The 1970s was a pivotal decade for 'Bathurst' -- dominated by two giants of touring car racing. He won four times at Bathurst and also took four touring car championships, as well as national titles in sports cars and sports sedans, and was Ford's frontline fighter until Dick Johnson hit the big time. Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. Between them, Allan Moffat and Peter Brock won eight of 10 Bathurst 500/1000s between 1970-79. . While not showing any discomfort on RaceCam, he was unable to push as hard as he would have liked although he lost no time to the leaders during his driving stints. Peter Brock won the race in his XU-1 Torana while Moffat kept his points lead by finishing second despite having to start at the rear of the grid. If you know of things missing or have corrections, please log in and submit them. In 1985 he took his own RX-7 that he campaigned previously in Australia to Daytona for the 24 Hour race, sharing the car with Australian drivers Gregg Hansford, Kevin Bartlett and Peter McLeod. Andrew Fischer . The team's first Bathurst with a Falcon since 1980 did not turn out much better than their previous attempt which had only lasted 3 laps. James Moffat is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. If you know of things missing or have corrections, please log in and submit them. He also appears at various Ford club events across Australia, promotes his longtime backer GT Radial Tyres, and more recently (2009-) has been seen in television adverts in Australia promoting Ford Performance Vehicles GT Falcons. In 1971 he went into the 7th and final round at Oran Park only 4 points behind three-time ATCC champion Bob Jane in his 7.0 litre Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1. James Moffat (born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. The Fuji race was held just two days after his 50th birthday). Moffat made his dbut in the British Touring Car Championship with Finesse Motorsport in the Jack Sears Trophy for S2000 cars at the Knockhill round of the 2013 season at the age of 16 years, 10 months and 28 days, less than 12 months after racing in the Ginetta Junior series finale at Brands Hatch. Laps: 161. He started his racing career at the wheel of a Triumph TR3. The team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. The pair drive Moffat's Sierra (with Ruedi Eggenberger again on hand to engineer the car) in the InterTEC 500 km race at the Fuji Speedway in Japan. Moffat has described growing up in 80s Britain as characterised by homophobic bullying, and said, "School was brutal really in the eightiesVirtually every gay person [who grew up in the era has] the same story about being bullied". With PMR fielding an all-new line-up in 2023, the fate of its 2022 drivers Ash Hand and Michael Crees is unclear. He is a celebrity race car driver. This significantly cut into the team's finances and plans to run the car in the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship were shelved. Moffat's two sons Andrew Moffat and James Moffat have followed their father into motor racing. More racing: Classic . [13], The same year, Moffat was a finalist for the Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation.[11]. With the arrival of Group A regulations in 1985 the RX-7 proved uncompetitive and Moffat sat out the season, racing only once in his Bathurst RX-7 at the 24 Hours of Daytona, although Moffat did test a Mazda 929 at Calder in late 1984, before Mazda decided to withdraw the cars due to uncompetitive times. Moffat then went on to finish second behind Brock in the Surfers Paradise 300 to claim the final Australian Endurance Championship, and the final ever championship run under CAMS Group C rules. Andrew Miedecke was again lead driver and qualified the aging EB Falcon in 16th place but co-driver Mark Noske never got a drive with the car retiring on lap 16 with engine trouble. Top speed: 300km/h. While it was extremely close between the New South Welshman and James Golding in Qualifying , Mawson was far more dominant in the race as he finished more than six seconds ahead of . The team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. Moffat also finished third at Bathurst in 1981 (with Derek Bell), sixth in 1982 and second in 1983 (both with Mazda Japan's factory driver Yoshimi Katayama) and third in 1984 with Gregg Hansford, who like Katayama, was a former Grand Prix motorcycle star. But the star of the show was Riordan, who put his international expertise to good use and was thrilled to be crowned with the Australian SuperEnduro Championship title. Its colourful livery is still remembered fondly by race fans 27 years since it debuted! In 2019, following Moffat's nomination for the Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation, protests grew and spread to other schools in the area. This saw the team privately enter Falcons in both the 1979 and 1980 Bathurst 1000's. [22][23], In April 2020, Moffat released a second book, No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome, an updated book about the programme. The experience was an unhappy one though as Moffat did not get to drive in either race, with the Sierra expiring under Rouse before his first stints at the wheel were scheduled to finish. Moffat and his Coke Mustang were involved in two of the most