1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 2 00:00:23,924 --> 00:00:25,569 Cars to watch Brock, on your right. 3 00:00:25,593 --> 00:00:28,238 Morris alongside, Moffat on the far left. 4 00:00:28,262 --> 00:00:29,773 As more than a hundred drivers suffering 5 00:00:29,797 --> 00:00:31,341 from pre-race tension listen carefully 6 00:00:31,365 --> 00:00:33,010 to last minute regs and instructions. 7 00:00:33,034 --> 00:00:34,745 How much does the race mean to you? 8 00:00:34,769 --> 00:00:36,413 Oh, it's the event for the year and you get 9 00:00:36,437 --> 00:00:38,415 tremendous disappointment if you lose it. 10 00:00:38,439 --> 00:00:41,184 Lady and gentlemen, start your engines. 11 00:00:44,011 --> 00:00:44,955 There's Brock, preparing to 12 00:00:44,979 --> 00:00:45,989 race like the devil. 13 00:00:46,013 --> 00:00:47,758 This is it, the great race. 14 00:00:47,782 --> 00:00:49,159 But now, the one minute siren has gone 15 00:00:49,183 --> 00:00:50,827 and all is ready for a start 16 00:00:50,851 --> 00:00:52,896 with two Falcons and a Holden on pole position. 17 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:54,364 The man who wants to win here 18 00:00:54,388 --> 00:00:56,633 probably more than anyone else, Peter Brock. 19 00:00:56,657 --> 00:00:58,435 Thirty second warning's about to go up. 20 00:00:58,459 --> 00:01:00,771 Sixty-two of Australia's finest drivers. 21 00:01:00,795 --> 00:01:02,806 It's a mad scramble. 22 00:01:02,830 --> 00:01:05,208 Literally the balloon's gone up. 23 00:01:05,232 --> 00:01:06,910 Start of the James Hardie 1000. 24 00:01:06,934 --> 00:01:08,378 Engines are throbbing. 25 00:01:08,402 --> 00:01:10,469 You can feel the crowd vibrating with emotion. 26 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,251 All set. Get ready. 27 00:01:14,275 --> 00:01:16,853 He'd sit in that car, holding the steering wheel 28 00:01:16,877 --> 00:01:19,956 for hours, for days, 29 00:01:19,980 --> 00:01:20,980 looking straight ahead. 30 00:01:27,721 --> 00:01:30,901 He was sitting in that car focusing on what he's gonna do 31 00:01:30,925 --> 00:01:32,191 and how he's gonna do it. 32 00:01:34,628 --> 00:01:36,373 This change would come over him 33 00:01:36,397 --> 00:01:39,743 and his eyes would go black and nothing else counted. 34 00:01:39,767 --> 00:01:41,111 He was part of that car. 35 00:01:47,641 --> 00:01:50,253 The actual exercise of getting behind the wheel 36 00:01:50,277 --> 00:01:51,988 of a car and make it do something 37 00:01:52,012 --> 00:01:53,757 it fundamentally doesn't want to do, 38 00:01:53,781 --> 00:01:56,560 that's a fantastic thing for any person to do. 39 00:01:56,584 --> 00:01:57,894 Behind the wheel, 40 00:01:57,918 --> 00:02:00,797 he seemed to be almost bulletproof. 41 00:02:00,821 --> 00:02:03,900 He had an amazing ability to feel the car, 42 00:02:03,924 --> 00:02:05,569 to read the car, to understand the car. 43 00:02:05,593 --> 00:02:07,904 The noise, the sounds, the feel. 44 00:02:07,928 --> 00:02:09,806 There was a lot more to Brock 45 00:02:09,830 --> 00:02:12,976 than the smiling hero figure you saw on the victory dais. 46 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,647 You could see the hunger in his eyes. The intensity. 47 00:02:17,671 --> 00:02:19,749 The naked ambition to be number one. 48 00:02:19,773 --> 00:02:21,751 He trusted everybody, 49 00:02:21,775 --> 00:02:23,653 and there were people who weren't worthy of his trust. 50 00:02:23,677 --> 00:02:27,257 Orchestrated move by Holden to crash this business. 51 00:02:27,281 --> 00:02:30,560 He did an amazing job of inspiring lots of people. 52 00:02:30,584 --> 00:02:33,830 For all the Brock fans waiting for Peter Perfect 53 00:02:33,854 --> 00:02:35,365 to come across the line. 54 00:02:35,389 --> 00:02:36,833 You asked for the man. 55 00:02:36,857 --> 00:02:39,136 You asked for him. It's Peter Brock! 56 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,404 He could turn it on. Women swooned. 57 00:02:41,428 --> 00:02:44,207 Men just wanted to be like him. 58 00:02:44,231 --> 00:02:47,811 Peter needed to be respected, needed to be loved. 59 00:02:47,835 --> 00:02:49,713 The rise and fall and rise and fall 60 00:02:49,737 --> 00:02:51,837 and rise and fall of Peter Brock. 61 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:54,417 He could do no wrong. 62 00:02:54,441 --> 00:02:56,620 He was the messiah of motorsport. 63 00:03:16,063 --> 00:03:17,707 It didn't occur to me 64 00:03:17,731 --> 00:03:20,110 that he could ever have an accident. 65 00:03:20,134 --> 00:03:23,413 He had this force in cars where he could 66 00:03:23,437 --> 00:03:28,451 push it until its absolute limit and then bring it back. 67 00:03:28,475 --> 00:03:31,021 So he would never spin out. He would never... 68 00:03:31,045 --> 00:03:35,725 Like, he just... He felt cars. He understood them. 69 00:03:35,749 --> 00:03:38,562 He didn't rub paint. He didn't have accidents. 70 00:03:38,586 --> 00:03:41,898 He just intuitively, instinctively knew 71 00:03:41,922 --> 00:03:44,834 where he needed to be and I had complete 72 00:03:44,858 --> 00:03:45,898 and absolute faith in him. 73 00:03:47,428 --> 00:03:51,975 He had a real strong sense of self-belief 74 00:03:51,999 --> 00:03:56,246 and he actually didn't really see obstacles. 75 00:03:56,270 --> 00:03:58,381 The public owned Peter Brock in a way 76 00:03:58,405 --> 00:03:59,916 they never really owned 77 00:03:59,940 --> 00:04:03,320 any other racing driver that I've seen. 78 00:04:03,344 --> 00:04:05,055 And it wasn't just charm. 79 00:04:05,079 --> 00:04:09,893 It was just a kind of a special intensity about him 80 00:04:09,917 --> 00:04:12,963 and that sense of looking at you and engaging with you 81 00:04:12,987 --> 00:04:15,854 and you're the only person in the room at that moment. 82 00:04:17,958 --> 00:04:20,237 Fame has a price to pay 83 00:04:20,261 --> 00:04:23,707 and the price you pay will depend on 84 00:04:23,731 --> 00:04:28,211 how you view it and how you use that gift. 85 00:04:39,847 --> 00:04:42,314 My very earliest? Wow... 86 00:04:43,250 --> 00:04:44,761 Big brother. 87 00:04:44,785 --> 00:04:47,964 A bit scary, a bit intimidating. 88 00:04:47,988 --> 00:04:51,601 Peter was a very good competitor 89 00:04:51,625 --> 00:04:53,370 and athlete at primary school. 90 00:04:53,394 --> 00:04:55,038 So I would've been just a little kid 91 00:04:55,062 --> 00:04:57,941 and watching him win the sprint races and things. 92 00:04:57,965 --> 00:04:59,809 And Peter won by a mile 93 00:04:59,833 --> 00:05:02,601 and then made a speech with a little microphone. 94 00:05:04,438 --> 00:05:06,182 It did set the bar pretty high 95 00:05:06,206 --> 00:05:08,918 if you were looking to do something. 96 00:05:08,942 --> 00:05:10,620 The sense was that you needed to do 97 00:05:10,644 --> 00:05:11,910 just a little bit better. 98 00:05:13,647 --> 00:05:14,658 It was interesting times, 99 00:05:14,682 --> 00:05:18,561 but it was difficult. 100 00:05:18,585 --> 00:05:20,297 If you didn't do what he wanted 101 00:05:20,321 --> 00:05:22,087 he was pretty quick in telling you. 102 00:05:23,424 --> 00:05:26,569 His temper had a short week. 103 00:05:26,593 --> 00:05:30,095 He... he did push me to do things, and I'm glad he did. 104 00:05:31,832 --> 00:05:34,333 He was my idol, there's no doubt about that. 105 00:05:41,442 --> 00:05:43,787 I'm about 14 or 15 years old. 106 00:05:43,811 --> 00:05:46,856 That car I'm in was once an Austin 7 107 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,992 and I remember getting that car 108 00:05:49,016 --> 00:05:51,961 from a local guy for five pounds 109 00:05:51,985 --> 00:05:54,130 and in my haste to remove the bodywork 110 00:05:54,154 --> 00:05:57,100 to strip it down to become a paddock bomb, like that was 111 00:05:57,124 --> 00:05:58,902 I actually used mum's axe 112 00:05:58,926 --> 00:06:01,226 to sort of strip away the rusty metal. 113 00:06:03,530 --> 00:06:06,142 We used to do things like put an open exhaust on 114 00:06:06,166 --> 00:06:07,811 and we'd fiddle around with the cam shaft and stuff 115 00:06:07,835 --> 00:06:09,801 but as kids, we didn't know what we were doing. 116 00:06:15,476 --> 00:06:18,621 One thing you knew when you had a car that was so fragile 117 00:06:18,645 --> 00:06:20,457 and so delicate as a car like that, 118 00:06:20,481 --> 00:06:23,393 you learnt something called mechanical sympathy. 119 00:06:23,417 --> 00:06:25,995 In other words, if you broke it you fixed it. 120 00:06:26,019 --> 00:06:28,431 And if you had no money, you better not break it. 121 00:06:28,455 --> 00:06:29,899 It's got no brakes. 122 00:06:29,923 --> 00:06:31,501 He'd be going flat out. 123 00:06:31,525 --> 00:06:33,436 You didn't go slow just because you had brothers 124 00:06:33,460 --> 00:06:34,793 who weren't strapped in. 125 00:06:36,530 --> 00:06:37,907 He used to talk to me sometimes. 126 00:06:37,931 --> 00:06:39,909 He'd go "Phil, you know, look, 127 00:06:39,933 --> 00:06:42,112 you've just gotta trick the car to do this." 128 00:06:42,136 --> 00:06:43,713 And you go, "Trick it?" and he'd go, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." 129 00:06:43,737 --> 00:06:45,115 "Oh, come on, Pin. You know what I'm talking about. 130 00:06:45,139 --> 00:06:46,449 You gotta trick it." I'd go, 131 00:06:46,473 --> 00:06:49,452 "But you might trick it, but the car tricks me." 132 00:06:49,476 --> 00:06:52,055 He somehow could become one with the machine. 133 00:06:52,079 --> 00:06:53,957 You know, I loved dirt racing as well 134 00:06:53,981 --> 00:06:57,961 and whether that's just a... a sixth sense of feeling the car 135 00:06:57,985 --> 00:07:00,563 underneath you but allowing the car to move. 136 00:07:00,587 --> 00:07:01,920 Go with it, not fight it. 137 00:07:03,390 --> 00:07:06,336 I think that Peter never quite understood 138 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,905 how natural that talent was. 139 00:07:08,929 --> 00:07:10,340 Tricking a car to do something. 140 00:07:10,364 --> 00:07:13,243 I mean, realistically you go, 141 00:07:13,267 --> 00:07:15,145 "Are you serious?" 142 00:07:15,169 --> 00:07:17,781 He was focused and when he was focused, that was it. 143 00:07:17,805 --> 00:07:20,250 That was the goal and if you weren't on board 144 00:07:20,274 --> 00:07:23,041 then you weren't on board, you weren't there. 145 00:07:24,845 --> 00:07:27,257 I think he was always gonna be that boy 146 00:07:27,281 --> 00:07:30,293 from Hurstbridge who raced cars as fast as he possibly could 147 00:07:30,317 --> 00:07:32,562 and did exactly what he wanted whenever he wanted. 148 00:07:32,586 --> 00:07:35,432 That's, that was his life and that what's he did. 149 00:07:35,456 --> 00:07:37,255 Nothing really ever changed. 150 00:07:39,793 --> 00:07:41,838 Peter was born in 1945. 151 00:07:41,862 --> 00:07:44,140 I mean, Australia still had petrol rationing. 152 00:07:44,164 --> 00:07:47,343 Still had food and clothing rationing, until 1950. 153 00:07:47,367 --> 00:07:51,948 So he grew up in an era of austerity where you... you made 154 00:07:51,972 --> 00:07:55,351 the best of what you could with what you had 155 00:07:55,375 --> 00:07:56,908 and you made your own entertainment. 156 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,792 In the 1950s, when Brock was growing up 157 00:08:02,816 --> 00:08:05,161 Holden, Australia's own car, 158 00:08:05,185 --> 00:08:07,764 put families on wheels. 159 00:08:07,788 --> 00:08:10,133 Optimism with a chrome grille, that's what the old 160 00:08:10,157 --> 00:08:12,235 F.J. Holden was all about. 161 00:08:12,259 --> 00:08:14,103 And there was a great sense of 162 00:08:14,127 --> 00:08:17,140 national pride in the whole deal, too. 163 00:08:17,164 --> 00:08:21,644 It was a very strong signal of affluence. 164 00:08:21,668 --> 00:08:24,269 Every Australian post-war family wanted a Holden. 165 00:08:26,940 --> 00:08:29,919 Ford came here after it saw 166 00:08:29,943 --> 00:08:32,355 the success Holden was having 167 00:08:32,379 --> 00:08:34,123 and it was a monopoly. 168 00:08:34,147 --> 00:08:36,993 So Ford thought, "We'll have a bit of that." 169 00:08:37,017 --> 00:08:38,628 When you talk Ford and Holden, 170 00:08:38,652 --> 00:08:42,298 you were talking to 85 percent of the Australian 171 00:08:42,322 --> 00:08:44,000 driving population. 172 00:08:44,024 --> 00:08:47,036 You followed one or you followed the other. 173 00:08:47,060 --> 00:08:50,006 It's tribal. It was a Ford versus Holden thing 174 00:08:50,030 --> 00:08:52,063 and it polarized Australia from that point. 175 00:08:57,404 --> 00:09:00,416 School was just something he had to do 176 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,419 and as soon as he could get out of it, he got out of it. 177 00:09:03,443 --> 00:09:05,822 He had early model Holdens when he became 18. 178 00:09:05,846 --> 00:09:07,245 He rolled a couple of them. 179 00:09:08,849 --> 00:09:11,027 The car was your ticket to ride. 180 00:09:11,051 --> 00:09:12,817 The car was your coming of age. 181 00:09:14,988 --> 00:09:17,233 Isn't it amazing that you could get a license to drive 182 00:09:17,257 --> 00:09:20,036 at the same time as you could drink alcohol? 183 00:09:20,060 --> 00:09:22,138 And the two often went together. 184 00:09:22,162 --> 00:09:24,340 It was a sign that you were... you were grown up. 185 00:09:24,364 --> 00:09:26,242 You'd have your own car. 186 00:09:26,266 --> 00:09:29,112 With it came an expectation of 187 00:09:29,136 --> 00:09:31,347 the sort of person you would be, 188 00:09:31,371 --> 00:09:34,117 the sort of people you would surround yourself with 189 00:09:34,141 --> 00:09:38,121 and there were expectations that you would be naughty. 190 00:09:38,145 --> 00:09:42,258 A... a worship of the bad boy, the naughty boy. 191 00:09:42,282 --> 00:09:45,295 He was conscripted in 1965. 192 00:09:45,319 --> 00:09:47,497 That was the first year of compulsory conscription 193 00:09:47,521 --> 00:09:49,332 for a two-year period. 194 00:09:49,356 --> 00:09:52,101 He wasn't happy about it because he was very much 195 00:09:52,125 --> 00:09:53,792 opposed to the Vietnam War. 196 00:09:55,462 --> 00:09:58,608 He got stationed at Kapooka in New South Wales 197 00:09:58,632 --> 00:10:01,511 and it also meant that he was a little bit closer to Bathurst. 198 00:10:01,535 --> 00:10:04,314 In 1966 he went with a couple of mates 199 00:10:04,338 --> 00:10:06,349 and was absolutely blown away. 200 00:10:13,213 --> 00:10:16,693 As I came away looking at this track saying, 201 00:10:16,717 --> 00:10:18,094 "I'm inspired. 202 00:10:18,118 --> 00:10:19,495 I've gotta get out there and race." 203 00:10:19,519 --> 00:10:21,030 I've gotta get on the other side 204 00:10:21,054 --> 00:10:22,854 of this guard railing and do something. 205 00:10:25,359 --> 00:10:27,370 And really, that's what got me 206 00:10:27,394 --> 00:10:30,239 to build my very first Special to get on the track 207 00:10:30,263 --> 00:10:32,063 get my CAMS license, that sort of thing. 208 00:10:35,535 --> 00:10:38,448 He purchased an HD Holden, 209 00:10:38,472 --> 00:10:40,817 a Triumph Herald, 210 00:10:40,841 --> 00:10:42,919 and an Austin 7. 211 00:10:42,943 --> 00:10:44,988 He shipped them down to Wattle Glen, 212 00:10:45,012 --> 00:10:46,723 which is where his parents were living 213 00:10:46,747 --> 00:10:50,693 and turned those three things into the famous A30. 214 00:10:50,717 --> 00:10:52,495 Down the main straight came this 215 00:10:52,519 --> 00:10:54,430 hideously ugly blue, 216 00:10:54,454 --> 00:10:56,099 it looked like it was hand painted, thing 217 00:10:56,123 --> 00:10:57,643 with a yellow stripe down the middle. 218 00:10:59,860 --> 00:11:02,005 And it was, it was just flying. 219 00:11:02,029 --> 00:11:04,140 And it was bumping all over the place. 220 00:11:04,164 --> 00:11:05,908 But I remember at one stage it was 221 00:11:05,932 --> 00:11:06,909 sitting on the front row of the grid. 222 00:11:06,933 --> 00:11:08,745 Pete Geoghegan's Mustang, 223 00:11:08,769 --> 00:11:11,114 which one of the all-time fantastic cars in Australia 224 00:11:11,138 --> 00:11:13,783 and there's this silly little A30 beside 225 00:11:13,807 --> 00:11:15,351 which he'd just look at and go, 226 00:11:15,375 --> 00:11:17,142 "What is this thing and why is it there?" 227 00:11:19,212 --> 00:11:21,190 It was as skittish as all hell 228 00:11:21,214 --> 00:11:24,560 with a short wheel base, lusty engine 229 00:11:24,584 --> 00:11:25,962 but it was ahead of the field 230 00:11:25,986 --> 00:11:28,097 and I thought, "Who is this person?" 231 00:11:28,121 --> 00:11:29,699 So I took trouble walking out of the pits 232 00:11:29,723 --> 00:11:31,701 and there in the mud was this car 233 00:11:31,725 --> 00:11:34,303 and here was this skinny 234 00:11:34,327 --> 00:11:36,661 long black-haired idiot. 235 00:11:37,764 --> 00:11:39,642 And I introduced myself. 236 00:11:39,666 --> 00:11:41,711 And he impressed me immediately. 237 00:11:41,735 --> 00:11:44,313 He had charisma then. 238 00:11:44,337 --> 00:11:46,115 And he raced that for about two years 239 00:11:46,139 --> 00:11:50,053 and won 102 races from about 65 race meetings, 240 00:11:50,077 --> 00:11:51,754 which was an extraordinary number. 241 00:11:51,778 --> 00:11:53,656 Brock, everyone else who subsequently 242 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:55,758 tried to drive that Austin 830 243 00:11:55,782 --> 00:11:57,427 when he sold it couldn't drive it. 244 00:11:57,451 --> 00:12:00,585 Brock could just get in anything and drive it. 245 00:12:07,127 --> 00:12:10,707 In Rome, it was the Colosseum. 246 00:12:10,731 --> 00:12:14,444 In Australia, it's Bathurst and a mountain circuit, 247 00:12:14,468 --> 00:12:18,181 site of this country's greatest road race. 248 00:12:18,205 --> 00:12:19,816 There was only one race worth winning 249 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:21,350 and that was Bathurst. 250 00:12:21,374 --> 00:12:24,387 We had 60-odd cars in the race in those days 251 00:12:24,411 --> 00:12:26,589 not 20 like we've got now. 252 00:12:26,613 --> 00:12:30,760 We had small cars, large cars, mum's shopping car. 253 00:12:30,784 --> 00:12:33,730 Cars off the showroom floor that you could go and buy. 254 00:12:33,754 --> 00:12:35,498 All sorts of cars. 255 00:12:35,522 --> 00:12:38,034 Moffat powers up Mountain Straight already. 256 00:12:38,058 --> 00:12:39,402 They were for production cars. 257 00:12:39,426 --> 00:12:41,037 They were for stuff that you could, 258 00:12:41,061 --> 00:12:42,805 as they used to say in the ads 259 00:12:42,829 --> 00:12:44,373 "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday." 260 00:12:44,397 --> 00:12:46,309 Win on Sunday, you sell on Monday. 