his last vid. Hopefully he reads your comment. Definitely
some wild moves in there.
@@housealan334 I saw yours last time, 😎 been trying to keep up with so many comments, thanks to everyone for great suggestions
I’ll take a look at that thank you for watching!
A lot of Australians thought we lost a legend when Steve Irwin died. Peter Brock was killed only four days later and we then really knew we had lost someone very special.
We lost both Steve Irwin and Peter Brock in the same week in 2006 there's a great sketch of Steve standing on the side of the road with a crocodile under he's arm and brockey has pulled over in 05 and says jump in mate I'll give ya a lift.
That’s heartbreaking honestly… wish I would’ve discovered Peter Brock earlier, I even had a couple somber days when Steve Irwin passed, grew up watching him in the 90’s. And that sketch sounds like a great and clever reminder of 2 legends
There was a third great Australian that died that week. Either the day before or the same day as Steve Irwin. Who was he???
@@111jacare Richard Carlton may 6.
No, it was not Richard Carlton. He passed on due to a heart attack, covering the Beaconsfield mine collapse and rescue. This person died either the day before or the same day as Steve Irwin.
My mates and I as kids used to sneak under the fence at Amaroo raceway to watch the races. We were spotted this one day by Security who began to frogmarch us out of the venue. We were also spotted by Brocky because it was near the rear of his team’s tent that we entered. Brick approached, told Security that were with his pit crew and we spent the rest of the raceday watching from the Marlboro dealer tent. Legend!!!
Even though I am ford fan great respects to the King of the mountain RIP Peter Brock, tragically killed in tarmac rally crashing into tree a few years ago. By the way talking to commentators
Glad you checked him out. Bloke was an unbelievable driver.
Brockie was "King of the Mountain'
look where his right atm is sitting!(resting it up on the window sill) dude was so cool and calm behind the wheel... and being able to commentate while driving was amazing...
Peter Perfect !!! Nuff said.
Peter Brock King of the mountain peter perfect what ever you want to call him. Was an absolute 💯 legend nerves of steel watching how relaxed he always was whenever the cameras switched to him, it was like a walk in the park for him. Amazing
Mate if this is your first look at the late Peter Brock, keep looking for more content - it’ll blow your mind!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
This brought a tear to my eyes. Thanks for showing this. There will only be one king of the mountain. RIP Brocky.
Mate it's a 5.0ltr Holden V8 and yes he's Heal and Toeing the Whole Track
Don't miss to mention the double clutching on the down shifts
BROCKY, PETER PERFECT, KING OF THE MOUNTAIN, PETER BROCK.. R.I.P.
You need to have a look at some Dick Johnson in car footage in the 80/90s too. Has the best one liners about his cars
Thank you, on my list now, coming up soon
Dick Johnson was the best at talking while driving, a bit like my Mrs 🤣🤣
Dick wasn't as relaxed as Brocky but he was good for telling a joke & was a master at getting a plug in for his sponsors
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@@IWrocker hey Ian check out 'brock on it', it's brock in his vn efi 5litre.. Absolutely awesome, 1991 Bathurst top ten shootout, turn up the volume ol mate, and listen to the legendary Aussie v8. Ps vn is a commodore, the ol vk, would have been a 308 carby fed, the vn was 304 efi, same engine slightly destroked , to be come under 5 litre, for different weight penalties, inflicted on cars 5litre and over
Brockie's nickname was Peter Perfect. That's why it was such a huge shock in 2006 when he ran off the road at high speed during a rally and died. He really was one of the greats of Australian motor sport.
if you like the sound of that car mate look for brocks 1991 race ...so good
Just discovered your vids. Love your channel! Massive fan of Mt Panorama.
True story - I rode down the track on my Mountain Bike one year. Had a little bit of rust on the rims....by the time I got to pit straight I completely wore down my rubber brake pads. Crazy...
Peter Brock was also known as the king of the mountain because he won Bathurst nine times
My first ever car was that make / model (i.e. GM Holden Commodore VK, 1986 - but I ran an I6 202 Black Motor with the Bosch EFI, not the 253 / 308 OHV V8's that were standard for the day) that I kitted-up with the same HDT-stamped front air dam, rear spoiler, side skirts, and grille; based on my worship of Brockie and the Holden Racing Team of my day (when he was racing with Craig Lowndes). Peter Brock was a racing legend from back in the day of his GTR XUI Torana, and I'm glad you have love for Bathurst and the V8 Supercars as well.
The mighty Holden v8. Even a standard one with a nice exhaust sounds fantastic.
We are still sad about PB passing away. Been to the mountain many times for the 1000. Reed park, skyline. seen them focused eye's go past many time's. Thank you for your zeal and genuine passion for learning new stuff about us whom live "up side down" ^^. They did race motorbikes @ the mountain as well, once upon a time.
