 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".