Peter Brock
Race car driver, Athlete
1945 – 2006
Who was Peter Brock?
Peter Geoffrey Brock, AM otherwise known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain" or simply as "Brocky" was one of Australia's best-known and most successful motor racing drivers. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other manufacturers including BMW, Ford, Volvo, Porsche and Peugeot. He won the Bathurst 1000 endurance race nine times, the Sandown 500 touring car race nine times, the Australian Touring Car Championship three times, the Bathurst 24 Hour once and was inducted into the V8 Supercar Hall of Fame in 2001. Brock's business activities included the Holden Dealer Team that produced Brock's racing machines as well as a number of modified high-performance road versions of his racing cars.
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- Born
- Feb 26, 1945
Epworth Hospital - Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Education
- Eltham High School
- Died
- Sep 8, 2006
Gidgegannup
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on July 23, 2013
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