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Man 1: Cars to watch Brock, on your right.
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Morris alongside, Moffat on the far left.
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Man 2: As more than a hundred drivers suffering
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from pre-race tension listen carefully
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to last minute regs and instructions.
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Man 3: How much does the race mean to you?
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Man 4: Oh, it's the event for the year and you get
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tremendous disappointment if you lose it.
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Man on PA: Lady and gentlemen, start your engines.
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[engine revving]
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Commentator: There's Brock, preparing to
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race like the devil.
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This is it, the great race.
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Man on PA: But now, the one minute siren has gone
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and all is ready for a start
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with two Falcons and a Holden on pole position.
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Commentator: The man who wants to win here
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probably more than anyone else, Peter Brock.
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Commentator: Thirty second warning's about to go up.
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Man on PA: Sixty-two of Australia's finest drivers.
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Commentator: It's a mad scramble.
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Commentator: Literally the balloon's gone up.
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Commentator: Start of the James Hardie 1000.
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Engines are throbbing.
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You can feel the crowd vibrating with emotion.
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Man on PA: All set. Get ready.
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Peter: He'd sit in that car, holding the steering wheel
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for hours, for days,
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looking straight ahead.
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He was sitting in that car focusing on what he's gonna do
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and how he's gonna do it.
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Bev: This change would come over him
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and his eyes would go black and nothing else counted.
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Man 5: He was part of that car.
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[instrumental music]
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Peter: The actual exercise of getting behind the wheel
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of a car and make it do something
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it fundamentally doesn't want to do,
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that's a fantastic thing for any person to do.
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Man 6: Behind the wheel,
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he seemed to be almost bulletproof.
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Man 7: He had an amazing ability to feel the car,
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to read the car, to understand the car.
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The noise, the sounds, the feel.
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Man 8: There was a lot more to Brock
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than the smiling hero figure you saw on the victory dais.
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You could see the hunger in his eyes. The intensity.
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The naked ambition to be number one.
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Man 9: He trusted everybody,
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and there were people who weren't worthy of his trust.
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Orchestrated move by Holden to
crash this business.
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James: He did an amazing job of inspiring lots of people.
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Commentator: For all the Brock fans waiting for Peter Perfect
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to come across the line.
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Commentator: You asked for the man.
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You asked for him. It's Peter Brock!
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Phil: He could turn it on. Women swooned.
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Men just wanted to be like him.
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Bev: Peter needed to be respected, needed to be loved.
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Man 10: The rise and fall and rise and fall
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and rise and fall of Peter Brock.
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Man 11: He could do no wrong.
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He was the messiah of motorsport.
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[music continues]
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[engine revving]
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Alexandra: It didn't occur to me
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that he could ever have an accident.
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He had this force in cars
where he could
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push it until its absolute limit
and then bring it back.
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So he would never spin out.
He would never...
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Like, he just... He felt cars.
He understood them.
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Bev: He didn't rub paint. He didn't have accidents.
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He just intuitively,
instinctively knew
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where he needed to be
and I had complete
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and absolute faith in him.
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He had a real strong
sense of self-belief
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and he actually didn't really
see obstacles.
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John: The public owned Peter Brock in a way
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they never really owned
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any other racing driver that I've seen.
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And it wasn't just charm.
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It was just a kind of a special
intensity about him
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and that sense of looking at you
and engaging with you
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and you're the only person
in the room at that moment.
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Lewis: Fame has a price to pay
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and the price you pay will
depend on
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how you view it and how you use
that gift.
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[instrumental music]
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My very earliest? Wow...
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Big brother.
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A bit scary, a bit intimidating.
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Peter was a very good competitor
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and athlete at primary school.
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So I would've been just a little kid
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and watching him win the sprint races and things.
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And Peter won by a mile
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and then made a speech with a little microphone.
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It did set the bar pretty high
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if you were looking to do something.
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The sense was that you needed to do
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just a little bit better.
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Phil: It was interesting times,
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but it was difficult.
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If you didn't do what he wanted
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he was pretty quick in telling you.
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His temper had a short week.
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He-- he did push me to do things, and I'm glad he did.
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He was my idol, there's no doubt about that.
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Peter: I'm about 14 or 15 years old.
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That car I'm in was once an Austin 7
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and I remember getting that car
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from a local guy for five pounds
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and in my haste to remove the bodywork
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to strip it down to become a paddock bomb, like that was
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I actually used mum's axe
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to sort of strip away the rusty metal.
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We used to do things like put an open exhaust on
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and we'd fiddle around with the cam shaft and stuff
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but as kids, we didn't know what we were doing.
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One thing you knew when you had a car that was so fragile
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and so delicate as a car like that,
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you learnt something called mechanical sympathy.
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In other words, if you broke it you fixed it.
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And if you had no money, you better not break it.
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Lewis: It's got no brakes.
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Phil: He'd be going flat out.
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You didn't go slow just because you had brothers
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who weren't strapped in.
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He used to talk to me sometimes.
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He'd go "Phil, you know, look,
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you've just gotta trick
the car to do this."
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And you go, "Trick it?"
and he'd go, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
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"Oh, come on, Pin.
You know what I'm talking about.
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You gotta trick it." I'd go,
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"But you might trick it,
but the car tricks me."
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He somehow could become one
with the machine.
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You know,
I loved dirt racing as well
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and whether that's just a-- a
sixth sense of feeling the car
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underneath you
but allowing the car to move.
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Go with it, not fight it.
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I think that Peter
never quite understood
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how natural that talent was.
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Tricking a car to do something.
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I mean, realistically you go,
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"Are you serious?"
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He was focused and when he was focused, that was it.
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That was the goal and if you weren't on board
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then you weren't on board,
you weren't there.
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James: I think he was always gonna be that boy
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from Hurstbridge who raced cars as fast as he possibly could
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and did exactly what he wanted
whenever he wanted.
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That's, that was his life
and that what's he did.
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Nothing really ever changed.
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Phil: Peter was born in 1945.
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I mean, Australia still had petrol rationing.
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Still had food and clothing
rationing, until 1950.
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So he grew up in an era of
austerity where you-- you made
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the best of what you could with what you had
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and you made your own entertainment.
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John: In the 1950s, when Brock was growing up
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Holden, Australia's own car,
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put families on wheels.
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Phil: Optimism with a chrome grille, that's what the old
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F.J. Holden was all about.
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And there was a great sense of
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national pride in the whole deal, too.
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It was a very strong signal of affluence.
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Every Australian post-war family wanted a Holden.
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Ford came here after it saw
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the success Holden was having
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and it was a monopoly.
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So Ford thought,
"We'll have a bit of that."
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Garry: When you talk Ford and Holden,
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you were talking to 85 percent
of the Australian
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driving population.
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You followed one or you followed the other.
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It's tribal. It was a Ford versus Holden thing
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and it polarized Australia from that point.
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Lewis: School was just something he had to do
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and as soon as he could get out of it, he got out of it.
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He had early model Holdens when he became 18.
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He rolled a couple of them.
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John: The car was your ticket to ride.
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The car was your coming of age.
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Isn't it amazing that you could
get a license to drive
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at the same time as you could
drink alcohol?
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And the two often went together.
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It was a sign that you were-- you were grown up.
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You'd have your own car.
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Jane: With it came an expectation of
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the sort of person you would be,
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the sort of people you would surround yourself with
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and there were expectations that you would be naughty.
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A-- a worship of the bad boy, the naughty boy.
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Lewis: He was conscripted in 1965.
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That was the first year of compulsory conscription
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for a two-year period.
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He wasn't happy about it because he was very much
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opposed to the Vietnam War.
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He got stationed at Kapooka in New South Wales
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and it also meant that he was alittle bit closer to Bathurst.
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In 1966 he went with a couple of mates
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and was absolutely blown away.
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[engine revving]
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[tire screeching]
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[instrumental music]
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Peter: As I came away looking at this track saying,
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"I'm inspired.
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I've gotta get out there and race."
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I've gotta get on the other side
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of this guard railing and do something.
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And really, that's what got me
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to build my very first Special to get on the track
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get my CAMS license, that sort of thing.
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Lewis: He purchased an HD Holden,
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a Triumph Herald,
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and an Austin 7.
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He shipped them down to Wattle Glen,
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which is where his parents were living
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and turned those three things into the famous A30.
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Bill: Down the main straight came this
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hideously ugly blue,
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it looked like it was hand painted, thing
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with a yellow stripe down the middle.
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And it was, it was just flying.
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And it was bumping all over the place.
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Phil: But I remember at one stage it was
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sitting on the front row of the grid.
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Pete Geoghegan's Mustang,
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which one of the all-time fantastic cars in Australia
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and there's this silly little A30 beside
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which he'd just look at and go,
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"What is this thing and why is it there?"
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Man 12: It was as skittish as all hell
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with a short wheel base, lusty engine
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but it was ahead of the field
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and I thought, "Who is this person?"
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So I took trouble walking out of the pits
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and there in the mud was this car
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and here was this skinny
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long black-haired idiot.
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And I introduced myself.
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And he impressed me immediately.
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He had charisma then.
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Lewis: And he raced that for about two years
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and won 102 races from about 65 race meetings,
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which was an extraordinary number.
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Garry: Brock, everyone else who subsequently
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tried to drive that Austin 830
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when he sold it couldn't drive it.
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Brock could just get in anything and drive it.
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Commentator: In Rome,
it was the Colosseum.
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In Australia, it's Bathurst
and a mountain circuit,
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site of this country's
greatest road race.
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Ian: There was only one race worth winning
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and that was Bathurst.
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We had 60-odd cars in the race in those days
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not 20 like we've got now.
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We had small cars, large cars, mum's shopping car.
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Cars off the showroom floor that
you could go and buy.
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All sorts of cars.
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Commentator: Moffat powers up
Mountain Straight already.
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Phil: They were for production cars.
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They were for stuff that you could,
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as they used to say in the ads
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"Win on Sunday, sell on Monday."
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Win on Sunday,
you sell on Monday.
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Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.
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Tim: The motor companies believed it
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and so did the dealers, so that was good enough.
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Obviously, if a car could do
500 miles at Bathurst
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having the wheels driven off it
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it was going to cope fairly well with
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taking the kids to school.
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Phil: It was color, it was spectacle.
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It was all of the things that alot of that younger demographic
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quite liked to see.
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Man 13: It was just an incredible scene up there.
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People would go there and set up these mobile townships.
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Man 14: Men and women used to plan this trip
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twelve months out and they would stay on the same corner
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every year and they would camp in the same campsite.
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Phil: It was the glamour, the speed,
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the excitement, the danger.
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It was the whole lifestyle.
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Lewis: People coming from all over Australia
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to watch this race.
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Phil: It was like a religion.
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Commentator: Leo Geoghegan
and Doug Whiteford
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brush with spectacular results.
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Phil: There were crashes, there was dust, there was drama.
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Lewis: And back then,
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there were no concrete retaining walls.
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[crashing]
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Greg: You're required to lean on the car
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at 200 kilometers an hour with millimeter perfect precision
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and if you get it wrong, it goes wrong badly.
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It's brutally unforgiving,
and it's fast.
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Brian: You went faster at Bathurst than anywhere else.
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Certainly nowhere as safe as circuits are today.
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But it was a thrill.
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Commentator: ...Geoghegan
attempts a miracle
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and it appears Harry Firth
believes in them too,
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as he orders more speed.
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Lewis: Harry Firth had won Bathurst in Fords.
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They had a falling out of some sort
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and he was given the job by Holden
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to start the Holden Dealer Team.
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Harry: I was looking for people who I thought
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I could mold into my particular way of doing things.
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That long-haired bloke who drives that A30.
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Looks pretty smart to me.
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He's built the car but he would require
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a fair bit of polish.
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I rang him up and he thought I was having him on,
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you know, it was someone else, so I talked to him.
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"Get rid of that thing and I'll build you a real car."
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Well, that was a bit of a shock to his system.
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Narrator: It's a tightknit organization,
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this Holden Dealers Team.
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No more than a dozen members and they've won
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every major touring car event
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on the Australian motorsports calendar.
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Peter: Couldn't believe it when I got the phone call
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from Harry Firth.
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"Come down, got a car for you."
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And I walked into the workshop
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and here's these pristine Monaro GTS 350s
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just sitting there.
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You know, they were hot off the press.
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Big on horsepower,
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ran on razorblades and no brakes.
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Oh, those were the days.
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That's when they really sorted
you out, I can tell you.
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I-- I never believed though
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that I was actually going to drive this car
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until I watched the sign-writer
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mask it up and write B-R-O-C-K
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on that mudguard.
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It was just a magic moment.
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Man 14: Harry picked Des West to partner Peter
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so he could learn from an older guy.
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Phil: Harry showed him that
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there was more to
motor racing than
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you know, a strong heart
and big balls.
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For the first time in his life, he buckled down
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and thought, "I can learnsomething from this old bloke."
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Commentator: The largest crowd
in the history of the race
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has come to see what promises to
be the most thrilling
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motor race of its kind
ever staged
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with main interest in the battle
for line honors
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between the new and specially
built Ford Falcon GTHOs
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and the car that won
convincingly last year
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the Holden Monaro GTS.
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Ford won in '67, so today's race
is something of a decider.
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Man 15: To get the car through Bathurst for 500 miles
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took an art and Harry knew how to do that.
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Harry: With Brock, I couldn't give him much time at all
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in the car but I kept telling him,
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"Peter, this is what you do."
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Peter: I listened very carefully to everything
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Harry told me to do. You know, he'd say, "Look..."
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Harry: Telling him, "Peter,
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this is what you do at Bathurst."
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"This is how you attack it."
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"This is how you do each corner."
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When you go over the top of the mountain at Bathurst
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you go over full tap.
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Peter: If he said don't use the brakes,
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I didn't use the brakes.
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Harry: The brakes are only there to get you
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set up for the corner.
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Craig: And as your car lands, you want to be down right
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to get the run into Skyline.
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Go back to third, you let the
car then use the engine brake
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over Skyline because again you
don't wanna use the brakes
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because you'll get the attitude of the car out of sync.
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Harry: You use the corner to slow you down
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and get you on the right path.
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Just over the hill you can see two hills
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and a tree in the middle.
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Now, you aim for that and go full chat.
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Peter: You had to do whatever you could.
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Give the car a flick in the corner,
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let it flow through, do all those sorts of things
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but do not use the brakes
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because the brakes had a limited life.
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The Dipper's really exciting
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because the car gets really light but you've got to be
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really precise because you want to exit out of The Dipper
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because it's a short run down to the Forrest's Elbow,
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which is up to third.
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Very tricky, Forrest Elbow, because you're braking around
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the corner which you have a tendency
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to have a lockup on the front wheel.
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I'm looking for that crack in the gap on the inside.
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Phil: He figured if you could learn to drive without brakes
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and go fast, it was going to be a pretty good technique.
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Peter: Conrod Straight's great.
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I think one of the biggest things I learnt
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is to relax in the car.
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It was a technique that I learnt.
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It took a lot of discipline.
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It was very easy to sort of say,
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"Let's jump on the brakes."
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I can still feel that brake pedal pulsing under my feet
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and the car not stopping to this day.
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I'd finished third, did what Harry said
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and I think that's what clinched the drive with
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Holden Dealer Team on a fulltime basis.
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Man on PA: The Monaro's main
runner, the Holden Torana GTR,
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gets you won
and the story's the same.
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Man 16: The development of the six-cylinder Torana
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was a departure from the traditional battle of
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two big V8s thumping around the mountain.
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It didn't have the power but it had the nimbleness
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and the fuel economy and was soft on brakes.
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It needed a driver like Peter to drive a car like that.
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There was a very, very strong contingent there.
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Holden on one side, Ford on the other.
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You can't ever prophesize
who's going to win
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but you can, have a look at
who's not gonna lose
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and I don't think
a Ford's gonna lose.
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Commentator: Moffat has more
than a lap advantage
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so the XU1 faces
an impossible task
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as the Fords continue
their dominance.
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Man 17: There was only one persistently quick,
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and that was Allan Moffat.
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How he muscled that Falcon around
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like he did was unbelievable.
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Moffat was enemy number one, there's no doubt about it.
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Man 18: Ford very much Allan Moffat, one man.
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They had drivers, of course, but Moffat
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was, was really calling all the shots.
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Phil: You had the very mercurial Brock, the younger,
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as being this lean, skinny kid
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with a silly-looking goatee beard.
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He wasn't the sort of matinee star that he later became.
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And you had the very cerebral,
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bespectacled Canadian Allan Moffat
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who could be quite bristly and, and quite cool.
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Basically plotting his way around the course
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you know, with-- with the equivalent of a,
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of a slide rule and a calculator.
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I never saw it as a rivalry.
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I saw it as-- as fellows
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that were capable of
actually just doing it
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and not trying to be smarter
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and never going up to sideswipe Peter.
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At that stage we were so fast
against so many other people
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that nobody else saw what
the hell we were doing.
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Didn't bother me.
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[laughing]
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Commentator: Into Pit Straight
and Moffat sets about
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dictating the pattern
of the race.
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His concentration inflexible,
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Moffat is in no danger of
becoming complacent.
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Hardie-Ferodo,
General Manager
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presents the Victor's
laurel wreath
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and outright winner's plaque
to a triumphant Moffat.
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Allan: Having competed from that very first race,
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I really saw it as my my life's work, almost.
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I wanted to win it at all efforts
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and as many times as possible.
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Man 19: We didn't win, but from that time on he said,
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"I can beat him. I can stay with him."
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Man on PA: No need to remind you that the road
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will be very much like a pork chop
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so we will try to exercise a little caution.
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Commentator: We now take you
direct to Bathurst
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for the official telecast
of the 1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500.
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Man 20: You've got thirty, forty cars on the grid
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all revving their insides out
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and off they go in a pall of blue smoke and it's on.
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John: Moffat would get into a car
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and he would not be fast straight away.
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He had to build up his speed
gradually, gradually, gradually
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get his concentration to that point of fever pitch
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whereas Brock would just drive
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the wheels off everything all the time.
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In those days, you know, 500 miles,
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there was no relief driver.
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You know, you didn't give him too much to drink
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because he'd want to stop and go to the toilet.
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Didn't do that in those days. There was no drink containers.
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If he was lucky, he got half a mouthful of Coke
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at the pit stop, that was it.
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Peter: I was really charging
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hard around the top of the mountain.
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Man 21: And I've got him down the bottom,
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he's coming around Mountain Straight now.
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Man 22: And Allan was a very dedicated, hard driver.
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Allan: I just wanted to make sure that
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as long as I was close enough
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I'll go as fast as I can
right up alongside him.
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Peter: I was attacking Moffat, and I'd catch Moffat up
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over the mountain and he'd blow me away down Conrod Straight.
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I'd catch him up again going up over the mountain.
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Allan: And I was quite conscious of it because it was
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running through my rear-view mirror
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every lap, that's how close he was.
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Man on PA: They're pushing
Moffat hard as he escapes
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the big bend
and down to the end.
506
00:23:32,812 --> 00:23:34,545
Man 23: The amount of times that they go, "Oh, Brocky's
507
00:23:34,547 --> 00:23:36,347
there, he's going too fast."
508
00:23:36,349 --> 00:23:38,582
"He can't keep that sort of speed up," but he would.
509
00:23:38,584 --> 00:23:40,050
Peter: And I was nipping at Allan Moffat.