261 00:12:46,333 --> 00:12:49,445 Win on Sunday, sell on Monday. 262 00:12:49,469 --> 00:12:51,214 The motor companies believed it 263 00:12:51,238 --> 00:12:53,605 and so did the dealers, so that was good enough. 264 00:12:55,776 --> 00:12:59,021 Obviously, if a car could do 500 miles at Bathurst 265 00:12:59,045 --> 00:13:00,990 having the wheels driven off it 266 00:13:01,014 --> 00:13:02,859 it was going to cope fairly well with 267 00:13:02,883 --> 00:13:04,560 taking the kids to school. 268 00:13:04,584 --> 00:13:06,629 It was color, it was spectacle. 269 00:13:06,653 --> 00:13:10,133 It was all of the things that a lot of that younger demographic 270 00:13:10,157 --> 00:13:12,301 quite liked to see. 271 00:13:12,325 --> 00:13:15,938 It was just an incredible scene up there. 272 00:13:15,962 --> 00:13:20,009 People would go there and set up these mobile townships. 273 00:13:20,033 --> 00:13:22,345 Men and women used to plan this trip 274 00:13:22,369 --> 00:13:25,148 twelve months out and they would stay on the same corner 275 00:13:25,172 --> 00:13:27,984 every year and they would camp in the same campsite. 276 00:13:28,008 --> 00:13:29,519 It was the glamour, the speed, 277 00:13:29,543 --> 00:13:30,653 the excitement, the danger. 278 00:13:30,677 --> 00:13:32,255 It was the whole lifestyle. 279 00:13:32,279 --> 00:13:34,190 People coming from all over Australia 280 00:13:34,214 --> 00:13:36,192 to watch this race. 281 00:13:36,216 --> 00:13:37,615 It was like a religion. 282 00:13:39,419 --> 00:13:40,763 Leo Geoghegan and Doug Whiteford 283 00:13:40,787 --> 00:13:42,598 brush with spectacular results. 284 00:13:42,622 --> 00:13:45,101 There were crashes, there was dust, there was drama. 285 00:13:45,125 --> 00:13:46,502 And back then, 286 00:13:46,526 --> 00:13:48,371 there were no concrete retaining walls. 287 00:13:51,631 --> 00:13:54,210 You're required to lean on the car 288 00:13:54,234 --> 00:13:58,648 at 200 kilometers an hour with millimeter perfect precision 289 00:13:58,672 --> 00:14:01,539 and if you get it wrong, it goes wrong badly. 290 00:14:05,846 --> 00:14:11,093 It's brutally unforgiving, and it's fast. 291 00:14:11,117 --> 00:14:14,430 You went faster at Bathurst than anywhere else. 292 00:14:14,454 --> 00:14:18,089 Certainly nowhere as safe as circuits are today. 293 00:14:19,125 --> 00:14:20,391 But it was a thrill. 294 00:14:25,432 --> 00:14:27,410 ...Geoghegan attempts a miracle 295 00:14:27,434 --> 00:14:29,512 and it appears Harry Firth believes in them too, 296 00:14:29,536 --> 00:14:32,949 as he orders more speed. 297 00:14:32,973 --> 00:14:36,118 Harry Firth had won Bathurst in Fords. 298 00:14:36,142 --> 00:14:37,920 They had a falling out of some sort 299 00:14:37,944 --> 00:14:40,056 and he was given the job by Holden 300 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,614 to start the Holden Dealer Team. 301 00:14:44,217 --> 00:14:46,229 I was looking for people who I thought 302 00:14:46,253 --> 00:14:49,999 I could mold into my particular way of doing things. 303 00:14:50,023 --> 00:14:52,802 That long-haired bloke who drives that A30. 304 00:14:52,826 --> 00:14:54,837 Looks pretty smart to me. 305 00:14:54,861 --> 00:14:59,141 He's built the car but he would require 306 00:14:59,165 --> 00:15:01,377 a fair bit of polish. 307 00:15:01,401 --> 00:15:04,013 I rang him up and he thought I was having him on, 308 00:15:04,037 --> 00:15:07,049 you know, it was someone else, so I talked to him. 309 00:15:07,073 --> 00:15:10,720 "Get rid of that thing and I'll build you a real car." 310 00:15:10,744 --> 00:15:12,610 Well, that was a bit of a shock to his system. 311 00:15:14,814 --> 00:15:16,225 It's a tightknit organization, 312 00:15:16,249 --> 00:15:18,027 this Holden Dealers Team. 313 00:15:18,051 --> 00:15:19,695 No more than a dozen members and they've won 314 00:15:19,719 --> 00:15:21,297 every major touring car event 315 00:15:21,321 --> 00:15:23,254 on the Australian motorsports calendar. 316 00:15:25,225 --> 00:15:27,336 Couldn't believe it when I got the phone call 317 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:29,405 from Harry Firth. 318 00:15:29,429 --> 00:15:32,308 "Come down, got a car for you." 319 00:15:32,332 --> 00:15:34,010 And I walked into the workshop 320 00:15:34,034 --> 00:15:37,513 and here's these pristine Monaro GTS 350s 321 00:15:37,537 --> 00:15:38,848 just sitting there. 322 00:15:38,872 --> 00:15:41,050 You know, they were hot off the press. 323 00:15:41,074 --> 00:15:42,818 Big on horsepower, 324 00:15:42,842 --> 00:15:45,955 ran on razorblades and no brakes. 325 00:15:45,979 --> 00:15:47,723 Oh, those were the days. 326 00:15:47,747 --> 00:15:50,126 That's when they really sorted you out, I can tell you. 327 00:15:50,150 --> 00:15:51,627 I... I never believed though 328 00:15:51,651 --> 00:15:53,763 that I was actually going to drive this car 329 00:15:53,787 --> 00:15:55,932 until I watched the sign-writer 330 00:15:55,956 --> 00:16:00,136 mask it up and write B-R-O-C-K 331 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:01,203 on that mudguard. 332 00:16:01,227 --> 00:16:03,706 It was just a magic moment. 333 00:16:03,730 --> 00:16:06,342 Harry picked Des West to partner Peter 334 00:16:06,366 --> 00:16:09,712 so he could learn from an older guy. 335 00:16:09,736 --> 00:16:10,980 Harry showed him that 336 00:16:11,004 --> 00:16:13,616 there was more to motor racing than 337 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,052 you know, a strong heart and big balls. 338 00:16:16,076 --> 00:16:18,821 For the first time in his life, he buckled down 339 00:16:18,845 --> 00:16:21,446 and thought, "I can learn something from this old bloke." 340 00:16:26,653 --> 00:16:28,597 The largest crowd in the history of the race 341 00:16:28,621 --> 00:16:31,000 has come to see what promises to be the most thrilling 342 00:16:31,024 --> 00:16:33,102 motor race of its kind ever staged 343 00:16:33,126 --> 00:16:35,171 with main interest in the battle for line honors 344 00:16:35,195 --> 00:16:38,374 between the new and specially built Ford Falcon GTHOs 345 00:16:38,398 --> 00:16:40,343 and the car that won convincingly last year 346 00:16:40,367 --> 00:16:42,411 the Holden Monaro GTS. 347 00:16:42,435 --> 00:16:46,070 Ford won in '67, so today's race is something of a decider. 348 00:16:48,208 --> 00:16:50,619 To get the car through Bathurst for 500 miles 349 00:16:50,643 --> 00:16:53,723 took an art and Harry knew how to do that. 350 00:16:53,747 --> 00:16:56,625 With Brock, I couldn't give him much time at all 351 00:16:56,649 --> 00:16:59,095 in the car but I kept telling him, 352 00:16:59,119 --> 00:17:00,651 "Peter, this is what you do." 353 00:17:08,361 --> 00:17:10,506 I listened very carefully to everything 354 00:17:10,530 --> 00:17:12,174 Harry told me to do. You know, he'd say, "Look..." 355 00:17:12,198 --> 00:17:13,943 Telling him, "Peter, 356 00:17:13,967 --> 00:17:15,177 this is what you do at Bathurst." 357 00:17:15,201 --> 00:17:16,579 "This is how you attack it." 358 00:17:16,603 --> 00:17:17,963 "This is how you do each corner." 359 00:17:19,406 --> 00:17:22,385 When you go over the top of the mountain at Bathurst 360 00:17:22,409 --> 00:17:24,720 you go over full tap. 361 00:17:24,744 --> 00:17:26,022 If he said don't use the brakes, 362 00:17:26,046 --> 00:17:27,857 I didn't use the brakes. 363 00:17:27,881 --> 00:17:28,824 The brakes are only there to get you 364 00:17:28,848 --> 00:17:30,726 set up for the corner. 365 00:17:30,750 --> 00:17:32,428 And as your car lands, you want to be down right 366 00:17:32,452 --> 00:17:34,497 to get the run into Skyline. 367 00:17:34,521 --> 00:17:37,166 Go back to third, you let the car then use the engine brake 368 00:17:37,190 --> 00:17:40,202 over Skyline because again you don't wanna use the brakes 369 00:17:40,226 --> 00:17:43,139 because you'll get the attitude of the car out of sync. 370 00:17:43,163 --> 00:17:45,408 You use the corner to slow you down 371 00:17:45,432 --> 00:17:47,977 and get you on the right path. 372 00:17:48,001 --> 00:17:50,780 Just over the hill you can see two hills 373 00:17:50,804 --> 00:17:52,448 and a tree in the middle. 374 00:17:52,472 --> 00:17:55,751 Now, you aim for that and go full chat. 375 00:17:55,775 --> 00:17:57,386 You had to do whatever you could. 376 00:17:57,410 --> 00:17:59,155 Give the car a flick in the corner, 377 00:17:59,179 --> 00:18:00,956 let it flow through, do all those sorts of things 378 00:18:00,980 --> 00:18:02,958 but do not use the brakes 379 00:18:02,982 --> 00:18:06,328 because the brakes had a limited life. 380 00:18:06,352 --> 00:18:08,164 The Dipper's really exciting 381 00:18:08,188 --> 00:18:10,332 because the car gets really light but you've got to be 382 00:18:10,356 --> 00:18:12,501 really precise because you want to exit out of The Dipper 383 00:18:12,525 --> 00:18:14,036 because it's a short run down to the Forrest's Elbow, 384 00:18:14,060 --> 00:18:15,971 which is up to third. 385 00:18:15,995 --> 00:18:18,174 Very tricky, Forrest Elbow, because you're braking around 386 00:18:18,198 --> 00:18:19,642 the corner which you have a tendency 387 00:18:19,666 --> 00:18:21,377 to have a lockup on the front wheel. 388 00:18:21,401 --> 00:18:24,814 I'm looking for that crack in the gap on the inside. 389 00:18:24,838 --> 00:18:27,183 He figured if you could learn to drive without brakes 390 00:18:27,207 --> 00:18:29,185 and go fast, it was going to be a pretty good technique. 391 00:18:29,209 --> 00:18:30,986 Conrod Straight's great. 392 00:18:31,010 --> 00:18:32,922 I think one of the biggest things I learnt 393 00:18:32,946 --> 00:18:34,245 is to relax in the car. 394 00:18:37,984 --> 00:18:39,762 It was a technique that I learnt. 395 00:18:39,786 --> 00:18:41,564 It took a lot of discipline. 396 00:18:41,588 --> 00:18:43,365 It was very easy to sort of say, 397 00:18:43,389 --> 00:18:45,234 "Let's jump on the brakes." 398 00:18:45,258 --> 00:18:48,170 I can still feel that brake pedal pulsing under my feet 399 00:18:48,194 --> 00:18:49,861 and the car not stopping to this day. 400 00:18:52,765 --> 00:18:55,744 I'd finished third, did what Harry said 401 00:18:55,768 --> 00:18:57,413 and I think that's what clinched the drive with 402 00:18:57,437 --> 00:18:59,203 Holden Dealer Team on a fulltime basis. 403 00:19:04,244 --> 00:19:07,123 The Monaro's main runner, the Holden Torana GTR, 404 00:19:07,147 --> 00:19:09,614 gets you won and the story's the same. 405 00:19:11,718 --> 00:19:14,130 The development of the six-cylinder Torana 406 00:19:14,154 --> 00:19:17,032 was a departure from the traditional battle of 407 00:19:17,056 --> 00:19:19,969 two big V8s thumping around the mountain. 408 00:19:19,993 --> 00:19:22,605 It didn't have the power but it had the nimbleness 409 00:19:22,629 --> 00:19:25,975 and the fuel economy and was soft on brakes. 410 00:19:25,999 --> 00:19:28,599 It needed a driver like Peter to drive a car like that. 411 00:19:33,339 --> 00:19:35,718 There was a very, very strong contingent there. 412 00:19:35,742 --> 00:19:39,021 Holden on one side, Ford on the other. 413 00:19:39,045 --> 00:19:41,657 You can't ever prophesize who's going to win 414 00:19:41,681 --> 00:19:45,194 but you can, have a look at who's not gonna lose 415 00:19:45,218 --> 00:19:47,930 and I don't think a Ford's gonna lose. 416 00:19:47,954 --> 00:19:49,632 Moffat has more than a lap advantage 417 00:19:49,656 --> 00:19:52,301 so the XU1 faces an impossible task 418 00:19:52,325 --> 00:19:55,638 as the Fords continue their dominance. 419 00:19:55,662 --> 00:19:57,606 There was only one persistently quick, 420 00:19:57,630 --> 00:19:59,575 and that was Allan Moffat. 421 00:19:59,599 --> 00:20:01,210 How he muscled that Falcon around 422 00:20:01,234 --> 00:20:03,913 like he did was unbelievable. 423 00:20:03,937 --> 00:20:06,782 Moffat was enemy number one, there's no doubt about it. 424 00:20:06,806 --> 00:20:09,051 Ford very much Allan Moffat, one man. 425 00:20:09,075 --> 00:20:11,120 They had drivers, of course, but Moffat 426 00:20:11,144 --> 00:20:14,123 was, was really calling all the shots. 427 00:20:14,147 --> 00:20:18,360 You had the very mercurial Brock, the younger, 428 00:20:18,384 --> 00:20:20,396 as being this lean, skinny kid 429 00:20:20,420 --> 00:20:23,365 with a silly-looking goatee beard. 430 00:20:23,389 --> 00:20:26,235 He wasn't the sort of matinee star that he later became. 431 00:20:26,259 --> 00:20:28,003 And you had the very cerebral, 432 00:20:28,027 --> 00:20:31,240 bespectacled Canadian Allan Moffat 433 00:20:31,264 --> 00:20:34,810 who could be quite bristly and, and quite cool. 434 00:20:34,834 --> 00:20:37,413 Basically plotting his way around the course 435 00:20:37,437 --> 00:20:39,215 you know, with... with the equivalent of a, 436 00:20:39,239 --> 00:20:41,750 of a slide rule and a calculator. 437 00:20:41,774 --> 00:20:43,919 I never saw it as a rivalry. 438 00:20:43,943 --> 00:20:45,588 I saw it as... as fellows 439 00:20:45,612 --> 00:20:48,257 that were capable of actually just doing it 440 00:20:48,281 --> 00:20:50,025 and not trying to be smarter 441 00:20:50,049 --> 00:20:53,395 and never going up to sideswipe Peter. 442 00:20:53,419 --> 00:20:57,166 At that stage we were so fast against so many other people 443 00:20:57,190 --> 00:21:00,002 that nobody else saw what the hell we were doing. 444 00:21:00,026 --> 00:21:01,026 Didn't bother me. 445 00:21:02,795 --> 00:21:04,607 Into Pit Straight and Moffat sets about 446 00:21:04,631 --> 00:21:06,230 dictating the pattern of the race. 447 00:21:08,935 --> 00:21:10,813 His concentration inflexible, 448 00:21:10,837 --> 00:21:13,304 Moffat is in no danger of becoming complacent. 449 00:21:20,246 --> 00:21:22,191 Hardie-Ferodo, General Manager 450 00:21:22,215 --> 00:21:23,892 presents the Victor's laurel wreath 451 00:21:23,916 --> 00:21:26,595 and outright winner's plaque to a triumphant Moffat. 452 00:21:26,619 --> 00:21:29,298 Having competed from that very first race, 453 00:21:29,322 --> 00:21:32,401 I really saw it as my my life's work, almost. 454 00:21:32,425 --> 00:21:34,737 I wanted to win it at all efforts 455 00:21:34,761 --> 00:21:36,694 and as many times as possible. 456 00:21:41,134 --> 00:21:43,746 We didn't win, but from that time on he said, 457 00:21:43,770 --> 00:21:45,536 "I can beat him. I can stay with him." 458 00:21:53,279 --> 00:21:55,124 No need to remind you that the road 459 00:21:55,148 --> 00:21:56,792 will be very much like a pork chop 460 00:21:56,816 --> 00:22:00,518 so we will try to exercise a little caution. 461 00:22:03,423 --> 00:22:05,200 We now take you direct to Bathurst 462 00:22:05,224 --> 00:22:10,606 for the official telecast of the 1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500. 463 00:22:10,630 --> 00:22:13,409 You've got thirty, forty cars on the grid 464 00:22:13,433 --> 00:22:15,311 all revving their insides out 465 00:22:15,335 --> 00:22:18,602 and off they go in a pall of blue smoke and it's on. 466 00:22:24,444 --> 00:22:25,954 Moffat would get into a car 467 00:22:25,978 --> 00:22:27,923 and he would not be fast straight away. 468 00:22:27,947 --> 00:22:31,493 He had to build up his speed gradually, gradually, gradually 469 00:22:31,517 --> 00:22:33,996 get his concentration to that point of fever pitch 470 00:22:34,020 --> 00:22:35,631 whereas Brock would just drive 471 00:22:35,655 --> 00:22:37,255 the wheels off everything all the time. 472 00:22:40,827 --> 00:22:43,038 In those days, you know, 500 miles, 473 00:22:43,062 --> 00:22:45,140 there was no relief driver. 474 00:22:45,164 --> 00:22:46,809 You know, you didn't give him too much to drink 475 00:22:46,833 --> 00:22:48,644 because he'd want to stop and go to the toilet. 476 00:22:48,668 --> 00:22:51,747 Didn't do that in those days. There was no drink containers. 477 00:22:51,771 --> 00:22:53,716 If he was lucky, he got half a mouthful of Coke 478 00:22:53,740 --> 00:22:55,306 at the pit stop, that was it. 479 00:22:57,443 --> 00:22:58,954 I was really charging 480 00:22:58,978 --> 00:23:00,456 hard around the top of the mountain. 481 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:01,957 And I've got him down the bottom, 482 00:23:01,981 --> 00:23:03,759 he's coming around Mountain Straight now. 483 00:23:03,783 --> 00:23:07,196 And Allan was a very dedicated, hard driver. 484 00:23:07,220 --> 00:23:08,764 I just wanted to make sure that 485 00:23:08,788 --> 00:23:10,332 as long as I was close enough 486 00:23:10,356 --> 00:23:14,636 I'll go as fast as I can right up alongside him. 487 00:23:14,660 --> 00:23:17,172 I was attacking Moffat, and I'd catch Moffat up 488 00:23:17,196 --> 00:23:19,942 over the mountain and he'd blow me away down Conrod Straight. 489 00:23:19,966 --> 00:23:22,211 I'd catch him up again going up over the mountain. 490 00:23:22,235 --> 00:23:25,013 And I was quite conscious of it because it was 491 00:23:25,037 --> 00:23:26,915 running through my rear-view mirror 492 00:23:26,939 --> 00:23:29,017 every lap, that's how close he was. 493 00:23:29,041 --> 00:23:30,586 They're pushing Moffat hard as he escapes 494 00:23:30,610 --> 00:23:32,788 the big bend and down to the end. 495 00:23:32,812 --> 00:23:34,523 The amount of times that they go, "Oh, Brocky's 496 00:23:34,547 --> 00:23:36,325 there, he's going too fast." 497 00:23:36,349 --> 00:23:38,560 "He can't keep that sort of speed up," but he would. 498 00:23:38,584 --> 00:23:40,028 And I was nipping at Allan Moffat. 499 00:23:40,052 --> 00:23:41,497 I was trying to come up the inside 500 00:23:41,521 --> 00:23:44,566 and I was really pushing at him. 501 00:23:44,590 --> 00:23:46,902 Brock, whilst he used superior speed, 502 00:23:46,926 --> 00:23:50,406 was always playing a cat and mouse game. 503 00:23:50,430 --> 00:23:54,176 Peter and I were always very like this, do-do-do. 504 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,178 I came through the inside of him 505 00:23:56,202 --> 00:23:58,714 and he just got a little wide. 506 00:23:58,738 --> 00:24:00,949 I could see the whites of his eyes in the mirror 507 00:24:00,973 --> 00:24:02,618 and he was sort of like, "Uh-oh." 508 00:24:02,642 --> 00:24:04,052 Moffat's spun. He's off a bend 509 00:24:04,076 --> 00:24:05,654 at Reid Park, near where Bond went. 510 00:24:05,678 --> 00:24:07,322 As I sort of whistled by. 511 00:24:07,346 --> 00:24:08,724 That puts Brock in the Holden Torana 512 00:24:08,748 --> 00:24:10,192 into first place. 513 00:24:10,216 --> 00:24:13,295 He finished up off the road, unharmed 514 00:24:13,319 --> 00:24:14,897 and I was into the lead and away. 515 00:24:14,921 --> 00:24:16,799 The second-last time, 516 00:24:16,823 --> 00:24:19,168 Peter Brock at the wheel of a car that on this track, 517 00:24:19,192 --> 00:24:21,192 this day, has recorded a classic victory. 