Peter Brock dies in accident

[fred.n]

RIP Brocky

Tis better to have tried and failed
than to have failed to have tried
A LEGEND in the sport

[E. maculata]

Shattered, but still I remeber a joke from my childhood after an L34 race win driven by Peter Perfect
A Holden fan goes to heaven, and Saint Peter is showing him around, as they look around the perfect Motorsports complex they spot a dignified Bloke attired in a Marlboro race suit, 05 on the back surrounded by thousands of obviously adoring fans. The new Fella says "crikey i didn't realise Brocky hasd passed on, what the heck happened?" Saint Peter looked at him with a puzzled expression, then finally said "ohhh you mean that spectacle over there, that's the Boss, he just thinks he's Peter Brock"

Thanks for the memories & good times Brocky,
Godspeed.

BTW someone above hit the nail on the head, when they pass on it reminds us of lost youth and our own inevitable mortality.

a mate of mine even named his son after him.

[Stuart]

http://www.responsiblegambling.qld.g...hs/myths.shtml

Al

None of those are relevant to my post. Sure, if you were looking at the history of 9 previous rolls, or coin tosses, what are the odds of the next one, but if you were looking at the next 10, what are the odd of at least one of them being the (un)desired outcome, then it is collective. Otherwise, why would we say that something is 1 in a 1000? Ie. if you tried 1000 times, the chances are at least 1 would work. That implies collectively, the odds are that at least once in 1000 attempts the event will occur.

[ozwinner]

None of those are relevant to my post. Sure, if you were looking at the history of 9 previous rolls, or coin tosses, what are the odds of the next one, but if you were looking at the next 10, what are the odd of at least one of them being the (un)desired outcome, then it is collective. Otherwise, why would we say that something is 1 in a 1000? Ie. if you tried 1000 times, the chances are at least 1 would work. That implies collectively, the odds are that at least once in 1000 attempts the event will occur.

I see you point, but not being a gambling person, I stick with the other theory.

I did find another post about coin tossing, but I didnt want to be see as ramming it home.

Al

[Grunt]

I didnt want to be seen ramming it home.

Except with your new labourer.

[ozwinner]

You sounded real interested in the job today on the phone though.

Al

[craigb]

So what part of Mt Panorama should be named after Brock do you reckon?

Conrod Strait, Forest Elbow, ....?

[ozwinner]

So what part of Mt Panorama should be named after Brock do you reckon?

Conrod Strait, Forest Elbow, ....?

Petes Patch
Perfect Straight
Brocks Bit
Brocks Brow
Pete's Pit Straight
Brocks Bend


Al

[Bob38S]

Didn't like the brand of car he drove - but he sure as hell could just about drive the wheels off it.

I admired/appreciated his skills and his efforts in sponsoring responsible driving.

Vale Brocky

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

The first words Brocky heard as he approached the Pearly Gates?

"Crikey! They got you, too!"





Sorry. [crawls back under my rock]

[Stuart]

So what part of Mt Panorama should be named after Brock do you reckon?

Conrod Strait, Forest Elbow, ....?

The Brock 1000.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Just heard on tonights news the investigators are waiting on the "gold box" recorder from the car. This made me think?? I've never heard of that before, maybe black box.... then I remembered.
Can anyone recommend a biography (auto?) of Peter as I would like to know more about that episode. All I can remember is that media crucified him and Holden dumped him. It would be good to know his side of the story.
Must admit I'm not a real sports person but I grew up with Brockys' wins and he was such an unaffected star that you couldn't help but like and admire the guy. He never let his head get into the stratosphere like other elite sports people.
God speed mate.

[craigb]

As I remember it, he was dumped by Holden because in the mid '80's he was promoting this "energiser" gizmo that you wrapped around your fuel line and somehow it magically "energised" your fuel so you got better fuel consumption and power output.

It was complete bollocks of course.

GMH told him to stop promoting it, he wouldn't, so they dumped him.

[Schtoo]

Just heard on tonights news the investigators are waiting on the "gold box" recorder from the car. This made me think?? I've never heard of that before, maybe black box.... then I remembered.

The only one of 'them' I saw wasn't gold, it was white. Supposed to help handling too, but not too many bought that claim either.

The 'gold box' is very VERY possibly a Motec data logger in the car. Since it was built by Mr. Motec, the car would logically be equipped with all kinds of data collection points, that all go into that box.

Prolly easy to find out exactly what happened, provided the data is intact, not that anyone really needs to know. In fact, I don't want to know since it will prolly point out something about Brocky that I don't want to hear.

[scooter]

It was called an "Energy Polariser" and was apparently a couple of magnets wrapped in foil in a box full of some sort of gel.

One of the motor mags tested a car fitted with it compared to a standard car & dismissed it as bunkum.

Bleedin, the bio I've read is by Bill Tuckey, it's called "the rise & fall of peter brock" I think. It was a pretty good read.


Cheers.................Sean