Bill Brown's Double
1970 - Bill Brown's Double
On lap 43, just after 11 o'clock, Epping newsagent Bill Brown survived probably the most well known crash in the race's history. Into the infamous McPhillamy Corner, where on that day the very brave drivers would just show the sole of their right foot to the brake pedal to reassure themselves, a front tyre blew on the Newell entered GTHO.
The Falcon rolled over and over along the timber sleeper fence on the outside of the circuit, ripping itself open like a sardine can, and finally coming to rest upside down like a great broken backed whale, almost killing a course marshall who had the intelligence to drop everything and run.