518 00:24:26,466 --> 00:24:28,626 His driving in that race was just incredible. 519 00:24:32,405 --> 00:24:35,350 I just dreamt of this thing. 520 00:24:35,374 --> 00:24:40,522 It was just a ballsy but also very considered drive. 521 00:24:40,546 --> 00:24:42,224 I can remember him getting out of the car 522 00:24:42,248 --> 00:24:45,127 and he was as fit as he was at the start of it. 523 00:24:45,151 --> 00:24:48,564 Harry Firth allowed me to race the car on my own. 524 00:24:48,588 --> 00:24:50,599 Now, that's the last time that anyone's been allowed 525 00:24:50,623 --> 00:24:56,004 to race at Bathurst solo. 526 00:24:56,028 --> 00:24:58,173 At the end of the day, when I'd finished up 527 00:24:58,197 --> 00:25:00,108 getting a box of chocolates 528 00:25:00,132 --> 00:25:02,244 I had a totally different understanding about 529 00:25:02,268 --> 00:25:03,979 what I could do in life. 530 00:25:04,003 --> 00:25:06,415 The peer group viewed me differently. 531 00:25:06,439 --> 00:25:09,785 The media did, and it just changed my life. 532 00:25:09,809 --> 00:25:13,622 And it was, "Hang on, I can now do these things." 533 00:25:13,646 --> 00:25:15,257 People were beginning to think 534 00:25:15,281 --> 00:25:17,693 well, this kid from Eltham, this Peter Brock, 535 00:25:17,717 --> 00:25:20,562 he'd got real car control, real skill. 536 00:25:20,586 --> 00:25:23,031 And that really put him on the map. 537 00:25:23,055 --> 00:25:25,200 He'd earnt his stripes. He'd done his apprenticeship. 538 00:25:25,224 --> 00:25:28,103 He'd announced he was here. 539 00:25:28,127 --> 00:25:31,173 He drove a skinny little Torana XU1 540 00:25:31,197 --> 00:25:34,610 to victory in the wet, a real giant-killing victory 541 00:25:34,634 --> 00:25:37,535 and that was the real beginning of the Brock legend. 542 00:25:57,623 --> 00:26:00,135 Philip Morris entered the scene with a bag of money, 543 00:26:00,159 --> 00:26:02,604 in search of a youth market. 544 00:26:02,628 --> 00:26:05,440 Motor racing was glamorous, it was edgy. 545 00:26:05,464 --> 00:26:08,176 It attracted a young, hip, cool crowd 546 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:12,614 and it was bang on their demographic. 547 00:26:12,638 --> 00:26:15,350 Holden started to see that this young guy 548 00:26:15,374 --> 00:26:19,354 could contribute to sales and to the development 549 00:26:19,378 --> 00:26:21,390 of the Holden Motor Company. 550 00:26:21,414 --> 00:26:22,958 Bathurst winner Peter Brock 551 00:26:22,982 --> 00:26:26,050 tests the new Holden Monaro GTS four-door. 552 00:26:29,522 --> 00:26:33,035 Well, this sort of motor car is my type of car. 553 00:26:33,059 --> 00:26:35,637 Peter had too much time on his hands in those days. 554 00:26:35,661 --> 00:26:38,574 Girls were chasing him as much as he was chasing them. 555 00:26:38,598 --> 00:26:40,309 There was always plenty around. 556 00:26:40,333 --> 00:26:43,445 At one stage he had his steering wheel in one hand 557 00:26:43,469 --> 00:26:46,181 and his dick in the other. 558 00:26:46,205 --> 00:26:48,250 He also had a very keen eye. Even on the race track 559 00:26:48,274 --> 00:26:49,785 he'd pull into the pits on occasions 560 00:26:49,809 --> 00:26:52,321 and tell the mechanics before he told them 561 00:26:52,345 --> 00:26:54,323 about the tire condition and the fuel load 562 00:26:54,347 --> 00:26:56,625 that there was a very pretty girl on the inside of turn four 563 00:26:56,649 --> 00:27:00,295 and could somebody please go and chat her up for him. 564 00:27:00,319 --> 00:27:04,900 When it started to interfere with motor racing 565 00:27:04,924 --> 00:27:08,303 I sat him down and had a few words about it. 566 00:27:08,327 --> 00:27:10,906 Well, Holden basically sent him to finishing school 567 00:27:10,930 --> 00:27:14,376 and Peter went and did elocution lessons, 568 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,180 manners and really learnt how to eyeball people 569 00:27:18,204 --> 00:27:20,916 and to make them feel comfortable. 570 00:27:20,940 --> 00:27:24,419 He was raw material, a rough diamond. 571 00:27:24,443 --> 00:27:27,589 But as the years progressed and he acquired more polish 572 00:27:27,613 --> 00:27:31,126 more and more of the facets of the diamond became brighter. 573 00:27:31,150 --> 00:27:34,485 But there were also some, some obvious dark sides as well. 574 00:27:37,123 --> 00:27:40,002 Miss Australia 1973. 575 00:27:40,026 --> 00:27:42,638 Ladies and gentleman, Michelle Downes. 576 00:27:42,662 --> 00:27:44,606 He won Bathurst at the same time 577 00:27:44,630 --> 00:27:45,729 that I won Miss Australia. 578 00:27:49,935 --> 00:27:52,447 I suppose I've... 579 00:27:52,471 --> 00:27:55,183 I've always been attracted to the naughty boys a little bit 580 00:27:55,207 --> 00:27:58,120 and there was that naughtiness in Peter. 581 00:27:58,144 --> 00:28:00,422 I was 21, I'd just come out of 582 00:28:00,446 --> 00:28:03,592 being chaperoned all over the country. 583 00:28:03,616 --> 00:28:06,228 Peter at the time was 28. 584 00:28:06,252 --> 00:28:09,965 He was quite handsome, very charming. 585 00:28:09,989 --> 00:28:13,568 You know, we just, we just clicked. 586 00:28:13,592 --> 00:28:16,605 I don't know, it was, it was instant and I fell very, 587 00:28:16,629 --> 00:28:18,529 very much in love with him, absolutely. 588 00:28:20,733 --> 00:28:22,811 From the first night that we got together 589 00:28:22,835 --> 00:28:26,136 we just really didn't go apart from that. 590 00:28:28,441 --> 00:28:32,954 At first sight it was, I guess, a match made in heaven. 591 00:28:32,978 --> 00:28:35,190 He was just very proud of her 592 00:28:35,214 --> 00:28:38,248 and deeply in love and adored her, worshipped her. 593 00:28:41,587 --> 00:28:44,800 Peter and Michelle had a TV wedding 594 00:28:44,824 --> 00:28:48,603 which was televised live, which is pretty incredible. 595 00:28:48,627 --> 00:28:52,974 The publicity machine was very, very, very active. 596 00:28:52,998 --> 00:28:56,611 We sort of became the golden couple. 597 00:28:56,635 --> 00:28:59,381 Peter was still very much an unknown person 598 00:28:59,405 --> 00:29:01,616 unless you were a racing car fanatic 599 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,919 and then you would've known who he was. 600 00:29:03,943 --> 00:29:05,721 He enjoyed the attention 601 00:29:05,745 --> 00:29:10,025 and he enjoyed being a public person, very much. 602 00:29:10,049 --> 00:29:12,994 He started to taste what fame was like 603 00:29:13,018 --> 00:29:14,785 through my profile. 604 00:29:17,323 --> 00:29:20,569 Around that time, Peter got a, a manager 605 00:29:20,593 --> 00:29:23,138 who was being most difficult with General Motors 606 00:29:23,162 --> 00:29:27,342 a concern to Harry, and that was upsetting everyone. 607 00:29:27,366 --> 00:29:29,911 At race meetings he'd just jump in the car after the race 608 00:29:29,935 --> 00:29:32,214 leave all his clothes in the marquee. 609 00:29:32,238 --> 00:29:35,016 Expect us to pick up everything and take them back to work. 610 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,952 He was married to Miss Australia 611 00:29:36,976 --> 00:29:39,654 and I think he started to believe he was Mr. Australia. 612 00:29:39,678 --> 00:29:42,224 Peter wanted attention. 613 00:29:42,248 --> 00:29:45,627 The more my profile lifted 614 00:29:45,651 --> 00:29:47,584 the more resentful he became. 615 00:29:53,793 --> 00:29:57,305 When something was happening to him, like he was at a race 616 00:29:57,329 --> 00:30:00,842 I would be pushed away because he didn't want anyone 617 00:30:00,866 --> 00:30:02,599 being distracted from him. 618 00:30:07,606 --> 00:30:10,519 It was after we got married 619 00:30:10,543 --> 00:30:12,242 that the violence started. 620 00:30:16,348 --> 00:30:18,226 I had to go and be on television 621 00:30:18,250 --> 00:30:20,695 and be the happy, you know, weather girl 622 00:30:20,719 --> 00:30:22,898 and all the publicity and then I had to go home, 623 00:30:22,922 --> 00:30:25,567 not knowing what I was going to go home to that night 624 00:30:25,591 --> 00:30:27,736 what sort of mood he was going to be in. 625 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,605 If he'd won a race, everything was fine. 626 00:30:30,629 --> 00:30:34,576 If he hadn't won a race, God help us. 627 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,444 Harry couldn't slow Peter down. 628 00:30:36,468 --> 00:30:38,914 There was no radio communication in those 629 00:30:38,938 --> 00:30:41,383 days and it was just waving arms 630 00:30:41,407 --> 00:30:44,152 and just ges... Gesticulations and things 631 00:30:44,176 --> 00:30:46,254 but Peter wouldn't slow down 632 00:30:46,278 --> 00:30:49,591 and the motor blew up 633 00:30:49,615 --> 00:30:51,315 six or eight laps from the finish. 634 00:30:53,052 --> 00:30:54,696 A sad sight for the Holden Dealer Team 635 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,231 as Car One heads for the back of the pits. 636 00:30:56,255 --> 00:30:58,834 So Peter Brock is out of the race. 637 00:30:58,858 --> 00:31:01,937 Harry believed that Peter didn't obey his orders 638 00:31:01,961 --> 00:31:03,905 and slowed down, if he had have slowed down, 639 00:31:03,929 --> 00:31:05,574 he wouldn't have detonated the piston. 640 00:31:05,598 --> 00:31:06,842 Well, I don't think it would've made any difference 641 00:31:06,866 --> 00:31:08,343 from where we were sitting. 642 00:31:08,367 --> 00:31:10,400 All of a sudden, he was a car-wrecker. 643 00:31:13,439 --> 00:31:16,651 So he would frustrate Harry just by doing it the way 644 00:31:16,675 --> 00:31:19,855 he believed was right and Peter would do it in a way that 645 00:31:19,879 --> 00:31:23,225 Harry wouldn't sort of find out until later 646 00:31:23,249 --> 00:31:27,195 which... which I think would be a source of frustration. 647 00:31:27,219 --> 00:31:29,598 Harry was a fantastic manager, but I don't think 648 00:31:29,622 --> 00:31:32,634 he had the skills to sort Peter out. 649 00:31:32,658 --> 00:31:35,203 And I think in the end the falling out was just because 650 00:31:35,227 --> 00:31:36,705 Harry wanted to control things 651 00:31:36,729 --> 00:31:38,940 and he couldn't really control Brock. 652 00:31:38,964 --> 00:31:41,343 I don't think anyone could control Brock. 653 00:31:41,367 --> 00:31:43,500 I don't think Brock could control himself, frankly. 654 00:31:48,374 --> 00:31:50,185 You couldn't do anything about it in those days 655 00:31:50,209 --> 00:31:52,854 because you know, a husband 656 00:31:52,878 --> 00:31:55,357 was allowed to beat his wife. 657 00:31:55,381 --> 00:31:57,225 There was no such thing as domestic violence. 658 00:31:57,249 --> 00:31:59,394 I used to call the police and they'd say 659 00:31:59,418 --> 00:32:01,618 "It's a domestic. We can't have anything to do with it." 660 00:32:04,323 --> 00:32:06,501 It was almost a shameful thing. 661 00:32:06,525 --> 00:32:08,236 You know, you didn't want people to know 662 00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:09,426 it was happening to you. 663 00:32:11,931 --> 00:32:13,975 Very painful. 664 00:32:13,999 --> 00:32:17,935 Very, very painful time of my life. 665 00:32:21,173 --> 00:32:23,318 Clearly, it was a difficult relationship 666 00:32:23,342 --> 00:32:25,208 and an unhappy marriage. 667 00:32:27,846 --> 00:32:29,357 And the fact that they were playing it out 668 00:32:29,381 --> 00:32:31,559 in the general public 669 00:32:31,583 --> 00:32:33,395 must've been incredibly difficult 670 00:32:33,419 --> 00:32:34,851 and incredibly painful. 671 00:32:36,388 --> 00:32:38,400 He was the poster boy for Holden 672 00:32:38,424 --> 00:32:42,437 and suddenly there were newspaper reports appearing. 673 00:32:42,461 --> 00:32:45,840 Race teams don't like personal dramas 674 00:32:45,864 --> 00:32:49,433 and there was a lot of personal drama in... in that situation. 675 00:32:51,437 --> 00:32:53,915 Holden, being part of General Motors 676 00:32:53,939 --> 00:32:56,518 very buttoned-down culture. 677 00:32:56,542 --> 00:32:58,987 Very, well, 678 00:32:59,011 --> 00:33:02,123 Midwest American values. 679 00:33:02,147 --> 00:33:05,215 And image is everything for a big company like that. 680 00:33:07,186 --> 00:33:10,932 Perceptions were not always reality. 681 00:33:10,956 --> 00:33:14,602 Peter was a master, even back then, of putting up a front 682 00:33:14,626 --> 00:33:18,862 of the mask of what people wanted to see he could present. 683 00:33:21,166 --> 00:33:22,978 There were basically two Peter Brocks. 684 00:33:23,002 --> 00:33:26,514 One was, just a bloke who you'd meet round the place 685 00:33:26,538 --> 00:33:29,718 who was charming, intelligent. 686 00:33:29,742 --> 00:33:33,121 And then there was another one the personality full of rumor 687 00:33:33,145 --> 00:33:36,257 and innuendo and you were never quite sure 688 00:33:36,281 --> 00:33:38,293 how to get to the bottom of all of that. 689 00:33:38,317 --> 00:33:41,396 And I would've thought that the real Brock 690 00:33:41,420 --> 00:33:43,253 was probably a combination of both. 691 00:33:45,424 --> 00:33:47,102 With the problems he's giving General Motors 692 00:33:47,126 --> 00:33:49,926 and Harry, I think it came to a head. 693 00:33:56,935 --> 00:33:58,513 From Holden's point of view 694 00:33:58,537 --> 00:34:00,604 it was just too difficult a situation. 695 00:34:01,807 --> 00:34:03,651 Yes, it broke our hearts. 696 00:34:03,675 --> 00:34:05,954 The mechanics bloody near wept. 697 00:34:05,978 --> 00:34:09,624 We just couldn't believe that we were going to lose 698 00:34:09,648 --> 00:34:11,548 the best driver in Australia at the time. 699 00:34:20,192 --> 00:34:22,003 So what does he do? 700 00:34:22,027 --> 00:34:23,805 He starts again. 701 00:34:23,829 --> 00:34:25,407 Have a go. 702 00:34:25,431 --> 00:34:27,742 Well, hang on, privateers don't win Bathurst. 703 00:34:27,766 --> 00:34:31,212 But here you are with one of the only two full, 704 00:34:31,236 --> 00:34:34,315 you know, professional race teams in Australia 705 00:34:34,339 --> 00:34:36,618 and you're given the boot. 706 00:34:36,642 --> 00:34:38,053 Pete finds some people who, 707 00:34:38,077 --> 00:34:39,187 who are gonna have their own team 708 00:34:39,211 --> 00:34:40,955 and I'll race their car and, 709 00:34:40,979 --> 00:34:42,657 and, and we'll get some sponsorship 710 00:34:42,681 --> 00:34:44,081 and stuff and away we'll go. 711 00:34:45,984 --> 00:34:47,584 And he just looked ahead. 712 00:34:51,023 --> 00:34:53,435 I had a girlfriend who lived in Melbourne. 713 00:34:53,459 --> 00:34:56,337 I said I'd just met Peter Brock 714 00:34:56,361 --> 00:34:59,407 so she told me of the, you know, the media exposure 715 00:34:59,431 --> 00:35:00,842 he was getting and... and the stories 716 00:35:00,866 --> 00:35:02,911 that were circulating and... 717 00:35:02,935 --> 00:35:04,612 that took me aback because I said, 718 00:35:04,636 --> 00:35:08,049 "Well, that's certainly not the guy that I've met." 719 00:35:08,073 --> 00:35:10,852 I was seeing one side of a man I'd just met 720 00:35:10,876 --> 00:35:13,121 and then hearing that there was this other side. 721 00:35:13,145 --> 00:35:15,479 So I was apprehensive a bit. 722 00:35:18,617 --> 00:35:20,595 He was at the early stage of his career 723 00:35:20,619 --> 00:35:24,732 and winning hadn't become part of who he was. 724 00:35:24,756 --> 00:35:26,501 Our real friendship started 725 00:35:26,525 --> 00:35:31,206 when he was going through turmoil in his marriage. 726 00:35:31,230 --> 00:35:34,342 Peter had, you know, gone out as a privateer. 727 00:35:34,366 --> 00:35:36,377 Had no money. 728 00:35:36,401 --> 00:35:39,013 When they came to Sydney, they would stay with us 729 00:35:39,037 --> 00:35:42,584 so they had accommodation, free meals. 730 00:35:42,608 --> 00:35:47,255 My husband was a mechanic and, we had a service station. 731 00:35:47,279 --> 00:35:49,124 They'd come and stay and we would help them out 732 00:35:49,148 --> 00:35:51,025 at the race team. 733 00:35:51,049 --> 00:35:53,728 He drove cars that weren't all that good. 734 00:35:53,752 --> 00:35:56,397 He didn't have the support of the factory. 735 00:35:56,421 --> 00:35:58,500 He wasn't the works' driver anymore. 736 00:35:58,524 --> 00:36:00,001 He was a privateer. 737 00:36:00,025 --> 00:36:01,569 He had to lift this team up 738 00:36:01,593 --> 00:36:03,638 and make it competitive. 739 00:36:03,662 --> 00:36:05,740 Very rarely were mechanics paid. 740 00:36:05,764 --> 00:36:07,909 It was very much a labor of love 741 00:36:07,933 --> 00:36:10,378 so people who were keen on the scene would come along 742 00:36:10,402 --> 00:36:12,580 and give their all because they wanted to be part 743 00:36:12,604 --> 00:36:15,984 of something bigger than themselves. 744 00:36:16,008 --> 00:36:18,253 Be fair to say that when we got to Bathurst 745 00:36:18,277 --> 00:36:20,021 in 1975 746 00:36:20,045 --> 00:36:23,558 we really had to win to pay the rent. 747 00:36:23,582 --> 00:36:25,226 Away they go! 748 00:36:25,250 --> 00:36:27,495 And Allan Moffat gets going more quickly in first gear. 749 00:36:27,519 --> 00:36:29,230 I don't think he's working the car hard... 750 00:36:29,254 --> 00:36:30,765 Gown and Hindhaugh, 751 00:36:30,789 --> 00:36:31,966 a couple of engine reconditioning fellows 752 00:36:31,990 --> 00:36:33,401 very much a privateer effort 753 00:36:33,425 --> 00:36:34,636 and we never had very much money 754 00:36:34,660 --> 00:36:39,040 to sink into this project. 755 00:36:39,064 --> 00:36:41,576 You had Rice, Bond, Harvey 756 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,578 Frank Gardner, Moffat. 757 00:36:43,602 --> 00:36:46,047 You had all the big names of the time. 758 00:36:46,071 --> 00:36:48,416 Peter was at the back of this 38-car field 759 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,786 and he drove past all of them. 760 00:36:51,810 --> 00:36:54,722 They just said would I drive with them? 761 00:36:54,746 --> 00:36:55,746 Absolutely. 762 00:36:58,250 --> 00:37:01,930 We never had any discussions, never any arguments. 763 00:37:01,954 --> 00:37:05,967 Really not even any tactics, we didn't discuss. 764 00:37:05,991 --> 00:37:07,769 Around the bend and now Allan Moffat leads the race 765 00:37:07,793 --> 00:37:09,437 and Peter Brock pulls out and decides 766 00:37:09,461 --> 00:37:11,339 that he might like to lead for a change 767 00:37:11,363 --> 00:37:14,142 and he goes up on the outside of Colin. 