510
00:23:40,052 --> 00:23:41,519
I was trying to come up the inside
511
00:23:41,521 --> 00:23:44,588
and I was really pushing at him.
512
00:23:44,590 --> 00:23:46,924
Man 24: Brock, whilst he used superior speed,
513
00:23:46,926 --> 00:23:50,428
was always playing a cat and mouse game.
514
00:23:50,430 --> 00:23:54,198
Peter and I were always very
like this, do-do-do.
515
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,200
Peter: I came through the inside of him
516
00:23:56,202 --> 00:23:58,736
and he just got a little wide.
517
00:23:58,738 --> 00:24:00,971
I could see the whites of his eyes in the mirror
518
00:24:00,973 --> 00:24:02,640
and he was sort of like, "Uh-oh."
519
00:24:02,642 --> 00:24:04,074
Man on PA: Moffat's spun.
He's off a bend
520
00:24:04,076 --> 00:24:05,676
at Reid Park,
near where Bond went.
521
00:24:05,678 --> 00:24:07,344
Peter: As I sort of whistled by.
522
00:24:07,346 --> 00:24:08,746
Man on PA: That puts Brock in
the Holden Torana
523
00:24:08,748 --> 00:24:10,214
into first place.
524
00:24:10,216 --> 00:24:13,317
Peter: He finished up off the road, unharmed
525
00:24:13,319 --> 00:24:14,919
and I was into the lead
and away.
526
00:24:14,921 --> 00:24:16,821
Man on PA: The second-last time,
527
00:24:16,823 --> 00:24:19,190
Peter Brock at the wheel
of a car that on this track,
528
00:24:19,192 --> 00:24:21,192
this day, has recorded
a classic victory.
529
00:24:26,466 --> 00:24:28,599
Man 25: His driving in that race was just incredible.
530
00:24:32,405 --> 00:24:35,372
Peter: I just dreamt of this thing.
531
00:24:35,374 --> 00:24:40,544
Phil: It was just a ballsy but also very considered drive.
532
00:24:40,546 --> 00:24:42,246
Man 26: I can remember him getting out of the car
533
00:24:42,248 --> 00:24:45,149
and he was as fit as he was at the start of it.
534
00:24:45,151 --> 00:24:48,586
Peter: Harry Firth allowed me to race the car on my own.
535
00:24:48,588 --> 00:24:50,621
Now, that's the last time that anyone's been allowed
536
00:24:50,623 --> 00:24:56,026
to race at Bathurst solo.
537
00:24:56,028 --> 00:24:58,195
Peter: At the end of the day, when I'd finished up
538
00:24:58,197 --> 00:25:00,130
getting a box of chocolates
539
00:25:00,132 --> 00:25:02,266
I had a totally different understanding about
540
00:25:02,268 --> 00:25:04,001
what I could do in life.
541
00:25:04,003 --> 00:25:06,437
The peer group viewed me differently.
542
00:25:06,439 --> 00:25:09,807
The media did, and it just changed my life.
543
00:25:09,809 --> 00:25:13,644
And it was, "Hang on, I can now do these things."
544
00:25:13,646 --> 00:25:15,279
Man 27: People were beginning to think
545
00:25:15,281 --> 00:25:17,715
well, this kid from Eltham, this Peter Brock,
546
00:25:17,717 --> 00:25:20,584
he'd got real car control, real skill.
547
00:25:20,586 --> 00:25:23,053
Man 28: And that really put him on the map.
548
00:25:23,055 --> 00:25:25,222
He'd earnt his stripes. He'd done his apprenticeship.
549
00:25:25,224 --> 00:25:28,125
Phil: He'd announced he was here.
550
00:25:28,127 --> 00:25:31,195
Man 29: He drove a skinny little Torana XU1
551
00:25:31,197 --> 00:25:34,632
to victory in the wet, a real giant-killing victory
552
00:25:34,634 --> 00:25:37,535
and that was the real beginning of the Brock legend.
553
00:25:47,647 --> 00:25:50,614
[engine revving]
554
00:25:57,623 --> 00:26:00,157
Phil: Philip Morris entered the scene with a bag of money,
555
00:26:00,159 --> 00:26:02,626
in search of a youth market.
556
00:26:02,628 --> 00:26:05,462
Motor racing was glamorous, it was edgy.
557
00:26:05,464 --> 00:26:08,198
It attracted a young, hip, cool crowd
558
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:12,636
and it was bang on their demographic.
559
00:26:12,638 --> 00:26:15,372
Lewis: Holden started to see that this young guy
560
00:26:15,374 --> 00:26:19,376
could contribute to sales and to the development
561
00:26:19,378 --> 00:26:21,412
of the Holden Motor Company.
562
00:26:21,414 --> 00:26:22,980
Man on TV: Bathurst winner
Peter Brock
563
00:26:22,982 --> 00:26:26,050
tests the new Holden Monaro GTS
four-door.
564
00:26:29,522 --> 00:26:33,057
Peter: Well, this sort of motor car is my type of car.
565
00:26:33,059 --> 00:26:35,659
Phil: Peter had too much time on his hands in those days.
566
00:26:35,661 --> 00:26:38,596
Girls were chasing him as much as he was chasing them.
567
00:26:38,598 --> 00:26:40,331
There was always plenty around.
568
00:26:40,333 --> 00:26:43,467
Harry: At one stage he had his steering wheel in one hand
569
00:26:43,469 --> 00:26:46,203
and his dick in the other.
570
00:26:46,205 --> 00:26:48,272
Phil: He also had a very keen eye. Even on the race track
571
00:26:48,274 --> 00:26:49,807
he'd pull into the pits on occasions
572
00:26:49,809 --> 00:26:52,343
and tell the mechanics before he told them
573
00:26:52,345 --> 00:26:54,345
about the tire condition and the fuel load
574
00:26:54,347 --> 00:26:56,647
that there was a very pretty
girl on the inside of turn four
575
00:26:56,649 --> 00:27:00,317
and could somebody please go
and chat her up for him.
576
00:27:00,319 --> 00:27:04,922
Harry: When it started to interfere with motor racing
577
00:27:04,924 --> 00:27:08,325
I sat him down and had a few words about it.
578
00:27:08,327 --> 00:27:10,928
Phil: Well, Holden basically sent him to finishing school
579
00:27:10,930 --> 00:27:14,398
and Peter went and did elocution lessons,
580
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,202
manners and really learnt how to eyeball people
581
00:27:18,204 --> 00:27:20,938
and to make them feel comfortable.
582
00:27:20,940 --> 00:27:24,441
He was raw material, a rough diamond.
583
00:27:24,443 --> 00:27:27,611
But as the years progressed and he acquired more polish
584
00:27:27,613 --> 00:27:31,148
more and more of the facets of the diamond became brighter.
585
00:27:31,150 --> 00:27:34,485
But there were also some, some obvious dark sides as well.
586
00:27:37,123 --> 00:27:40,024
Man on PA: Miss Australia 1973.
587
00:27:40,026 --> 00:27:42,660
Ladies and gentleman, Michelle Downes.
588
00:27:42,662 --> 00:27:44,628
Michelle: He won Bathurst at the same time
589
00:27:44,630 --> 00:27:45,729
that I won Miss Australia.
590
00:27:49,935 --> 00:27:52,469
I suppose I've...
591
00:27:52,471 --> 00:27:55,205
I've always been attracted to
the naughty boys a little bit
592
00:27:55,207 --> 00:27:58,142
and there was that naughtiness
in Peter.
593
00:27:58,144 --> 00:28:00,444
I was 21, I'd just come out of
594
00:28:00,446 --> 00:28:03,614
being chaperoned all over the country.
595
00:28:03,616 --> 00:28:06,250
Peter at the time was 28.
596
00:28:06,252 --> 00:28:09,987
He was quite handsome, very charming.
597
00:28:09,989 --> 00:28:13,590
You know, we just,
we just clicked.
598
00:28:13,592 --> 00:28:16,627
I don't know, it was, it was
instant and I fell very,
599
00:28:16,629 --> 00:28:18,529
very much in love with him,
absolutely.
600
00:28:20,733 --> 00:28:22,833
From the first night that we got together
601
00:28:22,835 --> 00:28:26,136
we just really didn't go apart from that.
602
00:28:28,441 --> 00:28:32,976
Lewis: At first sight it was, Iguess, a match made in heaven.
603
00:28:32,978 --> 00:28:35,212
He was just very proud of her
604
00:28:35,214 --> 00:28:38,248
and deeply in love and adored her, worshipped her.
605
00:28:41,587 --> 00:28:44,822
Peter and Michelle had a TV wedding
606
00:28:44,824 --> 00:28:48,625
which was televised live,
which is pretty incredible.
607
00:28:48,627 --> 00:28:52,996
Michelle: The publicity machine was very, very, very active.
608
00:28:52,998 --> 00:28:56,633
We sort of became the golden couple.
609
00:28:56,635 --> 00:28:59,403
Peter was still very much an unknown person
610
00:28:59,405 --> 00:29:01,638
unless you were a racing car fanatic
611
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,941
and then you would've known who he was.
612
00:29:03,943 --> 00:29:05,743
He enjoyed the attention
613
00:29:05,745 --> 00:29:10,047
and he enjoyed being a public person, very much.
614
00:29:10,049 --> 00:29:13,016
He started to taste what fame was like
615
00:29:13,018 --> 00:29:14,785
through my profile.
616
00:29:17,323 --> 00:29:20,591
Ian: Around that time, Peter got a, a manager
617
00:29:20,593 --> 00:29:23,160
who was being most difficult with General Motors
618
00:29:23,162 --> 00:29:27,364
a concern to Harry, and that was upsetting everyone.
619
00:29:27,366 --> 00:29:29,933
At race meetings he'd just jump in the car after the race
620
00:29:29,935 --> 00:29:32,236
leave all his clothes in the marquee.
621
00:29:32,238 --> 00:29:35,038
Expect us to pick up everything and take them back to work.
622
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,974
He was married to Miss Australia
623
00:29:36,976 --> 00:29:39,676
and I think he started to
believe he was Mr. Australia.
624
00:29:39,678 --> 00:29:42,246
Peter wanted attention.
625
00:29:42,248 --> 00:29:45,649
The more my profile lifted
626
00:29:45,651 --> 00:29:47,584
the more resentful he became.
627
00:29:53,793 --> 00:29:57,327
When something was happening to him, like he was at a race
628
00:29:57,329 --> 00:30:00,864
I would be pushed away because he didn't want anyone
629
00:30:00,866 --> 00:30:02,599
being distracted from him.
630
00:30:07,606 --> 00:30:10,541
It was after we got married
631
00:30:10,543 --> 00:30:12,242
that the violence started.
632
00:30:16,348 --> 00:30:18,248
I had to go and be on television
633
00:30:18,250 --> 00:30:20,717
and be the happy, you know, weather girl
634
00:30:20,719 --> 00:30:22,920
and all the publicity
and then I had to go home,
635
00:30:22,922 --> 00:30:25,589
not knowing what I was going
to go home to that night
636
00:30:25,591 --> 00:30:27,758
what sort of mood
he was going to be in.
637
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,627
If he'd won a race,
everything was fine.
638
00:30:30,629 --> 00:30:34,598
If he hadn't won a race,
God help us.
639
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,466
Man 30: Harry couldn't slow Peter down.
640
00:30:36,468 --> 00:30:38,936
There was no radio communication in those
641
00:30:38,938 --> 00:30:41,405
days and it was just waving arms
642
00:30:41,407 --> 00:30:44,174
and just ges-- gesticulations and things
643
00:30:44,176 --> 00:30:46,276
but Peter wouldn't slow down
644
00:30:46,278 --> 00:30:49,613
and the motor blew up
645
00:30:49,615 --> 00:30:51,315
six or eight laps from the finish.
646
00:30:53,052 --> 00:30:54,718
Man on PA: A sad sight for the Holden Dealer Team
647
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,253
as Car One heads for the back of the pits.
648
00:30:56,255 --> 00:30:58,856
So Peter Brock is out of the race.
649
00:30:58,858 --> 00:31:01,959
Man 31: Harry believed that Peter didn't obey his orders
650
00:31:01,961 --> 00:31:03,927
and slowed down, if he had have slowed down,
651
00:31:03,929 --> 00:31:05,596
he wouldn't have detonated the piston.
652
00:31:05,598 --> 00:31:06,864
Well, I don't thinkit would've made any difference
653
00:31:06,866 --> 00:31:08,365
from where we were sitting.
654
00:31:08,367 --> 00:31:10,400
All of a sudden, he was a car-wrecker.
655
00:31:13,439 --> 00:31:16,673
Phil: So he would frustrate Harry just by doing it the way
656
00:31:16,675 --> 00:31:19,877
he believed was right and Peter would do it in a way that
657
00:31:19,879 --> 00:31:23,247
Harry wouldn't sort of
find out until later
658
00:31:23,249 --> 00:31:27,217
which-- which I think would be
a source of frustration.
659
00:31:27,219 --> 00:31:29,620
Garry: Harry was a fantastic manager, but I don't think
660
00:31:29,622 --> 00:31:32,656
he had the skills to sort Peter out.
661
00:31:32,658 --> 00:31:35,225
And I think in the end
the falling out was just because
662
00:31:35,227 --> 00:31:36,727
Harry wanted to control things
663
00:31:36,729 --> 00:31:38,962
and he couldn't really
control Brock.
664
00:31:38,964 --> 00:31:41,365
I don't think anyone
could control Brock.
665
00:31:41,367 --> 00:31:43,500
I don't think Brock could
control himself, frankly.
666
00:31:48,374 --> 00:31:50,207
Michelle: You couldn't doanything about it in those days
667
00:31:50,209 --> 00:31:52,876
because you know, a husband
668
00:31:52,878 --> 00:31:55,379
was allowed to beat his wife.
669
00:31:55,381 --> 00:31:57,247
There was no such thing
as domestic violence.
670
00:31:57,249 --> 00:31:59,416
I used to call the police
and they'd say
671
00:31:59,418 --> 00:32:01,518
"It's a domestic. We can't have
anything to do with it."
672
00:32:04,323 --> 00:32:06,523
It was almost a shameful thing.
673
00:32:06,525 --> 00:32:08,258
You know, you didn't want people to know
674
00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:09,426
it was happening to you.
675
00:32:11,931 --> 00:32:13,997
Very painful.
676
00:32:13,999 --> 00:32:17,935
Very, very painful time
of my life.
677
00:32:21,173 --> 00:32:23,340
David: Clearly, it was a difficult relationship
678
00:32:23,342 --> 00:32:25,208
and an unhappy marriage.
679
00:32:27,846 --> 00:32:29,379
And the fact that
they were playing it out
680
00:32:29,381 --> 00:32:31,581
in the general public
681
00:32:31,583 --> 00:32:33,417
must've been
incredibly difficult
682
00:32:33,419 --> 00:32:34,851
and incredibly painful.
683
00:32:36,388 --> 00:32:38,422
He was the poster boy for Holden
684
00:32:38,424 --> 00:32:42,459
and suddenly there were newspaper reports appearing.
685
00:32:42,461 --> 00:32:45,862
Race teams don't like
personal dramas
686
00:32:45,864 --> 00:32:49,433
and there was a lot of personal
drama in-- in that situation.
687
00:32:51,437 --> 00:32:53,937
Phil: Holden, being part of General Motors
688
00:32:53,939 --> 00:32:56,540
very buttoned-down culture.
689
00:32:56,542 --> 00:32:59,009
Very, well,
690
00:32:59,011 --> 00:33:02,145
Midwest American values.
691
00:33:02,147 --> 00:33:05,215
Lewis: And image is everything for a big company like that.
692
00:33:07,186 --> 00:33:10,954
Bev: Perceptions were not always reality.
693
00:33:10,956 --> 00:33:14,624
Peter was a master, even back then, of putting up a front
694
00:33:14,626 --> 00:33:18,862
of the mask of what peoplewanted to see he could present.
695
00:33:21,166 --> 00:33:23,000
Tim: There were basically two Peter Brocks.
696
00:33:23,002 --> 00:33:26,536
One was, just a bloke who you'd meet round the place
697
00:33:26,538 --> 00:33:29,740
who was charming, intelligent.
698
00:33:29,742 --> 00:33:33,143
And then there was another one the personality full of rumor
699
00:33:33,145 --> 00:33:36,279
and innuendo and you were never quite sure
700
00:33:36,281 --> 00:33:38,315
how to get to the bottom of all of that.
701
00:33:38,317 --> 00:33:41,418
And I would've thought
that the real Brock
702
00:33:41,420 --> 00:33:43,253
was probably a combination
of both.
703
00:33:45,424 --> 00:33:47,124
Man 32: With the problems he's giving General Motors
704
00:33:47,126 --> 00:33:49,926
and Harry, I think it came to a head.
705
00:33:56,935 --> 00:33:58,535
From Holden's point of view
706
00:33:58,537 --> 00:34:00,604
it was just too difficult a situation.
707
00:34:01,807 --> 00:34:03,673
Yes, it broke our hearts.
708
00:34:03,675 --> 00:34:05,976
The mechanics bloody near wept.
709
00:34:05,978 --> 00:34:09,646
We just couldn't believe
that we were going to lose
710
00:34:09,648 --> 00:34:11,548
the best driver in Australia at the time.
711
00:34:16,822 --> 00:34:17,988
[instrumental music]
712
00:34:20,192 --> 00:34:22,025
Ian: So what does he do?
713
00:34:22,027 --> 00:34:23,827
He starts again.
714
00:34:23,829 --> 00:34:25,429
Have a go.
715
00:34:25,431 --> 00:34:27,764
Well, hang on,
privateers don't win Bathurst.
716
00:34:27,766 --> 00:34:31,234
But here you are with one of the only two full,
717
00:34:31,236 --> 00:34:34,337
you know, professional race teams in Australia
718
00:34:34,339 --> 00:34:36,640
and you're given the boot.
719
00:34:36,642 --> 00:34:38,075
Pete finds some people who,
720
00:34:38,077 --> 00:34:39,209
who are gonna have their own team
721
00:34:39,211 --> 00:34:40,977
and I'll race their car and,
722
00:34:40,979 --> 00:34:42,679
and, and we'll get some sponsorship
723
00:34:42,681 --> 00:34:44,081
and stuff and away we'll go.
724
00:34:45,984 --> 00:34:47,584
And he just looked ahead.
725
00:34:51,023 --> 00:34:53,457
Bev: I had a girlfriend who lived in Melbourne.
726
00:34:53,459 --> 00:34:56,359
I said I'd just met Peter Brock
727
00:34:56,361 --> 00:34:59,429
so she told me of the, you know, the media exposure
728
00:34:59,431 --> 00:35:00,864
he was getting and-- and the stories
729
00:35:00,866 --> 00:35:02,933
that were circulating and...
730
00:35:02,935 --> 00:35:04,634
that took me aback
because I said,
731
00:35:04,636 --> 00:35:08,071
"Well, that's certainly not
the guy that I've met."
732
00:35:08,073 --> 00:35:10,874
I was seeing one side
of a man I'd just met
733
00:35:10,876 --> 00:35:13,143
and then hearing that there was this other side.
734
00:35:13,145 --> 00:35:15,479
So I was apprehensive a bit.
735
00:35:18,617 --> 00:35:20,617
He was at the early stage of his career
736
00:35:20,619 --> 00:35:24,754
and winning hadn't become part of who he was.
737
00:35:24,756 --> 00:35:26,523
Our real friendship started
738
00:35:26,525 --> 00:35:31,228
when he was going through turmoil in his marriage.
