Peter Brock --- Brock05 The Ultimate Resource ---Mr HDT's Scrapbook 2

By Sean Moylan
The Sun – October 1972.
Driving styles of Colin Bond and Peter Brock are so different many people are astonished the Holden Dealer team can function in harmony. Similar driving styles are just about the only things Brock and Bond don’t share.

After Brocks Hardie Ferodo win, 1972 will go down in the record books as the year of Toranas.

Already Colin Bond has clinched his second successive Australian Rally Championship – the only man to equal Frank Kilfoyle. Kilfoyle just happens to be the third member of the Holden Dealer Team.

Brock and Bond who form the circuit racing contingent of the HDT, both started motor racing on a similar scale.

Oran Park raceways manager Allan Horsley discovered Brock, who rose to stardom using his Austin A30.

There’s rivalry between Brock and Bond but it’s just the good-natured competition between two highly skilled equals.

Bond’s style is smooth, fluid and consistent. He has got the champion’ ability to lap hour after hour being easy on the car yet racing extremely fast.

On the other hand, Brock is a more aggressive driver. He drives through corners as if they had done him a personal insult. It’s the “tiger” that came out of Brock’s last few laps on the way to the chequered flag at mount Panorama. He’s beaten his opposition and Peter was showing the circuit he’d beaten it too.

There is no favouritism in the Holden Dealer Team because Harry knows he has two champions.

Aggressive DriverBond and Brock no doubt have ideas about who is the better driver. In November there’s an event that could almost have been invented to decide the issue.

The Dulux Rally on November 8 combines both rallying and racing. Harry Firth has entered two XU-1’s – one for Colin Bond and one for Peter Brock.