Time For Tea? Brock at work
Post bank holiday blues? Man-up with a display of true V8-powered Aussie grit from Peter Brock
Where to start? The noise is a good place. Brock's 1991 Holden Commodore - a Vauxhall Senator to us whinging Poms - demonstrates precisely how a dull day can be torn apart with a V8, preferably one belching black clouds of hydrocarbons or large licks of flame depending on whether you're on or off the throttle. Not much of the latter here though, Brock definitely doing his bit for global warming with this stupendous display of skill and determination.
You don't have to know anything about Brock, Aussie touring cars or Bathurst to appreciate it either - it's just a perfect demonstration of beyond the limit driving in a real lump of a car devoid of frills and fripperies. Sodding great V8, manual gearbox and an utterly, utterly committed driver fighting it every second of the way. Just look at how close he skims the walls, how much time he spends sideways, off the ground and/or on the very, very limits of grip and savour every last second.
And the commentary just seals it. "Boy, he's putting the boot in!" Too bloody right! Turn it up loud...
Absolutely amazing car control though. Modern racing cars seldom look so dramatic. Reminds me of the glory days of the TVR Tuscans...
.....partly because things were so much better in those days.
What drama. Too much grip (aero & mechanical) means modern cars just look less exciting at the limit (although they're just as hard to drive no doubt).
Great drive and that time would still be respectable now.
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What a drive by both that was
PH you've completely made my day by putting the Great Peter Brock on the front page.
Just watched it again, obviously. It doesn't get any better. That's my childhood and every aspiration I had until I was old enough to know better, right there in those couple of minutes of footage.
I could bore people forever about what a fan I am (enough to know he was something of a flawed genius, it's true), but it might be easier to just show off my numberplate:
Him:You going the WRC Welsh Rally this year?
Me:Nope!
Him:Why not?
Me:Until they ban 4WD and we have real cars again that move around and the drivers have to recover them and give us a spectacle once more I'm out. I took my students last year and their highlight was MK II Escorts and Manta 400's sliding all over the place in the fog.
Him: I was at the Oulton Park Gold Cup yesterday and the group B cars out of control were so much better than watching todays cars.
Me: Make the WRC RWD and the viewing figures will climb and climb.
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