Friday 28th October 2016

Brocky at Bathurst: Time For Coffee?

Brock, a wet Bathurst and slick tyres - hold on!

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It's now more than a decade since Peter Brock lost his life in a rallying accident, a tragic loss to the motorsport world. Helpfully though, with the help of YouTube, we have plenty of video reminders as to why he was such a legend.

Like this one. Yes, Peter Brock at Bathurst is a video theme we've explored before, but why not revist it when they're this good? This clip is from 1987, where Brocky pitted to swap wets for slicks as the track began to dry out. As one YouTube commenter has pointed out 'PB would never put wets on unless ya couldn't see 10 ft in front', so off they went as soon as dry line appeared. Trouble being that there was still lots of wet patches around the Mount Panorama circuit, which become a little tricky with a hunk of V8 out front...

So here we have Brock's heroic battle with the car and conditions, slithering his way around Bathurst and making a wonderful noise in the process. He flagrantly ignores the blue flags waved when Steve Soper's M3 catches him, makes life very difficult for a Sierra Cosworth and shows in just over four minutes why V8 saloons will always make cool race cars. It's a great vid.

Be warned though: it's very hard to stop at just one Peter Brock video. But if you're starting the weekend early then we can hardly think of a better way to do so. Enjoy!

Watch the video here.

[Photo: LAT Photo. And yes, it's not from Bathurst, but there weren't any from that race and this is definitely the 1987 car]

[big_rob_sydney]

Peter Brock was a legend, and something of a flawed genius. To those who dont know the story, a device called a Polariser was responsible for much of his troubles.

But his racing was pretty incredible, and he really was one of the best touring car racers I've ever seen. Kudos.