739
00:35:31,230 --> 00:35:34,364
Peter had, you know,
gone out as a privateer.
740
00:35:34,366 --> 00:35:36,399
Had no money.
741
00:35:36,401 --> 00:35:39,035
When they came to Sydney, they would stay with us
742
00:35:39,037 --> 00:35:42,606
so they had accommodation, free meals.
743
00:35:42,608 --> 00:35:47,277
My husband was a mechanic and, we had a service station.
744
00:35:47,279 --> 00:35:49,146
They'd come and stay and we would help them out
745
00:35:49,148 --> 00:35:51,047
at the race team.
746
00:35:51,049 --> 00:35:53,750
Lewis: He drove cars that weren't all that good.
747
00:35:53,752 --> 00:35:56,419
He didn't have the support of the factory.
748
00:35:56,421 --> 00:35:58,522
He wasn't the works' driver anymore.
749
00:35:58,524 --> 00:36:00,023
He was a privateer.
750
00:36:00,025 --> 00:36:01,591
He had to lift this team up
751
00:36:01,593 --> 00:36:03,660
and make it competitive.
752
00:36:03,662 --> 00:36:05,762
Bev: Very rarely were mechanics paid.
753
00:36:05,764 --> 00:36:07,931
It was very much a labor of love
754
00:36:07,933 --> 00:36:10,400
so people who were keen on the scene would come along
755
00:36:10,402 --> 00:36:12,602
and give their all because they wanted to be part
756
00:36:12,604 --> 00:36:16,006
of something bigger than themselves.
757
00:36:16,008 --> 00:36:18,275
Peter: Be fair to say that when we got to Bathurst
758
00:36:18,277 --> 00:36:20,043
in 1975
759
00:36:20,045 --> 00:36:23,580
we really had to win to pay the rent.
760
00:36:23,582 --> 00:36:25,248
Man on PA: Away they go!
761
00:36:25,250 --> 00:36:27,517
And Allan Moffat gets going
more quickly in first gear.
762
00:36:27,519 --> 00:36:29,252
I don't think he's working
the car hard...
763
00:36:29,254 --> 00:36:30,787
Peter: Gown and Hindhaugh,
764
00:36:30,789 --> 00:36:31,988
a couple of engine reconditioning fellows
765
00:36:31,990 --> 00:36:33,423
very much a privateer effort
766
00:36:33,425 --> 00:36:34,658
and we never had very much money
767
00:36:34,660 --> 00:36:39,062
to sink into this project.
768
00:36:39,064 --> 00:36:41,598
John: You had Rice, Bond, Harvey
769
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,600
Frank Gardner, Moffat.
770
00:36:43,602 --> 00:36:46,069
You had all the big names of the time.
771
00:36:46,071 --> 00:36:48,438
Peter was at the back of this 38-car field
772
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,808
and he drove past all of them.
773
00:36:51,810 --> 00:36:54,744
Brian: They just said would I drive with them?
774
00:36:54,746 --> 00:36:55,679
Absolutely.
775
00:36:58,250 --> 00:37:01,952
We never had any discussions, never any arguments.
776
00:37:01,954 --> 00:37:05,989
Really not even any tactics, we didn't discuss.
777
00:37:05,991 --> 00:37:07,791
Man on PA: Around the bend and
now Allan Moffat leads the race
778
00:37:07,793 --> 00:37:09,459
and Peter Brock pulls out
and decides
779
00:37:09,461 --> 00:37:11,361
that he might like to
lead for a change
780
00:37:11,363 --> 00:37:14,164
and he goes up
on the outside of Colin.
781
00:37:14,166 --> 00:37:15,732
And look at the distance
between these cars.
782
00:37:15,734 --> 00:37:17,000
It's a real race
and Brock is the one
783
00:37:17,002 --> 00:37:18,602
who wants to get to the lead.
784
00:37:18,604 --> 00:37:21,137
He put it in the position
to win the race.
785
00:37:21,139 --> 00:37:25,775
It was my job to make sure
the car got there.
786
00:37:25,777 --> 00:37:27,744
Bev: One particular evening they were all there.
787
00:37:27,746 --> 00:37:29,179
I was out in the kitchen, he came out
788
00:37:29,181 --> 00:37:30,614
and sat on the kitchen bench
789
00:37:30,616 --> 00:37:32,616
and opened up and he was quite,
790
00:37:32,618 --> 00:37:36,586
uh, depressed at the time.
791
00:37:36,588 --> 00:37:38,388
He didn't know where his life was going
792
00:37:38,390 --> 00:37:42,926
and I was a bit of a
motivational sort of person
793
00:37:42,928 --> 00:37:47,264
and encouraged him to,
to believe in himself.
794
00:37:47,266 --> 00:37:49,199
Man on PA: Brock in front now.
795
00:37:49,201 --> 00:37:52,535
Bev: The bit that totally shocked me
796
00:37:52,537 --> 00:37:56,339
was his vulnerability, his
insecurity in a personal sense
797
00:37:56,341 --> 00:37:59,743
and I was very fortunate that
I got to see that side of him
798
00:37:59,745 --> 00:38:03,913
because my perception of the man
was very different.
799
00:38:03,915 --> 00:38:05,982
Man on PA: Last lap sign goes up
for the last time round
800
00:38:05,984 --> 00:38:07,183
and the crowd acknowledge
the man
801
00:38:07,185 --> 00:38:08,852
who's going to win this race.
802
00:38:08,854 --> 00:38:11,121
Only a kilometer to go now
as Peter Brock...
803
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,259
Bev: You have to feel honored
804
00:38:16,261 --> 00:38:19,062
when somebody who is that capable
805
00:38:19,064 --> 00:38:21,665
is game to let down
the barriers
806
00:38:21,667 --> 00:38:24,768
and be who he really
is with somebody.
807
00:38:24,770 --> 00:38:27,671
You know that you're trusted
808
00:38:27,673 --> 00:38:31,808
and you-- you respect that.
809
00:38:31,810 --> 00:38:34,644
I was going through
a not dissimilar situation
810
00:38:34,646 --> 00:38:36,379
in my marriage.
811
00:38:36,381 --> 00:38:38,048
We became good friends.
812
00:38:38,050 --> 00:38:40,617
So he found that he had somebody he could
813
00:38:40,619 --> 00:38:44,321
lean on and he could be honest with.
814
00:38:44,323 --> 00:38:46,523
Man on PA: Peter Brock
goes for the last time
815
00:38:46,525 --> 00:38:48,491
down through the Esses.
816
00:38:50,362 --> 00:38:52,696
A moment of absolute triumph.
817
00:38:56,134 --> 00:38:58,234
Lewis: In his privateer car
818
00:38:58,236 --> 00:38:59,969
Peter Brock just lifted it up
819
00:38:59,971 --> 00:39:02,005
and carried it to the finish line.
820
00:39:02,007 --> 00:39:05,008
Man on PA: That's it, the
chequered flag for Peter Brock
821
00:39:05,010 --> 00:39:09,546
in the 1975 Hardie-Ferodo
1000 Bathurst.
822
00:39:13,185 --> 00:39:17,320
Lewis: He managed to win the grand slam.
823
00:39:17,322 --> 00:39:20,056
Phil: Which I'm sure helped Holden
824
00:39:20,058 --> 00:39:23,026
sell quite a few of those cars.
825
00:39:23,028 --> 00:39:25,662
James: Peter was very big on vindication
826
00:39:25,664 --> 00:39:28,832
very big on "I'll show you bastards"
827
00:39:28,834 --> 00:39:32,535
and that was the essence of being a great competitor.
828
00:39:32,537 --> 00:39:34,838
Phil: It reminded Holden Brock
829
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,640
was a very merchandisable sort of representative
830
00:39:37,642 --> 00:39:39,476
for the Holden product
831
00:39:39,478 --> 00:39:42,078
because it meant he'd won two Bathursts
832
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,114
and was sort of up on a par
833
00:39:44,116 --> 00:39:47,050
with-- with Moffat.
834
00:39:47,052 --> 00:39:49,319
and a few of them down there were thinking,
835
00:39:49,321 --> 00:39:52,622
"Why isn't he still with the race team?"
836
00:39:52,624 --> 00:39:54,524
Peter: I was beginning to feel that Bathurst
837
00:39:54,526 --> 00:39:57,260
and I had a very, very special relationship.
838
00:40:12,144 --> 00:40:13,743
You might ask,
what is the caper?
839
00:40:13,745 --> 00:40:14,944
What's the similarity between
840
00:40:14,946 --> 00:40:16,179
driving a car on the race track
841
00:40:16,181 --> 00:40:17,947
and driving a car on the road?
842
00:40:17,949 --> 00:40:20,116
Michelle: I remember it like it was yesterday.
843
00:40:20,118 --> 00:40:22,619
He so desperately wanted to be famous.
844
00:40:22,621 --> 00:40:25,822
He really wanted to be loved and acknowledged
845
00:40:25,824 --> 00:40:29,859
and, and, and so how can we do that?
846
00:40:29,861 --> 00:40:32,429
And I said to Peter
847
00:40:32,431 --> 00:40:34,964
"You know,
I reckon you should be
848
00:40:34,966 --> 00:40:37,267
a spokesperson for road safety
849
00:40:37,269 --> 00:40:40,236
because you're such a brilliant driver."
850
00:40:40,238 --> 00:40:44,140
Cars and driving. They're part
of the Australian way of life.
851
00:40:44,142 --> 00:40:46,643
Michelle: I said, "Maybe you could even get .05"
852
00:40:46,645 --> 00:40:48,611
as a number."
853
00:40:48,613 --> 00:40:50,346
Tim: They were looking for somebody
854
00:40:50,348 --> 00:40:54,451
to publicize his involvement in a road safety campaign
855
00:40:54,453 --> 00:40:57,854
promoting the ".05 drink drive."
856
00:40:57,856 --> 00:40:59,355
You going to be hanging around
for a couple more?
857
00:40:59,357 --> 00:41:00,590
We might as well have
another one.
858
00:41:00,592 --> 00:41:02,225
- No, mate.
- We're all having one.
859
00:41:02,227 --> 00:41:03,793
No, there's no way known you can
actually negotiate the traffic,
860
00:41:03,795 --> 00:41:05,462
the trams and what have you
861
00:41:05,464 --> 00:41:08,498
with a few too many inks in
the head, really, so I'm going.
862
00:41:10,235 --> 00:41:14,637
By the time the .05 had actually
come out onto the car
863
00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:16,840
our marriage was over.
864
00:41:16,842 --> 00:41:19,375
And I watched this man just get on with this life
865
00:41:19,377 --> 00:41:22,445
like nothing had happened.
866
00:41:22,447 --> 00:41:26,182
David: The .05 campaign helped to put Peter back in
867
00:41:26,184 --> 00:41:30,353
good faith with his public after
all the dramas of '74.
868
00:41:30,355 --> 00:41:32,255
I think the magazine
that I was writing for
869
00:41:32,257 --> 00:41:34,190
dubbed him "Super Brock."
870
00:41:34,192 --> 00:41:36,025
Tim: And he looked the part
871
00:41:36,027 --> 00:41:38,628
and he could switch from one persona to the other
872
00:41:38,630 --> 00:41:43,433
depending on where he was and what he was on about.
873
00:41:43,435 --> 00:41:45,134
You know, it's very important
to have the right attitude
874
00:41:45,136 --> 00:41:46,803
if you drive a car like this.
875
00:41:46,805 --> 00:41:48,204
You've got to blank everything
out of your mind.
876
00:41:48,206 --> 00:41:49,973
No hassles, no dramas.
877
00:41:49,975 --> 00:41:53,943
Hop in a car like this and just
drive it properly the whole way.
878
00:41:53,945 --> 00:41:56,412
Phil: It was a natural fit from a marketing point of view
879
00:41:56,414 --> 00:41:58,147
for a drink-drive campaign
880
00:41:58,149 --> 00:42:01,117
to recruit the best-known driver in the country.
881
00:42:01,119 --> 00:42:02,619
He was super clean.
882
00:42:02,621 --> 00:42:05,622
I can only speculate
that one and one made two
883
00:42:05,624 --> 00:42:07,190
or in this case .05
884
00:42:07,192 --> 00:42:10,260
for the people at George Patterson.
885
00:42:10,262 --> 00:42:13,162
Bev: His life was so alien to mine
886
00:42:13,164 --> 00:42:16,599
but there was this just a comfortable
887
00:42:16,601 --> 00:42:19,536
absolute trusting, amazing friendship,
888
00:42:19,538 --> 00:42:22,005
a bond that was very powerful.
889
00:42:22,007 --> 00:42:23,940
And I guess it wasn't until he told me
890
00:42:23,942 --> 00:42:26,609
how he really felt about me
that I even allowed myself,
891
00:42:26,611 --> 00:42:27,744
you know, because I was married.
892
00:42:27,746 --> 00:42:28,778
I was brought up to believe that
893
00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:30,413
you make marriage work.
894
00:42:30,415 --> 00:42:33,516
I couldn't see somebody living a life like he was
895
00:42:33,518 --> 00:42:38,121
to take on a country girl, with a six-month-old child.
896
00:42:38,123 --> 00:42:39,822
He took me
completely by surprise
897
00:42:39,824 --> 00:42:42,125
and was particularly persuasive.
898
00:42:48,633 --> 00:42:50,767
He said to me, he said,
"This is going to be fantastic."
899
00:42:50,769 --> 00:42:53,036
And I said, "Why is that? I
certainly hope so." And he said
900
00:42:53,038 --> 00:42:55,438
"Well, I'll take care of all the big things, Bevvo,"
901
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,141
"and you can take care
of the small things"
902
00:42:58,143 --> 00:42:59,475
God bless him.
903
00:42:59,477 --> 00:43:01,244
So I said to him,
"What's the big things?"
904
00:43:01,246 --> 00:43:03,112
and he said, "Well, Bevvo."
He said, "I'll do the driving,
905
00:43:03,114 --> 00:43:06,149
I'll earn the money and I'll take care of the media."
906
00:43:06,151 --> 00:43:07,717
And I said,
"Just out of curiosity,
907
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,252
what are the small things?"
He said,
908
00:43:09,254 --> 00:43:10,920
"Well, you can look after me,
909
00:43:10,922 --> 00:43:12,655
run the property, raise the kids."
910
00:43:12,657 --> 00:43:14,324
"I don't like
dealing with lawyers
911
00:43:14,326 --> 00:43:16,025
and I don't like,
you know, bank managers."
912
00:43:16,027 --> 00:43:18,461
"You can take care
of all those things."
913
00:43:18,463 --> 00:43:20,330
And it turned out that way.
914
00:43:20,332 --> 00:43:22,265
We were a good team.
915
00:43:28,974 --> 00:43:32,976
Lewis: Allan Moffat had tremendous backing from Ford
916
00:43:32,978 --> 00:43:35,878
with his Moffat Ford Dealers Team.
917
00:43:44,823 --> 00:43:48,191
Commentator: Down the straight
they go, car one, car two.
918
00:43:48,193 --> 00:43:50,793
An absolute demonstration
919
00:43:50,795 --> 00:43:53,463
of the trust between Ford here
920
00:43:53,465 --> 00:43:55,431
and the Allan Moffat
Dealer Team
921
00:43:55,433 --> 00:43:57,367
a scene we've
never seen before.
922
00:43:57,369 --> 00:43:59,235
Phil: That was the one that got away.
923
00:43:59,237 --> 00:44:03,373
Peter spun, I think, a couple of times early on in the race.
924
00:44:03,375 --> 00:44:05,808
Commentator: And Moffat from
the outside will sweep around
925
00:44:05,810 --> 00:44:07,944
and take the chequered flag
first
926
00:44:07,946 --> 00:44:09,946
for victory in the 1977...
927
00:44:09,948 --> 00:44:11,981
Lewis: Falcons were just too good.
928
00:44:11,983 --> 00:44:15,818
They won just about every race they did.
929
00:44:15,820 --> 00:44:18,187
Holden were getting belted every weekend
930
00:44:18,189 --> 00:44:20,023
because they were putting all this money in
931
00:44:20,025 --> 00:44:22,125
and Ford were making them look silly.
932
00:44:25,330 --> 00:44:27,764
No car company can put up with that.
933
00:44:27,766 --> 00:44:30,667
Bathurst was a very important part of the marketing.
934
00:44:36,941 --> 00:44:39,175
Holden came calling.
935
00:44:39,177 --> 00:44:42,445
Commentator: It's pole position
car, Peter Brock, 05--
936
00:44:42,447 --> 00:44:46,582
Lewis: 1978 was the return of the prodigal son.
937
00:44:46,584 --> 00:44:48,951
After three years away, they could see that
938
00:44:48,953 --> 00:44:52,522
Peter's popularity was greater than ever.
939
00:44:52,524 --> 00:44:55,725
Well, he was the perfect man to front this revival
940
00:44:55,727 --> 00:44:59,062
of Holden's race fortunes.
941
00:44:59,064 --> 00:45:00,730
Man 33: It was a massive positive stroke
942
00:45:00,732 --> 00:45:02,832
for General Motors. He was back in the fold.
943
00:45:04,536 --> 00:45:06,202
Bev: Bathurst was the highlight of the year.
944
00:45:06,204 --> 00:45:08,638
It was what everything else built up to.
945
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,874
If you could beat the mountain,
if you could win there
946
00:45:11,876 --> 00:45:14,377
everything else paled
to insignificance.
947
00:45:14,379 --> 00:45:17,380
You look very relaxed
and confident, Peter.
948
00:45:17,382 --> 00:45:19,048
Oh, it's the outward
appearances, of course.
949
00:45:19,050 --> 00:45:22,051
This is Hardie-Ferodo 1000
and it's a big event.
950
00:45:22,053 --> 00:45:23,419
How much does the race
mean to you?
951
00:45:23,421 --> 00:45:25,021
Oh, it's the event for the year.
952
00:45:25,023 --> 00:45:27,790
Lewis: Harry Firth was retiring
953
00:45:27,792 --> 00:45:30,727
or Holden was suggesting that he should retire.
954
00:45:30,729 --> 00:45:34,464
They set up a new teamwith John Sheppard at the helm.
955
00:45:34,466 --> 00:45:36,165
So it was very important for them
956
00:45:36,167 --> 00:45:38,367
to turn their fortunes around on the track
957
00:45:38,369 --> 00:45:41,304
in order to protect their fortunes in the showroom.
958
00:45:43,007 --> 00:45:45,341
Commentator: Standby Australia
for the start
959
00:45:45,343 --> 00:45:49,278
of the 1978 Hardie-Ferodo 1000.
960
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,447
Peter: I really had to prove myself
961
00:45:51,449 --> 00:45:53,649
but I had to earn my stripes, I can tell you.
962
00:46:05,396 --> 00:46:07,730
Man 34: When those red and white cars were there, man,
963
00:46:07,732 --> 00:46:09,665
you knew that was a serious race
964
00:46:09,667 --> 00:46:12,401
and they really were just iconic.
965
00:46:21,780 --> 00:46:23,212
James: Think it was just the era
966
00:46:23,214 --> 00:46:25,114
where I really started to engage.
967
00:46:25,116 --> 00:46:28,417
It's the Torana, it's the A9X Torana, like
968
00:46:28,419 --> 00:46:31,187
just basically one of the best
cars ever made on the planet.
969
00:46:31,189 --> 00:46:33,422
It was the classic Marlboro
livery.