I didn’t read all of the comments, but I’d like to say that this is a street circuit around a mountain, Mount Panorama.
Hi from Australia, very cool you've commented on Peter and our awesome Holden 304 cubic inch V8. I was at Bathurst that year as a 15 year old kid, our Holden Commodores took on the might of Japan, and Germany and the UK during this era and won more times than not at Bathurst. Love that you commented on the sound, for me one of the best sounding race cars of all time. 👍
Glad you’re here thank you! So cool that you were actually there, and I’m telling ya what… those cars look great but they sound absolutely stellar! I could hear it sing through my headphones, when he downshifted coming hot into sharp turns, I was drooling lol
R.I.p brocky the great memories of Peterbrock
I'm delivering you the sad news that Bev Brock has passed away aged 77. I had personally seen how good a woman she was. My condolences to the Brock family
The best there ever was to drive an Aussie V8 supercar
Don’t think they were Supercars back then, they were REAL cars 😊
@@spinnymathingy3149 homologated street cars yes but no grocery getter back then they where six hundred horsepower..
9 time King of the mountain, the trophy is named after him, a true legend. RIP.
I think the first camera in a race car was 70s in a Toyota Celica,
The motor is a 308 Australia built, 5sp.
The police love Conrad Straight, the speed limit is 60ks ( 37mph).
To see the KING OF THE MOUNTAIN at his best, '79,won by 6 laps ,A9X Torona v8 .
The cars were road cars built to racing standards, not like today's supercars, which in my opinion is BORING AS .
Its a 304 its here at the Bathurst motor museum
@@NeilanPhotoGraphics OK when did they downsize the 308!!!!!!
Also wasn't the A9X 308!!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍
The VK Group A Commodore 500 in order to run at a lower minimum weight. Under Group A regs engine capacity determined weight.
@@robossuperchannel9434 ---- thank you for that information, it's been so long since than , that I had forgotten 👍👍👍
Also look at '1979 PETER WILLIAMSON World's First RaceCam'
Every time I watch something like this, it brings him back and I forget his no longer with us.
I’ve always loved my Fords, but…..always loved the sound of both Ford and GM V8’s in our Aussie Motorsport. As a Ford fan, I also acknowledge where respect is due…..Peter Brock was and still is the best Driver this country has ever had. If I recall correct, after he retired from the competition he still would come back to race the Bathurst race.
Holden 308 V8,
Was in a race,
He was known as the "King of the Mountain"
The track that he's on is a public road.
There is NO bigger legend in motorsport than Peter Brock. Every single time you went up to him he had TIME for you, signed whatever you wanted. RIP Brocky. The very first in car camera was 1979. The engine is a Holden 5.0 litre 308 V8, all Aussie engine. Beautiful sounding. Peter won 9x Bathurst 1000 races. His first Bathurst race was 1969. His HDT road cars are also awesome, now just incredibly expensive on some models.
G'day to you, racecam started here in Australia in 1979 at bathurst.. A helicopter picked up the signal from the race car and transmitted back to the outside broadcasting vehicle.. 👍
For non locals watching, car was based on road car, Holden 4.9Lt V8, modified road car heads and block, steel crank/rods, big solid cam, and highly modified Quadrajet carb, about 420hp.
Gearbox is Getrag dog leg 5 speed.
Heel-toe down shifts, and H pattern is reversed so 2nd-3rd/4th-5th are in a straight line
The 1986 Bathurst 1000km race was for cars in three classes
Class A
For cars of up to 2000cc engine capacity, it saw a variety of cars entered. Most numerous were variations of Toyota Corollas, with individual entries of a turbocharged Fiat Uno, a Ford Escort and a Nissan Gazelle.
Class B
For cars of between 2001 and 3000cc engine capacity, it featured the turbos; Mitsubishi Starion, Nissan Skyline and Volvo 240, but also included Alfa Romeo GTV6, BMW 323i, Mercedes-Benz 190E and Toyota Supra.
Class C
For cars of over 3000cc engine capacity. Apart from a strong presence of BMW 635 CSi, the swansong of the V12 Jaguar XJS, and the first appearance of a turbocharged Ford Sierra, it was the domain of the V8; Holden Commodore SS Group A, Ford Mustang and Rover Vitesse.
Commodores ran 1 and 2 then the early Nissan Skyline then the Dick Johnson Mustang ( Fox body?)
Peter Brock's Commodore only made it to fifth place that year.
R.I.P King of the Mountain
I remember when he was an unknown running around Oran Park (western Sydney) in his track legit Austin A30 with the Brock tuned 179CI Holden engine..he was known for his paddock bashers but he somehow got this one sanctioned for racing in the "Improved Touring" category. Improved it was, no other A30 like it on the planet. From the start Brocky knew how to make a statement.
330 am Aussie time lovin it with you thanks for the memories cheers 🍻