memorable ATCC races on record. Moffat refuted these claims and made his comeback in Round 2 of the 1984 Australian Endurance Championship at Oran Park. British motorsport brand, Ginetta, has today announced it is to enter a new three-year partnership with global leader in GT racing, SRO Motorsports Group. At the time of his crash, Moffat had been sitting 3rd in the ATCC (behind Peter Brock, who would miss two rounds while racing at Le Mans, and eventual champion Dick Johnson) after a 3rd at Sandown, DNF at Symmons Plains and a win at Wanneroo and still considered the favourite to retain his 1983 title. The car ultimately was a DNF after head gasket failure on lap 129 of 161 with Hansford at the wheel. Father of Andrew Moffat. Never the most naturally-talented driver, he was ruthless about getting the best from himself, his team and his cars. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. Niedzwiedz gave the Moffat-ANZ team pole position at the 1990 Tooheys 1000 while he had also won the Top 10 run-off in 1988 when race regulations meant that the run-off did not count for grid positions. Moffat and Hansford went on to win the 1988 Enzed 500 at Sandown in what was Moffat's last ever win in Australia. In a significant partnership, car builder Eggenberger and ace driver Niedzwiedz joined Moffat at Bathurst every year from 1988 to 1992 excluding the 1991 race when they were not available due to other commitments. Allan Moffat Racing was at various times the official factory team for Ford and Mazda in Australian touring car motor racing as well as racing Holdens and Chevrolets. In October 2018, he was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.[1]. By the midpoint of the race the Moffat/Ickx car and the Bond/Alan Hamilton car led the field by over two laps. 1984 was a tough year for Allan Moffat Racing. At mid-race, Moffat was forced to slow in order to free a jammed gearbox but battled back to only be six-tenths of a second behind Jane at the finish. MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia - Four-Time Bathurst 1000 winner Alan Moffat, known as 'Mr Ford' for much of his career, is battling health and legal issues in the final days of his life. The event was marked by the fact that it was only the second time Moffat had raced a Holden and the first time that he was driving in the same team as his archrival Peter Brock. He failed to place in the top 10 in 1969, finished 6th in 1970, 2nd in 1971 and 3rd in 1972. [12] The presentation in Westminster and accompanying document advised parliament on current policy, and asked for clarity and support in providing education around the Equality Act 2010's protected characteristics. </p> <p>Attention to all C8 New Car OWNERS . Moffat, who was awarded an MBE by the Queen in 2017 for services to education, also runs an after-school club which he says helps create opportunities for children at his school to meet people of . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. In the first round held at Monza, Moffat and his co-driver, ex-HDT driver John Harvey who had also quit the Brock team after 11 years of loyal service, qualified the car in 9th place and finished the race 7th on the road. Moffat qualified the car in 38th (12th in the GTO class) and eventually finished 24th and 7th in class, some 221 laps behind the race winners. Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. In what was his biggest crash since rolling his XA Falcon at Phillip Island in 1973, Moffat suffered a fractured sternum and broken finger in the accident, while the RX-7 was a write-off. This moment is remembered as one of the most famous in Australian motor sport history and still regarded by many as Ford's finest hour. [2][5] Moffat was also responsible for training primary school teachers on how to manage homophobic bullying, using resources, some of which he had written while a teacher, including Challenging Homophobia In Primary Schools: An early years resource (2007), later published as Challenging Homophobia In Primary Schools (CHIPS) (2012). With a career ranging from 1965 to 1989 racing Ford, Holden and even Mazda's. Moffat had four championship wins in the Australian Touring Car Championship including 1973, 1976, 1977 and 1983 seasons. To the amazement of Ford team manager Al Turner, Moffat's tyres were not as near worn as those on the lead Geoghegan brothers or the Gibson/Seton Falcons, showing that Moffat was a driver who could be kind to his car and still go fast. The two most successful drivers in Australia were immediately successful, winning the 1986 Wellington 500 in New Zealand in the brand-new Holden VK Commodore SS Group A. Moffat and Brock then went to Europe to race in the FIA Touring Car Championship (formerly the European Touring Car Championship) with two 5th placings at Donington and Hockenheim being their best on-track results. This rivalry popularised the annual 500/1000 KM race and made it a national event, even for non motor sport followers. [28], Moffat entered into a civil partnership in 2006.[1]. 