Shane van Gisbergen and co-driver Garth Tander have claimed a second Bathurst 1000 victory as a duo after surviving a frantic sprint finish in Holden's farewell appearance at Mount Panorama. 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. Making way for Jacobson and Everingham is Zane . The pair were due to co-drive with Aussie privateer racer Tony Mulvihill at Spa, but unfortunately the Sydney driver failed to qualify. After the Sierra's were banned in their RS500 form at the end of 1992, Moffat decided to continue his long association with Ford and built an eye-catching Ford EB Falcon painted black and yellow in the colours of team sponsor Cenovis for the 1993 Tooheys 1000. Moffat and Gregg Hansford won in what was Moffat's first drive in the Sandown enduro in a Ford since 1979 and his first win in the traditional pre-Bathurst enduro since 1983. He is a celebrity race car driver. I taught 7600 pupils a no outsiders lesson and trained 1350 teachers. Here, children learn more about the programme and visit other local schools to tell pupils about it. Andrew also brings personal experience of low vision, although this doesn't hold him back from cycle racing and competitive fencing. protestors objected principally on the grounds that they did not want their children to be taught about LGBT issues. Moffat and his Coke Mustang were involved in two of the most memorable ATCC races on record. The second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. [8], Shortly after, he took a position at another primary school, Parkfield Community School, an academy also in the Birmingham area, as a Personal Social Health Education (PSHE) teacher and assistant head teacher. The. He started his racing career at the wheel of a Triumph TR3. The bank had been recording end of financial year losses and had decided that it would not be right to continue sponsoring the team after it was forced to lay off some 3,000 employees. In 1986, Moffat joined long-time rival Peter Brock's Holden Dealer Team to race a Holden VK Commodore SS Group A in the European Touring Car Championship and the late season Australian Endurance Championship races which included Sandown and Bathurst. Give it another shot! Motorsport Australia will establish an investigatory tribunal to look into Sunday's crash-affected Trans Am race at Symmons Plains. Aiden Moffat (born 28 September 1996) is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Laser Tools Racing. After only 15 laps of the second start (the first was aborted after the John Goss Jaguar XJS driven by European Touring Car Champion Tom Walkinshaw had stalled and was hit from behind causing the pit straight to be blocked), Moffat was forced to retire his car with terminal engine problems after only 15 laps and move into Hansford's, which had been originally intended to run about 20 laps, but lasted 161 (with Moffat himself only driving the middle 'lunchtime' stint and Hansford driving the majority of the race). Due to the severe tyre problems suffered by the works GTHOs, Moffat was called into the pits early to change tyres. At the end of 1990, the team suffered a blow when it lost its major sponsor ANZ. <p>Can we show you some, Something went wrong. Allan George Moffat (born 10 November 1939 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian-Australian racing driver known for his four wins in the Australian Touring Car Championship, six wins in the Sandown 500 and his four wins in the Bathurst 500/1000. Instead he managed to do something that very few had managed to do. created the Supercar scare. The citation itself was given by his old friend and sparring partner, Peter Brock. Moffat re-established his dominance in 1977 with a two-car factory-supported team under the Moffat Ford Dealers Team banner. It was at Parkfield where he first implemented his No Outsiders programme on inclusivity and tolerance for children in primary schools. Other wins included the 1974 Sandown 250 and the 1975 Rothmans 300. Moffat, therefore, made his debut in that race in 1969 in a Ford works team entered Ford Falcon XW GTHO. 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 . These are the ones you will hear a lot about in years to come. 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. In a 2014 interview with Australian Muscle Car magazine, Moffat told that he was livid following the failure at Bathurst after finding that the Getrag gearbox that broke in the Sierra had been the same one Rouse had used at the Spa 24 Hours and had done some 36 hours of practice and racing, well past its rebuild point. Allan Moffat quietly retired from competitive race driving after the Fuji win, keeping a promise he had made to himself and his wife Pauline that he wouldn't race beyond his 50th birthday (the Fuji 500 was run 2 days after Moffat's 50th). Due to the wet conditions the Mazda slid off the road at high speed, took out an ABC television camera cable and slammed head on into a bush that was hiding a tree stump. In 1980 he competed in various cars and in various countries. Both sides claim in documents filed in the Supreme Court that the legendary driver has been held captive or isolated by the other. 