Giving it a red-hot go...

Nov 20, 2010 23:35

Peter Brock, voted #1 all-time greatest Australian touring car driver today. YES! And Lowndes made the top ten as well ( Read more... )

peter brock, v8 supercars, craig lowndes

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miwahni November 21 2010, 09:34:57 UTC
Heh - scary because I'm old enough to have watched nearly 50 years of V8 / touring car racing! Went to Bathurst for the first time in 1970....

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newsy891 November 20 2010, 23:20:31 UTC
I gave falcadore a giggle with this factoid some time back... in the early 2000s, one of the many politicians I pestered repeatedly as a reporter was then-Missouri Governor Bob Holden.

...Somehow I don't think that's the same guy as #35 there...

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miwahni November 21 2010, 09:36:42 UTC
Well what DO racing car drivers become when they hang up the helmet? Not much difference between politics and sport, or so the competitors will tell you....
(and did falcadore enlighten you to the fact that Bob Holden was most famous for driving a Ford? *g*)

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falcadore November 20 2010, 23:34:17 UTC
I read the pre-top ten version of the article yesterday. Totally amateur. Riddled with errors and typos. Much less interested in the final version today because of that.

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miwahni November 21 2010, 09:38:46 UTC
Was it really? Must confess I only skimmed it, waiting for the final results to be announced. And won myself a little bet on the top placing, even though it was a dead cert who would be in the #1 possie.

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jaicen5 November 26 2010, 09:14:16 UTC
Always went for Peter Brock, shame he died so young.

Happy birthday by the way, I'm just trying to catch up after my overseas visit.

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miwahni November 26 2010, 11:51:19 UTC
Thank you for the birthday wishes. Where did you go on your trip?

Brockie was my hero for years and years; I still hold a minutes' silence on 8 September every year in his memory.

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jaicen5 November 26 2010, 13:52:12 UTC
went to Europe and the UK. Was away for 6 weeks and have had a hectic RL since getting back so i'm very behind with LJ.

I always backed holden against ford and Peter Brock was much better looking than Dickie.

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miwahni November 27 2010, 10:01:06 UTC
Mate a tent peg's better-looking than Dickie! He's always looked like a bloodhound.
Europe and UK for six weeks would have been fun! I know what it's like trying to catch up though. I had five weeks in the UK earlier this year; didn't look at my flist in all that time and didn't even try to catch up once I got back.

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