768 00:37:14,166 --> 00:37:15,710 And look at the distance between these cars. 769 00:37:15,734 --> 00:37:16,978 It's a real race and Brock is the one 770 00:37:17,002 --> 00:37:18,580 who wants to get to the lead. 771 00:37:18,604 --> 00:37:21,115 He put it in the position to win the race. 772 00:37:21,139 --> 00:37:25,753 It was my job to make sure the car got there. 773 00:37:25,777 --> 00:37:27,722 One particular evening they were all there. 774 00:37:27,746 --> 00:37:29,157 I was out in the kitchen, he came out 775 00:37:29,181 --> 00:37:30,592 and sat on the kitchen bench 776 00:37:30,616 --> 00:37:32,594 and opened up and he was quite, 777 00:37:32,618 --> 00:37:36,564 uh, depressed at the time. 778 00:37:36,588 --> 00:37:38,366 He didn't know where his life was going 779 00:37:38,390 --> 00:37:42,904 and I was a bit of a motivational sort of person 780 00:37:42,928 --> 00:37:47,242 and encouraged him to, to believe in himself. 781 00:37:47,266 --> 00:37:49,177 Brock in front now. 782 00:37:49,201 --> 00:37:52,513 The bit that totally shocked me 783 00:37:52,537 --> 00:37:56,317 was his vulnerability, his insecurity in a personal sense 784 00:37:56,341 --> 00:37:59,721 and I was very fortunate that I got to see that side of him 785 00:37:59,745 --> 00:38:03,891 because my perception of the man was very different. 786 00:38:03,915 --> 00:38:05,960 Last lap sign goes up for the last time round 787 00:38:05,984 --> 00:38:07,161 and the crowd acknowledge the man 788 00:38:07,185 --> 00:38:08,830 who's going to win this race. 789 00:38:08,854 --> 00:38:11,121 Only a kilometer to go now as Peter Brock... 790 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,237 You have to feel honored 791 00:38:16,261 --> 00:38:19,040 when somebody who is that capable 792 00:38:19,064 --> 00:38:21,643 is game to let down the barriers 793 00:38:21,667 --> 00:38:24,746 and be who he really is with somebody. 794 00:38:24,770 --> 00:38:27,649 You know that you're trusted 795 00:38:27,673 --> 00:38:31,786 and you... you respect that. 796 00:38:31,810 --> 00:38:34,622 I was going through a not dissimilar situation 797 00:38:34,646 --> 00:38:36,357 in my marriage. 798 00:38:36,381 --> 00:38:38,026 We became good friends. 799 00:38:38,050 --> 00:38:40,595 So he found that he had somebody he could 800 00:38:40,619 --> 00:38:44,299 lean on and he could be honest with. 801 00:38:44,323 --> 00:38:46,501 Peter Brock goes for the last time 802 00:38:46,525 --> 00:38:48,491 down through the Esses. 803 00:38:50,362 --> 00:38:52,696 A moment of absolute triumph. 804 00:38:56,134 --> 00:38:58,212 In his privateer car 805 00:38:58,236 --> 00:38:59,947 Peter Brock just lifted it up 806 00:38:59,971 --> 00:39:01,983 and carried it to the finish line. 807 00:39:02,007 --> 00:39:04,986 That's it, the chequered flag for Peter Brock 808 00:39:05,010 --> 00:39:09,546 in the 1975 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 Bathurst. 809 00:39:13,185 --> 00:39:17,298 He managed to win the grand slam. 810 00:39:17,322 --> 00:39:20,034 Which I'm sure helped Holden 811 00:39:20,058 --> 00:39:23,004 sell quite a few of those cars. 812 00:39:23,028 --> 00:39:25,640 Peter was very big on vindication 813 00:39:25,664 --> 00:39:28,810 very big on "I'll show you bastards" 814 00:39:28,834 --> 00:39:32,513 and that was the essence of being a great competitor. 815 00:39:32,537 --> 00:39:34,816 It reminded Holden Brock 816 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,618 was a very merchandisable sort of representative 817 00:39:37,642 --> 00:39:39,454 for the Holden product 818 00:39:39,478 --> 00:39:42,056 because it meant he'd won two Bathursts 819 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,092 and was sort of up on a par 820 00:39:44,116 --> 00:39:47,028 with... with Moffat. 821 00:39:47,052 --> 00:39:49,297 And a few of them down there were thinking, 822 00:39:49,321 --> 00:39:52,600 "Why isn't he still with the race team?" 823 00:39:52,624 --> 00:39:54,502 I was beginning to feel that Bathurst 824 00:39:54,526 --> 00:39:57,260 and I had a very, very special relationship. 825 00:40:12,144 --> 00:40:13,721 You might ask, what is the caper? 826 00:40:13,745 --> 00:40:14,922 What's the similarity between 827 00:40:14,946 --> 00:40:16,157 driving a car on the race track 828 00:40:16,181 --> 00:40:17,925 and driving a car on the road? 829 00:40:17,949 --> 00:40:20,094 I remember it like it was yesterday. 830 00:40:20,118 --> 00:40:22,597 He so desperately wanted to be famous. 831 00:40:22,621 --> 00:40:25,800 He really wanted to be loved and acknowledged 832 00:40:25,824 --> 00:40:29,837 and, and, and so how can we do that? 833 00:40:29,861 --> 00:40:32,407 And I said to Peter 834 00:40:32,431 --> 00:40:34,942 "You know, I reckon you should be 835 00:40:34,966 --> 00:40:37,245 a spokesperson for road safety 836 00:40:37,269 --> 00:40:40,214 because you're such a brilliant driver." 837 00:40:40,238 --> 00:40:44,118 Cars and driving. They're part of the Australian way of life. 838 00:40:44,142 --> 00:40:46,621 I said, "Maybe you could even get .05" 839 00:40:46,645 --> 00:40:48,589 as a number." 840 00:40:48,613 --> 00:40:50,324 They were looking for somebody 841 00:40:50,348 --> 00:40:54,429 to publicize his involvement in a road safety campaign 842 00:40:54,453 --> 00:40:57,832 promoting the ".05 drink drive." 843 00:40:57,856 --> 00:40:59,333 You going to be hanging around for a couple more? 844 00:40:59,357 --> 00:41:00,568 We might as well have another one. 845 00:41:00,592 --> 00:41:02,203 - No, mate. - We're all having one. 846 00:41:02,227 --> 00:41:03,771 No, there's no way known you can actually negotiate the traffic, 847 00:41:03,795 --> 00:41:05,440 the trams and what have you 848 00:41:05,464 --> 00:41:08,498 with a few too many inks in the head, really, so I'm going. 849 00:41:10,235 --> 00:41:14,615 By the time the .05 had actually come out onto the car 850 00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:16,818 our marriage was over. 851 00:41:16,842 --> 00:41:19,353 And I watched this man just get on with this life 852 00:41:19,377 --> 00:41:22,423 like nothing had happened. 853 00:41:22,447 --> 00:41:26,160 The .05 campaign helped to put Peter back in 854 00:41:26,184 --> 00:41:30,331 good faith with his public after all the dramas of '74. 855 00:41:30,355 --> 00:41:32,233 I think the magazine that I was writing for 856 00:41:32,257 --> 00:41:34,168 dubbed him "Super Brock." 857 00:41:34,192 --> 00:41:36,003 And he looked the part 858 00:41:36,027 --> 00:41:38,606 and he could switch from one persona to the other 859 00:41:38,630 --> 00:41:43,411 depending on where he was and what he was on about. 860 00:41:43,435 --> 00:41:45,112 You know, it's very important to have the right attitude 861 00:41:45,136 --> 00:41:46,781 if you drive a car like this. 862 00:41:46,805 --> 00:41:48,182 You've got to blank everything out of your mind. 863 00:41:48,206 --> 00:41:49,951 No hassles, no dramas. 864 00:41:49,975 --> 00:41:53,921 Hop in a car like this and just drive it properly the whole way. 865 00:41:53,945 --> 00:41:56,390 It was a natural fit from a marketing point of view 866 00:41:56,414 --> 00:41:58,125 for a drink-drive campaign 867 00:41:58,149 --> 00:42:01,095 to recruit the best-known driver in the country. 868 00:42:01,119 --> 00:42:02,597 He was super clean. 869 00:42:02,621 --> 00:42:05,600 I can only speculate that one and one made two 870 00:42:05,624 --> 00:42:07,168 or in this case .05 871 00:42:07,192 --> 00:42:10,238 for the people at George Patterson. 872 00:42:10,262 --> 00:42:13,140 His life was so alien to mine 873 00:42:13,164 --> 00:42:16,577 but there was this just a comfortable 874 00:42:16,601 --> 00:42:19,514 absolute trusting, amazing friendship, 875 00:42:19,538 --> 00:42:21,983 a bond that was very powerful. 876 00:42:22,007 --> 00:42:23,918 And I guess it wasn't until he told me 877 00:42:23,942 --> 00:42:26,587 how he really felt about me that I even allowed myself, 878 00:42:26,611 --> 00:42:27,722 you know, because I was married. 879 00:42:27,746 --> 00:42:28,756 I was brought up to believe that 880 00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:30,391 you make marriage work. 881 00:42:30,415 --> 00:42:33,494 I couldn't see somebody living a life like he was 882 00:42:33,518 --> 00:42:38,099 to take on a country girl, with a six-month-old child. 883 00:42:38,123 --> 00:42:39,800 He took me completely by surprise 884 00:42:39,824 --> 00:42:42,125 and was particularly persuasive. 885 00:42:48,633 --> 00:42:50,745 He said to me, he said, "This is going to be fantastic." 886 00:42:50,769 --> 00:42:53,014 And I said, "Why is that? I certainly hope so." And he said 887 00:42:53,038 --> 00:42:55,416 "Well, I'll take care of all the big things, Bevvo," 888 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,119 "and you can take care of the small things" 889 00:42:58,143 --> 00:42:59,453 God bless him. 890 00:42:59,477 --> 00:43:01,222 So I said to him, "What's the big things?" 891 00:43:01,246 --> 00:43:03,090 and he said, "Well, Bevvo." He said, "I'll do the driving, 892 00:43:03,114 --> 00:43:06,127 I'll earn the money and I'll take care of the media." 893 00:43:06,151 --> 00:43:07,695 And I said, "Just out of curiosity, 894 00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,230 what are the small things?" He said, 895 00:43:09,254 --> 00:43:10,898 "Well, you can look after me, 896 00:43:10,922 --> 00:43:12,633 run the property, raise the kids." 897 00:43:12,657 --> 00:43:14,302 "I don't like dealing with lawyers 898 00:43:14,326 --> 00:43:16,003 and I don't like, you know, bank managers." 899 00:43:16,027 --> 00:43:18,439 "You can take care of all those things." 900 00:43:18,463 --> 00:43:20,308 And it turned out that way. 901 00:43:20,332 --> 00:43:22,265 We were a good team. 902 00:43:28,974 --> 00:43:32,954 Allan Moffat had tremendous backing from Ford 903 00:43:32,978 --> 00:43:35,878 with his Moffat Ford Dealers Team. 904 00:43:44,823 --> 00:43:48,169 Down the straight they go, car one, car two. 905 00:43:48,193 --> 00:43:50,771 An absolute demonstration 906 00:43:50,795 --> 00:43:53,441 of the trust between Ford here 907 00:43:53,465 --> 00:43:55,409 and the Allan Moffat Dealer Team 908 00:43:55,433 --> 00:43:57,345 a scene we've never seen before. 909 00:43:57,369 --> 00:43:59,213 That was the one that got away. 910 00:43:59,237 --> 00:44:03,351 Peter spun, I think, a couple of times early on in the race. 911 00:44:03,375 --> 00:44:05,786 And Moffat from the outside will sweep around 912 00:44:05,810 --> 00:44:07,922 and take the chequered flag first 913 00:44:07,946 --> 00:44:09,924 for victory in the 1977... 914 00:44:09,948 --> 00:44:11,959 Falcons were just too good. 915 00:44:11,983 --> 00:44:15,796 They won just about every race they did. 916 00:44:15,820 --> 00:44:18,165 Holden were getting belted every weekend 917 00:44:18,189 --> 00:44:20,001 because they were putting all this money in 918 00:44:20,025 --> 00:44:22,125 and Ford were making them look silly. 919 00:44:25,330 --> 00:44:27,742 No car company can put up with that. 920 00:44:27,766 --> 00:44:30,667 Bathurst was a very important part of the marketing. 921 00:44:36,941 --> 00:44:39,153 Holden came calling. 922 00:44:39,177 --> 00:44:42,423 It's pole position car, Peter Brock, 05... 923 00:44:42,447 --> 00:44:46,560 1978 was the return of the prodigal son. 924 00:44:46,584 --> 00:44:48,929 After three years away, they could see that 925 00:44:48,953 --> 00:44:52,500 Peter's popularity was greater than ever. 926 00:44:52,524 --> 00:44:55,703 Well, he was the perfect man to front this revival 927 00:44:55,727 --> 00:44:59,040 of Holden's race fortunes. 928 00:44:59,064 --> 00:45:00,708 It was a massive positive stroke 929 00:45:00,732 --> 00:45:02,832 for General Motors. He was back in the fold. 930 00:45:04,536 --> 00:45:06,180 Bathurst was the highlight of the year. 931 00:45:06,204 --> 00:45:08,616 It was what everything else built up to. 932 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,852 If you could beat the mountain, if you could win there 933 00:45:11,876 --> 00:45:14,355 everything else paled to insignificance. 934 00:45:14,379 --> 00:45:17,358 You look very relaxed and confident, Peter. 935 00:45:17,382 --> 00:45:19,026 Oh, it's the outward appearances, of course. 936 00:45:19,050 --> 00:45:22,029 This is Hardie-Ferodo 1000 and it's a big event. 937 00:45:22,053 --> 00:45:23,397 How much does the race mean to you? 938 00:45:23,421 --> 00:45:24,999 Oh, it's the event for the year. 939 00:45:25,023 --> 00:45:27,768 Harry Firth was retiring 940 00:45:27,792 --> 00:45:30,705 or Holden was suggesting that he should retire. 941 00:45:30,729 --> 00:45:34,442 They set up a new team with John Sheppard at the helm. 942 00:45:34,466 --> 00:45:36,143 So it was very important for them 943 00:45:36,167 --> 00:45:38,345 to turn their fortunes around on the track 944 00:45:38,369 --> 00:45:41,304 in order to protect their fortunes in the showroom. 945 00:45:43,007 --> 00:45:45,319 Standby Australia for the start 946 00:45:45,343 --> 00:45:49,256 of the 1978 Hardie-Ferodo 1000. 947 00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,425 I really had to prove myself 948 00:45:51,449 --> 00:45:53,649 but I had to earn my stripes, I can tell you. 949 00:46:05,396 --> 00:46:07,708 When those red and white cars were there, man, 950 00:46:07,732 --> 00:46:09,643 you knew that was a serious race 951 00:46:09,667 --> 00:46:12,401 and they really were just iconic. 952 00:46:21,780 --> 00:46:23,190 Think it was just the era 953 00:46:23,214 --> 00:46:25,092 where I really started to engage. 954 00:46:25,116 --> 00:46:28,395 It's the Torana, it's the A9X Torana, like 955 00:46:28,419 --> 00:46:31,165 just basically one of the best cars ever made on the planet. 956 00:46:31,189 --> 00:46:33,400 It was the classic Marlboro livery. 957 00:46:33,424 --> 00:46:35,236 It's probably one of the best-looking race cars 958 00:46:35,260 --> 00:46:37,827 to ever have graced our race tracks. 959 00:46:40,999 --> 00:46:43,410 Holden was just immediately back on top 960 00:46:43,434 --> 00:46:45,434 and Brock was the name. 961 00:46:47,806 --> 00:46:50,584 The winner of this year's Hardie-Ferodo, 962 00:46:50,608 --> 00:46:53,109 for the third time for Peter Brock. 963 00:47:01,753 --> 00:47:05,232 We had an agreement that in the build up to Bathurst 964 00:47:05,256 --> 00:47:08,402 and at Bathurst itself would ever any issue be raised 965 00:47:08,426 --> 00:47:09,770 that would bring him stress 966 00:47:09,794 --> 00:47:11,772 we would take care of between myself 967 00:47:11,796 --> 00:47:13,741 and the guys in the team 968 00:47:13,765 --> 00:47:16,310 all the stressful issues, so that he could just focus 969 00:47:16,334 --> 00:47:19,380 on doing what he needed to do. 970 00:47:19,404 --> 00:47:23,951 I had found out I was pregnant with our first child 971 00:47:23,975 --> 00:47:25,920 but because we had so much on the plate, 972 00:47:25,944 --> 00:47:27,755 I wasn't going to tell him because I didn't want to 973 00:47:27,779 --> 00:47:29,657 distract him, because the agreement was 974 00:47:29,681 --> 00:47:31,792 that we would never shift anything off the focus 975 00:47:31,816 --> 00:47:34,161 of what needed to be focused on. 976 00:47:34,185 --> 00:47:35,996 The emotional tension, 977 00:47:36,020 --> 00:47:38,833 the demands on your time physically 978 00:47:38,857 --> 00:47:44,104 it is an absolute frantic, controlled area of chaos, 979 00:47:44,128 --> 00:47:46,462 uh, with everything building up to the big day. 980 00:48:06,117 --> 00:48:08,295 He started the race and led every single lap 981 00:48:08,319 --> 00:48:09,685 of the race. 982 00:48:19,597 --> 00:48:22,409 ¶ He was selling postcards from a paper stand ¶ 983 00:48:22,433 --> 00:48:24,845 ¶ The whiskey bottle in his withered hand ¶ 984 00:48:24,869 --> 00:48:28,849 ¶ Put his finger on a photo from an old magazine ¶ 985 00:48:28,873 --> 00:48:32,253 He dreamt his races in the weeks before they happened. 986 00:48:32,277 --> 00:48:35,155 He drove his races in his sleep. 987 00:48:35,179 --> 00:48:36,957 I would know where he was on the circuit 988 00:48:36,981 --> 00:48:38,826 from where he was leaning, where he was braking. 989 00:48:38,850 --> 00:48:40,794 ¶ Shut him up in solitary third degree ¶ 990 00:48:40,818 --> 00:48:44,164 ¶ Take a long line ¶ 991 00:48:44,188 --> 00:48:47,201 Peter Brock is four laps ahead. 992 00:48:47,225 --> 00:48:48,569 Couple of laps from the end 993 00:48:48,593 --> 00:48:50,004 John Sheppard is talking 994 00:48:50,028 --> 00:48:51,739 to Peter on the radio saying 995 00:48:51,763 --> 00:48:55,242 "Okay, Peter, you've got a very comfortable lead here." 996 00:48:55,266 --> 00:48:57,578 "So just take it easy and just get the car" 997 00:48:57,602 --> 00:48:59,535 "across the finish line." 998 00:49:01,639 --> 00:49:03,384 Typical driving style. 999 00:49:03,408 --> 00:49:05,653 Driving around waving to everybody in the crowd 1000 00:49:05,677 --> 00:49:07,388 and call on the radio and say, 1001 00:49:07,412 --> 00:49:10,157 "Hey, guys, there's a bird up here with her tits out." 1002 00:49:10,181 --> 00:49:12,559 ¶ Take a long line ¶ 1003 00:49:12,583 --> 00:49:14,650 ¶ Reel him in ¶ 1004 00:49:21,626 --> 00:49:23,704 Things do go wrong. Look at Allan Moffat. 1005 00:49:23,728 --> 00:49:25,372 He was worrying about whether I'd last 1006 00:49:25,396 --> 00:49:27,141 and yet he was the one to fall. 1007 00:49:27,165 --> 00:49:28,642 His car had broken down. 1008 00:49:28,666 --> 00:49:30,778 I knew he was on that, doing the TV commentary 1009 00:49:30,802 --> 00:49:32,313 and Moffat would be saying 1010 00:49:32,337 --> 00:49:33,981 "Peter will hear every little squeak" 1011 00:49:34,005 --> 00:49:35,783 "and rattle and he'll be going slow now" 1012 00:49:35,807 --> 00:49:37,851 "just to make sure he gets over the hill," you know. 1013 00:49:37,875 --> 00:49:40,387 I thought, "I'll show him." 1014 00:49:40,411 --> 00:49:45,225 First man ever to lead the race from go to whoa. 1015 00:49:45,249 --> 00:49:47,194 The crowd up there went berserk. 1016 00:49:47,218 --> 00:49:48,762 Down the pitch you could hear them screaming 1017 00:49:48,786 --> 00:49:49,797 up at McPhillamy Park. 1018 00:49:49,821 --> 00:49:51,031 Here he comes. 1019 00:49:51,055 --> 00:49:55,336 Listen to the applause, the accolades 1020 00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,906 for a man among when it comes to race car drivers. 1021 00:49:58,930 --> 00:50:00,463 Still tidy. 1022 00:50:03,668 --> 00:50:06,513 So I really went for it and the last lap 1023 00:50:06,537 --> 00:50:08,782 uh, I actually set the lap record 1024 00:50:08,806 --> 00:50:10,718 purely just to show to people that, 1025 00:50:10,742 --> 00:50:12,386 "Hey, this car's running strong." 