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. Allan George Moffat is a former racing driver from Australia, best known for his triumphs in the Australian Touring Cars Championship (ATCC) and races like Bathurst 500/1000 and Sandown 500. 2016. Final Results. This was followed by the 1986 Castrol 500 at Sandown. Moffat went into the ATCC race in second place behind the Nissan of George Fury, and with the Nissan team not attending the meeting Moffat needed to finish no lower than fifth to claim his fourth title. He has since worked as a TV commentator for Channel 7 and a spokesman for BMW. [6][5] Moffat's last race, and indeed last race win, was in 1989 driving with Niedzwiedz. DeKon began producing a few silhouette race cars for IMSA GT class racing, using the Chevrolet Monza as a shell. Andrew Moffatt, 1850 - 1943 Andrew Moffatt 1850 1943. . The Ford squad swooped to sign Moffat when he left Garry Rogers Motorsport at the end of 2017. 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. Children: James Moffat, Andrew Moffat. Class: C-CLASS No NR. The Fuji race was held just two days after his 50th birthday). First appointed to the Board in August 2011. The car hit a tree stump (hidden by grass) which saw Moffat suffer a broken hand, a fractured sternum and heavy bruising. Moffat refuted these claims and made his comeback in Round 2 of the 1984 Australian Endurance Championship at Oran Park. Professional Race Car Driver Director - Enviroworx Ltd Youngest ever in BTCC ARDS Instructor/Tuition In 1967 he was appointed as a Ford development driver, and in 1968, drove the first two rounds of the Trans Am Series for Shelby American (Daytona 24-Hours, Sebring 12-Hours). The HDT's other car driven by John Harvey and Neal Lowe finished the race in 2nd place after a relatively trouble-free run. If you know of things missing or have corrections, please log in and submit them. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. Moffat had actually been near last on the first lap of the race after his Falcon became stuck in neutral as he was powering out of The Cutting. James Moffat(born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. Moffat is a Director of the Australian Institute for Motor Sport Safety (AIMSS). This race was also significant in that it was the last time Moffat raced at Bathurst. Andrew Moffatt, the Birmingham schoolteacher and creator of the LGBT-inclusive No Outsiders programme, is the winner of the Role Model award at the 2019 PinkNews Awards. He failed to place in the top 10 in 1969, finished 6th in 1970, 2nd in 1971 and 3rd in 1972. Moffat and Hansford then finished second to Peter Brock and Larry Perkins in the Castrol 500 at Sandown, and claimed third at the James Hardie 1000 behind the two Holden Dealer Team Commodores, who staged a 1-2 finish trying to copy what Moffat and Bond had achieved in 1977, though unlike the Moffat Ford Dealers Falcons which were on the same lap, the Brock/Perkins car was 2 laps ahead of teammates John Harvey and David Parsons. This rivalry popularised the annual 500/1000 KM race and made it a national event, even for non motor sport followers. In 2014 teacher Andrew Moffat resigned from a primary school in Birmingham after parents complained they did not want . 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. [11], In June 2019, Moffat, along with seven other prominent school leaders, presented a parliamentary briefing on behalf of the National Association of Head Teachers, entitled Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. Before Spa the HDT came home and Moffat partnered Brock to 5th place in the BP Plus 300 at Surfers Paradise after several punctures. He currently drives the No. [28], Moffat entered into a civil partnership in 2006.[1]. Moffitt is the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, a title captured driving for Hattori Racing Enterprises. [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. Allan Moffat also tested a Jaguar XJS at Bathurst in 1985. 