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In a pit interview moments after the car was officially retired, a glum but remarkably composed Moffat said that the engine of the Sierra basically had a "heart attack". Since then Andrew has worked in a behaviour unit, a Nurture group, as an AST in behaviour management and inclusion, as manager of a behaviour resource in a primary school and, since 2014, as Assistant Headteacher at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham. Moffat is now 79 and many of his toughest race rivals, including Peter Brock, Bob Jane and Ian 'Pete' Geoghegan have died. Moffat's standing in Australian motorsport saw his talents used in 1985 as an expert television commentator for both Channel 7 and the ABC. Moffat first entered the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) in 1965, driving a Lotus Cortina. Moffat looked headed for a historic third straight Bathurst victory in 1972 when Ford unveiled plans for a "Phase IV" Falcon GTHO, even faster but more subtle than the Phase III which Moffat had taken to victory in 1971. James Moffat(born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. Ultimately the Moffat lead Sierra would finish second behind the Sierra of Dick Johnson and John Bowe. Andrew awarded MBE for his work in equality and diversity in education. Moffat's team entered two cars in the race, but only listed Moffat and Hansford as drivers, and had to fight with Bathurst race organisers the Australian Racing Drivers Club (ARDC) to be allowed to start both cars, as both drivers had qualified inside the top 10 (race regulations stated that the top 8 qualifiers were locked in to participate in the Hardies Heroes top 10 run-off, with Moffat 5th and Hansford 6th). Moffat also competed at the 24 Hours of Daytona in an RX-7, taking a class win in 1982 with co-drivers Lee Mulle and Kathy Rude. Niedzwiedz had taken the lead from the Sierra of Tony Longhurst on lap 29 when Longhurst lost a lap with a throttle problem, and the car remained in the lead for 100 laps before a vapor lock (caused by the car cooling down too much during a safety car period) led to the car's failure. Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. Six wins in the Sandown 500 including 1969, 1970, 1974, 1982, 1983 and 1988. While Moffat made the RX-7 a regular race winner on the shorter and generally flatter Australian tracks, he believes the extra weight in the car was what made it impossible to match the V8's at Bathurst. Moffat's teaching programme educates children on all aspects of the Equality Act 2010, including gender and sexuality, through 35 picture books. The race though only gave the Brock/Moffat team 5th place after they lost some 7 minutes in the pits bypassing a leaking oil cooler. 1984 would prove to be a frustrating year for Moffat. Despite being declared the outright winners of the race, they did not receive championship points as the team had not paid the USD$60,000 championship entry fee imposed by series promoter Bernie Ecclestone (only cars whose teams had paid the fee were eligible for points, this saw some leading teams, notably Tom Walkinshaw's TWR who were also to race a Holden Commodore, pull out of the championship before it began). He eventually finished in an easy third place behind teammate Gregg Hansford in the team's second RX-7, and race winner Peter Brock in his HDT Commodore SS to claim the ATCC by just six points. [25][18][26] He did not come out to his family until he was 27. 2017. Following the race, Moffat protested Geoghegan's Falcon but the protest was dismissed after Geoghegan's crew had time to wipe away the excess oil before the scrutineers could examine the car. He failed to score a point in the opening round of the 2017 BTCC Season, but took his first win in the next round at Donington Park. Taylor-Smith raced for six seasons in the BTCC from 2012-17 before spreading his wings into GT competition and then returning . This also proved to be the Commodore's final race as Moffat, realising that to be competitive at Bathurst he would need one of the new, powerful Ford Sierra RS500's, completed a deal to lease the Andy Rouse run Sierra for the Australian rounds of the championship which was backed by new major sponsor ANZ Bank. With Ford Australia pulling out of motor racing after 1973, Moffat competed as a privateer through the 1974 and 1975 seasons. Moffat also continued to race his Monza in Sports Sedans to some success. He persuaded Swiss touring car tuning ace Ruedi Eggenberger to build him a customer Sierra RS500 that was identical to the works Fords that the Eggenberger team was using in the renamed ETCC. [10] The programme does not address sex or sex education. Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. [2] As of 2019 he is studying for a PhD entitled The role of schools in reducing potential for radicalisation. Following the change from Improved Production to Group C for the ATCC in 1973, Moffat's Boss 302 Mustang was no longer eligible for that series. [14], The programme attracted criticism and protest at the school from a vocal minority of parents when it was introduced. Other than Moffat himself, those who drove for Allan Moffat Racing over the years are as follows (in order of appearance): Official Programme, Sandown, 1114 February 1982, page 8, Official Programme, Adelaide International Raceway, Sunday, 1 May 1983, page 31, Official Programme, Mount Panorama Bathurst, Sunday, 2 October 1983, page 65, Official Programme, Mount Panorama Bathurst, Sunday, 30 September 1984, page 65, Learn how and when to remove this template message, 1989 