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Re: Peter Brock
« Reply #15 on: September 09, 2006, 09:53:11 pm »
Yeah, Matt, now that I'm finally going to make Sebring, Bathurst is the final great goal.  Maybe one day we could charter a CA 'plane? US via UK to Oz or vice-versa?
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Re: Peter Brock
« Reply #16 on: September 10, 2006, 03:14:40 am »
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Re: Peter Brock
« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2006, 12:35:43 am »
The car certainly didn't get in that state from hitting the tree, that must be a shot from after he had been removed.

It was a similar accident to Michael Parks accident on Rally GB , with the drivers door taking the full impact. The car was pretty much whole on the Australian TV news report.
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Re: Peter Brock
« Reply #18 on: September 11, 2006, 10:00:09 am »
Just got back to a computer terminal after a weekend racing in the forests of South Wales to see this......one of the sport's most genuine, nice guys and a legendary racer, who richly deserved the title of King of the Mountain from his long and successful association with Bathurst.   

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Re: Peter Brock
« Reply #19 on: September 11, 2006, 10:22:10 am »
That's very sad news, RIP.

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Re: Peter Brock
« Reply #20 on: September 11, 2006, 02:09:48 pm »
Quote from: Andy Zarse on September 08, 2006, 12:43:28 pm
Anyone who had the pleasure of watching the Bathurst on TV in the 80's will remember his stirring and sucessful drives in the Holdens.

I am one of those who's memories of Peter Brock are based almost entirely on the Bathhurst images from the '80s you speak of.  Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to see him race in the flesh.

What remains fresh in my mind from those TV pictures are the in-car shots of PB in action.  Some of the cockpit camera angles were superbly set up to show his smoothness behind the wheel - it all looked so easy until the view switched to the exterior picture and finally you could see his out and out pace.

Fantastic pictures, fantastic memories.

RIP

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Re: Peter Brock
« Reply #21 on: September 11, 2006, 05:20:20 pm »
I too saw him at Goodwood only a week or so ago and now this.  I'm not shocked, that's motor racing although once is still too often, but I am truly saddened by this.
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