Wally’s Words The things you don’t see at Bathurst!
As Peter Brock’s public relations manager during Brock’s spell with the Holden Racing Team in the 1990s, Paul ‘Wally’ Weissel got to know the Great Man better than most. In this series, Wally recalls some of the fun from his time living with and managing the legend – the hilarious hijinks that were an inevitable part of life on the road with Brocky and the HRT…
It was great to see Supercars back on TV – and with fans there! – after what was a very disjointed 2020. Even better that it was at Bathurst and while watching the excellent Fox/Kayo telecast it brought a number of memories back to me.
My first trip to the Holy Grail of motor racing in Australia was way back in 1969. At the time I was a very young not-quite-19-year-old who had hardly ventured out of my home town of Albury. As it happened,