Fuji Inter-tec 500 km at History of Touring Car Racing, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan_Moffat_Racing&oldid=1120220672, 1982 Nissan-Datsun 300 at Adelaide International Raceway - Allan Moffat (Mazda RX-7), This page was last edited on 5 November 2022, at 20:47. Andrew van Leeuwen. Moffat and his long-time friend and rival (and later co-driver) Peter Brock are the only drivers to have won The Great Race at Bathurst in both its 500-mile and 1000-kilometre formats. THE 2022 BATHURST GRID. By 1969 Moffat had returned to live full-time in Australia and from 1969 he had become a regular ATCC competitor and his bright red Coca-Cola-sponsored Ford Boss 302 Mustang, which was supplied brand-new to Moffat from Ford's American 'in-house' race car fabrication and engineering facility "Kar Kraft" and finished off by Bud Moore Engineering, was unmistakable at circuits around Australia. With this car Moffat and his team won an incredible 101 of the 151 events entered, though surprisingly he was not able to secure the Australian Touring Car Championship with the Mustang, losing out twice to the Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1 of Bob Jane in 1971 and 1972. This was followed by the 1986 Castrol 500 at Sandown. Then early in Friday's qualifying session Moffat, in what turned out to be his only serious crash at Bathurst, put the 05 Commodore into the wall at the top of the mountain. In 2019, it was reported that Moffat was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and had been moved to a specialist health care facility, with his friends and Bathurst legends Fred Gibson and Larry Perkins ensuring his will instructions to be carried out. After his crash at Surfers, there was much speculation in the motor racing press that the 45-year-old was going to retire from full-time driving at the end of the year. The track: 6.213km. Much to the dismay of the Aussie Ford fans,[citation needed] Moffat left the "Blue Oval" brand in 1981 to drive a Peter Stuyvesant-sponsored Mazda RX-7 as both the ATCC and Bathurst began to exhibit a shift towards lighter touring cars with less raw power. Moffat also races as a co-driver for Tickford Racing in the Pirtek Enduro Cup in a Ford Mustang GT, alongside Cameron Waters. Driven by Charlie O'Brien and Andrew Miedecke, the car qualified 18th but retired with gearbox failure after completing just 41 of the race's 161 laps. Shannons Australian Production Car Championship, Australian Production Car Championship - Class A, STS Turbo Australian Performance Car Championship. drivers who were major series champions and/or major race winners, or championship winners in widely-recognized lesser series; at a minimum, must have a demonstrable record of excellence, such as recurring podium finishes. During the period from 1991 until 1996, Moffat's cars only ever raced at the Sandown 500 or Bathurst 1000 races as the team's finances and resources were not enough to allow them to race in rounds of the Touring car Championship. This deal also left Harvey without a drive for the rest of the year as Rouse and his co-driver Thierry Tassin would share the driving with Moffat. Advertisement. For 1970, Ford Australia had made significant improvements to the Falcon XW GTHO Phase II over the previous year's model and Moffat, racing without a co-driver, took the car to two crushing victories in both the 1970 and 1971 Bathurst races, and also the 1970 Rothmans 250 Production Classic endurance race. He currently drives the No. [14] Across NASCAR, F1, IndyCar, and others. Hand impressed during his rookie season, and Autosport sources indicate that he has been put into a situation whereby he will be forced to sit out the coming campaign while working on a BTCC return in 2024. Mar 1, 2023, 12:21 AM. Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. The car was then a DNF at the next two rounds at Jarama and Dijon before Moffat and Harvey drove the Commodore to a sensational fourth place outright and a class win at the Spa 24-hour race. Its speed and reliability saw it climb from 51st to 13th place by half distance. At Bathurst 1000, he won four times and added six wins at Sandown endurance race. Moffat maintains the view that he never wanted to pit at the time and that had he been left "to his own devices", he and Alan Hamilton would have won 1969 500. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. In what was also his last Bathurst race, Klaus Niedzwiedz returned to the team, where he joined production car expert Ken Douglas in a strong run to finish 10th after Niedzwiedz qualified the older model (EB compared to the EF) and underpowered Falcon in 25th place. [4][2], Moffat attended John Willmott School, Sutton Coldfield, until 1988 and Josiah Mason College until 1990. We are a Motorcycle Track day organization offering expert coaching at every level. Age-appropriate books are used as part of the programme to illustrate key concepts, such as Odd Dog Out by Children's Book Prize winner Rob Biddulph which covers inclusion, Stonewall Book Award winner Julin Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love which looks at diversity and gender roles, and And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson which looks at same-sex marriage and parenting. TRIPLE EIGHT RACE ENGINEERING/RED BULL AMPOL RACING