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. Allan Moffat's Life Path Number is 7 as per numerology . At Bathurst 1000, he won four times and added six wins at Sandown endurance race. This was the first in a line of iconic Falcon hardtops and the last to tackle the Great Race under the official Ford Motor Company factory banner. Moffat, Brock and John Harvey finished the race itself in 22nd place after suffering two head gasket failures. [3] "[19][20], Moffat also runs an after-school club called Parkfield Ambassadors. Moffat continued as the team owner and manager of Allan Moffat Enterprises, which ran the RS500 Sierra's until the demise of Group A at the end of 1992. Moffat began to design the No Outsiders programme of learning prior to becoming assistant head teacher at Parkfield Community School, an academy school in Birmingham, UK. He has also went on to work with Many different schools. 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. Moffat returned to Australia but also spent more time in the US, continuing to drive the Cortina as well as Ford Mustangs for Carroll Shelby in Trans-Am with various Australian co-drivers including Trans-Am regular Horst Kwech and Ford Australia's, and future Holden rival, Harry Firth. We are a Motorcycle Track day organization offering expert coaching at every level. ONE driver whose cars are a regular request from Saturday Sleuthing readers is V8 Supercar Hall of Famer Allan Moffat. 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". Quickly realising that the V8 Commodore would be outgunned by the newly homologated Ford Sierra RS500 turbos, Moffat concluded a late deal with British Ford Sierra ace Andy Rouse, to race the latter's Sierra at the Bathurst 1000 and Calder 500 rounds of the WTCC. Agents of hope: EYFS/ Y1 lesson plan Text: Egg by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet Lesson plan by Andrew Moffat a.moffat@excelsiormat.org Learning Intention: to accept change Success Criteria: I know some things change, I know it's ok to be different, I know changes happen all the time, I am ok with changes On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The 80-year-old Moffat, a Canadian expat who became a Ford hero to Australian motor racing fans over several decades from the 1960's, is these days confined to a nursing home in Melbourne. Although Moffat and a number of other drivers raced Mustangs for ATCC competition - the five ATCC titles from 1965 to 1969 were won by Norm Beechey (1965) and Ian Geoghegan (196669) driving Mustangs - this car, modified to CAMS Improved Production Touring Car regulations was ineligible for the Bathurst 500 (later Bathurst 1000), which was restricted to standard production cars prior to 1973. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. Moffat and John Harvey also drove their Holden VL Commodore SS Group A to 4th outright and first in Div.3 at the 1987 Spa 24 Hours. </p> <p>Attention to all C8 New Car OWNERS . The car ultimately was a DNF after head gasket failure on lap 129 of 161 with Hansford at the wheel. Ford, smarting from the Phase IV controversy the year before, withdrew their factory teams from the competition at the end of 1973. This meant that the Brock/Moffat car would start 11th on the grid. Founded in the mid-1960s to support Moffat's touring car racing efforts, the team was closely aligned with Ford Australia's in-house racing team until it was wound up in 1973 (Moffat doubled as the works team's lead driver primarily driving GTHO Falcons). 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. He became the youngest driver ever to compete in the BTCC when he made his debut at the Knockhill round of the 2013 season . 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. [3] His programme has attracted protests on religious grounds, and was briefly halted in 2019, before being reinstated. He failed to finish the Bathurst 1000 in those years. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Allan Moffat and Jon Leighton drove a Ford Cortina Lotus to fourth place in the 1964 Sandown 6 Hour International at Melbourne's Sandown Park. The race was the first of what would eventually become the Sandown 500. 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. Andrew Fisher, 33, of Avon, was arrested on Feb. 23 for charges relating to the sexual exploitation of a child. Hours after the race, the Rothmans sponsored Commodore was declared the winner after a protest by a private BMW entry from Hungary had seen the works BMW M3's (which had finished 1-6) disqualified for being underweight (as of 2016 neither Moffat, nor Harvey, have possession of the winner's trophy as they never received it). Andrew Millard. Ultimately the Moffat lead Sierra would finish second behind the Sierra of Dick Johnson and John Bowe. 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. Membership Categories. By his own admission, Moffat did the wrong thing and turned his wipers on which only made the situation worse as it smeared the oil over the window, and with the race only being 13 laps long he was forced to carry on. 