Thread: Whincup Breaks Peter Brock's Pole Position Record

Yes but he has also started a lot more races and we are only talking supercars. Brock did a lot of other racing that was not included. A lot more races in the standard season these days.
Its not really comparing apples with apples. Whincup has always raced with a premier team and had all the support bells and whistles, Brock did not and was also in the days where pole was not important. Today it is critical.

Very true,but brock did enjoy all the love holden could give him for many years.While blokes like Goss,Grice,Bartlett, had very little support.But i agree with your statement about brock driving in a lot more different types of races.If all of them were added up i think it would be a big total.

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I wonder if he would have so many if Ambrose had not left,,,

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I wonder if he would have so many if Ambrose had not left,,,

Good call it's something i have always wondered. Whincup started the year Ambrose left. There is strong mail Ambrose is heading back,Whincup Vs Ambrose would be bloody good to see.

Must remember that a lot of the race events have three races on a weekend and three separate qualifying sessions. Three pole positions up for grabs per race meeting instead of one back in the day.

Originally Posted by disco man

Very true,but brock did enjoy all the love holden could give him for many years.While blokes like Goss,Grice,Bartlett, had very little support.But i agree with your statement about brock driving in a lot more different types of races.If all of them were added up i think it would be a big total.

But Brock did not always have all that Holden could give. His early days were in private teams, then to HDT for a short stint, back to privateer teams for afew years, then back to HDT, low budget Volvo, BMW and second tier Ford, before back with HSV for a while, then his own team for a bit.
Back in the early days pole was no where near as important and often not sought.
Also no where the amount of races. From memory I think 78 for example was only 8 rounds and only 1 race each except for Wanneroo that had 2. Now days many more rounds with 2/3 races in the sprint rounds so possibly 2/3 podiums. And now 15 plus rounds and 30 odd races, compared with maybe 9 in the 70/80s.

Persnally I think Colin Bond, Jim Richards were better drivers than Brock.

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WELL GO MCLAUGHLIN, great young driver.