{"id":518211,"date":"2026-03-04T13:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518211\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:46:17","slug":"supercars-news-peter-brocks-younger-brother-phil-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518211\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Peter Brock\u2019s younger brother Phil dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Supplied-1983_Phil_Brock_John_Harvey_Larry_Perkins_Peter_Brock_HDT_Team_Supplied.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Brock\u2019s younger brother Phil dies\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhil Brock (left) with John Harvey, Larry Perkins, and Peter Brock with the #05 Holden Dealer Team Commodore in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Phil was the youngest brother of Australian motorsport legend Peter Brock and affectionately known as \u2018Split Pin\u2019 due to his lofty stature.<\/p>\n<p>The Brock brothers won the 1976 Sandown 400 in a Holden Torana, beating Allan Moffat\u2019s Ford Falcon by two laps.<\/p>\n<p>Brock raced with his brother in the Bathurst 1000 on two occasions in 1976 and 1977, finishing third and then fourth.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Split Pin\u2019 was perhaps best known for missing out on winning the Bathurst 1000 in 1983 in controversial circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>That year, the leading #05 Holden Commodore of Peter Brock and Larry Perkins blew its engine just eight laps into the race.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Brock and Harvey took the reins of the sister #25 car of John Harvey and Phil Brock, leaving the younger brother on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Brock, Harvey and Perkins went on to win the race while Phil Brock never got to drive in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Brock was also known for his role as a stunt driver in the Mad Max film series throughout the 1970s and 1980s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/285241\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/285241.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Brock (left) with John Harvey, Larry Perkins, and Peter Brock with the #05 Holden Dealer Team Commodore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,41956,258824,12357,85],"class_list":["post-518211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-peter-brock","tag-phil-brock","tag-slot1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}