To celebrate the launch of the VC Brock Commodore, Petere Brock organised a "Race of Champions". He gathered 11 of his racing colleagues and boy dod they have some fun. Kerry's VC is the number 3 car raced by Dick Johnson.

Background on THE RACE OF CHAMPIONS 1980

Held at Calder raceway, as part of the Australian Grand Prix meeting November 15-16, 1980 as a promotional exercise for Brock’s HDT special vehicles operation. It was a two race format over the weekend.

The cars were all manual VC Brock Commodores fitted with half race cages and mandatory safety equipment (fire extinguisher, shoulder harness etc). The Momo steering wheels, were all hand engraved with the cars SV number and apart from the above features were identical in specification to the production 500 VC HDT’s. These combined with the “000” VC Prototype car made up the total 513 VC HDT Commodores produced.

The ROC cars were as follows:

Roc SV 1 White Charlie O’Brien
Roc SV 2 White Tony Edmonson
Roc SV 3 White Dick Johnson
Roc SV 4 White Bob Jane
Roc SV 5 White Kevin Bartlett
Roc SV 6 Red John Bowe
Roc SV 7 Black Peter Brock
Roc SV 8 White Jim Richards
Roc SV 9 White Didier Pironi
Roc SV 10 White Colin Bond
Roc SV 11 Red Jack Brabham
Roc SV 12 Red Did not compete

John Bowe (200pts 2nd/2nd) was declared the winner of this two heat series although Kevin Bartlett finished on the same points (200pts 1st/3rd) and Brock finished third overall (180pts 5th/1st).

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