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Peter Brock killed in crash
08 September 2006
By DAVID BRAITHWAITE

Australian motor racing legend Peter Brock has been killed in an accident while taking part in the Targa West rally in Western Australia, motor sport officials have confirmed.


Brock, who was married with three children, was driving with colleague Mick Hone in a Daytona Coupe when the incident occurred.

A witness to the fatal crash says Brock appeared to lose control of his vehicle on a tight hairpin bend before slamming into a tree.

The rally spectator, identified only as Jock, told Philip Clark's program on Macquarie Radio that he was standing just metres from the site of the accident.

"The back end just slid out and that was it, it was all over," he said.

"The car didn't roll, the back end just slid out from behind him and slammed straight into a tree and it got him right in the driver's door."

Brock's co-driver Hone has been taken to hospital in a stable condition.

Aerial footage from the crash site showed the silver car nudged up against the trunk of a gum tree.

The car appeared to not be badly damaged, although a small amount of debris could be seen close to the impact zone.

A blue tarpaulin had been placed over the driver-side window.

West Australian police say a car competing in the rally crashed into a tree at Gidgegannup about 40 kilometres north-east of Perth about 12pm (AEST).

No other vehicles were involved, it is understood.

AdvertisementAdvertisement"As yet we still don't have any comment to make about it," a Targa West spokeswoman said, but motor sport officials have confirmed the driver was Brock.

The major crash investigation unit was at the scene, police said. Ambulances were not called.

The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) said in a statement the accident occurred at about 11.50am (AEST).

CAMS said it will conduct a full investigation into the incident.

"The co-driver has been conveyed to hospital in a stable condition," CAMS president Colin Osbourne said.

"CAMS will conduct a full investigation into the accident. In the meantime CAMS and event officials are working with the relevant civil authorities.

"On behalf of the motorsport community, CAMS offers its sincere sympathy to Peter's family and many friends."

The Targa West - which began in Perth yesterday - is a tarmac special stage rally which takes place over four days and is divided into two categories, competition and challenge, the latter catering for relatively standard specification road cars.

Brock, 61, from Melbourne, became Australia's best known motor sport personality and a dominant figure in the sport.

He was a dominant figure in Australian motor sport, winning the Bathurst 1000, Australia's most prominent domestic motorsport event, a total of nine times through the 1970s and 80s.

He won six Bathurst 1000 wins in seven years, including his victory in the 1979 event, which he won by a record six laps.

He retired from full-time driving in 1997.

Since 1997, he had made two return visits to Bathurst in 2002 and 2004 and returned to top-level touring car racing as a team owner of ``Team Brock'' in 2002 in the V8 Supercar category. A year later he sold his share in the team to Kees Weel.

In recent years, he occasionally competed in various motorsport events such as the Targa Tasmania.

Known as 'Peter Perfect' and the 'King of the Mountain', Brock retired from full-time racing in 1997 but returned to Bathurst to win a 24-hour race in 2003.

The editor of Wheels magazine, Jed Bulmer, says Peter Brock was the consummate driving professional who won many accolades, but will best be remembered for his mastery of the race circuit at Bathurst.

"You know the great Australian touring car race and a race which is regarded as one of the most difficult touring car races in the world and Peter was the nine-times winner there at what is known these days as the Bathurst 1000," he told ABC radio.

"He had a long and very successful career there, he was the 'King of the Mountain' as he came to be known."

[Norma J]

Shit! Another one gone. I just saw this on the news but didn't know it was Peter Brock. I heard Peter, but I swear they never said Brock. He was a vegan too. Good man.

What does his death mean to you, though?

[IntoTheGroovey]

I have no idea who this man is. RIP.

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Originally Posted by Norma J

What does his death mean to you, though?

nothing, nothing at all.


why?
does it have to mean something for me to mention it?

[Norma J]

HAHA.

[terminal pharmacy]

well if you are into car racing, losing an icon of motor sport is terrible. two aussie icons in a week, who's gonna shoot john howard and become the third dead icon

[king_buzzo]

whos peter brock?