970
00:46:33,424 --> 00:46:35,258
It's probably one of the best-looking race cars
971
00:46:35,260 --> 00:46:37,827
to ever have graced our race tracks.
972
00:46:40,999 --> 00:46:43,432
Lewis: Holden was just immediately back on top
973
00:46:43,434 --> 00:46:45,434
and Brock was the name.
974
00:46:47,806 --> 00:46:50,606
Man on PA: The winner of this
year's Hardie-Ferodo,
975
00:46:50,608 --> 00:46:53,109
for the third time
for Peter Brock.
976
00:47:01,753 --> 00:47:05,254
Bev: We had an agreement that in the build up to Bathurst
977
00:47:05,256 --> 00:47:08,424
and at Bathurst itself would ever any issue be raised
978
00:47:08,426 --> 00:47:09,792
that would bring him stress
979
00:47:09,794 --> 00:47:11,794
we would take care of
between myself
980
00:47:11,796 --> 00:47:13,763
and the guys in the team
981
00:47:13,765 --> 00:47:16,332
all the stressful issues, so that he could just focus
982
00:47:16,334 --> 00:47:19,402
on doing what he needed to do.
983
00:47:19,404 --> 00:47:23,973
I had found out I was pregnant
with our first child
984
00:47:23,975 --> 00:47:25,942
but because we had
so much on the plate,
985
00:47:25,944 --> 00:47:27,777
I wasn't going to tell him
because I didn't want to
986
00:47:27,779 --> 00:47:29,679
distract him,
because the agreement was
987
00:47:29,681 --> 00:47:31,814
that we would never shift
anything off the focus
988
00:47:31,816 --> 00:47:34,183
of what needed to be focused on.
989
00:47:34,185 --> 00:47:36,018
The emotional tension,
990
00:47:36,020 --> 00:47:38,855
the demands on your time physically
991
00:47:38,857 --> 00:47:44,126
it is an absolute frantic, controlled area of chaos,
992
00:47:44,128 --> 00:47:46,462
uh, with everything building up to the big day.
993
00:47:50,935 --> 00:47:53,870
[upbeat music]
994
00:48:06,117 --> 00:48:08,317
John: He started the race and led every single lap
995
00:48:08,319 --> 00:48:09,685
of the race.
996
00:48:19,597 --> 00:48:22,431
¶ He was selling postcards
from a paper stand ¶
997
00:48:22,433 --> 00:48:24,867
¶ The whiskey bottle
in his withered hand ¶
998
00:48:24,869 --> 00:48:28,871
¶ Put his finger on a photo from
an old magazine ¶
999
00:48:28,873 --> 00:48:32,275
Bev: He dreamt his races in the weeks before they happened.
1000
00:48:32,277 --> 00:48:35,177
He drove his races in his sleep.
1001
00:48:35,179 --> 00:48:36,979
I would know where he was
on the circuit
1002
00:48:36,981 --> 00:48:38,848
from where he was leaning,
where he was braking.
1003
00:48:38,850 --> 00:48:40,816
¶ Shut him up in solitary
third degree ¶
1004
00:48:40,818 --> 00:48:44,186
¶ Take a long line ¶
1005
00:48:44,188 --> 00:48:47,223
Commentator: Peter Brock
is four laps ahead.
1006
00:48:47,225 --> 00:48:48,591
Graeme: Couple of laps from the end
1007
00:48:48,593 --> 00:48:50,026
John Sheppard is talking
1008
00:48:50,028 --> 00:48:51,761
to Peter on the radio saying
1009
00:48:51,763 --> 00:48:55,264
"Okay, Peter, you've got a very comfortable lead here."
1010
00:48:55,266 --> 00:48:57,600
"So just take it easy and just get the car"
1011
00:48:57,602 --> 00:48:59,535
"across the finish line."
1012
00:49:01,639 --> 00:49:03,406
Typical driving style.
1013
00:49:03,408 --> 00:49:05,675
Driving around waving to everybody in the crowd
1014
00:49:05,677 --> 00:49:07,410
and call on the radio and say,
1015
00:49:07,412 --> 00:49:10,179
"Hey, guys, there's a bird up
here with her tits out."
1016
00:49:10,181 --> 00:49:12,581
¶ Take a long line ¶
1017
00:49:12,583 --> 00:49:14,650
¶ Reel him in ¶
1018
00:49:21,626 --> 00:49:23,726
Peter: Things do go wrong. Look at Allan Moffat.
1019
00:49:23,728 --> 00:49:25,394
He was worrying about whether I'd last
1020
00:49:25,396 --> 00:49:27,163
and yet he was the one to fall.
1021
00:49:27,165 --> 00:49:28,664
Phil: His car had broken down.
1022
00:49:28,666 --> 00:49:30,800
I knew he was on that, doing the TV commentary
1023
00:49:30,802 --> 00:49:32,335
and Moffat would be saying
1024
00:49:32,337 --> 00:49:34,003
"Peter will hear every little squeak"
1025
00:49:34,005 --> 00:49:35,805
"and rattle and he'll be going slow now"
1026
00:49:35,807 --> 00:49:37,873
"just to make sure he gets over the hill," you know.
1027
00:49:37,875 --> 00:49:40,409
I thought, "I'll show him."
1028
00:49:40,411 --> 00:49:45,247
Commentator: First man ever to
lead the race from go to whoa.
1029
00:49:45,249 --> 00:49:47,216
Lewis: The crowd up there went berserk.
1030
00:49:47,218 --> 00:49:48,784
Down the pitch you could hear them screaming
1031
00:49:48,786 --> 00:49:49,819
up at McPhillamy Park.
1032
00:49:49,821 --> 00:49:51,053
Commentator: Here he comes.
1033
00:49:51,055 --> 00:49:55,358
Listen to the applause,
the accolades
1034
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,928
for a man among when it comes to
race car drivers.
1035
00:49:58,930 --> 00:50:00,463
Still tidy.
1036
00:50:03,668 --> 00:50:06,535
Peter: So I really went for it and the last lap
1037
00:50:06,537 --> 00:50:08,804
uh, I actually set the lap record
1038
00:50:08,806 --> 00:50:10,740
purely just to show to people that,
1039
00:50:10,742 --> 00:50:12,408
"Hey, this car's running strong."
1040
00:50:12,410 --> 00:50:14,243
¶ Take a long line ¶
1041
00:50:14,245 --> 00:50:20,816
¶ Take a long line ¶¶
1042
00:50:20,818 --> 00:50:22,752
Commentator: The winner of this
year's Hardie-Ferodo
1043
00:50:22,754 --> 00:50:25,855
and now he has four victories in
Australia's greatest race.
1044
00:50:25,857 --> 00:50:27,656
Craig: He won the race by six laps
1045
00:50:27,658 --> 00:50:29,525
and still broke the lap record
on the last lap.
1046
00:50:29,527 --> 00:50:32,828
Like, he was just in his own
little world, in the zone.
1047
00:50:32,830 --> 00:50:35,965
He was a guy who loved to drive
cars fast and he did it well.
1048
00:50:35,967 --> 00:50:38,000
That was,
that was his happy place.
1049
00:50:38,002 --> 00:50:39,402
Graeme: People thought he was being reckless,
1050
00:50:39,404 --> 00:50:41,837
driving that last lap so fast.
1051
00:50:41,839 --> 00:50:43,873
James: To do it in such a convincing style, you know,
1052
00:50:43,875 --> 00:50:45,474
that's-- that's no mean feat.
1053
00:50:45,476 --> 00:50:48,010
I don't think you can really top that one.
1054
00:50:48,012 --> 00:50:49,812
Peter: It just worked beautifully
1055
00:50:49,814 --> 00:50:53,315
and it's one of those weekendswhich is a race driver's dream.
1056
00:50:55,586 --> 00:50:59,155
Bev: People say to me what was the best of his victories
1057
00:50:59,157 --> 00:51:03,125
and to me, they all meld in together because
1058
00:51:03,127 --> 00:51:06,062
nothing was ever overlooked
1059
00:51:06,064 --> 00:51:08,864
in pursuit of that
ultimate chequered flag
1060
00:51:08,866 --> 00:51:10,633
at the end of the race.
1061
00:51:10,635 --> 00:51:13,602
[upbeat music]
1062
00:51:18,176 --> 00:51:20,976
Peter: When people ask me what is my most
1063
00:51:20,978 --> 00:51:25,347
indelibly imprinted memory of motor sport
1064
00:51:25,349 --> 00:51:27,116
it is, without any shadow of doubt
1065
00:51:27,118 --> 00:51:31,220
the '79 Repco Reliability Around Australia Trial.
1066
00:51:31,222 --> 00:51:34,390
It was the single-most difficult, challenging
1067
00:51:34,392 --> 00:51:37,460
motoring event you could imagine.
1068
00:51:37,462 --> 00:51:39,261
Bev: He was in there, boots and all.
1069
00:51:39,263 --> 00:51:41,330
Man 35: Peter Brock andthe Commodore started that race
1070
00:51:41,332 --> 00:51:44,033
as underdogs.
1071
00:51:44,035 --> 00:51:45,968
Bev: In fact, it was him and George Sheppard
1072
00:51:45,970 --> 00:51:48,437
who got Holden to say we could launch
1073
00:51:48,439 --> 00:51:50,539
this new Commodore to the public market
1074
00:51:50,541 --> 00:51:52,475
this would be the perfect venue to do it.
1075
00:51:54,078 --> 00:51:56,245
Phil: These roads aren't meant for cars
1076
00:51:56,247 --> 00:51:57,980
but the Holden Commodore was engineered
1077
00:51:57,982 --> 00:51:59,849
to a level of toughness
1078
00:51:59,851 --> 00:52:02,384
that had never been seen on an Australian car before.
1079
00:52:10,027 --> 00:52:12,761
James: It was an epic event, without a doubt.
1080
00:52:12,763 --> 00:52:14,763
It's one of those disciplines that, you know is
1081
00:52:14,765 --> 00:52:17,399
particularly demanding on drivers
1082
00:52:17,401 --> 00:52:19,768
because you don't have, you know
1083
00:52:19,770 --> 00:52:21,737
tens or hundreds of laps
to get it right.
1084
00:52:21,739 --> 00:52:23,405
You have to get it right
the first time
1085
00:52:23,407 --> 00:52:26,675
and the only time you go over that piece of road.
1086
00:52:26,677 --> 00:52:28,611
Driving by the seat of your pants is something that
1087
00:52:28,613 --> 00:52:30,913
PB did exceptionally well.
1088
00:52:30,915 --> 00:52:33,716
And the cars were really very, very standard,
1089
00:52:33,718 --> 00:52:35,518
very simple cars and were you know,
1090
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,520
pretty prone to breaking when they went over some
1091
00:52:37,522 --> 00:52:39,455
of the most punishing roads in the country.
1092
00:52:42,026 --> 00:52:45,594
Phil: What Peter Brock did withthe Repco Round Australia Rally
1093
00:52:45,596 --> 00:52:47,596
must have done a lot to keep people
1094
00:52:47,598 --> 00:52:50,065
interested in buying this car
1095
00:52:50,067 --> 00:52:53,035
which was perceived to be at a size disadvantage
1096
00:52:53,037 --> 00:52:55,337
for the Ford Falcon.
1097
00:52:55,339 --> 00:52:59,608
Peter: I'm just so focused on doing it purely on adrenaline.
1098
00:52:59,610 --> 00:53:01,944
I had the sniff of victory around about Darwin
1099
00:53:01,946 --> 00:53:04,914
and I thought, "Oh, I can win this."
1100
00:53:04,916 --> 00:53:08,784
I'd had half a lap of Australia to sort of figure it out.
1101
00:53:08,786 --> 00:53:11,120
Commentator: Commodores have
been challenged by Ford
1102
00:53:11,122 --> 00:53:13,355
who lie first,
fourth and fifth,
1103
00:53:13,357 --> 00:53:15,491
separated by Bell and Brock.
1104
00:53:18,996 --> 00:53:20,930
Sunday, August 19th
1105
00:53:20,932 --> 00:53:24,033
and the three Commodores head
the field with a police escort
1106
00:53:24,035 --> 00:53:26,435
for the trip to
the Melbourne Showgrounds.
1107
00:53:26,437 --> 00:53:29,638
Peter: The cars finished one, two, three outright.
1108
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:32,675
Fourteen days, 21,000 kilometers.
1109
00:53:32,677 --> 00:53:37,346
I was, I was just a skeleton at the end of that.
1110
00:53:37,348 --> 00:53:39,582
Bev: He was already skinny when he left home
1111
00:53:39,584 --> 00:53:43,819
to get started. He was gaunt when he got back.
1112
00:53:43,821 --> 00:53:45,821
James: He was blessed as well. He had a lot of luck
1113
00:53:45,823 --> 00:53:49,024
so, you know, Lady Luck
smiled on him
1114
00:53:49,026 --> 00:53:51,260
for a very long period of time.
1115
00:53:51,262 --> 00:53:54,029
He, he got away with a lotta stuff.
1116
00:53:54,031 --> 00:53:57,132
Phil: That's when the Peter Perfect era really began.
1117
00:53:57,134 --> 00:53:58,968
Interviewer: Peter, does this win mean more to you
1118
00:53:58,970 --> 00:54:01,203
than any other win in your motorsport career?
1119
00:54:01,205 --> 00:54:04,006
Probably similar to first time
at Bathurst.
1120
00:54:04,008 --> 00:54:06,141
Bev: Because he went and beat the best rally drivers
1121
00:54:06,143 --> 00:54:08,644
in the world in a one, two, three victory
1122
00:54:08,646 --> 00:54:10,713
that nobody ever expected could happen.
1123
00:54:10,715 --> 00:54:14,383
He showed them that he wasn't
just there for the media.
1124
00:54:14,385 --> 00:54:15,918
You know, I had to tell him also
1125
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:17,720
that he was going to become a father.
1126
00:54:17,722 --> 00:54:21,023
There were so many layers to this and what an amazing year.
1127
00:54:27,965 --> 00:54:29,765
I had no
1128
00:54:29,767 --> 00:54:33,535
comprehension of what it would
mean to step into a life
1129
00:54:33,537 --> 00:54:34,970
where you lived
in the limelight,
1130
00:54:34,972 --> 00:54:36,972
where you had to deal with media
1131
00:54:36,974 --> 00:54:40,276
and all the stresses that involved in Peter's life.
1132
00:54:43,147 --> 00:54:45,914
James: I think she had a way of putting things that
1133
00:54:45,916 --> 00:54:47,816
maybe did bring him down to earth a little bit
1134
00:54:47,818 --> 00:54:49,051
and make him feel comfortable
1135
00:54:49,053 --> 00:54:50,819
with what was going on
around him.
1136
00:54:50,821 --> 00:54:52,788
Alexandra: Mum was there in the pits doing timing.
1137
00:54:52,790 --> 00:54:55,924
Mum was there sewing new badges to dad's uniform.
1138
00:54:55,926 --> 00:54:59,528
She was making sure dad ate. She was feeding everyone else.
1139
00:54:59,530 --> 00:55:02,197
I, I don't know how they...
1140
00:55:02,199 --> 00:55:05,234
Most people get paid a lot of
money to do what my mum did.
1141
00:55:05,236 --> 00:55:07,369
She didn't get anything.
1142
00:55:07,371 --> 00:55:10,172
Phil: There was no doubt that Bevvo, as he'd call her,
1143
00:55:10,174 --> 00:55:14,410
was the rock and basically called the shots.
1144
00:55:14,412 --> 00:55:16,345
If you weren't on side with Bevvo
1145
00:55:16,347 --> 00:55:20,049
well then you weren't getting any access to the main man.
1146
00:55:21,252 --> 00:55:23,319
I suddenly discovered
1147
00:55:23,321 --> 00:55:26,388
that men have ownership
1148
00:55:26,390 --> 00:55:28,157
of somebody like Peter.
1149
00:55:28,159 --> 00:55:29,825
And so there were a few of them
1150
00:55:29,827 --> 00:55:32,328
who weren't happy with me coming on the scene.
1151
00:55:41,739 --> 00:55:44,673
Lewis: Peter was at the peak of his powers.
1152
00:55:44,675 --> 00:55:48,177
He was the key to the Marlboro Holden Dealer Team.
1153
00:55:48,179 --> 00:55:50,512
Man 36: The Holden Dealers were clamoring out
1154
00:55:50,514 --> 00:55:52,648
for cars with a bit of the Brock magic
1155
00:55:52,650 --> 00:55:54,650
and maybe the Brock name on them.
1156
00:55:54,652 --> 00:55:56,385
Peter: We went to a number of dealers.
1157
00:55:56,387 --> 00:55:58,854
I put it to them about helping out, funding the team,
1158
00:55:58,856 --> 00:56:00,789
making it truly a dealer team.
1159
00:56:00,791 --> 00:56:03,792
Man 37: The dealers agreed to finance the team
1160
00:56:03,794 --> 00:56:07,463
on the basis that Peter start a special vehicles operation
1161
00:56:07,465 --> 00:56:09,965
and use his racing knowledge and experience
1162
00:56:09,967 --> 00:56:12,334
to develop some cars for the road
1163
00:56:12,336 --> 00:56:15,204
that would appeal to the punters.
1164
00:56:15,206 --> 00:56:18,340
Peter: I began HDT Special Vehicles.
1165
00:56:18,342 --> 00:56:21,543
Phil: We had the ability to design with what we want.
1166
00:56:21,545 --> 00:56:23,379
A lot of that was obviously Peter,
1167
00:56:23,381 --> 00:56:25,581
what he wanted in the cars
1168
00:56:25,583 --> 00:56:27,850
to make that standard road car
1169
00:56:27,852 --> 00:56:29,918
and just by altering some of the componentry
1170
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,354
to make it into a faster,
1171
00:56:32,356 --> 00:56:34,923
better handling and more durable car
1172
00:56:34,925 --> 00:56:37,126
which is exactly what it finished as.
1173
00:56:37,128 --> 00:56:39,595
Man 38: It was based on the VC Commodore
1174
00:56:39,597 --> 00:56:41,930
using the five-liter engine.
1175
00:56:41,932 --> 00:56:43,799
Craig: So there was a different inlet manifold
1176
00:56:43,801 --> 00:56:45,734
bigger valve cylinder heads
1177
00:56:45,736 --> 00:56:48,270
and a few other things that were on these cars
1178
00:56:48,272 --> 00:56:50,406
that we couldn't race
until these cars
1179
00:56:50,408 --> 00:56:52,141
were effectively sold
or at least delivered
1180
00:56:52,143 --> 00:56:53,842
to the dealers.
1181
00:56:53,844 --> 00:56:55,444
So there was a relatively short space of time
1182
00:56:55,446 --> 00:56:57,579
that we needed to produce these 500 cars
1183
00:56:57,581 --> 00:56:59,248
get them out to the dealers
1184
00:56:59,250 --> 00:57:00,849
so that the cylinder heads could be used
1185
00:57:00,851 --> 00:57:02,751
at the next Bathurst.
1186
00:57:02,753 --> 00:57:04,920
We had no idea what to do,
really
1187
00:57:04,922 --> 00:57:09,124
as far as to build a whole runof cars all with the same spec.
1188
00:57:09,126 --> 00:57:11,193
Peter: We were young and we're just into it
1189
00:57:11,195 --> 00:57:14,196
and no one had told us we didn't know how to do it.
1190
00:57:14,198 --> 00:57:15,964
I never had any doubts. I...
