Peter Brock overrated?

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Originally Posted by ehast13

1 - Jim Richards
2 - Peter Brock
=3 - Frank Gardner/Pete Geoghan
=4 Mark Skaife
=4 - Allan Moffat
5 - Dick JOhnson/Harry Firth/Tander
6 - Colin Bond/Bob Jane/Allan GRice
7 - Bob Morris (pre 81 accident)/Craig Lowndes (wil davison and jamie whincup? too soon to tell)
8 - Glenn Seton/Steve JOhnson/Bruce McPhee
9 - Todd Kelly/Doug Chivas
10 - Rick Kelly/John Goss

with all due respects, i think you have just looked at a who's who of racing. steve johnson, will davison, garth tander, rick kelly?????? two have won 1 round between them, the other two had the best car by a mile
regarding richo at bathurst 74, he finished 5 laps behind kb/goss. allowing for the fact brock led by six laps when his car expired, that means richo would have finished 11 laps behind. that would be due to others not finishing compared to speed. in 1976 richo started sandown, did not lead to my knowledge and was in the pits by lap 15 before goss had a drive. at bathurst their car did not lead but made it through the first stint with goss at the wheel, and around 20-30 laps later the clutch went with richo at the wheel. richo was a great driver and your comparisons with brock are spot on, but it seems history does not portray your views early in his career, especially that goss blew it up. i would rate him in my top five maybe third or fourth
other names are probably correct - bruce mcphee, pete geoghan etc.
the difference between most of the drivers you have mentioned and the likes of moff, brock, craig, richo, johnson sr are that the five mentioned won many times in titles, bathurst, sandown etc.
i am too young (slightly) to have seen jane, firth, pete, mcphee etc. at their best but they do seem to have been the goods - along with beechey, matich, chivas etc