1026 00:50:12,410 --> 00:50:14,221 ¶ Take a long line ¶ 1027 00:50:14,245 --> 00:50:20,794 ¶ Take a long line ¶¶ 1028 00:50:20,818 --> 00:50:22,730 The winner of this year's Hardie-Ferodo 1029 00:50:22,754 --> 00:50:25,833 and now he has four victories in Australia's greatest race. 1030 00:50:25,857 --> 00:50:27,634 He won the race by six laps 1031 00:50:27,658 --> 00:50:29,503 and still broke the lap record on the last lap. 1032 00:50:29,527 --> 00:50:32,806 Like, he was just in his own little world, in the zone. 1033 00:50:32,830 --> 00:50:35,943 He was a guy who loved to drive cars fast and he did it well. 1034 00:50:35,967 --> 00:50:37,978 That was, that was his happy place. 1035 00:50:38,002 --> 00:50:39,380 People thought he was being reckless, 1036 00:50:39,404 --> 00:50:41,815 driving that last lap so fast. 1037 00:50:41,839 --> 00:50:43,851 To do it in such a convincing style, you know, 1038 00:50:43,875 --> 00:50:45,452 that's... that's no mean feat. 1039 00:50:45,476 --> 00:50:47,988 I don't think you can really top that one. 1040 00:50:48,012 --> 00:50:49,790 It just worked beautifully 1041 00:50:49,814 --> 00:50:53,315 and it's one of those weekends which is a race driver's dream. 1042 00:50:55,586 --> 00:50:59,133 People say to me what was the best of his victories 1043 00:50:59,157 --> 00:51:03,103 and to me, they all meld in together because 1044 00:51:03,127 --> 00:51:06,040 nothing was ever overlooked 1045 00:51:06,064 --> 00:51:08,842 in pursuit of that ultimate chequered flag 1046 00:51:08,866 --> 00:51:10,611 at the end of the race. 1047 00:51:18,176 --> 00:51:20,954 When people ask me what is my most 1048 00:51:20,978 --> 00:51:25,325 indelibly imprinted memory of motor sport 1049 00:51:25,349 --> 00:51:27,094 it is, without any shadow of doubt 1050 00:51:27,118 --> 00:51:31,198 the '79 Repco Reliability Around Australia Trial. 1051 00:51:31,222 --> 00:51:34,368 It was the single-most difficult, challenging 1052 00:51:34,392 --> 00:51:37,438 motoring event you could imagine. 1053 00:51:37,462 --> 00:51:39,239 He was in there, boots and all. 1054 00:51:39,263 --> 00:51:41,308 Peter Brock and the Commodore started that race 1055 00:51:41,332 --> 00:51:44,011 as underdogs. 1056 00:51:44,035 --> 00:51:45,946 In fact, it was him and George Sheppard 1057 00:51:45,970 --> 00:51:48,415 who got Holden to say we could launch 1058 00:51:48,439 --> 00:51:50,517 this new Commodore to the public market 1059 00:51:50,541 --> 00:51:52,475 this would be the perfect venue to do it. 1060 00:51:54,078 --> 00:51:56,223 These roads aren't meant for cars 1061 00:51:56,247 --> 00:51:57,958 but the Holden Commodore was engineered 1062 00:51:57,982 --> 00:51:59,827 to a level of toughness 1063 00:51:59,851 --> 00:52:02,384 that had never been seen on an Australian car before. 1064 00:52:10,027 --> 00:52:12,739 It was an epic event, without a doubt. 1065 00:52:12,763 --> 00:52:14,741 It's one of those disciplines that, you know is 1066 00:52:14,765 --> 00:52:17,377 particularly demanding on drivers 1067 00:52:17,401 --> 00:52:19,746 because you don't have, you know 1068 00:52:19,770 --> 00:52:21,715 tens or hundreds of laps to get it right. 1069 00:52:21,739 --> 00:52:23,383 You have to get it right the first time 1070 00:52:23,407 --> 00:52:26,653 and the only time you go over that piece of road. 1071 00:52:26,677 --> 00:52:28,589 Driving by the seat of your pants is something that 1072 00:52:28,613 --> 00:52:30,891 PB did exceptionally well. 1073 00:52:30,915 --> 00:52:33,694 And the cars were really very, very standard, 1074 00:52:33,718 --> 00:52:35,496 very simple cars and were you know, 1075 00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,498 pretty prone to breaking when they went over some 1076 00:52:37,522 --> 00:52:39,455 of the most punishing roads in the country. 1077 00:52:42,026 --> 00:52:45,572 What Peter Brock did with the Repco Round Australia Rally 1078 00:52:45,596 --> 00:52:47,574 must have done a lot to keep people 1079 00:52:47,598 --> 00:52:50,043 interested in buying this car 1080 00:52:50,067 --> 00:52:53,013 which was perceived to be at a size disadvantage 1081 00:52:53,037 --> 00:52:55,315 for the Ford Falcon. 1082 00:52:55,339 --> 00:52:59,586 I'm just so focused on doing it purely on adrenaline. 1083 00:52:59,610 --> 00:53:01,922 I had the sniff of victory around about Darwin 1084 00:53:01,946 --> 00:53:04,892 and I thought, "Oh, I can win this." 1085 00:53:04,916 --> 00:53:08,762 I'd had half a lap of Australia to sort of figure it out. 1086 00:53:08,786 --> 00:53:11,098 Commodores have been challenged by Ford 1087 00:53:11,122 --> 00:53:13,333 who lie first, fourth and fifth, 1088 00:53:13,357 --> 00:53:15,491 separated by Bell and Brock. 1089 00:53:18,996 --> 00:53:20,908 Sunday, August 19th 1090 00:53:20,932 --> 00:53:24,011 and the three Commodores head the field with a police escort 1091 00:53:24,035 --> 00:53:26,413 for the trip to the Melbourne Showgrounds. 1092 00:53:26,437 --> 00:53:29,616 The cars finished one, two, three outright. 1093 00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:32,653 Fourteen days, 21,000 kilometers. 1094 00:53:32,677 --> 00:53:37,324 I was, I was just a skeleton at the end of that. 1095 00:53:37,348 --> 00:53:39,560 He was already skinny when he left home 1096 00:53:39,584 --> 00:53:43,797 to get started. He was gaunt when he got back. 1097 00:53:43,821 --> 00:53:45,799 He was blessed as well. He had a lot of luck 1098 00:53:45,823 --> 00:53:49,002 so, you know, Lady Luck smiled on him 1099 00:53:49,026 --> 00:53:51,238 for a very long period of time. 1100 00:53:51,262 --> 00:53:54,007 He, he got away with a lotta stuff. 1101 00:53:54,031 --> 00:53:57,110 That's when the Peter Perfect era really began. 1102 00:53:57,134 --> 00:53:58,946 Peter, does this win mean more to you 1103 00:53:58,970 --> 00:54:01,181 than any other win in your motorsport career? 1104 00:54:01,205 --> 00:54:03,984 Probably similar to first time at Bathurst. 1105 00:54:04,008 --> 00:54:06,119 Because he went and beat the best rally drivers 1106 00:54:06,143 --> 00:54:08,622 in the world in a one, two, three victory 1107 00:54:08,646 --> 00:54:10,691 that nobody ever expected could happen. 1108 00:54:10,715 --> 00:54:14,361 He showed them that he wasn't just there for the media. 1109 00:54:14,385 --> 00:54:15,896 You know, I had to tell him also 1110 00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:17,698 that he was going to become a father. 1111 00:54:17,722 --> 00:54:21,023 There were so many layers to this and what an amazing year. 1112 00:54:27,965 --> 00:54:29,743 I had no 1113 00:54:29,767 --> 00:54:33,513 comprehension of what it would mean to step into a life 1114 00:54:33,537 --> 00:54:34,948 where you lived in the limelight, 1115 00:54:34,972 --> 00:54:36,950 where you had to deal with media 1116 00:54:36,974 --> 00:54:40,276 and all the stresses that involved in Peter's life. 1117 00:54:43,147 --> 00:54:45,892 I think she had a way of putting things that 1118 00:54:45,916 --> 00:54:47,794 maybe did bring him down to earth a little bit 1119 00:54:47,818 --> 00:54:49,029 and make him feel comfortable 1120 00:54:49,053 --> 00:54:50,797 with what was going on around him. 1121 00:54:50,821 --> 00:54:52,766 Mum was there in the pits doing timing. 1122 00:54:52,790 --> 00:54:55,902 Mum was there sewing new badges to dad's uniform. 1123 00:54:55,926 --> 00:54:59,506 She was making sure dad ate. She was feeding everyone else. 1124 00:54:59,530 --> 00:55:02,175 I, I don't know how they... 1125 00:55:02,199 --> 00:55:05,212 Most people get paid a lot of money to do what my mum did. 1126 00:55:05,236 --> 00:55:07,347 She didn't get anything. 1127 00:55:07,371 --> 00:55:10,150 There was no doubt that Bevvo, as he'd call her, 1128 00:55:10,174 --> 00:55:14,388 was the rock and basically called the shots. 1129 00:55:14,412 --> 00:55:16,323 If you weren't on side with Bevvo 1130 00:55:16,347 --> 00:55:20,049 well then you weren't getting any access to the main man. 1131 00:55:21,252 --> 00:55:23,297 I suddenly discovered 1132 00:55:23,321 --> 00:55:26,366 that men have ownership 1133 00:55:26,390 --> 00:55:28,135 of somebody like Peter. 1134 00:55:28,159 --> 00:55:29,803 And so there were a few of them 1135 00:55:29,827 --> 00:55:32,328 who weren't happy with me coming on the scene. 1136 00:55:41,739 --> 00:55:44,651 Peter was at the peak of his powers. 1137 00:55:44,675 --> 00:55:48,155 He was the key to the Marlboro Holden Dealer Team. 1138 00:55:48,179 --> 00:55:50,490 The Holden Dealers were clamoring out 1139 00:55:50,514 --> 00:55:52,626 for cars with a bit of the Brock magic 1140 00:55:52,650 --> 00:55:54,628 and maybe the Brock name on them. 1141 00:55:54,652 --> 00:55:56,363 We went to a number of dealers. 1142 00:55:56,387 --> 00:55:58,832 I put it to them about helping out, funding the team, 1143 00:55:58,856 --> 00:56:00,767 making it truly a dealer team. 1144 00:56:00,791 --> 00:56:03,770 The dealers agreed to finance the team 1145 00:56:03,794 --> 00:56:07,441 on the basis that Peter start a special vehicles operation 1146 00:56:07,465 --> 00:56:09,943 and use his racing knowledge and experience 1147 00:56:09,967 --> 00:56:12,312 to develop some cars for the road 1148 00:56:12,336 --> 00:56:15,182 that would appeal to the punters. 1149 00:56:15,206 --> 00:56:18,318 I began HDT Special Vehicles. 1150 00:56:18,342 --> 00:56:21,521 We had the ability to design with what we want. 1151 00:56:21,545 --> 00:56:23,357 A lot of that was obviously Peter, 1152 00:56:23,381 --> 00:56:25,559 what he wanted in the cars 1153 00:56:25,583 --> 00:56:27,828 to make that standard road car 1154 00:56:27,852 --> 00:56:29,896 and just by altering some of the componentry 1155 00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,332 to make it into a faster, 1156 00:56:32,356 --> 00:56:34,901 better handling and more durable car 1157 00:56:34,925 --> 00:56:37,104 which is exactly what it finished as. 1158 00:56:37,128 --> 00:56:39,573 It was based on the VC Commodore 1159 00:56:39,597 --> 00:56:41,908 using the five-liter engine. 1160 00:56:41,932 --> 00:56:43,777 So there was a different inlet manifold 1161 00:56:43,801 --> 00:56:45,712 bigger valve cylinder heads 1162 00:56:45,736 --> 00:56:48,248 and a few other things that were on these cars 1163 00:56:48,272 --> 00:56:50,384 that we couldn't race until these cars 1164 00:56:50,408 --> 00:56:52,119 were effectively sold or at least delivered 1165 00:56:52,143 --> 00:56:53,820 to the dealers. 1166 00:56:53,844 --> 00:56:55,422 So there was a relatively short space of time 1167 00:56:55,446 --> 00:56:57,557 that we needed to produce these 500 cars 1168 00:56:57,581 --> 00:56:59,226 get them out to the dealers 1169 00:56:59,250 --> 00:57:00,827 so that the cylinder heads could be used 1170 00:57:00,851 --> 00:57:02,729 at the next Bathurst. 1171 00:57:02,753 --> 00:57:04,898 We had no idea what to do, really 1172 00:57:04,922 --> 00:57:09,102 as far as to build a whole run of cars all with the same spec. 1173 00:57:09,126 --> 00:57:11,171 We were young and we're just into it 1174 00:57:11,195 --> 00:57:14,174 and no one had told us we didn't know how to do it. 1175 00:57:14,198 --> 00:57:15,942 I never had any doubts. I... 1176 00:57:15,966 --> 00:57:18,011 You know, we just dived in the deep end 1177 00:57:18,035 --> 00:57:20,447 and or as he said, "You bite off more than you can chew" 1178 00:57:20,471 --> 00:57:21,615 "and you just chew like hell." 1179 00:57:21,639 --> 00:57:23,617 So he just did it. 1180 00:57:23,641 --> 00:57:25,752 It was just crazy because no one had done 1181 00:57:25,776 --> 00:57:27,721 that sort of thing before and I think 1182 00:57:27,745 --> 00:57:30,590 we hear a lot now the term disruptive 1183 00:57:30,614 --> 00:57:32,392 in marketing or advertising. 1184 00:57:32,416 --> 00:57:35,195 Peter was a disruptor years and years and years 1185 00:57:35,219 --> 00:57:37,731 ahead of his time. 1186 00:57:37,755 --> 00:57:40,734 His business was formed on a handshake with General Motors. 1187 00:57:40,758 --> 00:57:43,036 It, it was a license to print money for him. 1188 00:57:43,060 --> 00:57:44,905 It was a goldmine. 1189 00:57:44,929 --> 00:57:47,641 Every kid, every middle-aged bloke 1190 00:57:47,665 --> 00:57:49,142 with a blood pressure problem 1191 00:57:49,166 --> 00:57:51,812 wanted a car like Brocky's. 1192 00:57:51,836 --> 00:57:53,613 Everybody was making dough. 1193 00:57:53,637 --> 00:57:55,849 The dealers loved it, Holden loved it 1194 00:57:55,873 --> 00:57:59,019 because there was a huge halo effect from the racing team 1195 00:57:59,043 --> 00:58:02,456 and I think Peter made quite a nice living out of it 1196 00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:04,791 and employed quite a few people. 1197 00:58:04,815 --> 00:58:07,761 It was as time went on the dealer input was so strong, 1198 00:58:07,785 --> 00:58:10,997 we realized we had to just keep going. 1199 00:58:11,021 --> 00:58:13,033 Well, it was the beginning of the best period of my life. 1200 00:58:13,057 --> 00:58:15,023 Absolutely loved it. 1201 00:58:19,663 --> 00:58:21,341 Australian touring car champion 1202 00:58:21,365 --> 00:58:24,845 last year's Bathurst winner, car 05 MHDT Commodore 1203 00:58:24,869 --> 00:58:27,647 a time of 221.815, Peter Brock, 1204 00:58:27,671 --> 00:58:30,350 and so to the front row of the grid. 1205 00:58:30,374 --> 00:58:32,953 Ford was back in the game 1206 00:58:32,977 --> 00:58:36,590 and they had a new star in Dick Johnson. 1207 00:58:36,614 --> 00:58:38,959 He was a pretty good privateer 1208 00:58:38,983 --> 00:58:41,027 and he put together a pretty good car. 1209 00:58:41,051 --> 00:58:43,230 No, Dick Johnson's better than you! 1210 00:58:43,254 --> 00:58:44,831 Well, that's a matter of opinion. 1211 00:58:44,855 --> 00:58:46,933 He's got a faster car than you, I reckon. 1212 00:58:46,957 --> 00:58:48,190 Not for long. 1213 00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:51,738 The guy that I'm worried about more than anyone 1214 00:58:51,762 --> 00:58:54,107 would be Peter Brock because, he's... 1215 00:58:54,131 --> 00:58:56,176 Well, he's saying he's worried about you. 1216 00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:57,410 Well... 1217 00:58:57,434 --> 00:58:58,578 It was virtually the start 1218 00:58:58,602 --> 00:59:01,214 of my career, to a point. 1219 00:59:01,238 --> 00:59:03,016 And Johnson has got the start 1220 00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:04,985 and it's a slow start by Kevin Bartlett in the Camaro... 1221 00:59:05,009 --> 00:59:09,022 We went there with high hopes of having a good result 1222 00:59:09,046 --> 00:59:10,924 and we were sort of on track for that. 1223 00:59:10,948 --> 00:59:13,782 I was second on the grid to Kevin Bartlett. 1224 00:59:21,859 --> 00:59:25,005 Brocky, his car was really not quick enough 1225 00:59:25,029 --> 00:59:28,108 and we were sort of battling away for the first 1226 00:59:28,132 --> 00:59:29,843 uh, ten laps or so. 1227 00:59:29,867 --> 00:59:32,312 He was driving the car extremely hard, 1228 00:59:32,336 --> 00:59:34,603 which left me cruising away out in front. 1229 00:59:36,373 --> 00:59:38,985 Dick Johnson, but he has gone into the fence. 1230 00:59:39,009 --> 00:59:40,520 Dick Johnson, the leader, he's broken 1231 00:59:40,544 --> 00:59:42,122 the left-hand front suspension. 1232 00:59:42,146 --> 00:59:44,591 You can see by the way the car is leaning down. 1233 00:59:44,615 --> 00:59:47,082 And that changed the whole, uh, the whole... 1234 00:59:48,419 --> 00:59:51,097 I suppose the way the race ended up. 1235 00:59:51,121 --> 00:59:53,900 There was a rock. 1236 00:59:53,924 --> 00:59:57,304 It was, it was the size of 1237 00:59:57,328 --> 00:59:59,973 at least an overnight bag 1238 00:59:59,997 --> 01:00:01,575 and it was right on line. 1239 01:00:01,599 --> 01:00:03,510 But one of Peter's comments was 1240 01:00:03,534 --> 01:00:05,745 "The rock wasn't that big, and I just drove around it." 1241 01:00:05,769 --> 01:00:08,949 So it was a little... he was a little bit dismissive 1242 01:00:08,973 --> 01:00:10,906 of the whole rock theory. 1243 01:00:13,077 --> 01:00:14,521 I know you make your own luck 1244 01:00:14,545 --> 01:00:16,878 but, uh, certainly a lot of it went his way. 1245 01:00:18,616 --> 01:00:21,428 When he won the '78, '79, '80 1246 01:00:21,452 --> 01:00:24,364 he had actually achieved the pinnacle 1247 01:00:24,388 --> 01:00:27,322 of being the best driver at Bathurst in Australia. 1248 01:00:30,361 --> 01:00:33,139 Brock became a brand unto himself. 1249 01:00:33,163 --> 01:00:36,176 He just carried Holden along with him. 1250 01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:38,979 The car itself became an advertising billboard 1251 01:00:39,003 --> 01:00:43,049 even more so once the camera went into the car. 1252 01:00:43,073 --> 01:00:45,018 Small and light 1253 01:00:45,042 --> 01:00:47,420 yet able to withstand the enormous stresses that 1254 01:00:47,444 --> 01:00:50,023 will be fed into the Marlboro Holden Dealer Team Commodore 1255 01:00:50,047 --> 01:00:51,591 of Peter Brock. 1256 01:00:51,615 --> 01:00:54,094 2-18 I would think to put him on pole position. 1257 01:00:54,118 --> 01:00:55,962 There's our race cam inside Brock's car. 1258 01:00:55,986 --> 01:00:57,564 Look at those hands on the wheel. 1259 01:00:57,588 --> 01:00:59,566 And I can remember, you know, sitting at home 1260 01:00:59,590 --> 01:01:01,501 when you first had that in-car vision 1261 01:01:01,525 --> 01:01:03,703 of what the driver did and how they did it 1262 01:01:03,727 --> 01:01:05,171 was really special. 1263 01:01:05,195 --> 01:01:06,973 This is one of the most treacherous parts 1264 01:01:06,997 --> 01:01:09,643 of the circuit. Oh, into the dirt on the side. 1265 01:01:09,667 --> 01:01:14,014 In-car cameras just took the whole game to the next level 1266 01:01:14,038 --> 01:01:16,916 and Peter had this beautiful ability 1267 01:01:16,940 --> 01:01:18,918 to be able to talk 1268 01:01:18,942 --> 01:01:21,421 to the camera to address the fans at home 1269 01:01:21,445 --> 01:01:25,225 to talk to the commentators as he raced around the track. 1270 01:01:25,249 --> 01:01:28,428 But the main thing is to give your car a very easy time 1271 01:01:28,452 --> 01:01:30,630 but as you can see, you can still go fast. 1272 01:01:30,654 --> 01:01:32,298 Now, I brake very late here. 1273 01:01:32,322 --> 01:01:33,833 There's a lot of time to be made up just here. 1274 01:01:33,857 --> 01:01:37,604 He was the biggest thing in Australia 1275 01:01:37,628 --> 01:01:39,795 that perhaps there'd ever been. 1276 01:01:44,735 --> 01:01:47,247 Sure, he likes a bit of the worship 1277 01:01:47,271 --> 01:01:48,415 that he gets from other people. 