Brian Sampson is a retired Australian racing driver.

Sampson had a long career throughout the 60s and 70s, which he still continues as a hobby. Sampson was a mainstay of the Australian Motor Industries

Australian Motor Industries

Australian Motor Industries was an automobile assembly firm that was significant in the early history of the automobile industry in Australia.- Start of production :...

-Toyota Team at the Bathurst 500 from 1965 to 1970, winning Class A in 1969 in a Corolla

Toyota Corolla

The Toyota Corolla is a line of subcompact and compact cars manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the best selling nameplate in the world, with over 35 million...

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Well noted as a collector and racer of Cheetah racing cars, he is best remembered as Peter Brock

Peter Brock

Peter Geoffrey Brock, AM otherwise known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain" or simply as "Brocky" was one of Australia's best-known and most successful motor racing drivers. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other...

's co-driver to win the 1975 Bathurst 1000. He also won the 1977 Rothmans 500

1977 Rothmans 500

The 1977 Rothmans 500 was an endurance race for Group C Touring Cars. The event was staged at the Oran Park Raceway in New South Wales on 12 June 1977 over 222 laps of the “Grand Prix”circuit, totalling 582 km...

co-driving with Warren Cullen.

External links

• Brian Sampson’s Motor Racing Retrieved from www.speco.com.au on 6 April 2009