Peter Wherrett

Peter Wherrett (9 June 1936 – 23 March 2009) was an Australian motoring and motor sport journalist and race car driver.

Wherrett was born in Marrickville, New South Wales. He learned to drive when his parents got their first motor car when he was twelve. Angry at the lack of motorsport performance in his family car, he complained to various newspapers and was hired in 1958 by The Sydney Morning Herald to write for them on the sport.

Wherrett was best known as the presenter and co-writer of Torque, a popular motoring television show from 1973 to 1980.

In 1967, Peter Wherrett set up Australia’s first post-license driver training school as "Peter Wherrett Advanced Driving". In 1980 he sold the school to his manager Peter Finlay.

Peter Wherrett drove Bathurst in a 1969 Mazda, in 1970 in a Ford and in 1974, 1975 and 1976 in Alfa Romeos.

From 1973, Peter Wherrett presented the ABC TV program series Torque and later a historical series called Marque, which is the only television program on that topic to be produced for free-to-air television. During the 1980s he explored the need to explore alternative energy sources in the series The Balance of Power. He also served as the motoring guru in the Channel Ten infotainment production Healthy, Wealthy and Wise, which aired from 1991 to 1999.

In 1974, Wherrett courted controversy on Torque, after he raised issues about the rear braking on the HJ model Holden Kingswood.

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