1191
00:57:15,966 --> 00:57:18,033
You know, we just dived
in the deep end
1192
00:57:18,035 --> 00:57:20,469
and or as he said, "You bite off more than you can chew"
1193
00:57:20,471 --> 00:57:21,637
"and you just chew like hell."
1194
00:57:21,639 --> 00:57:23,639
So he just did it.
1195
00:57:23,641 --> 00:57:25,774
Phil: It was just crazy because no one had done
1196
00:57:25,776 --> 00:57:27,743
that sort of thing before and I think
1197
00:57:27,745 --> 00:57:30,612
we hear a lot now the term disruptive
1198
00:57:30,614 --> 00:57:32,414
in marketing or advertising.
1199
00:57:32,416 --> 00:57:35,217
Peter was a disruptor years and years and years
1200
00:57:35,219 --> 00:57:37,753
ahead of his time.
1201
00:57:37,755 --> 00:57:40,756
His business was formed on
a handshake with General Motors.
1202
00:57:40,758 --> 00:57:43,058
It, it was a license to print money for him.
1203
00:57:43,060 --> 00:57:44,927
It was a goldmine.
1204
00:57:44,929 --> 00:57:47,663
Every kid, every middle-aged bloke
1205
00:57:47,665 --> 00:57:49,164
with a blood pressure problem
1206
00:57:49,166 --> 00:57:51,834
wanted a car like Brocky's.
1207
00:57:51,836 --> 00:57:53,635
Everybody was making dough.
1208
00:57:53,637 --> 00:57:55,871
The dealers loved it, Holden loved it
1209
00:57:55,873 --> 00:57:59,041
because there was a huge halo effect from the racing team
1210
00:57:59,043 --> 00:58:02,478
and I think Peter made quite a nice living out of it
1211
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:04,813
and employed quite a few people.
1212
00:58:04,815 --> 00:58:07,783
Phil: It was as time went onthe dealer input was so strong,
1213
00:58:07,785 --> 00:58:11,019
we realized we had to just keep going.
1214
00:58:11,021 --> 00:58:13,055
Well, it was the beginning of
the best period of my life.
1215
00:58:13,057 --> 00:58:15,023
Absolutely loved it.
1216
00:58:19,663 --> 00:58:21,363
Commentator: Australian touring car champion
1217
00:58:21,365 --> 00:58:24,867
last year's Bathurst winner, car 05 MHDT Commodore
1218
00:58:24,869 --> 00:58:27,669
a time of 221.815, Peter Brock,
1219
00:58:27,671 --> 00:58:30,372
and so to the front row of the grid.
1220
00:58:30,374 --> 00:58:32,975
Phil: Ford was back in the game
1221
00:58:32,977 --> 00:58:36,612
and they had a new star in Dick Johnson.
1222
00:58:36,614 --> 00:58:38,981
He was a pretty good privateer
1223
00:58:38,983 --> 00:58:41,049
and he put together a pretty good car.
1224
00:58:41,051 --> 00:58:43,252
Boy: No, Dick Johnson's
better than you!
1225
00:58:43,254 --> 00:58:44,853
Peter: Well, that's
a matter of opinion.
1226
00:58:44,855 --> 00:58:46,955
Boy: He's got a faster car
than you, I reckon.
1227
00:58:46,957 --> 00:58:48,190
Not for long.
1228
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:51,760
Dick: The guy that I'm worried about more than anyone
1229
00:58:51,762 --> 00:58:54,129
would be Peter Brock
because, he's...
1230
00:58:54,131 --> 00:58:56,198
Interviewer: Well, he's saying
he's worried about you.
1231
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:57,432
Well...
1232
00:58:57,434 --> 00:58:58,600
It was virtually the start
1233
00:58:58,602 --> 00:59:01,236
of my career, to a point.
1234
00:59:01,238 --> 00:59:03,038
Commentator: And Johnson has got the start
1235
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,007
and it's a slow start byKevin Bartlett in the Camaro...
1236
00:59:05,009 --> 00:59:09,044
Dick: We went there with high hopes of having a good result
1237
00:59:09,046 --> 00:59:10,946
and we were sort of on track for that.
1238
00:59:10,948 --> 00:59:13,782
I was second on the grid to Kevin Bartlett.
1239
00:59:21,859 --> 00:59:25,027
Brocky, his car was really not quick enough
1240
00:59:25,029 --> 00:59:28,130
and we were sort of battling away for the first
1241
00:59:28,132 --> 00:59:29,865
uh, ten laps or so.
1242
00:59:29,867 --> 00:59:32,334
He was driving the car extremely hard,
1243
00:59:32,336 --> 00:59:34,603
which left me cruising away out in front.
1244
00:59:36,373 --> 00:59:39,007
Commentator: Dick Johnson, but
he has gone into the fence.
1245
00:59:39,009 --> 00:59:40,542
Dick Johnson, the leader,
he's broken
1246
00:59:40,544 --> 00:59:42,144
the left-hand front suspension.
1247
00:59:42,146 --> 00:59:44,613
You can see by the way
the car is leaning down.
1248
00:59:44,615 --> 00:59:47,082
And that changed the whole, uh,
the whole...
1249
00:59:48,419 --> 00:59:51,119
I suppose
the way the race ended up.
1250
00:59:51,121 --> 00:59:53,922
There was a rock.
1251
00:59:53,924 --> 00:59:57,326
It was, it was the size of
1252
00:59:57,328 --> 00:59:59,995
at least an overnight bag
1253
00:59:59,997 --> 01:00:01,597
and it was right on line.
1254
01:00:01,599 --> 01:00:03,532
Craig: But one of Peter's comments was
1255
01:00:03,534 --> 01:00:05,767
"The rock wasn't that big, and I just drove around it."
1256
01:00:05,769 --> 01:00:08,971
So it was a little...
he was a little bit dismissive
1257
01:00:08,973 --> 01:00:10,906
of the whole rock theory.
1258
01:00:13,077 --> 01:00:14,543
Dick: I know you make your own luck
1259
01:00:14,545 --> 01:00:16,878
but, uh, certainly a lot of it
went his way.
1260
01:00:18,616 --> 01:00:21,450
Lewis: When he won the '78, '79, '80
1261
01:00:21,452 --> 01:00:24,386
he had actually achieved the pinnacle
1262
01:00:24,388 --> 01:00:27,322
of being the best driver at Bathurst in Australia.
1263
01:00:30,361 --> 01:00:33,161
Garry: Brock became a brand unto himself.
1264
01:00:33,163 --> 01:00:36,198
He just carried Holden along with him.
1265
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:39,001
The car itself became an advertising billboard
1266
01:00:39,003 --> 01:00:43,071
even more so once the camera
went into the car.
1267
01:00:43,073 --> 01:00:45,040
Reporter: Small and light
1268
01:00:45,042 --> 01:00:47,442
yet able to withstand the enormous stresses that
1269
01:00:47,444 --> 01:00:50,045
will be fed into the Marlboro Holden Dealer Team Commodore
1270
01:00:50,047 --> 01:00:51,613
of Peter Brock.
1271
01:00:51,615 --> 01:00:54,116
2-18 I would think to put him
on pole position.
1272
01:00:54,118 --> 01:00:55,984
There's our race cam inside Brock's car.
1273
01:00:55,986 --> 01:00:57,586
Look at those hands on the wheel.
1274
01:00:57,588 --> 01:00:59,588
And I can remember,
you know, sitting at home
1275
01:00:59,590 --> 01:01:01,523
when you first had
that in-car vision
1276
01:01:01,525 --> 01:01:03,725
of what the driver did
and how they did it
1277
01:01:03,727 --> 01:01:05,193
was really special.
1278
01:01:05,195 --> 01:01:06,995
This is one of the most
treacherous parts
1279
01:01:06,997 --> 01:01:09,665
of the circuit.
Oh, into the dirt on the side.
1280
01:01:09,667 --> 01:01:14,036
In-car cameras just took
the whole game to the next level
1281
01:01:14,038 --> 01:01:16,938
and Peter had
this beautiful ability
1282
01:01:16,940 --> 01:01:18,940
to be able to talk
1283
01:01:18,942 --> 01:01:21,443
to the camera to address the fans at home
1284
01:01:21,445 --> 01:01:25,247
to talk to the commentators as he raced around the track.
1285
01:01:25,249 --> 01:01:28,450
But the main thing is to give
your car a very easy time
1286
01:01:28,452 --> 01:01:30,652
but as you can see,
you can still go fast.
1287
01:01:30,654 --> 01:01:32,320
Now, I brake very late here.
1288
01:01:32,322 --> 01:01:33,855
There's a lot of time to be made up just here.
1289
01:01:33,857 --> 01:01:37,626
Greg: He was the biggest thing in Australia
1290
01:01:37,628 --> 01:01:39,795
that perhaps there'd ever been.
1291
01:01:44,735 --> 01:01:47,269
Bev: Sure, he likes a bit of the worship
1292
01:01:47,271 --> 01:01:48,437
that he gets from other people.
1293
01:01:48,439 --> 01:01:49,871
- He loves it. - Hero worship?
1294
01:01:49,873 --> 01:01:51,206
Bev: Yeah. Very much hero worship.
1295
01:01:51,208 --> 01:01:52,874
He's just great. He's beautiful.
I just love him.
1296
01:01:52,876 --> 01:01:55,744
I think he's
the most horniest guy around.
1297
01:01:55,746 --> 01:01:59,314
I think he's done great things
for motorsport in Australia.
1298
01:01:59,316 --> 01:02:01,917
I love him so much. Okay, I just
come here just to see him.
1299
01:02:01,919 --> 01:02:03,819
When it's over,
whether they've won
1300
01:02:03,821 --> 01:02:06,021
whether they've lost, everybody
likes to let their hair down
1301
01:02:06,023 --> 01:02:08,590
and relax, have a few beers
and enjoy themselves.
1302
01:02:08,592 --> 01:02:10,459
Now, that is the time
1303
01:02:10,461 --> 01:02:12,761
where the girls at motor racing
1304
01:02:12,763 --> 01:02:14,463
really go for him.
1305
01:02:14,465 --> 01:02:16,631
To get him to bed, to get him
1306
01:02:16,633 --> 01:02:19,935
round the corner on his...
they have no particular
1307
01:02:19,937 --> 01:02:22,671
qualms about where they get him,
as long as they get him.
1308
01:02:26,443 --> 01:02:30,212
Phil: Peter Brock had huge charisma.
1309
01:02:30,214 --> 01:02:32,114
You know, I saw it many, many times.
1310
01:02:32,116 --> 01:02:35,350
He could turn the amp up to ten and he was irresistible.
1311
01:02:35,352 --> 01:02:37,352
I mean, women swooned.
1312
01:02:37,354 --> 01:02:39,287
Men just wanted to be like him.
1313
01:02:41,191 --> 01:02:43,959
Phil: It'd be fair to say that as time went along
1314
01:02:43,961 --> 01:02:46,728
he started believing his own publicity.
1315
01:02:46,730 --> 01:02:48,964
But he was king of the kids.
1316
01:02:48,966 --> 01:02:52,167
Man: You brought Phil in as a driver for Bathurst
1317
01:02:52,169 --> 01:02:55,070
through a period of incredible success.
1318
01:02:55,072 --> 01:02:56,772
Bev: Lou and Phil
1319
01:02:56,774 --> 01:02:59,741
Peter felt that he needed to look after them,
1320
01:02:59,743 --> 01:03:02,010
create opportunities for them.
1321
01:03:02,012 --> 01:03:03,812
No matter what happened in their life,
1322
01:03:03,814 --> 01:03:05,247
no matter what stuff ups there were
1323
01:03:05,249 --> 01:03:06,815
he was always going to be there for them.
1324
01:03:06,817 --> 01:03:10,252
And so he gave them
opportunities constantly
1325
01:03:10,254 --> 01:03:12,454
and sometimes they worked,
sometimes they didn't.
1326
01:03:12,456 --> 01:03:15,924
There was always a bit of
conflict because we...
1327
01:03:15,926 --> 01:03:17,259
you know,
we were three brothers.
1328
01:03:17,261 --> 01:03:18,660
It's almost like that stuff
1329
01:03:18,662 --> 01:03:20,362
that happened when you were kids
1330
01:03:20,364 --> 01:03:22,330
never goes away.
1331
01:03:25,869 --> 01:03:28,370
Phil: '83, Peter asked me to run
1332
01:03:28,372 --> 01:03:32,073
the second car with John at Bathurst.
1333
01:03:32,075 --> 01:03:33,875
Larry: It was my first year running
1334
01:03:33,877 --> 01:03:35,777
the Holden Dealer Team of Brocky's.
1335
01:03:35,779 --> 01:03:40,582
I was the workshop manager and Peter's co-the driver.
1336
01:03:40,584 --> 01:03:42,651
You know, everything was going well
1337
01:03:42,653 --> 01:03:45,220
until I think it was lap sixteen
1338
01:03:45,222 --> 01:03:48,223
and Peter's come down the Conrod Straight
1339
01:03:48,225 --> 01:03:49,958
and the engine failed.
1340
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:52,661
Commentator: Hello, 05, Peter Brock is in the pits!
1341
01:03:52,663 --> 01:03:55,330
Phil: When Pete's car broke down
1342
01:03:55,332 --> 01:03:58,200
I knew straight away
that he'd be in our car.
1343
01:03:58,202 --> 01:04:02,237
They pulled John in and put Peter in the car.
1344
01:04:02,239 --> 01:04:04,372
John: I handed the car over in second place.
1345
01:04:04,374 --> 01:04:06,041
It was looking good.
1346
01:04:06,043 --> 01:04:08,777
Peter chose to continue with Larry rather than myself,
1347
01:04:08,779 --> 01:04:11,213
and that annoyed me.
1348
01:04:11,215 --> 01:04:14,382
Larry was this pushy bugger
who made sure that
1349
01:04:14,384 --> 01:04:17,219
he got his way and he got in the car.
1350
01:04:17,221 --> 01:04:19,187
Man 39: When you take over someone's car
1351
01:04:19,189 --> 01:04:20,822
it's no longer their car.
1352
01:04:20,824 --> 01:04:23,124
They don't get to hop back in.
1353
01:04:23,126 --> 01:04:26,528
Commentator: Here's Peter Brocknow walking into the pit area.
1354
01:04:26,530 --> 01:04:27,963
Commentator: To break the bad news to brother Phil.
1355
01:04:27,965 --> 01:04:30,031
- Do you think? - I think so.
1356
01:04:30,033 --> 01:04:31,533
Phil: It was Peter's team.
1357
01:04:31,535 --> 01:04:33,134
He could have stopped that at any time
1358
01:04:33,136 --> 01:04:35,437
and said, "No, no, no, Pin's gonna drive."
1359
01:04:35,439 --> 01:04:38,807
What was the bad decision
1360
01:04:38,809 --> 01:04:40,475
was putting Larry in the car.
1361
01:04:40,477 --> 01:04:43,144
He was the slowest
of the four of us.
1362
01:04:43,146 --> 01:04:47,349
Commentator: Oh, he's almost collected Perkins in car 25!
1363
01:04:47,351 --> 01:04:49,317
Phil: At the last stop, Peter gets back in the car
1364
01:04:49,319 --> 01:04:51,519
and they go and win the race.
1365
01:04:51,521 --> 01:04:53,054
Commentator: Yes, he's done it.
1366
01:04:53,056 --> 01:04:55,390
He's put seven on the board, Peter Brock!
1367
01:04:55,392 --> 01:04:57,826
And I had a chance to win
Bathurst and never did.
1368
01:04:57,828 --> 01:05:01,596
Commentator: Peter Brock with the 1983 James Hardie 1000
1369
01:05:01,598 --> 01:05:03,765
at Mount Panorama, Bathurst.
1370
01:05:03,767 --> 01:05:08,637
I sometimes feel worse about it
now than I did at the time.
1371
01:05:08,639 --> 01:05:11,740
You get judged on, in some ways, on things like that.
1372
01:05:13,944 --> 01:05:15,477
Bev: Peter didn't make that choice lightly
1373
01:05:15,479 --> 01:05:18,380
but there were bigger, wider responsibilities
1374
01:05:18,382 --> 01:05:19,915
and he had no choice.
1375
01:05:19,917 --> 01:05:21,149
Now Phil
was obviously disappointed,
1376
01:05:21,151 --> 01:05:23,118
and everybody would
understand that
1377
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:24,586
but that's motor racing.
1378
01:05:24,588 --> 01:05:26,154
If it's your team,
you've put up the money,
1379
01:05:26,156 --> 01:05:27,622
you've got everything together
1380
01:05:27,624 --> 01:05:29,791
you've prepared the cars,
you take the risk
1381
01:05:29,793 --> 01:05:32,160
you take the responsibility, you make the decisions
1382
01:05:32,162 --> 01:05:34,062
and sometimes those decisions are not easy.
1383
01:05:42,639 --> 01:05:46,775
About three weeks later,
I did a very stupid thing.
1384
01:05:46,777 --> 01:05:48,343
I...
1385
01:05:48,345 --> 01:05:50,512
had a few drinks and then
1386
01:05:50,514 --> 01:05:53,949
for some unknown reason,
I drove home
1387
01:05:53,951 --> 01:05:57,419
and wrapped myself
around a telephone pole
1388
01:05:57,421 --> 01:06:01,256
uh, and
1389
01:06:01,258 --> 01:06:03,858
was in a pretty bad way for
1390
01:06:03,860 --> 01:06:07,529
oh, a few months.
1391
01:06:07,531 --> 01:06:10,165
And kept trying to go back to
work and I couldn't quite do it.
1392
01:06:10,167 --> 01:06:13,234
I'd get down and I'd last
about an hour or two and just,
1393
01:06:13,236 --> 01:06:16,538
just couldn't handle it so then
I'd just have to go home.
1394
01:06:16,540 --> 01:06:18,373
Then it was probably around about, I don't know
1395
01:06:18,375 --> 01:06:21,276
I think it was round about, uh, January or something,
1396
01:06:23,413 --> 01:06:26,014
Uh, Pete came out
to see me one day
1397
01:06:26,016 --> 01:06:28,817
and, and sacked me.
1398
01:06:28,819 --> 01:06:32,320
And so I decided to leave Victoria.
1399
01:06:39,429 --> 01:06:42,130
I wasn't too happy with him.
1400
01:06:42,132 --> 01:06:44,032
You know, you've gotta
understand that Peter
1401
01:06:44,034 --> 01:06:46,001
was running the 05
so he was the face
1402
01:06:46,003 --> 01:06:48,336
of the road safety campaign.
1403
01:06:48,338 --> 01:06:50,472
It was obvious to Peter that he
1404
01:06:50,474 --> 01:06:52,841
you know, to have co-drivers in his team
1405
01:06:52,843 --> 01:06:55,377
he had to have people who were totally focused.
1406
01:06:55,379 --> 01:06:57,245
All of those things that
1407
01:06:57,247 --> 01:07:01,950
were necessary to be involved
as a face within the team.
1408
01:07:01,952 --> 01:07:04,786
I, I couldn't...
1409
01:07:06,156 --> 01:07:08,289
I couldn't tell people
he'd sacked me.
1410
01:07:14,598 --> 01:07:17,532
You know, it was...
1411
01:07:20,404 --> 01:07:24,739
The guy was my idol,
you know, and to...
1412
01:07:27,444 --> 01:07:30,612
I could never understand it
and... yeah, anyway.