Published: 2022-09-21. Ford's two factory Falcon XAs at Sandown in 1973. Under this partnership, Ginetta will run three championships which will compete at Intelligent Money British GT Championship rounds from the 2023 season. In 2014 teacher Andrew Moffat resigned from a primary school in Birmingham after parents complained they did not want . [1], In May 2019, Moffat led Birmingham Pride along with LGBT Muslims Saima Razzaq and Khakan Qureshi. Moffat ran the Mustang in Sports Sedans in 1973 and 1974, though he refused to follow the trend at the time of moving the engine back in the cabin, later stating in a 2004 interview he "was never going to contaminate such a jewel", though he did replace the bodywork with fiberglass to avoid damaging the cars sheet metal. He was a young man when he first raced for us in 2002 and being part of his growth from a promising youngster into a race winner and then into one of the most successful drivers in the history of the BTCC has been very special. THE RACE. He has also assumed responsibility for delivering the Right Respecting Schools programme, a UNICEF initiative which ensures a safe learning environment based on children's rights. It was at Parkfield where he first implemented his No Outsiders programme on inclusivity and tolerance for children in primary schools. Although there were accusations that the RX-7 was a sports car and not a touring car (including Moffat's former Works Team boss, Howard Marsden, who by the 1980s led Nissan's racing program in Australia), Moffat was able to win the 1983 ATCC (his 4th and last title) as well as finishing second at Bathurst in 1983 and third in 1984, the last year of the locally developed Group C Touring Car rules. During this time, Moffat also raced in the Australian Sports Sedan Championship, winning the inaugural national title in 1976 driving both a Ford Capri RS3100 and (in a shock to Ford fans), a DeKon built Chevrolet Monza. The second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. In a deal that involved Moffat agreeing not to race in Australia in 1967- and with assistance from Shell, the very powerful 180bhp twin-cam engine from Jim McKeown's Shell-Neptune Lotus Cortina was shipped to America and installed in one of the Mann cars- McKeown was Moffat's co-driver. Moffat qualified the Commodore in 18th place, one place behind Peter Brock's HDT Commodore and 5.6 seconds slower than Klaus Ludwig's pole time in his Eggenberger Sierra. He has since worked as a TV commentator for Channel 7 and a spokesman for BMW. This meant that the Brock/Moffat car would start 11th on the grid. Moffat himself was hampered by an injured wrist sustained in Friday's crash. Complete British Touring Car Championship results, Complete TCR UK Touring Car Championship results, Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com, 2014 British Touring Car Championship season, "Donington BTCC: Moffat takes maiden win in Race 1", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aiden_Moffat&oldid=1129732938, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 26 December 2022, at 21:47. [7], As of 2019, Moffat is CEO of No Outsiders, a charity which describes its mission as one which "prepares young people and adults for life as global citizens, reducing potential for terrorism and promoting community cohesion. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. Peter Brock won the race that year for arch-rival manufacturer Holden after wet weather and brake dramas hobbled the Fords. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. "[21], In 2020, the school announced Moffat had taken on a development lead position across the academy trust, in order to train more teachers to deliver the No Outsiders programme. The programme addresses issues of inclusion, and covers topics which are protected by the 2010 Equality Act, including religion or belief system, race, gender reassignment and sex, not sexual orientation. Due to the severe tyre problems suffered by the works GTHOs, Moffat was called into the pits early to change tyres. For the 1994 Tooheys 1000, Moffat had his race engines supplied by Dick Johnson Racing and the team, with drivers Miedecke and Englishman Jeff Allam were more competitive, qualifying 16th and finished a well-deserved 8th, only four laps behind the winning Falcon of Dick Johnson and John Bowe. The. competing against his half-brother Andrew . The 33-year-old series veteran completes an all-Irish line-up at the wheel of the Midlands squad's Vauxhall Astras, with Dubliner Taylor-Smith joining Northern Irish GT convert and BTCC rookie Andrew Watson. Moffat won the fight with the ARDC and his decision to start both cars was vindicated when his own #43 RX-7 was involved in a car banging dual with the Falcon of Steve Masterson soon after the original start. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. Moffat's 351-cubic inch V8-powered Falcon title winner actually started its racing life the previous year in 1972. created the Supercar scare. Other touring car endurance race wins by Allan Moffat Racing include: Although not a win for AMR, Allan Moffat also drove to outright victory for the BMW Motorsport team in the 1975 12 Hours of Sebring driving a BMW 3.0 CSL alongside Hans-Joachim Stuck and Brian Redman. 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