RIP Peter Brook

[Teebird]

RIP Peter Brock

Peter Brock has been killed in a car accident.

Racing legend Brock killed in car crash
Australian motor-sport legend Peter Brock is dead after his car hit a tree east of Perth today.
Brock was competing on the first day of the Targa West Rally when his vehicle hit a tree near the small community of Gidgegannup.
His co-driver has been taken to hospital but his condition is not known.
Brock was 61 years old. No other cars are believed to have been involved.
Known as 'Peter Perfect' and the 'King of the Mountain', Brock won the Bathurst 1000 nine times in the 1970s and 1980s and won the 1979 race by a record six laps.
He retired from full-time racing

abc.net.au/news

 

[ColinEssex]

Did he race outside Oz? I've never heard of him.

Col

 

[Teebird]

No - Very well known in Australia - this week AUS has lost 2 very great Australians. Steve and now Brockie....

 

[ColinEssex]

So is this chap Brock (or Brook as you titled it ) going to get a state funeral too?

Col

 

[Pauldohert]

Queensland has a population of 4 million ish, so would it be the equivalent of a service at Birmingham Cathedral and drinks at the town hall (for Steve Irwin), which would be fair enough.

Or are we talking a Diana esque, mass over reaction? And cancelling the footy!

 

[Adeptus]

As stated in the other thread, Irwin turned down the state funeral.
They are having (have had?) a private funeral, and are having a public memorial, at Australia Zoo of course. Tickets went on sale today.

I believe Brock was offered a state funeral, can't remember what the response was. That probably makes me un-Australian

And nobody would be game to cancel the footy, there'd be riots