1278 01:01:48,439 --> 01:01:49,849 - He loves it. - Hero worship? 1279 01:01:49,873 --> 01:01:51,184 Yeah. Very much hero worship. 1280 01:01:51,208 --> 01:01:52,852 He's just great. He's beautiful. I just love him. 1281 01:01:52,876 --> 01:01:55,722 I think he's the most horniest guy around. 1282 01:01:55,746 --> 01:01:59,292 I think he's done great things for motorsport in Australia. 1283 01:01:59,316 --> 01:02:01,895 I love him so much. Okay, I just come here just to see him. 1284 01:02:01,919 --> 01:02:03,797 When it's over, whether they've won 1285 01:02:03,821 --> 01:02:05,999 whether they've lost, everybody likes to let their hair down 1286 01:02:06,023 --> 01:02:08,568 and relax, have a few beers and enjoy themselves. 1287 01:02:08,592 --> 01:02:10,437 Now, that is the time 1288 01:02:10,461 --> 01:02:12,739 where the girls at motor racing 1289 01:02:12,763 --> 01:02:14,441 really go for him. 1290 01:02:14,465 --> 01:02:16,609 To get him to bed, to get him 1291 01:02:16,633 --> 01:02:19,913 round the corner on his... they have no particular 1292 01:02:19,937 --> 01:02:22,671 qualms about where they get him, as long as they get him. 1293 01:02:26,443 --> 01:02:30,190 Peter Brock had huge charisma. 1294 01:02:30,214 --> 01:02:32,092 You know, I saw it many, many times. 1295 01:02:32,116 --> 01:02:35,328 He could turn the amp up to ten and he was irresistible. 1296 01:02:35,352 --> 01:02:37,330 I mean, women swooned. 1297 01:02:37,354 --> 01:02:39,287 Men just wanted to be like him. 1298 01:02:41,191 --> 01:02:43,937 It'd be fair to say that as time went along 1299 01:02:43,961 --> 01:02:46,706 he started believing his own publicity. 1300 01:02:46,730 --> 01:02:48,942 But he was king of the kids. 1301 01:02:48,966 --> 01:02:52,145 You brought Phil in as a driver for Bathurst 1302 01:02:52,169 --> 01:02:55,048 through a period of incredible success. 1303 01:02:55,072 --> 01:02:56,750 Lou and Phil 1304 01:02:56,774 --> 01:02:59,719 Peter felt that he needed to look after them, 1305 01:02:59,743 --> 01:03:01,988 create opportunities for them. 1306 01:03:02,012 --> 01:03:03,790 No matter what happened in their life, 1307 01:03:03,814 --> 01:03:05,225 no matter what stuff ups there were 1308 01:03:05,249 --> 01:03:06,793 he was always going to be there for them. 1309 01:03:06,817 --> 01:03:10,230 And so he gave them opportunities constantly 1310 01:03:10,254 --> 01:03:12,432 and sometimes they worked, sometimes they didn't. 1311 01:03:12,456 --> 01:03:15,902 There was always a bit of conflict because we... 1312 01:03:15,926 --> 01:03:17,237 you know, we were three brothers. 1313 01:03:17,261 --> 01:03:18,638 It's almost like that stuff 1314 01:03:18,662 --> 01:03:20,340 that happened when you were kids 1315 01:03:20,364 --> 01:03:22,330 never goes away. 1316 01:03:25,869 --> 01:03:28,348 '83, Peter asked me to run 1317 01:03:28,372 --> 01:03:32,051 the second car with John at Bathurst. 1318 01:03:32,075 --> 01:03:33,853 It was my first year running 1319 01:03:33,877 --> 01:03:35,755 the Holden Dealer Team of Brocky's. 1320 01:03:35,779 --> 01:03:40,560 I was the workshop manager and Peter's co-the driver. 1321 01:03:40,584 --> 01:03:42,629 You know, everything was going well 1322 01:03:42,653 --> 01:03:45,198 until I think it was lap sixteen 1323 01:03:45,222 --> 01:03:48,201 and Peter's come down the Conrod Straight 1324 01:03:48,225 --> 01:03:49,936 and the engine failed. 1325 01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:52,639 Hello, 05, Peter Brock is in the pits! 1326 01:03:52,663 --> 01:03:55,308 When Pete's car broke down 1327 01:03:55,332 --> 01:03:58,178 I knew straight away that he'd be in our car. 1328 01:03:58,202 --> 01:04:02,215 They pulled John in and put Peter in the car. 1329 01:04:02,239 --> 01:04:04,350 I handed the car over in second place. 1330 01:04:04,374 --> 01:04:06,019 It was looking good. 1331 01:04:06,043 --> 01:04:08,755 Peter chose to continue with Larry rather than myself, 1332 01:04:08,779 --> 01:04:11,191 and that annoyed me. 1333 01:04:11,215 --> 01:04:14,360 Larry was this pushy bugger who made sure that 1334 01:04:14,384 --> 01:04:17,197 he got his way and he got in the car. 1335 01:04:17,221 --> 01:04:19,165 When you take over someone's car 1336 01:04:19,189 --> 01:04:20,800 it's no longer their car. 1337 01:04:20,824 --> 01:04:23,102 They don't get to hop back in. 1338 01:04:23,126 --> 01:04:26,506 Here's Peter Brock now walking into the pit area. 1339 01:04:26,530 --> 01:04:27,941 To break the bad news to brother Phil. 1340 01:04:27,965 --> 01:04:30,009 - Do you think? - I think so. 1341 01:04:30,033 --> 01:04:31,511 It was Peter's team. 1342 01:04:31,535 --> 01:04:33,112 He could have stopped that at any time 1343 01:04:33,136 --> 01:04:35,415 and said, "No, no, no, Pin's gonna drive." 1344 01:04:35,439 --> 01:04:38,785 What was the bad decision 1345 01:04:38,809 --> 01:04:40,453 was putting Larry in the car. 1346 01:04:40,477 --> 01:04:43,122 He was the slowest of the four of us. 1347 01:04:43,146 --> 01:04:47,327 Oh, he's almost collected Perkins in car 25! 1348 01:04:47,351 --> 01:04:49,295 At the last stop, Peter gets back in the car 1349 01:04:49,319 --> 01:04:51,497 and they go and win the race. 1350 01:04:51,521 --> 01:04:53,032 Yes, he's done it. 1351 01:04:53,056 --> 01:04:55,368 He's put seven on the board, Peter Brock! 1352 01:04:55,392 --> 01:04:57,804 And I had a chance to win Bathurst and never did. 1353 01:04:57,828 --> 01:05:01,574 Peter Brock with the 1983 James Hardie 1000 1354 01:05:01,598 --> 01:05:03,743 at Mount Panorama, Bathurst. 1355 01:05:03,767 --> 01:05:08,615 I sometimes feel worse about it now than I did at the time. 1356 01:05:08,639 --> 01:05:11,740 You get judged on, in some ways, on things like that. 1357 01:05:13,944 --> 01:05:15,455 Peter didn't make that choice lightly 1358 01:05:15,479 --> 01:05:18,358 but there were bigger, wider responsibilities 1359 01:05:18,382 --> 01:05:19,893 and he had no choice. 1360 01:05:19,917 --> 01:05:21,127 Now Phil was obviously disappointed, 1361 01:05:21,151 --> 01:05:23,096 and everybody would understand that 1362 01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:24,564 but that's motor racing. 1363 01:05:24,588 --> 01:05:26,132 If it's your team, you've put up the money, 1364 01:05:26,156 --> 01:05:27,600 you've got everything together 1365 01:05:27,624 --> 01:05:29,769 you've prepared the cars, you take the risk 1366 01:05:29,793 --> 01:05:32,138 you take the responsibility, you make the decisions 1367 01:05:32,162 --> 01:05:34,062 and sometimes those decisions are not easy. 1368 01:05:42,639 --> 01:05:46,753 About three weeks later, I did a very stupid thing. 1369 01:05:46,777 --> 01:05:48,321 I... 1370 01:05:48,345 --> 01:05:50,490 had a few drinks and then 1371 01:05:50,514 --> 01:05:53,927 for some unknown reason, I drove home 1372 01:05:53,951 --> 01:05:57,397 and wrapped myself around a telephone pole 1373 01:05:57,421 --> 01:06:01,234 uh, and 1374 01:06:01,258 --> 01:06:03,836 was in a pretty bad way for 1375 01:06:03,860 --> 01:06:07,507 oh, a few months. 1376 01:06:07,531 --> 01:06:10,143 And kept trying to go back to work and I couldn't quite do it. 1377 01:06:10,167 --> 01:06:13,212 I'd get down and I'd last about an hour or two and just, 1378 01:06:13,236 --> 01:06:16,516 just couldn't handle it so then I'd just have to go home. 1379 01:06:16,540 --> 01:06:18,351 Then it was probably around about, I don't know 1380 01:06:18,375 --> 01:06:21,276 I think it was round about, uh, January or something, 1381 01:06:23,413 --> 01:06:25,992 Uh, Pete came out to see me one day 1382 01:06:26,016 --> 01:06:28,795 and, and sacked me. 1383 01:06:28,819 --> 01:06:32,320 And so I decided to leave Victoria. 1384 01:06:39,429 --> 01:06:42,108 I wasn't too happy with him. 1385 01:06:42,132 --> 01:06:44,010 You know, you've gotta understand that Peter 1386 01:06:44,034 --> 01:06:45,979 was running the 05 so he was the face 1387 01:06:46,003 --> 01:06:48,314 of the road safety campaign. 1388 01:06:48,338 --> 01:06:50,450 It was obvious to Peter that he 1389 01:06:50,474 --> 01:06:52,819 you know, to have co-drivers in his team 1390 01:06:52,843 --> 01:06:55,355 he had to have people who were totally focused. 1391 01:06:55,379 --> 01:06:57,223 All of those things that 1392 01:06:57,247 --> 01:07:01,928 were necessary to be involved as a face within the team. 1393 01:07:01,952 --> 01:07:04,786 I, I couldn't... 1394 01:07:06,156 --> 01:07:08,289 I couldn't tell people he'd sacked me. 1395 01:07:14,598 --> 01:07:17,532 You know, it was... 1396 01:07:20,404 --> 01:07:24,739 The guy was my idol, you know, and to... 1397 01:07:27,444 --> 01:07:30,612 I could never understand it and... yeah, anyway. 1398 01:07:39,456 --> 01:07:42,702 The Holden Dealer Team had decided we were going to go 1399 01:07:42,726 --> 01:07:44,570 and have a go at Le Mans 1400 01:07:44,594 --> 01:07:46,572 so we took the whole crew over 1401 01:07:46,596 --> 01:07:47,929 and we rented a Porsche. 1402 01:07:55,072 --> 01:07:57,417 Australia had just won the America's Cup. 1403 01:07:57,441 --> 01:07:59,407 We could do anything. 1404 01:08:01,011 --> 01:08:02,989 And Brocky, our man 1405 01:08:03,013 --> 01:08:04,924 he was gonna show the Europeans 1406 01:08:04,948 --> 01:08:07,026 just what he was made of. 1407 01:08:07,050 --> 01:08:10,496 But at that stage the bloke was what, 42? 1408 01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:14,333 And in a, in a racing driver's career, that's getting on a bit 1409 01:08:14,357 --> 01:08:16,369 particularly if you haven't 1410 01:08:16,393 --> 01:08:19,238 looked after yourself physically. 1411 01:08:19,262 --> 01:08:21,307 I remember taking a pic of Peter 1412 01:08:21,331 --> 01:08:24,510 in the back of the pits at Le Mans, stripped to the waist 1413 01:08:24,534 --> 01:08:27,647 sweating, distraught, gaunt, hollow-eyed. 1414 01:08:27,671 --> 01:08:30,616 He'd given everything he had. 1415 01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:32,518 There's an old adage in motor racing, that 1416 01:08:32,542 --> 01:08:34,787 to finish first, first you've gotta finish 1417 01:08:34,811 --> 01:08:38,091 and, you know, Larry was circulating four seconds a lap 1418 01:08:38,115 --> 01:08:42,028 faster than Peter but he crashed. 1419 01:08:42,052 --> 01:08:44,163 It was at 2 o'clock in the morning 1420 01:08:44,187 --> 01:08:46,099 that struck the car off through 1421 01:08:46,123 --> 01:08:50,369 his own fault and he was, he was big enough to admit that. 1422 01:08:50,393 --> 01:08:55,007 He was over what anybody could physically take 1423 01:08:55,031 --> 01:08:58,177 so he's working in a workshop where they're building the cars 1424 01:08:58,201 --> 01:09:00,613 so there's a lot of fiberglass dust, there's paint, 1425 01:09:00,637 --> 01:09:01,981 we've got a paint shop. 1426 01:09:02,005 --> 01:09:03,783 Petrol, he was allergic to petrol. 1427 01:09:03,807 --> 01:09:05,351 Not good for a racing driver. 1428 01:09:05,375 --> 01:09:07,453 His skin was giving off all of this stuff. 1429 01:09:07,477 --> 01:09:08,621 He was coughing up. 1430 01:09:08,645 --> 01:09:09,922 He was, he was not well, 1431 01:09:09,946 --> 01:09:13,326 and he needed that time to 1432 01:09:13,350 --> 01:09:16,429 completely detox, to get his body back in shape. 1433 01:09:16,453 --> 01:09:18,698 He needed time away from everything, 1434 01:09:18,722 --> 01:09:20,333 so for a few weeks there 1435 01:09:20,357 --> 01:09:22,301 we did nothing else but look after his health 1436 01:09:22,325 --> 01:09:24,292 and wellbeing. 1437 01:09:28,865 --> 01:09:31,310 Six months later, he reappeared 1438 01:09:31,334 --> 01:09:35,047 and the old Brock was back in business. 1439 01:09:35,071 --> 01:09:36,415 Brock gave away cigarettes, 1440 01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:38,184 he gave away the booze 1441 01:09:38,208 --> 01:09:41,220 he stopped drinking 74 cups of tea every day. 1442 01:09:41,244 --> 01:09:43,623 He got healthier. He was fitter. 1443 01:09:43,647 --> 01:09:45,191 In many ways he was improved 1444 01:09:45,215 --> 01:09:47,827 but I think some of this stuff really played havoc 1445 01:09:47,851 --> 01:09:51,030 with his, his mindset. 1446 01:09:51,054 --> 01:09:52,932 Driving, to me is... is a nice escape. 1447 01:09:52,956 --> 01:09:54,767 It's a means of getting out of the office 1448 01:09:54,791 --> 01:09:57,370 and once I get behind the wheel of the car, I am relaxed. 1449 01:09:57,394 --> 01:09:59,338 I just get behind the wheel of that car 1450 01:09:59,362 --> 01:10:04,377 and I'm doing I know what I can do best. 1451 01:10:04,401 --> 01:10:08,181 Bev had introduced him to a chiropractor 1452 01:10:08,205 --> 01:10:11,017 who called himself a doctor, Dr. Eric Dowker, 1453 01:10:11,041 --> 01:10:13,753 who not only fixed his body 1454 01:10:13,777 --> 01:10:15,521 and put him onto a healthier lifestyle, 1455 01:10:15,545 --> 01:10:18,424 but had introduced other concepts 1456 01:10:18,448 --> 01:10:20,092 in terms of his mental space 1457 01:10:20,116 --> 01:10:22,495 that were interesting, to say the least. 1458 01:10:22,519 --> 01:10:25,431 Dr. Dowker was into crystal technology. 1459 01:10:25,455 --> 01:10:29,035 They came to the idea that maybe with crystals and magnets 1460 01:10:29,059 --> 01:10:32,493 they could improve the performance of motor cars. 1461 01:10:34,965 --> 01:10:38,411 He and Eric would sit and discuss philosophies 1462 01:10:38,435 --> 01:10:41,447 and stuff that, you know, were outside the square, 1463 01:10:41,471 --> 01:10:44,317 that other people had no concept about 1464 01:10:44,341 --> 01:10:47,787 and so he had found somebody he could relate to. 1465 01:10:47,811 --> 01:10:50,990 He had a found, firm friendship with somebody. 1466 01:10:51,014 --> 01:10:53,092 One shouldn't speak ill of the dead. 1467 01:10:53,116 --> 01:10:54,927 He was a weird sucker. 1468 01:10:54,951 --> 01:10:57,897 Eric was a bit unusual, 1469 01:10:57,921 --> 01:11:01,167 but so was Peter and so am I and, you know, 1470 01:11:01,191 --> 01:11:03,236 unfortunately when you put your head up above the crowd 1471 01:11:03,260 --> 01:11:05,404 you're gonna get it pinged off. 1472 01:11:05,428 --> 01:11:09,909 I went in expecting to get an engineering presentation 1473 01:11:09,933 --> 01:11:12,845 from a... a couple of engineering blokes 1474 01:11:12,869 --> 01:11:15,615 and... and Brock maybe a bit of whiteboard action 1475 01:11:15,639 --> 01:11:17,316 and... and here we go, 1476 01:11:17,340 --> 01:11:19,218 and instead he took me into the office 1477 01:11:19,242 --> 01:11:21,743 and out comes this box. 1478 01:11:23,613 --> 01:11:24,790 Ah, the look on my face... 1479 01:11:24,814 --> 01:11:26,125 I went in and said, "Mate, look, 1480 01:11:26,149 --> 01:11:27,927 I'm... I'm not following this stuff." 1481 01:11:27,951 --> 01:11:29,829 "We'll ring Bevvo." 1482 01:11:29,853 --> 01:11:32,231 "The laws of physics will have to be rewritten." 1483 01:11:32,255 --> 01:11:34,500 "We are realigning molecules." 1484 01:11:34,524 --> 01:11:35,835 "Instead of being random, 1485 01:11:35,859 --> 01:11:37,970 "it's like flying over the landscape 1486 01:11:37,994 --> 01:11:40,406 and instead of seeing random trees, you see an orchard." 1487 01:11:40,430 --> 01:11:42,975 "It makes a shithouse car good." 1488 01:11:42,999 --> 01:11:45,778 To explain it in layman's terms is very difficult 1489 01:11:45,802 --> 01:11:47,947 because you're talking about a pretty complex, 1490 01:11:47,971 --> 01:11:49,615 uh, high tech product. 1491 01:11:49,639 --> 01:11:51,784 It was a little plastic box with, 1492 01:11:51,808 --> 01:11:55,921 um, some magnets and stuff in it. 1493 01:11:55,945 --> 01:11:58,291 A plastic box with no wires going in, 1494 01:11:58,315 --> 01:11:59,892 no wires coming out 1495 01:11:59,916 --> 01:12:02,028 and you fix this box in a particular place 1496 01:12:02,052 --> 01:12:03,429 on the far wall of the car 1497 01:12:03,453 --> 01:12:05,731 and miraculously it rearranged 1498 01:12:05,755 --> 01:12:07,967 all the molecules in the car. 1499 01:12:07,991 --> 01:12:10,803 There were a lot of crystals in our house. A lot. 1500 01:12:10,827 --> 01:12:12,605 I... I mean, I definitely saw lots of them 1501 01:12:12,629 --> 01:12:14,240 and helped make some of them in the... 1502 01:12:14,264 --> 01:12:15,908 We started off making them in the back shed 1503 01:12:15,932 --> 01:12:16,909 at home, in Eltham. 1504 01:12:16,933 --> 01:12:18,577 It was a bit of a worry to me. 1505 01:12:18,601 --> 01:12:20,379 A... a big worry, in fact. 1506 01:12:20,403 --> 01:12:21,981 But I have read, I've read articles 1507 01:12:22,005 --> 01:12:23,382 which have sort of tried to put together 1508 01:12:23,406 --> 01:12:25,017 with a whole lot of innuendo, 1509 01:12:25,041 --> 01:12:26,052 the fact that there's something sinister 1510 01:12:26,076 --> 01:12:27,353 that he's master-minding you, 1511 01:12:27,377 --> 01:12:28,521 that you're programmed by him, 1512 01:12:28,545 --> 01:12:29,822 that you're into the occult. 1513 01:12:29,846 --> 01:12:31,023 I mean, you know, I mean... 1514 01:12:31,047 --> 01:12:32,758 I said, "Peter... 1515 01:12:32,782 --> 01:12:34,427 a... are you serious?" 1516 01:12:34,451 --> 01:12:37,129 "You're talking about this energy 1517 01:12:37,153 --> 01:12:40,822 being a form of sexual release." 1518 01:12:42,192 --> 01:12:44,403 And he... he blew up and he said, 1519 01:12:44,427 --> 01:12:45,771 "Well, if you don't bloody believe, 1520 01:12:45,795 --> 01:12:47,406 you don't bloody believe." 1521 01:12:47,430 --> 01:12:50,643 And I said, "Well, mate, I'll tell it straight." 1522 01:12:50,667 --> 01:12:53,112 "That's what you want, that's good, fine." 1523 01:12:53,136 --> 01:12:56,938 Back I went. I wrote the story absolutely straight. 1524 01:12:58,742 --> 01:13:01,354 Caused an absolute sensation 1525 01:13:01,378 --> 01:13:05,157 and caused quite a schism within the team. 1526 01:13:05,181 --> 01:13:06,892 One of my people wouldn't allow me 1527 01:13:06,916 --> 01:13:08,594 to insult my eyeballs to read 1528 01:13:08,618 --> 01:13:10,296 the rest of the rubbish that was written. 1529 01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:11,764 Well, you're talking about Phil Scott? 1530 01:13:11,788 --> 01:13:14,567 I can hardly comment. Don't, well it... 1531 01:13:14,591 --> 01:13:16,902 Phil's a fairly good journalist and that's something that... 1532 01:13:16,926 --> 01:13:19,171 Well, I thought that particular write-up was disgraceful 1533 01:13:19,195 --> 01:13:20,606 and I've got... 1534 01:13:20,630 --> 01:13:21,907 That's the only comment I'll make on it. 1535 01:13:21,931 --> 01:13:23,509 Holden knew nothing about this stuff, 1536 01:13:23,533 --> 01:13:25,745 so they were reading it for the first time. 1537 01:13:25,769 --> 01:13:27,146 The theory was sound. 