Peter Brock Bathurst 1979, Last Lap in the A9X.

[jasonmustanggts]

Bloody Australian Hero

[nixmuts]

back in the days when conrod straight was just that...

[000secretsquirrel]

Aussie Muscle !! miss you Brocky :)

[deztructo123]

this is real racing! not shit house v8 supercars

[TheDh0ffryn]

ahh the good old days when it wasn't just the drivers that were allowed to be different! Others may try to take the title King of the mountain, but Brocky is God of Australian racing!

[enigmagem11]

IMO two of the best  and meanest cars to race bathurst were Brockies A9X Torana and Dickys XE Green Flacon.Great memories

[coomiekid]

a fkn legend, i got goose bumps, amazing man

[magpiesruleok]

Watched this race live on T.V. was glued to it all day ,thanks so much Brocky you truly were then and are now an Australian Legend!

[TheSkskitey]

Peter perfect the greatest , thanks to this age of technology the legend lives on , it will be a long time before anyone comes even close to his achievements , RIP Brocky .

[MrGroupClover]

it will never ever happen again thanks to the bullshit rules now of the pace car shit what ajoke yank shit infecting our bathurt and rip brocky what alegend thanks for all the glorios memories

[gregbassace1]

This car, & this driver will NEVER be repeated by anyone else in our lifetime. This final lap sums up best what Peter Brock was to my generation:

a driver with a God-gifted talent for driving hard, fast & was a gentleman on the track.

In today's format of tin-top racing ( V8 Supercars ), there will never again be a 6 lap lead or a car leading every lap from start to finish as all the cars in the field have identical mechanicals. It will have to take something special for this to happen again.

[JUSTICESEEKR]

R.I.P Brocky. King of the mountain forever.

[7977nobby]

i don't think the car was even slightly sideways once, compared to other cars,even other toranas,. of that era it appears to handle so much better, i guess the HDT guys had this car set up just right.

[monsterrocks]

@7977nobby you got that right i wonder what would happen if you pushed the car a little bit harder though it may slide a bit but it would be a slightly quicker lap depending on lines and speed etc :)

[Penqueen2010]

NO ONE will ever do Bathurst like Brocky......

[PeterHBne1]

I can't tell you how much I respect Peter Brock. I've interacted with Peter many times over many years, and yet I've never seen this legendary lap. Thanks SO much for the post.

[MrDrillah]

the best touring car driver to walk the planet.

[79Skater]

Haha the A9X makes that XA-XB Falcon look like it weighs 4ton the way it just smokes it up mountain straight lol!

[mahiru20ten]

The car is great, the driver is one hell of a driver, this combo makes perfection assured.

[bigzebra21]

The reason why the Volvo was in the race was Wheels magazine journo David McKay wanted to protest at the way the race was heading. Race cars v's production cars.So he entered a stock Volvo on Uniroyal (Taken over by Bridgestone I think) road tyres. Allowed by the rules, stupid though.The car finished 20th.

Peter Brock is still King of the Mountain

[cjwallow]

I love this ROCK ON

[64g15csr]

A9X = sex on wheels.. even if your a ford fan brocky is a legend... the reason the volvo was there was back in the day the bathurst 1000 was a production race...race em sunday sell em monday

[TheAMDkid]

overlapping the volvo BAHAHAH wtf is that pos shit out there for

[TIESPRIVATES]

True racing TRUE LEGEND

[tommygola]

THE car to have.. awesome.

[112choice]

a 2:21 on lap 161 in 1979 and they only made 39 A9X torrie's you dickheads holden?????

[HTmonaro69Rable]

thats why they call it brocktober because he is a bloody legend

[nixmuts]

Back in the day when there were drive ins and Conrod was a straight. Peter Brock, you still bring a tear to my eye.....

[vitalstatistic63]

The man was and still is a legend. Peter Brock.

[bmibiketrial]

torana the great.

Brock, need i say more

[197SIXXSIXXSIXX]

Still gets the hair standing on end,thanks Brocky.RIP MATE

[SPOOKSTR]

I pity anyone who missed those days of racing. What we have today is bullshit..

[IBLOWN]

@SPOOKSTR Absolutely right. I canot follow V8 Supercars. 2 of basically the same cars. Load of shit. These were the days of real racing. Many different manufacturers and different classes.

[smnmntl]

I wonder if the worms have eaten his eyes yet?

[zyoxx]

@smnmntl Thats abit ruff.

[brentano2277]

@smnmntl

Now why would you say something so blatantly inapproprate?

[Colhard]

@smnmntl

WANKER

[andcom05]

@smnmntl He was cremated, moron!

[Waratahoftroy]

a few things, he got slowed by traffic heading up to the cutting, also got some of his apex's wrong at the top of the mountain around reid park, he could of done a fair quicker lap.

Was there a better car than the torana, will there be a better one one day?

[Wrighty0505]

@Waratahoftroy Looks like he got Reid Park pretty right to me.

[funkmaster308]

Great to see Brocky lapping the Swedish Valiant before heading back down the hill.

[suerseidel]

Brock Rocks !

[greenfoam]

Awesome :) thanks for posting that up