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Peter Brock, the "King of the Mountain", comes out of retirement for a one off race in hopes he can clinch his 10th Bathurst title.

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Brock Goes Back to Bathurst
Peter Brock, the "King of the Mountain", comes out of retirement for a one off race in hopes he can clinch his 10th Bathurst title.

Full length documentary on Peter Brock's attempt to win his 10th Bathurst 1000.

Brock, 57, who won at Mount Panorama nine times in a variety of Holden Toranas and Commodores between 1972 and 1987, last drove at the legendary circuit in 1997, when he teamed with present V8 Supercar champion Mark Skaife.

But when Bathurst 1000 promoter IMG and AVESCO, the body that controls the V8 Supercar series, asked him if he would consider making a comeback, he did not have to think about it for too long.

"When the idea was put to me, I thought 'interesting proposal'. It really didn't take a lot of convincing. I think it's going to be one of the great adventures in my life," the icon of Australian motorsport said yesterday.

He insisted he was making a comeback for several reasons, among them the fact that his appetite for a high-speed contest had been whetted this year when he teamed with his son, James, and turned in a highly competitive effort in a Holden Monaro in the Targa Tasmania road rally.

But Brock also admitted a key reason for his return had been to underpin the financial stability of Team Brock, the V8 Supercar team he launched earlier this season.

The Commodore he and New Zealander Craig Baird will share at Bathurst was yesterday unveiled in its shiny, new, black and gold livery, a one-off paint job specifically for Bathurst.

The team runs on the smell of an oily rag with a budget of between $500,000 and $600,000, Brock said, "about one-twentieth that of HRT" (Holden Racing Team, the all-conquering Commodore squad).

"Trying to establish our team's brand was becoming very, very difficult," Brock said. "We were having some challenges put our way by others that wouldn't like us to achieve our full potential. So I thought, I'm going to make a stand here and this idea of driving at Bathurst, I'm going to do it.

"One of the facts of life is that I knew that if I was going to drive this car at Bathurst, that would get a lot of people pretty interested in supporting what we're doing.

"That would have a considerable flow-on effect to the year 2003 and beyond, so from a business perspective that was a pragmatic decision."

So can a man of Brock's age return to one of the toughest categories in motorsport and run near the front?

He will lack little in the way of experience and track knowledge, while his fitness, he says, will not be a problem since he has been working out in the gym and at the swimming pool for 90 minutes every day.

"I am as strong and fit as I have ever been in my life," Brock said. "But I'm not going there with any expectation at all.

"I don't have to go up there and be a certain position in the race or a certain lap time before I'm satisfied. I'm just going to be happy being there.

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