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). With the help of Tom Hamilton and chief mechanic Lou Mallia, he would go on to win 101 championship and non-championship touring car races from 151 starts in this car between 1969 and 1972, including the first-ever win by one of the seven factory Boss Mustangs built for racing in its debut at the Southern 60 at Sandown in May 1969, yet his dream of winning the ATCC in the Mustang eluded him. 1780m. The latest Head-to-Head comparisons generated for Allan Moffat. [14] The deal was rumored to have cost Moffat around A$300,000. Moffat was unable to repeat his 1977 successes over the following three years. Between them, Allan Moffat and Peter Brock won eight of 10 Bathurst 500/1000s between 1970-79. . The 21-year-old Scot therefore joins . Unfortunately the fuse for the overheating warning light had blown and Moffat's race only lasted until the hairpin on lap one before his rotary engine expired, handing an easy win to Brock. Contents However, due to the cold conditions the team put a cover over the front of the car to help warm up the engine. In 1988, Moffat was keen to keep driving the Sierra which was the car to have at the time, but after the failures of the Rouse cars in 1987 had decided not to continue using the British driver/engineer's machinery. In October 2018, he was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.[1]. He became the youngest driver ever to compete in the BTCC when he made his debut at the Knockhill round of the 2013 season. On 21 March 1975, he enhanced his reputation as an international class driver when he drove a BMW 3.0CSL with West Germany's Hans-Joachim Stuck, British driver Brian Redman and American Sam Posey to win the 12 Hours of Sebring for the factory-backed BMW Motorsport with many considering this win to be the 3.0CSL's crowning achievement in racing. This unfortunately caused the car to miss the Hardies Heroes Top 10 run off the next day as the car could not be repaired in time, its place in the top 10 being taken by the Commodore of former motorcycle racer Graeme Crosby. Before the 1988 Tooheys 1000, the Moffat team's last Australian win, and indeed Allan Moffat's last win on Australian soil, came in the 1988 Enzed 500 at Sandown driving the Eggenberger built Sierra. Facing pressure from the media and government not to produce this car, as entering it at Bathurst would also require at least 200 units to be sold at dealerships in Australia, Ford scrapped production of the Phase IV and forced Moffat and other Ford drivers to resort to year-old Phase III cars for Bathurst that year. Advertisement. Mini Challenge ace Ronan Pearson is to step up to the British Touring Car Championship this season with a plum seat in the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai squad. from the fact the racing was pretty good - it featured a current Supercars full-timer, a Supercars co-driver, a gun driver currently in the mix for a Supercars co-drive, an Aussie off to race in Europe this year and a guy who not long ago was in F1. This is an inclusive school that celebrates diversity. 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. Published: 2022-09-21. Then in 1972, he was involved in a race-long dice with Ian Geoghegan at the Easter round of the series (Round 3) at the 6.172 km Mount Panorama Circuit at Bathurst. </p> <p>If you have to cancel within 10 days, your spot will be offered to the waitlist. 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. With PMR fielding an all-new line-up in 2023, the fate of its 2022 drivers Ash Hand and Michael Crees is unclear. 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 car's V8 engine was built by another longtime Moffat associate, Kar Kraft, in the United States (who had supplied Moffat with his Boss Mustang back in 1969) and was built with a Carburetor instead of the fuel injection of the leading cars. As a founder share holder/Director I have been the driving force behind the development of the business since it's inception in 1998.<br>The company started moving cars for local motor auction houses in Scotland and has grow steadily to it's position today as one of the UK's largest and most flexible car delivery companies delivering more than 300,000 cars per annum throughout the UK.<br . The 1996 AMP Bathurst 1000 was the last time that an Allan Moffat-built or driven (in this case just built) car raced at Bathurst. Moffat's 351-cubic inch V8-powered Falcon title winner actually started its racing life the previous year in 1972. With Eggenberger waving his 'magic wand' over the Sierra, and Niedzwiedz leading the driving, the pair turned the car into one of the fastest on the track, qualifying 4th and winning the $40,000 "Tooheys Top Gun" run-off, which for the only time in its history wasn't for pole (Moffat's fastest time in practice was some six seconds slower than the German and eight seconds off the pole time set by Dick Johnson). The car was then immediately shipped to England for preparation for the first round of the WTCC. Andrew Fischer . Moffat's early success with the team included running the Trans-Am Ford Mustang he was given as a gift from Ford's American 'in-house' race car fabrication and engineering facility "Kar Kraft", with the car finished by Bud Moore Engineering. 