PETER Brock – the name of the nine-times Bathurst 1000 winner is the key for the future of the Holden Racing team.
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That is the opinion of ex-Holden motor sport boss Josh Crennan.
Last week Holden announced they would only provide factory funding for the Triple Eight Race Engineering outfit owned by Roland Dane from next year onwards.
Crennan, who guided the HRT and Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) operations for two decades from 1991, believes associating the team with the name of legendary driver Brock could be the key going forward.
"I would be seeking to gain permission from the Brock family to use the Brock name and I would have that seen as a memorial to Peter Brock so that the Brock name could live on with his connection to HDT [Holden Dealer Team] and HRT," Crennan said.
Crennan also believes Walkinshaw Racing boss Ryan Walkinshaw is to blame for the decline of Supercars' most successful team.
Over the past 26 years the Holden and Walkinshaw Racing partnership has resulted in six drivers' championships and seven Bathurst 1000 wins.
Crennan says Walkinshaw has made "monumental mistakes" since inheriting ownership of the team.
He feels the poaching of respected team manager Adrian Burgess from Dane's team in 2013 hurt HRT.
"His appointment of Adrian Burgess created an intense enemy in Roland Dane whose experience, influence and guile to my mind was always going to see a monster come back at some point," Crennan told Speedcafe.