1413
01:07:39,456 --> 01:07:42,724
Man 40: The Holden Dealer Teamhad decided we were going to go
1414
01:07:42,726 --> 01:07:44,592
and have a go at Le Mans
1415
01:07:44,594 --> 01:07:46,594
so we took the whole crew over
1416
01:07:46,596 --> 01:07:47,929
and we rented a Porsche.
1417
01:07:51,535 --> 01:07:53,301
[speaking in foreign language]
1418
01:07:55,072 --> 01:07:57,439
Phil: Australia had just won the America's Cup.
1419
01:07:57,441 --> 01:07:59,407
We could do anything.
1420
01:08:01,011 --> 01:08:03,011
And Brocky, our man
1421
01:08:03,013 --> 01:08:04,946
he was gonna show the Europeans
1422
01:08:04,948 --> 01:08:07,048
just what he was made of.
1423
01:08:07,050 --> 01:08:10,518
But at that stage the bloke was what, 42?
1424
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:14,355
And in a, in a racing driver'scareer, that's getting on a bit
1425
01:08:14,357 --> 01:08:16,391
particularly if you haven't
1426
01:08:16,393 --> 01:08:19,260
looked after yourself physically.
1427
01:08:19,262 --> 01:08:21,329
I remember taking a pic of Peter
1428
01:08:21,331 --> 01:08:24,532
in the back of the pits at Le Mans, stripped to the waist
1429
01:08:24,534 --> 01:08:27,669
sweating, distraught, gaunt, hollow-eyed.
1430
01:08:27,671 --> 01:08:30,638
He'd given everything he had.
1431
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:32,540
There's an old adage in motor racing, that
1432
01:08:32,542 --> 01:08:34,809
to finish first,
first you've gotta finish
1433
01:08:34,811 --> 01:08:38,113
and, you know, Larry was circulating four seconds a lap
1434
01:08:38,115 --> 01:08:42,050
faster than Peter but he crashed.
1435
01:08:42,052 --> 01:08:44,185
It was at 2 o'clock in the morning
1436
01:08:44,187 --> 01:08:46,121
that struck the car off through
1437
01:08:46,123 --> 01:08:50,391
his own fault and he was, he was big enough to admit that.
1438
01:08:50,393 --> 01:08:55,029
Bev: He was over what anybody could physically take
1439
01:08:55,031 --> 01:08:58,199
so he's working in a workshopwhere they're building the cars
1440
01:08:58,201 --> 01:09:00,635
so there's a lot of fiberglass dust, there's paint,
1441
01:09:00,637 --> 01:09:02,003
we've got a paint shop.
1442
01:09:02,005 --> 01:09:03,805
Petrol, he was allergic
to petrol.
1443
01:09:03,807 --> 01:09:05,373
Not good for a racing driver.
1444
01:09:05,375 --> 01:09:07,475
His skin was giving off
all of this stuff.
1445
01:09:07,477 --> 01:09:08,643
He was coughing up.
1446
01:09:08,645 --> 01:09:09,944
He was, he was not well,
1447
01:09:09,946 --> 01:09:13,348
and he needed that time to
1448
01:09:13,350 --> 01:09:16,451
completely detox, to get his body back in shape.
1449
01:09:16,453 --> 01:09:18,720
He needed time away from everything,
1450
01:09:18,722 --> 01:09:20,355
so for a few weeks there
1451
01:09:20,357 --> 01:09:22,323
we did nothing else but look after his health
1452
01:09:22,325 --> 01:09:24,292
and wellbeing.
1453
01:09:28,865 --> 01:09:31,332
Phil: Six months later, he reappeared
1454
01:09:31,334 --> 01:09:35,069
and the old Brock was back in business.
1455
01:09:35,071 --> 01:09:36,437
John: Brock gave away cigarettes,
1456
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:38,206
he gave away the booze
1457
01:09:38,208 --> 01:09:41,242
he stopped drinking 74 cups of tea every day.
1458
01:09:41,244 --> 01:09:43,645
He got healthier. He was fitter.
1459
01:09:43,647 --> 01:09:45,213
In many ways he was improved
1460
01:09:45,215 --> 01:09:47,849
but I think some of this stuff
really played havoc
1461
01:09:47,851 --> 01:09:51,052
with his, his mindset.
1462
01:09:51,054 --> 01:09:52,954
Peter: Driving, to me is-- is a nice escape.
1463
01:09:52,956 --> 01:09:54,789
It's a means of getting out of the office
1464
01:09:54,791 --> 01:09:57,392
and once I get behind the wheel of the car, I am relaxed.
1465
01:09:57,394 --> 01:09:59,360
I just get behind the wheel
of that car
1466
01:09:59,362 --> 01:10:04,399
and I'm doing I know
what I can do best.
1467
01:10:04,401 --> 01:10:08,203
Bev had introduced him
to a chiropractor
1468
01:10:08,205 --> 01:10:11,039
who called himself a doctor,
Dr. Eric Dowker,
1469
01:10:11,041 --> 01:10:13,775
who not only fixed his body
1470
01:10:13,777 --> 01:10:15,543
and put him onto a healthier lifestyle,
1471
01:10:15,545 --> 01:10:18,446
but had introduced other concepts
1472
01:10:18,448 --> 01:10:20,114
in terms of his mental space
1473
01:10:20,116 --> 01:10:22,517
that were interesting,
to say the least.
1474
01:10:22,519 --> 01:10:25,453
Dr. Dowker was into
crystal technology.
1475
01:10:25,455 --> 01:10:29,057
They came to the idea that maybe
with crystals and magnets
1476
01:10:29,059 --> 01:10:32,493
they could improve
the performance of motor cars.
1477
01:10:34,965 --> 01:10:38,433
Bev: He and Eric would sit and discuss philosophies
1478
01:10:38,435 --> 01:10:41,469
and stuff that, you know,
were outside the square,
1479
01:10:41,471 --> 01:10:44,339
that other people
had no concept about
1480
01:10:44,341 --> 01:10:47,809
and so he had found somebody he could relate to.
1481
01:10:47,811 --> 01:10:51,012
He had a found, firm friendship with somebody.
1482
01:10:51,014 --> 01:10:53,114
One shouldn't speak
ill of the dead.
1483
01:10:53,116 --> 01:10:54,949
He was a weird sucker.
1484
01:10:54,951 --> 01:10:57,919
Bev: Eric was a bit unusual,
1485
01:10:57,921 --> 01:11:01,189
but so was Peter
and so am I and, you know,
1486
01:11:01,191 --> 01:11:03,258
unfortunately when you put
your head up above the crowd
1487
01:11:03,260 --> 01:11:05,426
you're gonna get it pinged off.
1488
01:11:05,428 --> 01:11:09,931
I went in expecting to get
an engineering presentation
1489
01:11:09,933 --> 01:11:12,867
from a-- a couple of
engineering blokes
1490
01:11:12,869 --> 01:11:15,637
and-- and Brock maybe
a bit of whiteboard action
1491
01:11:15,639 --> 01:11:17,338
and-- and here we go,
1492
01:11:17,340 --> 01:11:19,240
and instead he took me into the office
1493
01:11:19,242 --> 01:11:21,743
and out comes this box.
1494
01:11:23,613 --> 01:11:24,812
Ah, the look on my face...
1495
01:11:24,814 --> 01:11:26,147
I went in and said,
"Mate, look,
1496
01:11:26,149 --> 01:11:27,949
I'm-- I'm not following
this stuff."
1497
01:11:27,951 --> 01:11:29,851
"We'll ring Bevvo."
1498
01:11:29,853 --> 01:11:32,253
"The laws of physics will have to be rewritten."
1499
01:11:32,255 --> 01:11:34,522
"We are realigning molecules."
1500
01:11:34,524 --> 01:11:35,857
"Instead of being random,
1501
01:11:35,859 --> 01:11:37,992
"it's like flying
over the landscape
1502
01:11:37,994 --> 01:11:40,428
and instead of seeing random
trees, you see an orchard."
1503
01:11:40,430 --> 01:11:42,997
"It makes a shithouse car good."
1504
01:11:42,999 --> 01:11:45,800
To explain it in layman's terms
is very difficult
1505
01:11:45,802 --> 01:11:47,969
because you're talking about
a pretty complex,
1506
01:11:47,971 --> 01:11:49,637
uh, high tech product.
1507
01:11:49,639 --> 01:11:51,806
It was a little
plastic box with,
1508
01:11:51,808 --> 01:11:55,943
um, some magnets
and stuff in it.
1509
01:11:55,945 --> 01:11:58,313
John: A plastic box with no wires going in,
1510
01:11:58,315 --> 01:11:59,914
no wires coming out
1511
01:11:59,916 --> 01:12:02,050
and you fix this box in a particular place
1512
01:12:02,052 --> 01:12:03,451
on the far wall of the car
1513
01:12:03,453 --> 01:12:05,753
and miraculously it rearranged
1514
01:12:05,755 --> 01:12:07,989
all the molecules in the car.
1515
01:12:07,991 --> 01:12:10,825
There were a lot of crystals
in our house. A lot.
1516
01:12:10,827 --> 01:12:12,627
I-- I mean, I definitely saw
lots of them
1517
01:12:12,629 --> 01:12:14,262
and helped make
some of them in the...
1518
01:12:14,264 --> 01:12:15,930
We started off making them
in the back shed
1519
01:12:15,932 --> 01:12:16,931
at home, in Eltham.
1520
01:12:16,933 --> 01:12:18,599
It was a bit of a worry to me.
1521
01:12:18,601 --> 01:12:20,401
A-- a big worry, in fact.
1522
01:12:20,403 --> 01:12:22,003
Man 41: But I have read, I've read articles
1523
01:12:22,005 --> 01:12:23,404
which have sort of tried to put together
1524
01:12:23,406 --> 01:12:25,039
with a whole lot of innuendo,
1525
01:12:25,041 --> 01:12:26,074
the fact that there's something sinister
1526
01:12:26,076 --> 01:12:27,375
that he's master-minding you,
1527
01:12:27,377 --> 01:12:28,543
that you're programmed by him,
1528
01:12:28,545 --> 01:12:29,844
that you're into the occult.
1529
01:12:29,846 --> 01:12:31,045
I mean, you know, I mean...
1530
01:12:31,047 --> 01:12:32,780
I said, "Peter...
1531
01:12:32,782 --> 01:12:34,449
a-- are you serious?"
1532
01:12:34,451 --> 01:12:37,151
"You're talking about
this energy
1533
01:12:37,153 --> 01:12:40,822
being a form of sexual release."
1534
01:12:42,192 --> 01:12:44,425
And he-- he blew up
and he said,
1535
01:12:44,427 --> 01:12:45,793
"Well, if you don't
bloody believe,
1536
01:12:45,795 --> 01:12:47,428
you don't bloody believe."
1537
01:12:47,430 --> 01:12:50,665
And I said, "Well, mate,
I'll tell it straight."
1538
01:12:50,667 --> 01:12:53,134
"That's what you want,
that's good, fine."
1539
01:12:53,136 --> 01:12:56,938
Back I went. I wrote the story
absolutely straight.
1540
01:12:58,742 --> 01:13:01,376
Caused an absolute sensation
1541
01:13:01,378 --> 01:13:05,179
and caused quite a schism within the team.
1542
01:13:05,181 --> 01:13:06,914
Peter: One of my people wouldn't allow me
1543
01:13:06,916 --> 01:13:08,616
to insult my eyeballs to read
1544
01:13:08,618 --> 01:13:10,318
the rest of the rubbish that was written.
1545
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:11,786
Man 41: Well, you're talking about Phil Scott?
1546
01:13:11,788 --> 01:13:14,589
I can hardly comment.
Don't, well it...
1547
01:13:14,591 --> 01:13:16,924
Phil's a fairly good journalist
and that's something that...
1548
01:13:16,926 --> 01:13:19,193
Well, I thought that particular
write-up was disgraceful
1549
01:13:19,195 --> 01:13:20,628
and I've got...
1550
01:13:20,630 --> 01:13:21,929
That's the only comment
I'll make on it.
1551
01:13:21,931 --> 01:13:23,531
Holden knew nothing
about this stuff,
1552
01:13:23,533 --> 01:13:25,767
so they were reading it for the first time.
1553
01:13:25,769 --> 01:13:27,168
Robert: The theory was sound.
1554
01:13:27,170 --> 01:13:31,672
It's just there was
no real way to measure.
1555
01:13:31,674 --> 01:13:35,810
You'd kind of had to take faith
that it was working.
1556
01:13:35,812 --> 01:13:37,945
People don't trust their own feelings anymore.
1557
01:13:37,947 --> 01:13:39,013
It's a very strange thing.
1558
01:13:39,015 --> 01:13:40,515
We need a scientific,
1559
01:13:40,517 --> 01:13:42,049
a needle there pointing at
something
1560
01:13:42,051 --> 01:13:44,585
before we believe that
what we feel is true.
1561
01:13:44,587 --> 01:13:47,388
Bev: Ian Leslie of 60 Minutes came and did a test.
1562
01:13:47,390 --> 01:13:49,757
As he hopped out of the car, he took out his check book
1563
01:13:49,759 --> 01:13:51,426
before even talking to anybody, wrote out a check
1564
01:13:51,428 --> 01:13:53,761
for $20,000, which I've still got
1565
01:13:53,763 --> 01:13:56,631
and he said, "I want in to the business."
1566
01:13:56,633 --> 01:13:58,933
Phil: And there was all this gushy stuff, you know.
1567
01:13:58,935 --> 01:14:01,936
"I don't know how it works, but it works."
1568
01:14:01,938 --> 01:14:04,839
And this stuff was running in, you know, national newspapers
1569
01:14:04,841 --> 01:14:06,941
and was later pulled out
1570
01:14:06,943 --> 01:14:10,578
and used in some of the ads for this device.
1571
01:14:10,580 --> 01:14:13,247
It was an absolute
disaster scenario.
1572
01:14:15,018 --> 01:14:18,186
By the following year, you know, 1985
1573
01:14:18,188 --> 01:14:21,422
we had Dr. Eric prowling the pits in racing team colors.
1574
01:14:21,424 --> 01:14:22,957
Commentator: Everyone in the
pits following you
1575
01:14:22,959 --> 01:14:24,058
going around the circuit.
1576
01:14:24,060 --> 01:14:25,526
Do you want to send them a wave?
1577
01:14:25,528 --> 01:14:28,262
Yeah...
How are you?
1578
01:14:28,264 --> 01:14:30,264
Phil: Before that, it was a club.
1579
01:14:30,266 --> 01:14:33,000
After that, it became a cult.
1580
01:14:33,002 --> 01:14:36,370
You either believed or you didn't.
1581
01:14:36,372 --> 01:14:38,806
[instrumental music]
1582
01:14:38,808 --> 01:14:41,442
Phil: He got more and more obstinate
1583
01:14:41,444 --> 01:14:44,612
and the Director was the direct result of that.
1584
01:14:44,614 --> 01:14:46,581
The background music,
I'll never forget,
1585
01:14:46,583 --> 01:14:48,616
was Glen Miller's "In the Mood"
1586
01:14:48,618 --> 01:14:51,986
and I thought shit, this is,
this is pretty interesting.
1587
01:14:53,523 --> 01:14:55,790
There were various celebrities there.
1588
01:14:55,792 --> 01:14:58,826
Most of the crowd were totally in the dark
1589
01:14:58,828 --> 01:15:00,928
as to the significance of what was happening.
1590
01:15:00,930 --> 01:15:03,798
This was just Peter Brock launching a new car
1591
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:05,766
so it was a bit of glamour and a few flash bulbs
1592
01:15:05,768 --> 01:15:07,401
and off we went from there.
1593
01:15:07,403 --> 01:15:11,005
John: Brock was modifying one particular car
1594
01:15:11,007 --> 01:15:13,608
putting his name on them,
but not submitting them
1595
01:15:13,610 --> 01:15:16,444
to General Motors Engineering
for them to be tested.
1596
01:15:16,446 --> 01:15:18,946
So there were all these design,
Australia design rules
1597
01:15:18,948 --> 01:15:20,715
that the car didn't meet
1598
01:15:20,717 --> 01:15:22,617
and he was gonna sell them
to the public.
1599
01:15:22,619 --> 01:15:24,352
Phil: And they said, "Well, what are the specifications
1600
01:15:24,354 --> 01:15:26,153
for this new Holden Director?"
1601
01:15:26,155 --> 01:15:30,191
And he said, "Don't you
blokes read 'Wheels Magazine?'"
1602
01:15:30,193 --> 01:15:33,194
For anybody who knows anything
about the regulatory environment
1603
01:15:33,196 --> 01:15:36,664
around motor cars
that's just crazy stuff.
1604
01:15:36,666 --> 01:15:40,434
It was probably one of
the worst times of my life.
1605
01:15:40,436 --> 01:15:41,969
Peter: Holdens are trying
to stop me
1606
01:15:41,971 --> 01:15:44,005
and I'm pretty determined
sort of person
1607
01:15:44,007 --> 01:15:45,172
and I'm pressing on.
1608
01:15:45,174 --> 01:15:46,674
They said to me
1609
01:15:46,676 --> 01:15:48,276
"If you, Peter Brock,
1610
01:15:48,278 --> 01:15:49,977
"announce this car
at the end of this week
1611
01:15:49,979 --> 01:15:52,113
we'll withdraw
all support for you."
1612
01:15:52,115 --> 01:15:54,015
Well, I've gone ahead,
and I've announced it.
1613
01:15:54,017 --> 01:15:55,583
Now I look at that
and just think
1614
01:15:55,585 --> 01:15:57,852
how the fuck could you do that?
1615
01:15:59,355 --> 01:16:00,755
I don't know
what more I can say.
1616
01:16:00,757 --> 01:16:02,723
I mean, you just
had to live with it
1617
01:16:02,725 --> 01:16:07,461
and do your best
and watch the place crumble
1618
01:16:07,463 --> 01:16:09,230
which is what happened.
1619
01:16:09,232 --> 01:16:11,532
Woman 1: So to the critics
and those within the industry
1620
01:16:11,534 --> 01:16:13,534
that say that
HDT is going down the gurgler,
1621
01:16:13,536 --> 01:16:15,236
what do you say to them?
1622
01:16:15,238 --> 01:16:19,140
I'd say you critics out there
would not have a clue.
1623
01:16:19,142 --> 01:16:20,541
We are a top company.
1624
01:16:20,543 --> 01:16:22,543
We are,
I've got a fantastic product.
1625
01:16:22,545 --> 01:16:23,611
We are profitable
1626
01:16:23,613 --> 01:16:25,179
and despite all these people
1627
01:16:25,181 --> 01:16:26,981
who would love to see us
go down the gurgler
1628
01:16:26,983 --> 01:16:28,416
we ain't about to do it.
1629
01:16:28,418 --> 01:16:31,752
His ridiculous naive optimism
1630
01:16:31,754 --> 01:16:34,956
in just believing
something was gonna work,
1631
01:16:34,958 --> 01:16:37,792
so therefore it would work.
1632
01:16:37,794 --> 01:16:42,129
That was what I found probably
the most frustrating.
1633
01:16:42,131 --> 01:16:44,665
Lewis: Holden managed to completely block up
1634
01:16:44,667 --> 01:16:46,801
any supply of cars to us.
1635
01:16:46,803 --> 01:16:49,136
Like if a Holden dealer sold us a car
1636
01:16:49,138 --> 01:16:52,039
they were threatened with
the loss of their franchise.