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. 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. As a result of the meeting, Moffat resigned. 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. Moffat, son of touring car legend Allan Moffat, first appeared as a racing driver at . An emotional win for @J_Moffat in the first TransAm race of 2023. . Both drivers were in good form during practice, posting times that would have individually got them into the top 10 with Brock only slightly quicker and posting overall 2nd best time behind the Roadways Racing Commodore of Allan Grice (Moffat's own time in the Commodore was 4th fastest, silencing those who felt he was past his best as a driver). The 80-year-old, who is battling dementia, is in the middle of a heated tug of love between his estranged partner Susan McCure and his son Andrew and close friends. [10] The programme does not address sex or sex education. While Moffat was one of first real pros of local motor racing and an acknowledged expert at securing and keeping sponsors, his was also an ongoing struggle to find the funding to compete at the top level against rivals who sometimes enjoyed generous budgets. He had been eligible for citizenship since the early 1970s but, in his own words, "one way or another I never followed it through." The deal proved a disaster for Moffat as the car was retired at both the James Hardie 1000 and the Calder 500 before Moffat got his turn to race. Andrew's roles as Non-Executive Director and Chair, and in dispute resolution and academia, reflect his strong focus on optimising stakeholder engagement, especially in situations of profound conflict or disruption.<br><br>As a former Global Head of Equity Capital Markets in London and later Head of Corporate Banking of a big four Australian commercial bank, Andrew understands the entire . This significantly cut into the team's finances and plans to run the car in the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship were shelved. The HDT's 1986 European campaign was to be a precursor to an all-out attack on the 1987 World Touring Car Championship. If you know of things missing or have corrections, please log in and submit them. Six wins in the Sandown 500 including 1969, 1970, 1974, 1982, 1983 and 1988. Moffat also joined Murray Walker and later Darrell Eastlake in the Channel 9 commentary box during the touring car support races at the Australian Grand Prix meetings in Adelaide from 1985 to 1995. Moffat drove the RX-7 to four consecutive top-six finishes at Bathurst between 1981 and 1984 including a second in 1983 and 3rd in 1984 while winning his fourth and final ATCC title in 1983. Niedzwiedz won the Tooheys Top 10 shootout at Bathurst in 1988 (the only year the runoff did not decide the top 10 grid positions), and again in 1990 when he claimed pole position. Shell Ultra Australian Touring Car Championship, NZ Saloon Car Championship - Unlimited class, Bank of New South Wales NZ Saloon Car Championship 0-6000cc, Bank of New South Wales 0-6000cc NZ Saloon Car Championship, Trans-American Sedan Championship - Over 2.0, Trans-American Sedan Championship - Under 2.0, International 6 Hour Touring Car Race - Sandown, Channel 7 Breville Racing, Federation Insurance - Unipart. Laps: 161. 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. Allan George Moffat OBE (born 10 November 1939 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian-Australian racing driver known for his four championships in the Australian Touring Car Championship, six wins in the Sandown 500 and his four wins in the Bathurst 500/1000. 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. [15] Following continuing protests, the programme was temporarily halted at these schools in March 2019, whilst a resolution with parents and guardians was sought. Moffat then quit the team and purchased the brand-new Holden VL Commodore SS Group A that Brock had intended to take to Europe to compete in the World Touring Car Championship. Allan George Moffat OBE (born 10 November 1939 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian-Australian racing driver known for his four championships in the Australian Touring Car Championship, six wins in the Sandown 500 and his four wins in the Bathurst 500/1000.

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