1538 01:13:27,170 --> 01:13:31,650 It's just there was no real way to measure. 1539 01:13:31,674 --> 01:13:35,788 You'd kind of had to take faith that it was working. 1540 01:13:35,812 --> 01:13:37,923 People don't trust their own feelings anymore. 1541 01:13:37,947 --> 01:13:38,991 It's a very strange thing. 1542 01:13:39,015 --> 01:13:40,493 We need a scientific, 1543 01:13:40,517 --> 01:13:42,027 a needle there pointing at something 1544 01:13:42,051 --> 01:13:44,563 before we believe that what we feel is true. 1545 01:13:44,587 --> 01:13:47,366 Ian Leslie of 60 Minutes came and did a test. 1546 01:13:47,390 --> 01:13:49,735 As he hopped out of the car, he took out his check book 1547 01:13:49,759 --> 01:13:51,404 before even talking to anybody, wrote out a check 1548 01:13:51,428 --> 01:13:53,739 for $20,000, which I've still got 1549 01:13:53,763 --> 01:13:56,609 and he said, "I want in to the business." 1550 01:13:56,633 --> 01:13:58,911 And there was all this gushy stuff, you know. 1551 01:13:58,935 --> 01:14:01,914 "I don't know how it works, but it works." 1552 01:14:01,938 --> 01:14:04,817 And this stuff was running in, you know, national newspapers 1553 01:14:04,841 --> 01:14:06,919 and was later pulled out 1554 01:14:06,943 --> 01:14:10,556 and used in some of the ads for this device. 1555 01:14:10,580 --> 01:14:13,247 It was an absolute disaster scenario. 1556 01:14:15,018 --> 01:14:18,164 By the following year, you know, 1985 1557 01:14:18,188 --> 01:14:21,400 we had Dr. Eric prowling the pits in racing team colors. 1558 01:14:21,424 --> 01:14:22,935 Everyone in the pits following you 1559 01:14:22,959 --> 01:14:24,036 going around the circuit. 1560 01:14:24,060 --> 01:14:25,504 Do you want to send them a wave? 1561 01:14:25,528 --> 01:14:28,240 Yeah... How are you? 1562 01:14:28,264 --> 01:14:30,242 Before that, it was a club. 1563 01:14:30,266 --> 01:14:32,978 After that, it became a cult. 1564 01:14:33,002 --> 01:14:36,348 You either believed or you didn't. 1565 01:14:38,808 --> 01:14:41,420 He got more and more obstinate 1566 01:14:41,444 --> 01:14:44,590 and the Director was the direct result of that. 1567 01:14:44,614 --> 01:14:46,559 The background music, I'll never forget, 1568 01:14:46,583 --> 01:14:48,594 was Glen Miller's "In the Mood" 1569 01:14:48,618 --> 01:14:51,986 and I thought shit, this is, this is pretty interesting. 1570 01:14:53,523 --> 01:14:55,768 There were various celebrities there. 1571 01:14:55,792 --> 01:14:58,804 Most of the crowd were totally in the dark 1572 01:14:58,828 --> 01:15:00,906 as to the significance of what was happening. 1573 01:15:00,930 --> 01:15:03,776 This was just Peter Brock launching a new car 1574 01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:05,744 so it was a bit of glamour and a few flash bulbs 1575 01:15:05,768 --> 01:15:07,379 and off we went from there. 1576 01:15:07,403 --> 01:15:10,983 Brock was modifying one particular car 1577 01:15:11,007 --> 01:15:13,586 putting his name on them, but not submitting them 1578 01:15:13,610 --> 01:15:16,422 to General Motors Engineering for them to be tested. 1579 01:15:16,446 --> 01:15:18,924 So there were all these design, Australia design rules 1580 01:15:18,948 --> 01:15:20,693 that the car didn't meet 1581 01:15:20,717 --> 01:15:22,595 and he was gonna sell them to the public. 1582 01:15:22,619 --> 01:15:24,330 And they said, "Well, what are the specifications 1583 01:15:24,354 --> 01:15:26,131 for this new Holden Director?" 1584 01:15:26,155 --> 01:15:30,169 And he said, "Don't you blokes read 'Wheels Magazine?'" 1585 01:15:30,193 --> 01:15:33,172 For anybody who knows anything about the regulatory environment 1586 01:15:33,196 --> 01:15:36,642 around motor cars that's just crazy stuff. 1587 01:15:36,666 --> 01:15:40,412 It was probably one of the worst times of my life. 1588 01:15:40,436 --> 01:15:41,947 Holdens are trying to stop me 1589 01:15:41,971 --> 01:15:43,983 and I'm pretty determined sort of person 1590 01:15:44,007 --> 01:15:45,150 and I'm pressing on. 1591 01:15:45,174 --> 01:15:46,652 They said to me 1592 01:15:46,676 --> 01:15:48,254 "If you, Peter Brock, 1593 01:15:48,278 --> 01:15:49,955 "announce this car at the end of this week 1594 01:15:49,979 --> 01:15:52,091 we'll withdraw all support for you." 1595 01:15:52,115 --> 01:15:53,993 Well, I've gone ahead, and I've announced it. 1596 01:15:54,017 --> 01:15:55,561 Now I look at that and just think 1597 01:15:55,585 --> 01:15:57,852 how the fuck could you do that? 1598 01:15:59,355 --> 01:16:00,733 I don't know what more I can say. 1599 01:16:00,757 --> 01:16:02,701 I mean, you just had to live with it 1600 01:16:02,725 --> 01:16:07,439 and do your best and watch the place crumble 1601 01:16:07,463 --> 01:16:09,208 which is what happened. 1602 01:16:09,232 --> 01:16:11,510 So to the critics and those within the industry 1603 01:16:11,534 --> 01:16:13,512 that say that HDT is going down the gurgler, 1604 01:16:13,536 --> 01:16:15,214 what do you say to them? 1605 01:16:15,238 --> 01:16:19,118 I'd say you critics out there would not have a clue. 1606 01:16:19,142 --> 01:16:20,519 We are a top company. 1607 01:16:20,543 --> 01:16:22,521 We are, I've got a fantastic product. 1608 01:16:22,545 --> 01:16:23,589 We are profitable 1609 01:16:23,613 --> 01:16:25,157 and despite all these people 1610 01:16:25,181 --> 01:16:26,959 who would love to see us go down the gurgler 1611 01:16:26,983 --> 01:16:28,394 we ain't about to do it. 1612 01:16:28,418 --> 01:16:31,730 His ridiculous naive optimism 1613 01:16:31,754 --> 01:16:34,934 in just believing something was gonna work, 1614 01:16:34,958 --> 01:16:37,770 so therefore it would work. 1615 01:16:37,794 --> 01:16:42,107 That was what I found probably the most frustrating. 1616 01:16:42,131 --> 01:16:44,643 Holden managed to completely block up 1617 01:16:44,667 --> 01:16:46,779 any supply of cars to us. 1618 01:16:46,803 --> 01:16:49,114 Like if a Holden dealer sold us a car 1619 01:16:49,138 --> 01:16:52,017 they were threatened with the loss of their franchise. 1620 01:16:52,041 --> 01:16:54,053 It was a really testing time 1621 01:16:54,077 --> 01:16:56,155 and... and for Peter it was sort of like 1622 01:16:56,179 --> 01:16:58,924 the giant slaying the underdog. 1623 01:16:58,948 --> 01:17:00,314 Excuse me? 1624 01:17:01,951 --> 01:17:04,029 It's like cutting off your... your right arm. 1625 01:17:04,053 --> 01:17:06,498 Holden were making very good money out of this business. 1626 01:17:06,522 --> 01:17:08,167 So was Peter. 1627 01:17:08,191 --> 01:17:11,370 They had millions upon millions invested in this, 1628 01:17:11,394 --> 01:17:13,238 this charismatic racing star. 1629 01:17:13,262 --> 01:17:16,430 His identity and Holden were... were fused at the hip. 1630 01:17:18,668 --> 01:17:21,614 To publicly divorce him... 1631 01:17:21,638 --> 01:17:23,749 was a... a commercially 1632 01:17:23,773 --> 01:17:27,186 very damaging decision for those guys. 1633 01:17:27,210 --> 01:17:31,023 Brock was truly spontaneous 1634 01:17:31,047 --> 01:17:33,292 and he remained so throughout his life 1635 01:17:33,316 --> 01:17:35,628 and often that spontaneity 1636 01:17:35,652 --> 01:17:38,764 combined with a kind of larrikin lunatic streak 1637 01:17:38,788 --> 01:17:40,187 was his undoing. 1638 01:17:42,225 --> 01:17:45,004 There is obviously orchestrated move 1639 01:17:45,028 --> 01:17:48,207 by Holden to crush this business. 1640 01:17:48,231 --> 01:17:51,176 It all became a very stubborn 1641 01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:54,135 unfortunate dissolution of the business. 1642 01:17:56,806 --> 01:17:59,151 At that stage he didn't want me around anyway 1643 01:17:59,175 --> 01:18:01,353 because I didn't believe in the Polarizer. 1644 01:18:01,377 --> 01:18:04,223 It was an uncomfortable place to work 1645 01:18:04,247 --> 01:18:05,758 and I didn't want to be there. 1646 01:18:05,782 --> 01:18:07,926 It was just a sad, sad thing to happen 1647 01:18:07,950 --> 01:18:10,195 to a great, great business, 1648 01:18:10,219 --> 01:18:13,220 a great man that had everything going for him in life. 1649 01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:20,372 No more cars, no more business. 1650 01:18:20,396 --> 01:18:22,775 Not even parts for the race car. 1651 01:18:22,799 --> 01:18:25,466 He was starting from ground zero again. 1652 01:18:28,871 --> 01:18:30,315 Peter Brock is a legend, 1653 01:18:30,339 --> 01:18:32,019 a motoring legend of Australian motorsport. 1654 01:18:33,376 --> 01:18:35,988 Mobil did the consumer survey. 1655 01:18:36,012 --> 01:18:38,590 The Peter Brock brand was still very strong. 1656 01:18:38,614 --> 01:18:41,427 Australia likes an underdog, loves the battler 1657 01:18:41,451 --> 01:18:44,029 and Mobil made a pretty savvy decision 1658 01:18:44,053 --> 01:18:46,598 to keep backing the guy. 1659 01:18:54,163 --> 01:18:56,375 It was early to mid-1987 1660 01:18:56,399 --> 01:18:59,144 when I got a phone call. 1661 01:18:59,168 --> 01:19:01,413 Peter and Bev asked me if I would be willing to come back 1662 01:19:01,437 --> 01:19:02,937 and run the team. 1663 01:19:07,977 --> 01:19:09,521 Didn't take me long to think about it really. 1664 01:19:09,545 --> 01:19:11,757 Peter was still Peter. 1665 01:19:11,781 --> 01:19:13,992 He threw it out there to me as a challenge. 1666 01:19:14,016 --> 01:19:17,096 "You know what's gone on. This is where it's at." 1667 01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:20,199 "Ah, it's not gonna be an easy road." 1668 01:19:24,594 --> 01:19:26,505 I think we've probably got a better team 1669 01:19:26,529 --> 01:19:29,441 than we've had for a long time, we're extremely determined 1670 01:19:29,465 --> 01:19:32,444 and it's almost like "Hey, Brock, you might've won it 1671 01:19:32,468 --> 01:19:34,947 eight times before, but this time's the most important." 1672 01:19:34,971 --> 01:19:36,871 And that's the way I thought about it. 1673 01:19:41,344 --> 01:19:44,812 We were going very much as underdogs. 1674 01:19:46,115 --> 01:19:48,093 We were up against Ford Sierras 1675 01:19:48,117 --> 01:19:50,362 which had just come on the scene. 1676 01:19:50,386 --> 01:19:53,098 We were up against Dick Johnson's Sierras 1677 01:19:53,122 --> 01:19:55,634 and also a fella from Europe called Rudy Eggenberger 1678 01:19:55,658 --> 01:19:58,804 had brought his Sierras out to race at Bathurst. 1679 01:19:58,828 --> 01:20:01,840 Some of the journos just absolutely 1680 01:20:01,864 --> 01:20:04,209 bagged the hell out of the team 1681 01:20:04,233 --> 01:20:06,578 and Peter basically 1682 01:20:06,602 --> 01:20:08,814 saying the team were a bunch of rabble 1683 01:20:08,838 --> 01:20:10,404 not going anywhere. 1684 01:20:12,809 --> 01:20:15,053 On the way to the track that morning on the bus 1685 01:20:15,077 --> 01:20:16,789 I held that newspaper up to the boys and said 1686 01:20:16,813 --> 01:20:20,092 "Here, this is the shit they're talking about us. 1687 01:20:20,116 --> 01:20:21,193 "Let's prove them wrong." 1688 01:20:21,217 --> 01:20:23,762 "Let's give it a red-hot go." 1689 01:20:23,786 --> 01:20:25,097 Bryce, Perkins and Brock 1690 01:20:25,121 --> 01:20:26,999 making one heck of a charge up the mountain 1691 01:20:27,023 --> 01:20:30,035 but the Sierras have been substantially quicker all week 1692 01:20:30,059 --> 01:20:33,238 coming down Conrod Straight towards the new Caltex Chase. 1693 01:20:41,604 --> 01:20:44,183 Peter's car failed. 1694 01:20:44,207 --> 01:20:47,608 We transferred him across onto the second car. 1695 01:20:49,712 --> 01:20:51,723 And Brock says, "I'm ready." 1696 01:20:51,747 --> 01:20:54,448 05 car is out, the number 10 car is running. 1697 01:20:56,052 --> 01:20:59,731 Our guys would have friends in surrounding townships 1698 01:20:59,755 --> 01:21:03,902 who they would be ringing up to find out, "Is the rain coming?" 1699 01:21:03,926 --> 01:21:07,039 Yep, it's actually hailing here at present. 1700 01:21:07,063 --> 01:21:08,863 It's freezing cold. 1701 01:21:21,410 --> 01:21:22,788 As soon as the rain came 1702 01:21:22,812 --> 01:21:24,957 I knew, I knew what he was gonna do. 1703 01:21:24,981 --> 01:21:26,692 We were talking to Peter on the radio 1704 01:21:26,716 --> 01:21:29,328 and Peter said, "Look, let's just stay on the slicks." 1705 01:21:29,352 --> 01:21:31,897 James Hardie 1987, look at Brock. 1706 01:21:31,921 --> 01:21:34,433 Oh, would he regret putting slicks on? 1707 01:21:34,457 --> 01:21:36,768 Yeah, I think he's made a slight misjudgment 1708 01:21:36,792 --> 01:21:38,904 there because the track is still very greasy, 1709 01:21:38,928 --> 01:21:40,572 very slippery on line. 1710 01:21:40,596 --> 01:21:41,940 He does have a very desperate driver. 1711 01:21:41,964 --> 01:21:43,408 I think he can get himself 1712 01:21:43,432 --> 01:21:46,245 into great problems if he doesn't watch it. 1713 01:21:46,269 --> 01:21:49,648 Peter had faith that the track was gonna dry. 1714 01:21:49,672 --> 01:21:54,119 If he came in to go onto wet weather tires 1715 01:21:54,143 --> 01:21:57,155 he was gonna waste time on the track. 1716 01:21:57,179 --> 01:21:59,358 And he is gassing in the Commodore, 1717 01:21:59,382 --> 01:22:00,959 he's got slick tires on. 1718 01:22:00,983 --> 01:22:02,127 He's in third position. 1719 01:22:02,151 --> 01:22:03,595 The drama continues... 1720 01:22:03,619 --> 01:22:07,566 The last 25 laps of that race... 1721 01:22:07,590 --> 01:22:10,168 well, I'm sure he was having an out-of-body experience 1722 01:22:10,192 --> 01:22:12,804 because it was wet, it was slippery. 1723 01:22:12,828 --> 01:22:17,409 It was a masterclass in car control and concentration. 1724 01:22:17,433 --> 01:22:19,344 That really was 1725 01:22:19,368 --> 01:22:21,246 dancing on the edge of the razorblade 1726 01:22:21,270 --> 01:22:23,248 lap after lap after lap. 1727 01:22:23,272 --> 01:22:27,452 It was an inspired piece of work and an emphatic, 1728 01:22:27,476 --> 01:22:30,789 "Up yours. I'm still the man." 1729 01:22:30,813 --> 01:22:33,125 Brock just trying very, very carefully 1730 01:22:33,149 --> 01:22:37,763 to stay on the only dry line. Look how narrow it is. 1731 01:22:37,787 --> 01:22:39,398 He could do things at times 1732 01:22:39,422 --> 01:22:41,934 in a car that you can't fathom. 1733 01:22:41,958 --> 01:22:43,769 No matter how you drive around that mountain 1734 01:22:43,793 --> 01:22:45,604 with slicks on in the wet 1735 01:22:45,628 --> 01:22:48,195 with one arm on the bloody window sill is just... 1736 01:22:49,265 --> 01:22:51,265 You can't do it, but he did. 1737 01:22:53,402 --> 01:22:54,413 He was just pumped. 1738 01:22:54,437 --> 01:22:55,714 There was adrenaline oozing out 1739 01:22:55,738 --> 01:22:57,049 the back doors. 1740 01:22:57,073 --> 01:22:58,583 And just listen to the race fans 1741 01:22:58,607 --> 01:23:01,153 showing their favor to Brocky 1742 01:23:01,177 --> 01:23:03,822 as he goes over the hill. 1743 01:23:03,846 --> 01:23:06,358 We finished first Commodore home. 1744 01:23:06,382 --> 01:23:08,093 We finished in third place, 1745 01:23:08,117 --> 01:23:11,596 behind Rudy Eggenberger's two Ford Sierras. 1746 01:23:11,620 --> 01:23:13,932 We were in raptures. That's what we went there to achieve. 1747 01:23:13,956 --> 01:23:15,701 We've done our job. 1748 01:23:15,725 --> 01:23:18,170 But you asked for the man, you asked for him. 1749 01:23:18,194 --> 01:23:19,304 It's Peter Brock! 1750 01:23:30,940 --> 01:23:32,517 I gave it absolute heaps, 1751 01:23:32,541 --> 01:23:34,453 particularly in the wet there in the finish. 1752 01:23:34,477 --> 01:23:36,421 And I thoroughly enjoyed myself, I might add 1753 01:23:36,445 --> 01:23:38,557 and, uh, thanks for all your support out there too. 1754 01:23:38,581 --> 01:23:40,192 I loved the way you were cheering me on. 1755 01:23:41,951 --> 01:23:44,029 Just chanced on a story a moment ago 1756 01:23:44,053 --> 01:23:47,833 about possible illegal fuel in both the Texaco Sierras. 1757 01:23:47,857 --> 01:23:51,169 We were in the pit beside Rudy Eggenberger 1758 01:23:51,193 --> 01:23:52,904 and watching sort of, over the fence 1759 01:23:52,928 --> 01:23:54,806 while the race was going on. 1760 01:23:54,830 --> 01:23:58,176 I could see them mixing fuel, which was illegal. 1761 01:23:58,200 --> 01:24:00,245 Back then there was a young racing driver 1762 01:24:00,269 --> 01:24:03,115 getting around those days by the name of Craig Lowndes. 1763 01:24:03,139 --> 01:24:05,384 Well, his dad Frank was the head scrutineer 1764 01:24:05,408 --> 01:24:06,618 back in those days. 1765 01:24:06,642 --> 01:24:08,020 So I called Frank over, I said 1766 01:24:08,044 --> 01:24:09,554 "Oh, just stand here and have a chat to me 1767 01:24:09,578 --> 01:24:11,323 for a while, Frank, and watch a few things." 1768 01:24:11,347 --> 01:24:13,392 So sure enough, 1769 01:24:13,416 --> 01:24:17,929 it was proven that they were mixing alcohol in their fuel. 1770 01:24:17,953 --> 01:24:20,432 So I can't even remember how long later it was, 1771 01:24:20,456 --> 01:24:21,967 but we were all back in Melbourne 1772 01:24:21,991 --> 01:24:25,337 and Brock called me up to the office one day, said 1773 01:24:25,361 --> 01:24:27,005 "Oh, guess what?" "What's that?" 1774 01:24:27,029 --> 01:24:30,208 "We've won Bathurst." "Huh?" 1775 01:24:30,232 --> 01:24:32,611 Said, "Yeah, Eggenberger cars have been rubbed out." 1776 01:24:32,635 --> 01:24:34,101 "We're the winner." 1777 01:24:36,072 --> 01:24:38,950 Well, shit, we'd better have another party. 1778 01:24:38,974 --> 01:24:40,419 As he said at the time, 1779 01:24:40,443 --> 01:24:42,721 "Yes, that was a bit of a vindication." 1780 01:24:42,745 --> 01:24:46,391 True motorsport fans understood the impossibility 1781 01:24:46,415 --> 01:24:50,829 of the record that he had built at Bathurst. 1782 01:24:50,853 --> 01:24:54,166 He could do no wrong. He was the messiah of motorsport. 1783 01:24:58,260 --> 01:24:59,738 Brock was the number one 1784 01:24:59,762 --> 01:25:01,528 and he had been for two decades. 1785 01:25:04,633 --> 01:25:07,612 The fact that he no longer had the equipment under him 1786 01:25:07,636 --> 01:25:09,848 to continue at his peak 1787 01:25:09,872 --> 01:25:12,150 didn't make any difference to the people that loved Brock 1788 01:25:12,174 --> 01:25:14,719 and loved what he had done before. 1789 01:25:14,743 --> 01:25:16,888 Didn't diminish what he'd achieved. 1790 01:25:16,912 --> 01:25:20,158 Didn't diminish his record. 