1637
01:16:52,041 --> 01:16:54,075
Bev: It was a really testing time
1638
01:16:54,077 --> 01:16:56,177
and-- and for Peter it was sort of like
1639
01:16:56,179 --> 01:16:58,946
the giant slaying the underdog.
1640
01:16:58,948 --> 01:17:00,314
Excuse me?
1641
01:17:01,951 --> 01:17:04,051
It's like cutting off
your-- your right arm.
1642
01:17:04,053 --> 01:17:06,520
Holden were making very good money out of this business.
1643
01:17:06,522 --> 01:17:08,189
So was Peter.
1644
01:17:08,191 --> 01:17:11,392
They had millions upon millions invested in this,
1645
01:17:11,394 --> 01:17:13,260
this charismatic racing star.
1646
01:17:13,262 --> 01:17:16,430
His identity and Holden were-- were fused at the hip.
1647
01:17:18,668 --> 01:17:21,636
To publicly divorce him...
1648
01:17:21,638 --> 01:17:23,771
was a-- a commercially
1649
01:17:23,773 --> 01:17:27,208
very damaging decision for those guys.
1650
01:17:27,210 --> 01:17:31,045
Man 42: Brock was truly spontaneous
1651
01:17:31,047 --> 01:17:33,314
and he remained so throughout his life
1652
01:17:33,316 --> 01:17:35,650
and often that spontaneity
1653
01:17:35,652 --> 01:17:38,786
combined with a kind of larrikin lunatic streak
1654
01:17:38,788 --> 01:17:40,187
was his undoing.
1655
01:17:42,225 --> 01:17:45,026
There is obviously
orchestrated move
1656
01:17:45,028 --> 01:17:48,229
by Holden
to crush this business.
1657
01:17:48,231 --> 01:17:51,198
Bev: It all became a very stubborn
1658
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:54,135
unfortunate dissolution of the business.
1659
01:17:56,806 --> 01:17:59,173
Tim: At that stagehe didn't want me around anyway
1660
01:17:59,175 --> 01:18:01,375
because I didn't believe in the Polarizer.
1661
01:18:01,377 --> 01:18:04,245
Graeme: It was an uncomfortable place to work
1662
01:18:04,247 --> 01:18:05,780
and I didn't want to be there.
1663
01:18:05,782 --> 01:18:07,948
It was just a sad, sad thing to
happen
1664
01:18:07,950 --> 01:18:10,217
to a great, great business,
1665
01:18:10,219 --> 01:18:13,220
a great man that had everything going for him in life.
1666
01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:20,394
Lewis: No more cars, no more business.
1667
01:18:20,396 --> 01:18:22,797
Not even parts for the race car.
1668
01:18:22,799 --> 01:18:25,466
He was starting from ground zero again.
1669
01:18:28,871 --> 01:18:30,337
Peter Brock is a legend,
1670
01:18:30,339 --> 01:18:31,939
a motoring legend
of Australian motorsport.
1671
01:18:33,376 --> 01:18:36,010
Phil: Mobil did the consumer survey.
1672
01:18:36,012 --> 01:18:38,612
The Peter Brock brand was still very strong.
1673
01:18:38,614 --> 01:18:41,449
Australia likes an underdog, loves the battler
1674
01:18:41,451 --> 01:18:44,051
and Mobil made a
pretty savvy decision
1675
01:18:44,053 --> 01:18:46,620
to keep backing the guy.
1676
01:18:46,622 --> 01:18:48,589
[instrumental music]
1677
01:18:54,163 --> 01:18:56,397
Graeme: It was early to mid-1987
1678
01:18:56,399 --> 01:18:59,166
when I got a phone call.
1679
01:18:59,168 --> 01:19:01,435
Peter and Bev asked me ifI would be willing to come back
1680
01:19:01,437 --> 01:19:02,937
and run the team.
1681
01:19:07,977 --> 01:19:09,543
Didn't take me long
to think about it really.
1682
01:19:09,545 --> 01:19:11,779
Peter was still Peter.
1683
01:19:11,781 --> 01:19:14,014
He threw it out there to me as a challenge.
1684
01:19:14,016 --> 01:19:17,118
"You know what's gone on. This is where it's at."
1685
01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:20,221
"Ah, it's not gonna be an easy road."
1686
01:19:20,223 --> 01:19:22,256
[audience cheering]
1687
01:19:24,594 --> 01:19:26,527
Peter: I think we've probably got a better team
1688
01:19:26,529 --> 01:19:29,463
than we've had for a long time, we're extremely determined
1689
01:19:29,465 --> 01:19:32,466
and it's almost like "Hey, Brock, you might've won it
1690
01:19:32,468 --> 01:19:34,969
eight times before, but this time's the most important."
1691
01:19:34,971 --> 01:19:36,871
And that's the way I thought about it.
1692
01:19:41,344 --> 01:19:44,812
Graeme: We were going very much as underdogs.
1693
01:19:46,115 --> 01:19:48,115
We were up against Ford Sierras
1694
01:19:48,117 --> 01:19:50,384
which had just come on the scene.
1695
01:19:50,386 --> 01:19:53,120
We were up against Dick Johnson's Sierras
1696
01:19:53,122 --> 01:19:55,656
and also a fella from Europe called Rudy Eggenberger
1697
01:19:55,658 --> 01:19:58,826
had brought his Sierras out to race at Bathurst.
1698
01:19:58,828 --> 01:20:01,862
Some of the journos just absolutely
1699
01:20:01,864 --> 01:20:04,231
bagged the hell out of the team
1700
01:20:04,233 --> 01:20:06,600
and Peter basically
1701
01:20:06,602 --> 01:20:08,836
saying the team were
a bunch of rabble
1702
01:20:08,838 --> 01:20:10,404
not going anywhere.
1703
01:20:12,809 --> 01:20:15,075
On the way to the track that morning on the bus
1704
01:20:15,077 --> 01:20:16,811
I held that newspaper up to
the boys and said
1705
01:20:16,813 --> 01:20:20,114
"Here, this is the shit
they're talking about us.
1706
01:20:20,116 --> 01:20:21,215
"Let's prove them wrong."
1707
01:20:21,217 --> 01:20:23,784
"Let's give it a red-hot go."
1708
01:20:23,786 --> 01:20:25,119
Commentator: Bryce, Perkins and
Brock
1709
01:20:25,121 --> 01:20:27,021
making one heck of a charge
up the mountain
1710
01:20:27,023 --> 01:20:30,057
but the Sierras have been
substantially quicker all week
1711
01:20:30,059 --> 01:20:33,260
coming down Conrod Straight
towards the new Caltex Chase.
1712
01:20:33,262 --> 01:20:35,663
[instrumental music]
1713
01:20:41,604 --> 01:20:44,205
Graeme: Peter's car failed.
1714
01:20:44,207 --> 01:20:47,608
We transferred him across onto the second car.
1715
01:20:49,712 --> 01:20:51,745
Commentator: And Brock says,
"I'm ready."
1716
01:20:51,747 --> 01:20:54,448
05 car is out,
the number 10 car is running.
1717
01:20:56,052 --> 01:20:59,753
Our guys would have friends
in surrounding townships
1718
01:20:59,755 --> 01:21:03,924
who they would be ringing up to
find out, "Is the rain coming?"
1719
01:21:03,926 --> 01:21:07,061
Yep, it's actually
hailing here at present.
1720
01:21:07,063 --> 01:21:08,863
It's freezing cold.
1721
01:21:21,410 --> 01:21:22,810
Graeme: As soon as the rain came
1722
01:21:22,812 --> 01:21:24,979
I knew, I knew what he was gonna do.
1723
01:21:24,981 --> 01:21:26,714
Man 43: We were talking to Peter on the radio
1724
01:21:26,716 --> 01:21:29,350
and Peter said, "Look,let's just stay on the slicks."
1725
01:21:29,352 --> 01:21:31,919
Commentator 1: James Hardie
1987, look at Brock.
1726
01:21:31,921 --> 01:21:34,455
Commentator 2: Oh, would he
regret putting slicks on?
1727
01:21:34,457 --> 01:21:36,790
Commentator 1: Yeah, I think
he's made a slight misjudgment
1728
01:21:36,792 --> 01:21:38,926
there because the track is still
very greasy,
1729
01:21:38,928 --> 01:21:40,594
very slippery on line.
1730
01:21:40,596 --> 01:21:41,962
Commentator 2: He does have a
very desperate driver.
1731
01:21:41,964 --> 01:21:43,430
Commentator 1: I think
he can get himself
1732
01:21:43,432 --> 01:21:46,267
into great problems
if he doesn't watch it.
1733
01:21:46,269 --> 01:21:49,670
Bev: Peter had faith that the track was gonna dry.
1734
01:21:49,672 --> 01:21:54,141
If he came in to go onto wet weather tires
1735
01:21:54,143 --> 01:21:57,177
he was gonna waste time on the track.
1736
01:21:57,179 --> 01:21:59,380
Commentator: And he is gassing
in the Commodore,
1737
01:21:59,382 --> 01:22:00,981
he's got slick tires on.
1738
01:22:00,983 --> 01:22:02,149
He's in third position.
1739
01:22:02,151 --> 01:22:03,617
The drama continues...
1740
01:22:03,619 --> 01:22:07,588
Phil: The last 25 laps of that race...
1741
01:22:07,590 --> 01:22:10,190
well, I'm sure he was having an out-of-body experience
1742
01:22:10,192 --> 01:22:12,826
because it was wet, it was slippery.
1743
01:22:12,828 --> 01:22:17,431
It was a masterclass in car control and concentration.
1744
01:22:17,433 --> 01:22:19,366
That really was
1745
01:22:19,368 --> 01:22:21,268
dancing on the edge of the razorblade
1746
01:22:21,270 --> 01:22:23,270
lap after lap after lap.
1747
01:22:23,272 --> 01:22:27,474
It was an inspired piece of work and an emphatic,
1748
01:22:27,476 --> 01:22:30,811
"Up yours. I'm still the man."
1749
01:22:30,813 --> 01:22:33,147
Commentator: Brock just trying
very, very carefully
1750
01:22:33,149 --> 01:22:37,785
to stay on the only dry line.
Look how narrow it is.
1751
01:22:37,787 --> 01:22:39,420
Phil: He could do things at times
1752
01:22:39,422 --> 01:22:41,956
in a car that you can't fathom.
1753
01:22:41,958 --> 01:22:43,791
No matter how you drive around that mountain
1754
01:22:43,793 --> 01:22:45,626
with slicks on in the wet
1755
01:22:45,628 --> 01:22:48,195
with one arm on the bloody window sill is just...
1756
01:22:49,265 --> 01:22:51,265
You can't do it, but he did.
1757
01:22:53,402 --> 01:22:54,435
He was just pumped.
1758
01:22:54,437 --> 01:22:55,736
There was adrenaline oozing out
1759
01:22:55,738 --> 01:22:57,071
the back doors.
1760
01:22:57,073 --> 01:22:58,605
Commentator: And just listen
to the race fans
1761
01:22:58,607 --> 01:23:01,175
showing their favor to Brocky
1762
01:23:01,177 --> 01:23:03,844
as he goes over the hill.
1763
01:23:03,846 --> 01:23:06,380
Graeme: We finished first Commodore home.
1764
01:23:06,382 --> 01:23:08,115
We finished in third place,
1765
01:23:08,117 --> 01:23:11,618
behind Rudy Eggenberger's two Ford Sierras.
1766
01:23:11,620 --> 01:23:13,954
We were in raptures. That's what we went there to achieve.
1767
01:23:13,956 --> 01:23:15,723
We've done our job.
1768
01:23:15,725 --> 01:23:18,192
Commentator: But you asked for
the man, you asked for him.
1769
01:23:18,194 --> 01:23:19,326
It's Peter Brock!
1770
01:23:19,328 --> 01:23:21,328
[audience cheering]
1771
01:23:21,330 --> 01:23:23,697
[instrumental music]
1772
01:23:30,940 --> 01:23:32,539
I gave it absolute heaps,
1773
01:23:32,541 --> 01:23:34,475
particularly in the wet there
in the finish.
1774
01:23:34,477 --> 01:23:36,443
And I thoroughly enjoyed myself,
I might add
1775
01:23:36,445 --> 01:23:38,579
and, uh, thanks for all your
support out there too.
1776
01:23:38,581 --> 01:23:40,214
I loved the way
you were cheering me on.
1777
01:23:40,216 --> 01:23:41,949
[audience cheering]
1778
01:23:41,951 --> 01:23:44,051
Just chanced on a
story a moment ago
1779
01:23:44,053 --> 01:23:47,855
about possible illegal fuel
in both the Texaco Sierras.
1780
01:23:47,857 --> 01:23:51,191
Graeme: We were inthe pit beside Rudy Eggenberger
1781
01:23:51,193 --> 01:23:52,926
and watching sort of,
over the fence
1782
01:23:52,928 --> 01:23:54,828
while the race was going on.
1783
01:23:54,830 --> 01:23:58,198
I could see them mixing fuel, which was illegal.
1784
01:23:58,200 --> 01:24:00,267
Back then there was a young racing driver
1785
01:24:00,269 --> 01:24:03,137
getting around those days by the name of Craig Lowndes.
1786
01:24:03,139 --> 01:24:05,406
Well, his dad Frank was the head scrutineer
1787
01:24:05,408 --> 01:24:06,640
back in those days.
1788
01:24:06,642 --> 01:24:08,042
So I called Frank over, I said
1789
01:24:08,044 --> 01:24:09,576
"Oh, just stand here
and have a chat to me
1790
01:24:09,578 --> 01:24:11,345
for a while, Frank,
and watch a few things."
1791
01:24:11,347 --> 01:24:13,414
So sure enough,
1792
01:24:13,416 --> 01:24:17,951
it was proven that they were mixing alcohol in their fuel.
1793
01:24:17,953 --> 01:24:20,454
So I can't even remember how
long later it was,
1794
01:24:20,456 --> 01:24:21,989
but we were all back in
Melbourne
1795
01:24:21,991 --> 01:24:25,359
and Brock called me up to
the office one day, said
1796
01:24:25,361 --> 01:24:27,027
"Oh, guess what?"
"What's that?"
1797
01:24:27,029 --> 01:24:30,230
"We've won Bathurst."
"Huh?"
1798
01:24:30,232 --> 01:24:32,633
Said, "Yeah, Eggenberger cars have been rubbed out."
1799
01:24:32,635 --> 01:24:34,101
"We're the winner."
1800
01:24:36,072 --> 01:24:38,972
Well, shit, we'd better
have another party.
1801
01:24:38,974 --> 01:24:40,441
As he said at the time,
1802
01:24:40,443 --> 01:24:42,743
"Yes, that was a bit of
a vindication."
1803
01:24:42,745 --> 01:24:46,413
True motorsport fans
understood the impossibility
1804
01:24:46,415 --> 01:24:50,851
of the record
that he had built at Bathurst.
1805
01:24:50,853 --> 01:24:54,188
He could do no wrong. He was
the messiah of motorsport.
1806
01:24:54,190 --> 01:24:56,523
[instrumental music]
1807
01:24:58,260 --> 01:24:59,760
Garry: Brock was the number one
1808
01:24:59,762 --> 01:25:01,528
and he had been for two decades.
1809
01:25:04,633 --> 01:25:07,634
The fact that he no longer had the equipment under him
1810
01:25:07,636 --> 01:25:09,870
to continue at his peak
1811
01:25:09,872 --> 01:25:12,172
didn't make any difference to the people that loved Brock
1812
01:25:12,174 --> 01:25:14,741
and loved what he had done before.
1813
01:25:14,743 --> 01:25:16,910
Didn't diminish what he'd achieved.
1814
01:25:16,912 --> 01:25:20,180
Didn't diminish his record.
1815
01:25:20,182 --> 01:25:22,983
He's an iconic Australian sports hero.
1816
01:25:22,985 --> 01:25:24,785
[engine revving]
1817
01:25:26,055 --> 01:25:28,489
[indistinct chatter]
1818
01:25:32,728 --> 01:25:37,431
Bev: The Holden Race Team had not been showing great success
1819
01:25:37,433 --> 01:25:40,000
and by getting Peter back in the team meant that
1820
01:25:40,002 --> 01:25:43,403
not only did he come armed
with his sponsors,
1821
01:25:43,405 --> 01:25:45,439
who were extremely loyal to him
1822
01:25:45,441 --> 01:25:47,741
but he also came armed with
1823
01:25:47,743 --> 01:25:51,411
enormous media support and a huge fan base.
1824
01:25:51,413 --> 01:25:54,848
Commentator: The reason why
Mobil is the number one team!
1825
01:25:56,619 --> 01:25:59,319
Driving a Holden is something
I know a fair bit about.
1826
01:25:59,321 --> 01:26:00,787
I've spent 18 years
here with Holden
1827
01:26:00,789 --> 01:26:02,756
and getting back
into it of course is,
1828
01:26:02,758 --> 01:26:04,825
uh, old home week.
1829
01:26:04,827 --> 01:26:07,961
[laughing] Complex,
like all families, rough times
1830
01:26:07,963 --> 01:26:09,830
but when the trouble's happened
you get back together.
1831
01:26:09,832 --> 01:26:11,798
You go from that phase of being
1832
01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:14,034
a person you looked up to
growing up
1833
01:26:14,036 --> 01:26:15,802
to then, you know,
rubbing shoulders
1834
01:26:15,804 --> 01:26:19,373
and he now being your mentor inside of the car.
1835
01:26:19,375 --> 01:26:21,175
Bev: The young guns were coming through
1836
01:26:21,177 --> 01:26:26,013
and understandably Peter was not a young gun anymore.
1837
01:26:26,015 --> 01:26:29,416
But the way it was handled
was less than ideal
1838
01:26:29,418 --> 01:26:32,819
and he'd walk down the pits in the race meeting
1839
01:26:32,821 --> 01:26:36,156
and the bonnets would be closed and that was insulting.
1840
01:26:36,158 --> 01:26:38,225
Cars were being produced with Peter's signature on it
1841
01:26:38,227 --> 01:26:39,927
that he knew nothing about.
1842
01:26:39,929 --> 01:26:41,662
He wasn't allowed to go into the workshop.
1843
01:26:41,664 --> 01:26:43,730
He wasn't allowed to talk to the mechanics
1844
01:26:43,732 --> 01:26:46,800
because they were putting the latest developments
1845
01:26:46,802 --> 01:26:49,670
on the young blood's car and phasing Peter out
1846
01:26:49,672 --> 01:26:51,738
so Peter's car wasn't as competitive.
1847
01:26:55,477 --> 01:26:56,944
Peter: You've looked at
one perspective.
1848
01:26:56,946 --> 01:26:59,313
Well, the fans were treated
to something
1849
01:26:59,315 --> 01:27:00,747
there for an hour or two,
you know.
1850
01:27:00,749 --> 01:27:02,950
And, uh, but to come back
from here
1851
01:27:02,952 --> 01:27:05,352
will be pretty well
impossible, I guess.
1852
01:27:05,354 --> 01:27:06,920
Bev: I said to him, "Is this really
1853
01:27:06,922 --> 01:27:08,155
"what you want to be doing?"
1854
01:27:08,157 --> 01:27:09,590
"Are you prepared
1855
01:27:09,592 --> 01:27:11,658
"to put yourself through this pain,
1856
01:27:11,660 --> 01:27:13,327
through this embarrassment?"
