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. 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. 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. Between them, Allan Moffat and Peter Brock won eight of 10 Bathurst 500/1000s between 1970-79. . 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. 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. 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. 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. Moffat is a Director of the Australian Institute for Motor Sport Safety (AIMSS). 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). 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. Shannons Australian Production Car Championship, Australian Production Car Championship - Class A, STS Turbo Australian Performance Car Championship. 1986 was notable in that Moffat had joined longtime rival and friend Peter Brock and the Holden Dealer Team (though he had previously driven for the team in the 1980 Hang Ten 400 at Sandown). This meant that the Brock/Moffat car would start 11th on the grid. 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. Professional Race Car Driver Director - Enviroworx Ltd Youngest ever in BTCC ARDS Instructor/Tuition Moffat was reportedly livid when he found out that the gearbox that failed on the Sierra at Bathurst was actually the same one Rouse had used in his Ford Sierra RS Cosworth at Spa earlier in the season and had already done over 36 hours of racing and qualifying by the time it got to Bathurst, well past its normal re-build point. 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. Late in the race Moffat's car encountered serious brake problems due to Ickx's hard driving of what was to him an unfamiliar car and had to slow, allowing Bond to catch up for the cars to complete the final two laps of the race side by side and cross the finish line in tandem with Bond allowing Moffat to stay barely in front for a crushing 12 victory for Ford. 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. American Gerston looked set for the runner-up prize, but a slip up in the fifth and final race allowed Ruben Chadwick to surge to second. Drivers have been warned to leave extra time for their Monday morning . Instead he managed to do something that very few had managed to do. This race was also significant in that it was the last time Moffat raced at Bathurst. [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. 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). Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. The Fuji race was held just two days after his 50th birthday). . 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. 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In his bid to win the 1983 ATCC, Moffat had to turn down a factory drive for Mazda at the 1983 24 Hours of Le Mans as the final round of the ATCC at Lakeside was held the same weekend as the French classic (the Mazda 717C he was to drive would win the races' Group C Junior class). Father of Andrew Moffat. 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. He failed to finish Bathurst again in 1976 despite taking pole and leading comfortably with co-driver Vern Schuppan. Moffat himself also doubled as an expert commentator for Channel 7 during its motor sport telecasts during this time, including at Bathurst, where he had the dual role of commentator and race team manager. In 1980 he competed in various cars and in various countries. Moffat's Monza was the fifth chassis (c/n 1005) to roll out of DeKon's Libertyville, IL shop in 1975. [2], Following the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, and in response to his school children's questions, Moffat put together online resources for teachers covering terrorism and hate crime, particularly concerning refugees. He had been eligible for citizenship since the early 1970s but, in his own words, "one way or another I never followed it through." 20 June 2020. The second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. 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. Regular RX-7 drivers Moffat, Hansford and McLeod all expressed how much more effective the 13B motor was without the CAMS imposed extra 20kg. [6], (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap). * 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. Final Results. Across NASCAR, F1, IndyCar, and others. Regular Members - Racing drivers who have participated successfully in major professional events, i.e. Moffat then returned to touring car racing for four more years (19861989). The crash would keep the team out of racing until the Endurance Championship races started in August, while Moffat recovered from his injuries. Moffat's Mustang 1969 Moffat was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to equality in education. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position 1 point awarded just in first race; races in italics indicate fastest lap 1 point awarded all races; * signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap 1 point given all races), (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position 1 point awarded just in first race; races in italics indicate fastest lap 1 point awarded all races; * signifies that driver led race for at least one lap 1 point given all races). 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. 2016. 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. For more have a look at the Future racing stars section. 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. Between them Moffat and Brock had won 14 of the previous 17 Sandown Enduro's. The deal was rumored to have cost Moffat around A$300,000. Never the most naturally-talented driver, he was ruthless about getting the best from himself, his team and his cars. 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). Peter Brock won the race that year for arch-rival manufacturer Holden after wet weather and brake dramas hobbled the Fords. Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. This page has been created on behalf of Allan Moffat to allow him to keep in touch with. [2] The Sierra, again with Eggenberger in charge of the preparation and with Niedzwiedz and Moffat driving, wore the number 39 designating the year of Moffat's birth (1939) and that he intended to retire from race driving after the race (Allan Moffat had made a promise to his wife Pauline that he would retire once he turned 50. 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. 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 is a celebrity race car driver. He currently drives the No. 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. 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. He won six Truck Series races in 2018 and has 12 career wins total. [13], The same year, Moffat was a finalist for the Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation.[11]. 1984 would prove to be a frustrating year for Moffat. The wild, whale-tailed factory racer competed in the GTX category for modified production cars. Margin. Under this partnership, Ginetta will run three championships which will compete at Intelligent Money British GT Championship rounds from the 2023 season. The incident happened when . Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. However, due to the cold conditions the team put a cover over the front of the car to help warm up the engine. The car was then immediately shipped to England for preparation for the first round of the WTCC. Allan Moffat also tested a Jaguar XJS at Bathurst in 1985. Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. Andrew Moffat was born on month day 1841, at birth place, to Joseph Moffat and Catherine Johnstone. With Mazda not interested in Group A racing (he tested a Mazda 626 at Calder Park but it proved to be uncompetitive), