Andrew's school receives 'outstanding' Ofsted report, No Outsiders highlighted as a key strength. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. Brock qualified the car on pole but tyre problems in the race meant only a 4th-placed finish for the pair in their second-ever Australian race together. Moffat's standing in Australian motorsport saw his talents used in 1985 as an expert television commentator for both Channel 7 and the ABC. Other than his four wins at Bathurst, Moffat also won the Sandown Endurance race six times, being the only driver to win it under three different national regulations, these being Series Production (1969, 1970), Group C (1974, 1982, 1983) and Group A (1988). 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. During this time Moffat drove his RX-7 to victories in the 1982 and 1984 Australian Endurance Championships. Ultimately the Moffat lead Sierra would finish second behind the Sierra of Dick Johnson and John Bowe. While teaching a series of lessons about tolerance for people of different sexual orientations in 2014, the school received a complaint from a "Christian parent" objecting to the material and content of the lessons. Today we take a look at the last of . 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. Moffat's Monza was the fifth chassis (c/n 1005) to roll out of DeKon's Libertyville, IL shop in 1975. 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". Moffat was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to equality in education. Here, children learn more about the programme and visit other local schools to tell pupils about it. Moffat, a finalist for one of the most acclaimed educational prizes, the $1 million Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize, had designed No Outsiders around a series of children's books that promote equality across all sections of society. 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. Moffat, Brock and John Harvey finished the race itself in 22nd place after suffering two head gasket failures. 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. 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. Sydney-based motoring journalist Evan Green caught wind of these plans however and his article, with headlines across the country that screamed, "160mph Supercars on Our Roads!" The track: 6.213km. THE RACE. Listen to this article. Allan Moffat | Racing career profile | Driver Database Allan Moffat nationality Canadian and Australian age 82 years old born November 10, 1939 hometown Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Racing highlights Racing career summary Driver relations Father of James Moffat. He failed to finish the Bathurst 1000 in those years. 2017. With PMR fielding an all-new line-up in 2023, the fate of its 2022 drivers Ash Hand and Michael Crees is unclear. 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. 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. In 1980 he competed in various cars and in various countries. 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. 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. 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. Up against Geoghegan's more powerful, 5.8L "Super Falcon", Moffat, while being left behind on the long Mountain and Conrod Straights, was able to keep with the Falcon using its superior handling and brakes and again only lost by less than a second. Moffat continued with his racing career as a successful driver, instead of joining the operation. The rolling average of the graph is 10 days. These mildly modified cars replaced both the existing highly modified Group C Improved Production Touring Cars (which had contested the ATCC since 1965) and the virtually standard Group E Series Production Touring Cars (which had previously contested the Bathurst event). He is a celebrity race car driver. In 1982 he again competed at Le Mans in a factory RX-7-based sportscar, finishing sixth in class alongside Japanese co-drivers Yojiro Terada and Takashi Yorino. The race was the first of what would eventually become the Sandown 500. He failed to place in the top 10 in 1969, finished 6th in 1970, 2nd in 1971 and 3rd in 1972. This was the third ATCC win of his career, but this performance was overshadowed by the victory for Moffat and his new co-driver, Belgian Formula One driver and then four times 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Jacky Ickx in the 1977 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 at Bathurst. Moffat also won the inaugural Australian Sports Sedan Championship that year, driving firstly a Chevrolet Monza and later a Ford Capri RS3100. [17], Following five months of consultation, the programme restarted in September 2019, entitled "No Outsiders for a Faith Community", and included year group consultations with parents in advance of the lessons starting. Average speed: 178km/h. More racing: Classic . He won six Truck Series races in 2018 and has 12 career wins total. As a result of the meeting, Moffat resigned. 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. 1780m. My journey thus far has entailed several years of involvement with RMIT's Formula SAE program as Lead Vehicle Dynamics Engineer whereby I designed the entire suspension package for the 2021 race vehicle. 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. [10] The programme does not address sex or sex education. 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). Ford Falcon XA. This left Moffat and other Ford drivers to form their own privateer teams, despite the Factory team and Moffat being victorious in both the 1973 ATCC - his first-ever - and the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 (with co-driver Ian Geoghegan). The following year Moffat received an Order of the British Empire in 1978 for exceptional services to motor sport. Membership Categories. Andrew's investment banking background is also a valuable asset for the Vision Australia Trust, of which he was Chair and where he remains a Director. 20 June 2020. James Moffat (born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. Despite the loss of two and a half laps and with the engine close to overheating due to not running the oil cooler, Brock and Moffat ran hard and fast for the rest of the race and made up ground to be only 1 lap down on the winning Grice/Graeme Bailey car at race end. For more have a look at the Future racing stars section. 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. In 1971 he became the first driver to lead the Bathurst 500 from start to finish while driving the famed Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III. The recent confirmation that international Porsche ace Jaxon Evans will join Jack Smith at Brad Jones Racing locked in the field for the 2022 running of the Bathurst 1000. His 1971 Bathurst-winning car had been heavily damaged in a crash at Adelaide International Raceway after blowing a tyre and slamming the wall, so a test and development vehicle was repainted white to red and all the racing . created the Supercar scare. Andrew van Leeuwen. 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. 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. The Mustang was voted the most popular 'Muscle Car' ever to race in Australia by readers of Australian Muscle Car magazine. Six wins in the Sandown 500 including 1969, 1970, 1974, 1982, 1983 and 1988. 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. Moffat is a Director of the Australian Institute for Motor Sport Safety (AIMSS). protestors objected principally on the grounds that they did not want their children to be taught about LGBT issues. Andrew Fisher, 33, of Avon, was arrested on Feb. 23 for charges relating to the sexual exploitation of a child. 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. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. Ginetta extends partnership with SRO to develop Ginetta race series, Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli GT Drivers Championship, Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli SGT Drivers Championship, Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli XGT Drivers Championship, Trans Am Championship presented by Pirelli, Hi-Q Components NZ Formula First Championship, SAS Autoparts MSC F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series, Gulf Western Oil Touring Car Masters Series, Intercontinental GT Challenge powered by Pirelli, The Big Machine Spiked Coolers TA2 Series. Niedzwiedz and fellow German Frank Biela finished second for Moffat in the 1989 Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst. Moffat re-established his dominance in 1977 with a two-car factory-supported team under the Moffat Ford Dealers Team banner. 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. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. Due to the severe tyre problems suffered by the works GTHOs, Moffat was called into the pits early to change tyres. 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). 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. On 2 February 2004, he received Australian citizenship in a ceremony at the Australian Grand Prix Corporation offices in Melbourne. This is an inclusive school that celebrates diversity. 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. Published: 2022-09-21. The car differed from its Australian configuration, a new rear wing was run on the car and 20kg of ballast was removed, bringing it down to its actual homologated weight of 930kg, while the engine was the same 13B that had carried Moffat and Hansford to third place at Bathurst the previous year. * Drove Murray Carter's Phase III Falcon at Adelaide International Raceway in 1973 due to his own Falcon being stolen the night before the race. The second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. Moffitt . 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. By 1977, Ford was giving backdoor assistance to the team for its touring car efforts, but once again pulled out of racing at the end of 1978. 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. The car ultimately was a DNF after head gasket failure on lap 129 of 161 with Hansford at the wheel. Ford's two factory Falcon XAs at Sandown in 1973. He currently drives the No. The teams' (and indeed Moffat's own) final race win was in the Fuji 500 in Japan in 1989. In 1973, both the ATCC and the Bathurst endurance race were open for the first time only to the newly introduced CAMS Group C Touring Cars. Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. Regular RX-7 drivers Moffat, Hansford and McLeod all expressed how much more effective the 13B motor was without the CAMS imposed extra 20kg. Rather than see Moffat out of the race (he was the series points leader at the time), Murray Carter loaned Moffat his GTHO Falcon for the race. The citation itself was given by his old friend and sparring partner, Peter Brock. Moffat later claimed that the 1988 Bathurst was the "one that got away", and with a one-lap lead with just 32 laps remaining and ace driver Niedzwiedz up against Longhurst's slower co-driver Tomas Mezera, not many people were disagreeing with him. Qualifying at the famous circuit had been hit by the notorious Ardennes weather and while Mulvihill set a good enough time when the track was wet, he had not set a time on a dry track and towards the end of the final session the circuit dried and the Texaco sponsored Eggenberger Motorsport Ford Sierra RS Cosworth's significantly improved their times which left only Moffat and Harvey to drive the Commodore. 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. 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. The following two years would see Moffat come into his own as one of Australia's most dominant race drivers, and the Falcon GTHO as an almost unbeatable car. [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. Ford, smarting from the Phase IV controversy the year before, withdrew their factory teams from the competition at the end of 1973. Aiden Moffat (born 28 September 1996) is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Laser Tools Racing. If you know of things missing or have corrections, please log in and submit them. James Moffat (born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. Thanks @ExcelsiorMAT for making it possible. Other wins included the 1974 Sandown 250 and the 1975 Rothmans 300. 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. He also drove at the 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans, sharing a Porsche 935 turbo with future Indycar legend Bobby Rahal, where they were forced to withdraw whilst in fourth place. Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Moffat moved to Australia as a 17-year-old college student with his parents when his father, who worked for Massey Ferguson, was transferred to Melbourne for work and in the early 1960s embarked on his record-setting motor racing career. [24], Moffat describes teaching as "the best job in the world" and "an honour". Following this Moffat spent time in the United States where he drove in the new Trans-Am Series in 1966, showing his talent by winning the 3rd round of the series, the Bryar 250, at the Bryar Motorsports Park, outright in an Under 2L division Lotus Cortina on 10 July 1966, leading home Bruce Jennings driving a Plymouth Barracuda by over a lap.[2]. Power Maxed Racing has announced the signing of Aron Taylor-Smith for the 2023 BTCC season to complete a new-look line-up for the Vauxhall squad. The Ford squad swooped to sign Moffat when he left Garry Rogers Motorsport at the end of 2017. The 1970s was a pivotal decade for 'Bathurst' -- dominated by two giants of touring car racing. The 1980 Bathurst 1000 was the last time Moffat drove a Ford Falcon at Mount Panorama. [28], Moffat entered into a civil partnership in 2006.[1]. The 21-year-old Scot therefore joins . 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. DeKon began producing a few silhouette race cars for IMSA GT class racing, using the Chevrolet Monza as a shell. Moffat, 79, who took out Bathurst in 1970, 1971, 1973, and 1977 was a great rival of Peter Brock, who won the big race in 1972, 1975, 1978, 1979 and 1980. [13], The same year, Moffat was a finalist for the Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation.[11]. The team would later find that it was a blown head gasket and a cracked block. Moffat and former Mazda co-driver Gregg Hansford campaigned the car in the 1988 ATCC in a low-key run while his team after years of racing rotary Mazda's and V8 Commodores and Falcons, got to know the sophisticated turbocharged car. He won his second consecutive ATCC title in 1977, backed up brilliantly by new teammate Colin Bond who had switched to Ford after driving the previous eight years for the Holden Dealer Team. Pic: an1imaegs.com / Ian Smith. 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. They then almost pulled off an upset at the Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst where Eggenberger himself joined the team and along with his Ford Europe driver, German ace Klaus Niedzwiedz. [1], He missed the round at Rockingham due to clashing with his other racing commitments, prior to the next round at Silverstone he switched to Tony Gilham Racing where he would drive an NGTC Volkswagen CC for the remaining two rounds of the season.[2]. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The incident happened when . The team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. He joined the ABC television coverage of the 1985 Castrol 500 at Sandown, and was an expert commentator for Channel 7's coverage of the 1985 James Hardie 1000, testing several cars for the coverage including a HDT VK Commodore, a BMW 635 CSi from JPS Team BMW and also the turbocharged Volvo 240T. This was the last Allan Moffat Racing Falcon to tackle Mount Panorama. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. [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. 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). 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 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. 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. Making way for Jacobson and Everingham is Zane . 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. 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). Allan Moffat was born on November 10, 1939 (age 83) in Canada. 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. Jacobson will form part of the four-man enduro roster for Tickford along with returnees James Moffat and Zak Best and new signing Tyler Everingham. The car hit a tree stump (hidden by grass) which saw Moffat suffer a broken hand, a fractured sternum and heavy bruising. 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. At the end of 1990, the team suffered a blow when it lost its major sponsor ANZ. 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. The HDT's other car driven by John Harvey and Neal Lowe finished the race in 2nd place after a relatively trouble-free run. Following Ford's decision to withdraw from Australian motorsport, in 1981 Allan Moffat Racing became the factory Mazda team racing the RX-7 until 1984. 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 . 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. 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. "[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. 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. 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". 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