1791 01:25:20,182 --> 01:25:22,961 He's an iconic Australian sports hero. 1792 01:25:32,728 --> 01:25:37,409 The Holden Race Team had not been showing great success 1793 01:25:37,433 --> 01:25:39,978 and by getting Peter back in the team meant that 1794 01:25:40,002 --> 01:25:43,381 not only did he come armed with his sponsors, 1795 01:25:43,405 --> 01:25:45,417 who were extremely loyal to him 1796 01:25:45,441 --> 01:25:47,719 but he also came armed with 1797 01:25:47,743 --> 01:25:51,389 enormous media support and a huge fan base. 1798 01:25:51,413 --> 01:25:54,848 The reason why Mobil is the number one team! 1799 01:25:56,619 --> 01:25:59,297 Driving a Holden is something I know a fair bit about. 1800 01:25:59,321 --> 01:26:00,765 I've spent 18 years here with Holden 1801 01:26:00,789 --> 01:26:02,734 and getting back into it of course is, 1802 01:26:02,758 --> 01:26:04,803 uh, old home week. 1803 01:26:04,827 --> 01:26:07,939 Complex, like all families, rough times 1804 01:26:07,963 --> 01:26:09,808 but when the trouble's happened you get back together. 1805 01:26:09,832 --> 01:26:11,776 You go from that phase of being 1806 01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:14,012 a person you looked up to growing up 1807 01:26:14,036 --> 01:26:15,780 to then, you know, rubbing shoulders 1808 01:26:15,804 --> 01:26:19,351 and he now being your mentor inside of the car. 1809 01:26:19,375 --> 01:26:21,153 The young guns were coming through 1810 01:26:21,177 --> 01:26:25,991 and understandably Peter was not a young gun anymore. 1811 01:26:26,015 --> 01:26:29,394 But the way it was handled was less than ideal 1812 01:26:29,418 --> 01:26:32,797 and he'd walk down the pits in the race meeting 1813 01:26:32,821 --> 01:26:36,134 and the bonnets would be closed and that was insulting. 1814 01:26:36,158 --> 01:26:38,203 Cars were being produced with Peter's signature on it 1815 01:26:38,227 --> 01:26:39,905 that he knew nothing about. 1816 01:26:39,929 --> 01:26:41,640 He wasn't allowed to go into the workshop. 1817 01:26:41,664 --> 01:26:43,708 He wasn't allowed to talk to the mechanics 1818 01:26:43,732 --> 01:26:46,778 because they were putting the latest developments 1819 01:26:46,802 --> 01:26:49,648 on the young blood's car and phasing Peter out 1820 01:26:49,672 --> 01:26:51,738 so Peter's car wasn't as competitive. 1821 01:26:55,477 --> 01:26:56,922 You've looked at one perspective. 1822 01:26:56,946 --> 01:26:59,291 Well, the fans were treated to something 1823 01:26:59,315 --> 01:27:00,725 there for an hour or two, you know. 1824 01:27:00,749 --> 01:27:02,928 And, uh, but to come back from here 1825 01:27:02,952 --> 01:27:05,330 will be pretty well impossible, I guess. 1826 01:27:05,354 --> 01:27:06,898 I said to him, "Is this really 1827 01:27:06,922 --> 01:27:08,133 "what you want to be doing?" 1828 01:27:08,157 --> 01:27:09,568 "Are you prepared 1829 01:27:09,592 --> 01:27:11,636 "to put yourself through this pain, 1830 01:27:11,660 --> 01:27:13,327 through this embarrassment?" 1831 01:27:15,264 --> 01:27:16,975 So on the way home we talk about 1832 01:27:16,999 --> 01:27:18,843 "Okay, if you announce that at the end of the season 1833 01:27:18,867 --> 01:27:21,246 "you'd retire, this is gonna give you the opportunity 1834 01:27:21,270 --> 01:27:23,248 "to go to every race track around Australia 1835 01:27:23,272 --> 01:27:25,784 "say your goodbyes, sign all your autographs 1836 01:27:25,808 --> 01:27:28,275 and go out the way you wanted to." 1837 01:27:38,153 --> 01:27:40,098 This year, of course, is a very special time. 1838 01:27:40,122 --> 01:27:43,301 It's, uh, one when you, uh, 1839 01:27:43,325 --> 01:27:47,172 decide to change the direction of your life, 1840 01:27:47,196 --> 01:27:49,774 uh, you figure that it's really only going to affect yourself 1841 01:27:49,798 --> 01:27:51,409 and perhaps your family around you and a few, 1842 01:27:51,433 --> 01:27:54,179 you know, a few close friends but, uh, well... 1843 01:27:54,203 --> 01:27:58,817 And it was the most amazing, emotional year. 1844 01:27:58,841 --> 01:28:02,587 There would be grown men coming in tears, wanting to hug him. 1845 01:28:02,611 --> 01:28:04,122 "What, what are we gonna do, Brocky?" 1846 01:28:04,146 --> 01:28:06,113 "We're not gonna have you here anymore." 1847 01:28:08,183 --> 01:28:10,629 The respect that he had from everyone. 1848 01:28:10,653 --> 01:28:12,631 Doesn't matter whether you're a Ford or Holden, 1849 01:28:12,655 --> 01:28:14,299 it was just a huge legacy. 1850 01:28:16,325 --> 01:28:18,169 To be able to do it and just shut that door 1851 01:28:18,193 --> 01:28:20,238 would be quite incredibly hard. 1852 01:28:34,843 --> 01:28:36,810 He never really retired. 1853 01:28:40,783 --> 01:28:43,828 And the techniques certainly have longevity. 1854 01:28:43,852 --> 01:28:47,165 But the physicality and the mental acuity 1855 01:28:47,189 --> 01:28:50,135 they have a finite life. 1856 01:28:50,159 --> 01:28:53,838 He just didn't look like the old Peter. 1857 01:28:53,862 --> 01:28:56,141 I could see a massive change in... in him 1858 01:28:56,165 --> 01:28:59,611 and how he was and... and his attitude and his... 1859 01:28:59,635 --> 01:29:01,413 Yeah, he definitely... definitely didn't seem to be 1860 01:29:01,437 --> 01:29:05,005 the confident person that he was earlier in... in his life. 1861 01:29:06,875 --> 01:29:09,421 What the public didn't see was this man 1862 01:29:09,445 --> 01:29:12,045 who fell into this amazing hole. 1863 01:29:13,949 --> 01:29:15,960 His love of the sport 1864 01:29:15,984 --> 01:29:21,166 and his time to reflect on it wasn't a positive thing. 1865 01:29:21,190 --> 01:29:24,569 I don't think he had the... 1866 01:29:24,593 --> 01:29:27,105 whimsical, child, wide-eyed glow 1867 01:29:27,129 --> 01:29:28,139 that he used to always have to it 1868 01:29:28,163 --> 01:29:29,607 when he had his own team 1869 01:29:29,631 --> 01:29:32,777 and they could do what they kind of wanted. 1870 01:29:32,801 --> 01:29:36,047 I genuinely felt that, I was simply a commodity 1871 01:29:36,071 --> 01:29:39,651 and that I was not able to make my own decisions, so... 1872 01:29:39,675 --> 01:29:41,419 Because he felt he'd been controlled 1873 01:29:41,443 --> 01:29:43,722 and manipulated by so many people 1874 01:29:43,746 --> 01:29:47,292 he needed to discover his own strengths 1875 01:29:47,316 --> 01:29:50,495 and he made me promise that I would no longer 1876 01:29:50,519 --> 01:29:53,298 solve his problems for him or help him solve his problems, 1877 01:29:53,322 --> 01:29:55,233 that he needed to do that himself. 1878 01:29:55,257 --> 01:29:58,036 He'd ring home and go, "Oh, I'm gonna be home in 15 minutes." 1879 01:29:58,060 --> 01:29:59,904 "Can you tell mum I need lunch?" 1880 01:29:59,928 --> 01:30:02,040 I'm like, "You can make your own lunch." 1881 01:30:02,064 --> 01:30:05,243 Can I just heat that up and have that as a bit of backup? 1882 01:30:05,267 --> 01:30:07,612 I'd say you press that for ignition. 1883 01:30:07,636 --> 01:30:09,180 You know, this is an amazing person, 1884 01:30:09,204 --> 01:30:10,982 but he didn't have a normal life. 1885 01:30:11,006 --> 01:30:13,618 Like he never went shopping. 1886 01:30:13,642 --> 01:30:17,722 There were basic skills in life that he had missed out on 1887 01:30:17,746 --> 01:30:21,926 because he was in such demand and worked so hard. 1888 01:30:21,950 --> 01:30:23,128 - Dee. - Oh, hello. 1889 01:30:23,152 --> 01:30:24,796 Dee. 1890 01:30:24,820 --> 01:30:25,986 Look! 1891 01:30:28,123 --> 01:30:30,301 Hello. 1892 01:30:30,325 --> 01:30:32,504 He was turning 60. He didn't wanna turn 60. 1893 01:30:32,528 --> 01:30:34,239 He didn't want anybody to recognize it, and I said 1894 01:30:34,263 --> 01:30:36,107 "You're gonna have to recognize it." 1895 01:30:36,131 --> 01:30:41,012 So we had probably 60-80 odd people at home that night. 1896 01:30:41,036 --> 01:30:42,580 It came to speech time 1897 01:30:42,604 --> 01:30:47,419 and his uncle and another close friend 1898 01:30:47,443 --> 01:30:49,821 got up and spoke and in their speech 1899 01:30:49,845 --> 01:30:51,589 about Peter and how amazing he was 1900 01:30:51,613 --> 01:30:53,324 and here he is turning 60 1901 01:30:53,348 --> 01:30:56,227 and he, you know, he's got all this potential 1902 01:30:56,251 --> 01:31:01,633 they both made it very clear that he would not have had 1903 01:31:01,657 --> 01:31:04,169 the life that he'd had, had I not been by his side 1904 01:31:04,193 --> 01:31:05,592 and been there for him. 1905 01:31:07,429 --> 01:31:08,506 And I'm sitting there thinking 1906 01:31:08,530 --> 01:31:09,941 "Please don't say this 1907 01:31:09,965 --> 01:31:12,377 because right now he doesn't need 1908 01:31:12,401 --> 01:31:16,147 to hear that he's got where he is because I've been there." 1909 01:31:16,171 --> 01:31:17,982 "He needs to hear that he's achieved these things 1910 01:31:18,006 --> 01:31:20,852 on his own." 1911 01:31:20,876 --> 01:31:24,789 So when he gave his response, I was devastated. 1912 01:31:24,813 --> 01:31:27,392 Nobody else picked it, but I thought 1913 01:31:27,416 --> 01:31:29,928 "This is a... a farewell speech to me." 1914 01:31:48,370 --> 01:31:50,849 I met Bev at basketball. 1915 01:31:50,873 --> 01:31:54,719 We both ended up playing on the same team together. 1916 01:31:54,743 --> 01:31:57,021 It kind seemed like we were both like-minded 1917 01:31:57,045 --> 01:31:59,691 and so we started spending a bit of time together 1918 01:31:59,715 --> 01:32:02,560 and that's actually how I got to meet Peter. 1919 01:32:02,584 --> 01:32:05,597 I guess it would be fair to say that, um, 1920 01:32:05,621 --> 01:32:09,367 Julie's concept of friendship was very different to mine 1921 01:32:09,391 --> 01:32:11,035 and on several occasions, 1922 01:32:11,059 --> 01:32:14,439 I suggested that maybe she stop coming to our place. 1923 01:32:14,463 --> 01:32:17,208 He said that he just needed to find himself, 1924 01:32:17,232 --> 01:32:20,411 he needed to live his own life 1925 01:32:20,435 --> 01:32:22,102 and make his own choices. 1926 01:32:23,939 --> 01:32:26,751 My biggest failing was, uh, 1927 01:32:26,775 --> 01:32:29,354 I guess over the years saying, "Oh, I'm doing fine" 1928 01:32:29,378 --> 01:32:32,078 but are you really looking at yourself honestly? 1929 01:32:33,448 --> 01:32:36,895 One morning Peter Brock arrived at my house 1930 01:32:36,919 --> 01:32:39,230 and announced that he was in love with me 1931 01:32:39,254 --> 01:32:42,500 and he wanted me to come and live with him. 1932 01:32:42,524 --> 01:32:44,457 That was actually a shock to me. 1933 01:32:46,061 --> 01:32:48,606 You know, my values in life were, 1934 01:32:48,630 --> 01:32:50,942 you don't go down that avenue. 1935 01:32:50,966 --> 01:32:53,978 You don't take those chances. 1936 01:32:54,002 --> 01:32:56,748 Peter said, "You know, Julie, 1937 01:32:56,772 --> 01:32:59,817 sometimes you need to take risks in life." 1938 01:32:59,841 --> 01:33:03,621 The reality was that Peter always needed to be loved, 1939 01:33:03,645 --> 01:33:06,324 needed to be valued, needed to be appreciated 1940 01:33:06,348 --> 01:33:09,516 and could not be on his own. 1941 01:33:11,019 --> 01:33:13,164 I would think that, uh, 1942 01:33:13,188 --> 01:33:15,500 I've got a lot to offer the world around me 1943 01:33:15,524 --> 01:33:18,770 and that the best parts of my life 1944 01:33:18,794 --> 01:33:21,027 are now beginning to unfold. 1945 01:33:45,454 --> 01:33:48,166 Well, the day started off. We did what we did every day. 1946 01:33:48,190 --> 01:33:51,257 We just went out and did the first stage. 1947 01:33:54,763 --> 01:33:57,609 It was pretty twisty and bumpy 1948 01:33:57,633 --> 01:34:01,346 damp country roads, north of Perth 1949 01:34:01,370 --> 01:34:03,748 and in the first stage I... I remember 1950 01:34:03,772 --> 01:34:07,619 that wasn't the sort of terrain that suited the car we're in 1951 01:34:07,643 --> 01:34:10,410 but we managed to do the second-quickest time. 1952 01:34:13,448 --> 01:34:15,994 You know, the fact that we finished second in the first leg 1953 01:34:16,018 --> 01:34:17,328 I mean, his wits were about him. 1954 01:34:17,352 --> 01:34:18,796 There was no, you know, 1955 01:34:18,820 --> 01:34:21,633 I didn't feel that he was, you know, 1956 01:34:21,657 --> 01:34:23,568 slow or, you know, tired. 1957 01:34:23,592 --> 01:34:25,859 I mean, he was just on the top of his game. 1958 01:34:33,669 --> 01:34:36,714 And I still don't know why that corner, um, 1959 01:34:36,738 --> 01:34:38,249 didn't... didn't go right. 1960 01:34:50,719 --> 01:34:52,897 It was just a... a set of circumstances 1961 01:34:52,921 --> 01:34:54,932 that even Peter couldn't drive round. 1962 01:34:54,956 --> 01:34:57,135 The 61-year-old lost control of his car 1963 01:34:57,159 --> 01:34:58,436 while navigating a bend... 1964 01:34:58,460 --> 01:35:00,004 The tree hit him in 1965 01:35:00,028 --> 01:35:03,930 absolutely millimeter worst spot. 1966 01:35:05,634 --> 01:35:07,211 I think it might have been the chaplain 1967 01:35:07,235 --> 01:35:10,948 that came up and said, "Oh, there's been an off-road." 1968 01:35:10,972 --> 01:35:12,950 And I went, "Oh, yeah." 1969 01:35:12,974 --> 01:35:15,653 So I thought that means someone skids off the road. 1970 01:35:15,677 --> 01:35:18,122 And he said, "Oh, it was Peter." 1971 01:35:18,146 --> 01:35:23,695 And I said, "Right. So..." 1972 01:35:23,719 --> 01:35:28,032 And they said, "Sadly, he's passed away." 1973 01:35:28,056 --> 01:35:30,702 Well, I was standing up 1974 01:35:30,726 --> 01:35:34,994 and my body just let go. 1975 01:35:37,399 --> 01:35:40,411 "I want to go and see him." 1976 01:35:40,435 --> 01:35:42,736 I said, "I have to go." 1977 01:35:45,841 --> 01:35:48,119 I pick up the phone and there's a woman on the other end 1978 01:35:48,143 --> 01:35:50,288 said, "There's been an accident." 1979 01:35:50,312 --> 01:35:52,123 And as any parent does, 1980 01:35:52,147 --> 01:35:54,559 you instantly think which of my children? 1981 01:35:54,583 --> 01:35:57,328 And she said, "It's not your children. It's Peter." 1982 01:35:57,352 --> 01:35:58,696 and I said, "What do you mean?" 1983 01:35:58,720 --> 01:36:00,198 and she said, "There's an event." 1984 01:36:00,222 --> 01:36:01,699 "What event?" 1985 01:36:01,723 --> 01:36:03,034 And she just said, "He hasn't made it" 1986 01:36:03,058 --> 01:36:04,836 and she hung up. I don't know who it was. 1987 01:36:04,860 --> 01:36:07,093 I... I don't suppose I'll ever know. 1988 01:36:10,232 --> 01:36:11,909 I look outside, there's a helicopter in the paddock. 1989 01:36:11,933 --> 01:36:13,711 I look down the drive, there's cars. 1990 01:36:13,735 --> 01:36:16,047 Media coming up, cameras whirring. 1991 01:36:16,071 --> 01:36:17,181 I haven't told the kids. 1992 01:36:17,205 --> 01:36:19,050 So I had to, you know, 1993 01:36:19,074 --> 01:36:21,352 suck it in and go outside to deal with the media. 1994 01:36:21,376 --> 01:36:23,087 I was actually doing an interview, 1995 01:36:23,111 --> 01:36:26,157 then the phone started going off and he's like 1996 01:36:26,181 --> 01:36:27,625 "Sorry, I've just gotta answer this" 1997 01:36:27,649 --> 01:36:29,961 and then he... he answered the phone 1998 01:36:29,985 --> 01:36:32,930 and I was sitting like just across my desk from him. 1999 01:36:32,954 --> 01:36:35,800 Ah, I just saw this look on his face 2000 01:36:35,824 --> 01:36:38,491 and he just went white. 2001 01:36:40,395 --> 01:36:43,608 And, uh, because he had just realized 2002 01:36:43,632 --> 01:36:45,298 that he had to tell me. 2003 01:36:49,971 --> 01:36:52,517 Trying to drive home in peak hour traffic 2004 01:36:52,541 --> 01:36:54,585 with the radio on listening to everyone going 2005 01:36:54,609 --> 01:36:56,621 you know, "Put your lights on for Brocky" 2006 01:36:56,645 --> 01:37:00,558 and realizing that the whole world had known 2007 01:37:00,582 --> 01:37:03,327 for a lot longer than me 2008 01:37:03,351 --> 01:37:05,251 that my dad had died. 2009 01:37:14,796 --> 01:37:16,741 I'm simply devastated that the plans 2010 01:37:16,765 --> 01:37:19,443 that we had for our future together 2011 01:37:19,467 --> 01:37:21,668 have ended prematurely. 2012 01:37:24,940 --> 01:37:27,351 I have full realization 2013 01:37:27,375 --> 01:37:31,088 that I shared a short part of Peter's life. 2014 01:37:31,112 --> 01:37:33,925 He was such a unique and wonderful man, 2015 01:37:33,949 --> 01:37:36,282 who I loved and adored. 2016 01:37:40,922 --> 01:37:44,836 All the pain that had happened with mum and dad's split 2017 01:37:44,860 --> 01:37:46,337 was pointless. 2018 01:37:46,361 --> 01:37:48,695 It didn't mean anything now and... 2019 01:37:52,000 --> 01:37:54,245 just sort of left this, 2020 01:37:54,269 --> 01:37:57,937 wasn't even a hole, it was like a gaping wound in our lives. 2021 01:38:08,583 --> 01:38:09,716 I... 2022 01:38:13,855 --> 01:38:15,221 I miss him though. 2023 01:38:47,722 --> 01:38:51,224 He affected people in... in such an amazing way. 2024 01:38:54,129 --> 01:38:56,941 Every single story that I've heard 2025 01:38:56,965 --> 01:38:59,043 was about Peter Brock the person, 2026 01:38:59,067 --> 01:39:01,846 not Peter Brock the race driver. 2027 01:39:01,870 --> 01:39:03,781 Motor racing just happened to be the vehicle 2028 01:39:03,805 --> 01:39:07,318 that he used to get his message across. 2029 01:39:07,342 --> 01:39:09,108 That's what we miss so much. 2030 01:39:11,379 --> 01:39:12,757 The tentacles are far reaching 2031 01:39:12,781 --> 01:39:15,293 and they still exist to this day. 2032 01:39:15,317 --> 01:39:18,629 Every book that can be written, every interview that can be made 2033 01:39:18,653 --> 01:39:20,564 everything that can be said 2034 01:39:20,588 --> 01:39:24,635 has finally been taken into consideration 2035 01:39:24,659 --> 01:39:27,138 and hopefully the man is seen 2036 01:39:27,162 --> 01:39:29,206 and remembered for what he was, 2037 01:39:29,230 --> 01:39:31,575 an incredible, amazing 2038 01:39:31,599 --> 01:39:33,244 incredible individual 2039 01:39:33,268 --> 01:39:36,180 who deserves to be recognized as somebody fantastic. 2040 01:39:36,204 --> 01:39:39,116 And as I said to my kids when they've heard negative stuff 2041 01:39:39,140 --> 01:39:43,287 "Guys, your father was 95 percent perfect, amazing, 2042 01:39:43,311 --> 01:39:44,922 "five percent human and fallible 2043 01:39:44,946 --> 01:39:47,692 but didn't have a bad bone in his body." 2044 01:39:47,716 --> 01:39:51,049 Subtitles Diego Moraes(oakislandtk) www.opensubtitles.org 2044 01:39:52,305 --> 01:40:52,667 Please rate this subtitle at www.osdb.link/79k4x Help other users to choose the best subtitles