1857
01:27:15,264 --> 01:27:16,997
So on the way home we talk about
1858
01:27:16,999 --> 01:27:18,865
"Okay, if you announce that at the end of the season
1859
01:27:18,867 --> 01:27:21,268
"you'd retire, this is gonna give you the opportunity
1860
01:27:21,270 --> 01:27:23,270
"to go to every race track around Australia
1861
01:27:23,272 --> 01:27:25,806
"say your goodbyes, sign all your autographs
1862
01:27:25,808 --> 01:27:28,275
and go out the way
you wanted to."
1863
01:27:38,153 --> 01:27:40,120
Peter: This year, of course, is a very special time.
1864
01:27:40,122 --> 01:27:43,323
It's, uh, one when you, uh,
1865
01:27:43,325 --> 01:27:47,194
decide to change
the direction of your life,
1866
01:27:47,196 --> 01:27:49,796
uh, you figure that it's really
only going to affect yourself
1867
01:27:49,798 --> 01:27:51,431
and perhaps your family around you and a few,
1868
01:27:51,433 --> 01:27:54,201
you know, a few close friends but, uh, well...
1869
01:27:54,203 --> 01:27:58,839
Bev: And it was the most amazing, emotional year.
1870
01:27:58,841 --> 01:28:02,609
There would be grown men coming
in tears, wanting to hug him.
1871
01:28:02,611 --> 01:28:04,144
"What, what are we gonna do,
Brocky?"
1872
01:28:04,146 --> 01:28:06,113
"We're not gonna
have you here anymore."
1873
01:28:08,183 --> 01:28:10,651
Man 44: The respect that he had from everyone.
1874
01:28:10,653 --> 01:28:12,653
Doesn't matter whether you're a Ford or Holden,
1875
01:28:12,655 --> 01:28:14,321
it was just a huge legacy.
1876
01:28:14,323 --> 01:28:16,323
[audience cheering]
1877
01:28:16,325 --> 01:28:18,191
Man 44: To be able to do it and just shut that door
1878
01:28:18,193 --> 01:28:20,260
would be quite incredibly hard.
1879
01:28:20,262 --> 01:28:22,663
[instrumental music]
1880
01:28:34,843 --> 01:28:36,810
Phil: He never really retired.
1881
01:28:40,783 --> 01:28:43,850
And the techniques certainly have longevity.
1882
01:28:43,852 --> 01:28:47,187
But the physicality and the mental acuity
1883
01:28:47,189 --> 01:28:50,157
they have a finite life.
1884
01:28:50,159 --> 01:28:53,860
He just didn't look like the old Peter.
1885
01:28:53,862 --> 01:28:56,163
James: I could see a massive change in-- in him
1886
01:28:56,165 --> 01:28:59,633
and how he was and-- and his
attitude and his...
1887
01:28:59,635 --> 01:29:01,435
Yeah, he definitely-- definitely
didn't seem to be
1888
01:29:01,437 --> 01:29:05,005
the confident person that he was
earlier in-- in his life.
1889
01:29:06,875 --> 01:29:09,443
Bev: What the public didn't see was this man
1890
01:29:09,445 --> 01:29:12,045
who fell into this amazing hole.
1891
01:29:13,949 --> 01:29:15,982
Alexandra: His love of the sport
1892
01:29:15,984 --> 01:29:21,188
and his time to reflect on it wasn't a positive thing.
1893
01:29:21,190 --> 01:29:24,591
I don't think he had the...
1894
01:29:24,593 --> 01:29:27,127
whimsical, child, wide-eyed glow
1895
01:29:27,129 --> 01:29:28,161
that he used to
always have to it
1896
01:29:28,163 --> 01:29:29,629
when he had his own team
1897
01:29:29,631 --> 01:29:32,799
and they could do
what they kind of wanted.
1898
01:29:32,801 --> 01:29:36,069
Peter: I genuinely felt that, I was simply a commodity
1899
01:29:36,071 --> 01:29:39,673
and that I was not able to make my own decisions, so...
1900
01:29:39,675 --> 01:29:41,441
Bev: Because he felt he'd been controlled
1901
01:29:41,443 --> 01:29:43,744
and manipulated by so many people
1902
01:29:43,746 --> 01:29:47,314
he needed to discover his own strengths
1903
01:29:47,316 --> 01:29:50,517
and he made me promise
that I would no longer
1904
01:29:50,519 --> 01:29:53,320
solve his problems for him
or help him solve his problems,
1905
01:29:53,322 --> 01:29:55,255
that he needed to do that
himself.
1906
01:29:55,257 --> 01:29:58,058
He'd ring home and go, "Oh, I'm
gonna be home in 15 minutes."
1907
01:29:58,060 --> 01:29:59,926
"Can you tell mum I need lunch?"
1908
01:29:59,928 --> 01:30:02,062
I'm like,
"You can make your own lunch."
1909
01:30:02,064 --> 01:30:05,265
Can I just heat that up and have
that as a bit of backup?
1910
01:30:05,267 --> 01:30:07,634
I'd say you press that
for ignition.
1911
01:30:07,636 --> 01:30:09,202
Bev: You know, this is an amazing person,
1912
01:30:09,204 --> 01:30:11,004
but he didn't have a normal life.
1913
01:30:11,006 --> 01:30:13,640
Like he never went shopping.
1914
01:30:13,642 --> 01:30:17,744
There were basic skills in life that he had missed out on
1915
01:30:17,746 --> 01:30:21,948
because he was in such demand and worked so hard.
1916
01:30:21,950 --> 01:30:23,150
- Dee.
- Oh, hello.
1917
01:30:23,152 --> 01:30:24,818
Alexandra: Dee.
1918
01:30:24,820 --> 01:30:25,986
Look!
1919
01:30:28,123 --> 01:30:30,323
Hello.
1920
01:30:30,325 --> 01:30:32,526
Bev: He was turning 60. He didn't wanna turn 60.
1921
01:30:32,528 --> 01:30:34,261
He didn't want anybody to recognize it, and I said
1922
01:30:34,263 --> 01:30:36,129
"You're gonna have to recognize it."
1923
01:30:36,131 --> 01:30:41,034
So we had probably 60-80 odd people at home that night.
1924
01:30:41,036 --> 01:30:42,602
It came to speech time
1925
01:30:42,604 --> 01:30:47,441
and his uncle and another close friend
1926
01:30:47,443 --> 01:30:49,843
got up and spoke and in their speech
1927
01:30:49,845 --> 01:30:51,611
about Peter and how amazing he was
1928
01:30:51,613 --> 01:30:53,346
and here he is turning 60
1929
01:30:53,348 --> 01:30:56,249
and he, you know, he's got all this potential
1930
01:30:56,251 --> 01:31:01,655
they both made it very clear that he would not have had
1931
01:31:01,657 --> 01:31:04,191
the life that he'd had, had I not been by his side
1932
01:31:04,193 --> 01:31:05,592
and been there for him.
1933
01:31:07,429 --> 01:31:08,528
And I'm sitting there thinking
1934
01:31:08,530 --> 01:31:09,963
"Please don't say this
1935
01:31:09,965 --> 01:31:12,399
because right now he doesn't need
1936
01:31:12,401 --> 01:31:16,169
to hear that he's got wherehe is because I've been there."
1937
01:31:16,171 --> 01:31:18,004
"He needs to hear that he's achieved these things
1938
01:31:18,006 --> 01:31:20,874
on his own."
1939
01:31:20,876 --> 01:31:24,811
So when he gave his response,
I was devastated.
1940
01:31:24,813 --> 01:31:27,414
Nobody else picked it, but I thought
1941
01:31:27,416 --> 01:31:29,950
"This is a-- a farewell speech to me."
1942
01:31:29,952 --> 01:31:31,885
[instrumental music]
1943
01:31:48,370 --> 01:31:50,871
Julie: I met Bev at basketball.
1944
01:31:50,873 --> 01:31:54,741
We both ended up playing on the same team together.
1945
01:31:54,743 --> 01:31:57,043
It kind seemed like we
were both like-minded
1946
01:31:57,045 --> 01:31:59,713
and so we started spending
a bit of time together
1947
01:31:59,715 --> 01:32:02,582
and that's actually how
I got to meet Peter.
1948
01:32:02,584 --> 01:32:05,619
I guess it would be fair
to say that, um,
1949
01:32:05,621 --> 01:32:09,389
Julie's concept of friendship
was very different to mine
1950
01:32:09,391 --> 01:32:11,057
and on several occasions,
1951
01:32:11,059 --> 01:32:14,461
I suggested that maybe
she stop coming to our place.
1952
01:32:14,463 --> 01:32:17,230
He said that he just needed
to find himself,
1953
01:32:17,232 --> 01:32:20,433
he needed to live his own life
1954
01:32:20,435 --> 01:32:22,102
and make his own choices.
1955
01:32:23,939 --> 01:32:26,773
Peter: My biggest failing was, uh,
1956
01:32:26,775 --> 01:32:29,376
I guess over the years saying, "Oh, I'm doing fine"
1957
01:32:29,378 --> 01:32:32,078
but are you really looking at yourself honestly?
1958
01:32:33,448 --> 01:32:36,917
One morning Peter Brock
arrived at my house
1959
01:32:36,919 --> 01:32:39,252
and announced that he was in love with me
1960
01:32:39,254 --> 01:32:42,522
and he wanted me to
come and live with him.
1961
01:32:42,524 --> 01:32:44,457
That was actually
a shock to me.
1962
01:32:46,061 --> 01:32:48,628
You know,
my values in life were,
1963
01:32:48,630 --> 01:32:50,964
you don't go down that avenue.
1964
01:32:50,966 --> 01:32:54,000
You don't take those chances.
1965
01:32:54,002 --> 01:32:56,770
Peter said, "You know, Julie,
1966
01:32:56,772 --> 01:32:59,839
sometimes you need to take risks in life."
1967
01:32:59,841 --> 01:33:03,643
Bev: The reality was that Peter always needed to be loved,
1968
01:33:03,645 --> 01:33:06,346
needed to be valued,
needed to be appreciated
1969
01:33:06,348 --> 01:33:09,516
and could not be on his own.
1970
01:33:11,019 --> 01:33:13,186
Peter: I would think that, uh,
1971
01:33:13,188 --> 01:33:15,522
I've got a lot to offer the world around me
1972
01:33:15,524 --> 01:33:18,792
and that the best parts of my life
1973
01:33:18,794 --> 01:33:21,027
are now beginning to unfold.
1974
01:33:27,869 --> 01:33:30,236
[instrumental music]
1975
01:33:45,454 --> 01:33:48,188
Well, the day started off.
We did what we did every day.
1976
01:33:48,190 --> 01:33:51,257
We just went out
and did the first stage.
1977
01:33:54,763 --> 01:33:57,631
It was pretty twisty and bumpy
1978
01:33:57,633 --> 01:34:01,368
damp country roads,
north of Perth
1979
01:34:01,370 --> 01:34:03,770
and in the first stage
I-- I remember
1980
01:34:03,772 --> 01:34:07,641
that wasn't the sort of terrain
that suited the car we're in
1981
01:34:07,643 --> 01:34:10,410
but we managed to do the second-quickest time.
1982
01:34:13,448 --> 01:34:16,016
You know, the fact that we
finished second in the first leg
1983
01:34:16,018 --> 01:34:17,350
I mean, his wits were about him.
1984
01:34:17,352 --> 01:34:18,818
There was no, you know,
1985
01:34:18,820 --> 01:34:21,655
I didn't feel that he was,
you know,
1986
01:34:21,657 --> 01:34:23,590
slow or, you know, tired.
1987
01:34:23,592 --> 01:34:25,859
I mean, he was just
on the top of his game.
1988
01:34:33,669 --> 01:34:36,736
And I still don't know
why that corner, um,
1989
01:34:36,738 --> 01:34:38,271
didn't-- didn't go right.
1990
01:34:38,273 --> 01:34:40,674
[instrumental music]
1991
01:34:50,719 --> 01:34:52,919
Man 45: It was just a-- a set of circumstances
1992
01:34:52,921 --> 01:34:54,954
that even Peter couldn't drive round.
1993
01:34:54,956 --> 01:34:57,157
Woman 2: The 61-year-old lost control of his car
1994
01:34:57,159 --> 01:34:58,458
while navigating a bend...
1995
01:34:58,460 --> 01:35:00,026
Mick: The tree hit him in
1996
01:35:00,028 --> 01:35:03,930
absolutely millimeter worst spot.
1997
01:35:05,634 --> 01:35:07,233
I think
it might have been the chaplain
1998
01:35:07,235 --> 01:35:10,970
that came up and said,
"Oh, there's been an off-road."
1999
01:35:10,972 --> 01:35:12,972
And I went, "Oh, yeah."
2000
01:35:12,974 --> 01:35:15,675
So I thought that means
someone skids off the road.
2001
01:35:15,677 --> 01:35:18,144
And he said, "Oh, it was Peter."
2002
01:35:18,146 --> 01:35:23,717
And I said, "Right. So..."
2003
01:35:23,719 --> 01:35:28,054
And they said,
"Sadly, he's passed away."
2004
01:35:28,056 --> 01:35:30,724
Well, I was standing up
2005
01:35:30,726 --> 01:35:34,994
and my body just let go.
2006
01:35:37,399 --> 01:35:40,433
"I want to go and see him."
2007
01:35:40,435 --> 01:35:42,736
I said, "I have to go."
2008
01:35:45,841 --> 01:35:48,141
I pick up the phone and there's
a woman on the other end
2009
01:35:48,143 --> 01:35:50,310
said, "There's been
an accident."
2010
01:35:50,312 --> 01:35:52,145
And as any parent does,
2011
01:35:52,147 --> 01:35:54,581
you instantly think
which of my children?
2012
01:35:54,583 --> 01:35:57,350
And she said, "It's not your
children. It's Peter."
2013
01:35:57,352 --> 01:35:58,718
and I said, "What do you mean?"
2014
01:35:58,720 --> 01:36:00,220
and she said,
"There's an event."
2015
01:36:00,222 --> 01:36:01,721
"What event?"
2016
01:36:01,723 --> 01:36:03,056
And she just said,
"He hasn't made it"
2017
01:36:03,058 --> 01:36:04,858
and she hung up.
I don't know who it was.
2018
01:36:04,860 --> 01:36:07,093
I-- I don't suppose
I'll ever know.
2019
01:36:10,232 --> 01:36:11,931
I look outside, there's a helicopter in the paddock.
2020
01:36:11,933 --> 01:36:13,733
I look down the drive,
there's cars.
2021
01:36:13,735 --> 01:36:16,069
Media coming up,
cameras whirring.
2022
01:36:16,071 --> 01:36:17,203
I haven't told the kids.
2023
01:36:17,205 --> 01:36:19,072
So I had to, you know,
2024
01:36:19,074 --> 01:36:21,374
suck it in and go outside
to deal with the media.
2025
01:36:21,376 --> 01:36:23,109
I was actually
doing an interview,
2026
01:36:23,111 --> 01:36:26,179
then the phone started
going off and he's like
2027
01:36:26,181 --> 01:36:27,647
"Sorry, I've just gotta
answer this"
2028
01:36:27,649 --> 01:36:29,983
and then he-- he answered
the phone
2029
01:36:29,985 --> 01:36:32,952
and I was sitting like
just across my desk from him.
2030
01:36:32,954 --> 01:36:35,822
Ah, I just saw this look
on his face
2031
01:36:35,824 --> 01:36:38,491
and he just went white.
2032
01:36:40,395 --> 01:36:43,630
And, uh, because he had just
realized
2033
01:36:43,632 --> 01:36:45,298
that he had to tell me.
2034
01:36:47,169 --> 01:36:49,969
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2035
01:36:49,971 --> 01:36:52,539
Alexandra: Trying to drive home in peak hour traffic
2036
01:36:52,541 --> 01:36:54,607
with the radio on listening to everyone going
2037
01:36:54,609 --> 01:36:56,643
you know,
"Put your lights on for Brocky"
2038
01:36:56,645 --> 01:37:00,580
and realizing that
the whole world had known
2039
01:37:00,582 --> 01:37:03,349
for a lot longer than me
2040
01:37:03,351 --> 01:37:05,251
that my dad had died.
2041
01:37:14,796 --> 01:37:16,763
I'm simply devastated
that the plans
2042
01:37:16,765 --> 01:37:19,465
that we had
for our future together
2043
01:37:19,467 --> 01:37:21,668
have ended prematurely.
2044
01:37:24,940 --> 01:37:27,373
I have full realization
2045
01:37:27,375 --> 01:37:31,110
that I shared a short part
of Peter's life.
2046
01:37:31,112 --> 01:37:33,947
He was such a unique
and wonderful man,
2047
01:37:33,949 --> 01:37:36,282
who I loved and adored.
2048
01:37:40,922 --> 01:37:44,858
All the pain that had happened
with mum and dad's split
2049
01:37:44,860 --> 01:37:46,359
was pointless.
2050
01:37:46,361 --> 01:37:48,695
It didn't mean anything now
and...
2051
01:37:52,000 --> 01:37:54,267
just sort of left this,
2052
01:37:54,269 --> 01:37:57,937
wasn't even a hole, it was like
a gaping wound in our lives.
2053
01:38:08,583 --> 01:38:09,716
I...
2054
01:38:13,855 --> 01:38:15,221
I miss him though.
2055
01:38:33,842 --> 01:38:36,209
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2056
01:38:47,722 --> 01:38:51,224
Phil: He affected people in-- in such an amazing way.
2057
01:38:54,129 --> 01:38:56,963
Every single story
that I've heard
2058
01:38:56,965 --> 01:38:59,065
was about Peter Brock
the person,
2059
01:38:59,067 --> 01:39:01,868
not Peter Brock the race driver.
2060
01:39:01,870 --> 01:39:03,803
Motor racing just happened to be the vehicle
2061
01:39:03,805 --> 01:39:07,340
that he used to get his message across.
2062
01:39:07,342 --> 01:39:09,108
That's what we miss so much.
2063
01:39:11,379 --> 01:39:12,779
Bev: The tentacles are far reaching
2064
01:39:12,781 --> 01:39:15,315
and they still exist to this day.
2065
01:39:15,317 --> 01:39:18,651
Every book that can be written,
every interview that can be made
2066
01:39:18,653 --> 01:39:20,586
everything that can be said
2067
01:39:20,588 --> 01:39:24,657
has finally been taken
into consideration
2068
01:39:24,659 --> 01:39:27,160
and hopefully the man is seen
2069
01:39:27,162 --> 01:39:29,228
and remembered for what he was,
2070
01:39:29,230 --> 01:39:31,597
an incredible, amazing
2071
01:39:31,599 --> 01:39:33,266
incredible individual
2072
01:39:33,268 --> 01:39:36,202
who deserves to be recognized
as somebody fantastic.
2073
01:39:36,204 --> 01:39:39,138
And as I said to my kids when
they've heard negative stuff
2074
01:39:39,140 --> 01:39:43,309
"Guys, your father was
95 percent perfect, amazing,
2075
01:39:43,311 --> 01:39:44,944
"five percent human and fallible
2076
01:39:44,946 --> 01:39:47,714
but didn't have a bad bone
in his body."
2077
01:39:47,716 --> 01:39:50,049
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2078
01:40:17,746 --> 01:40:20,079
[music continues]
2079
01:40:47,809 --> 01:40:50,143
[music continues]
2080
01:41:06,127 --> 01:41:08,461
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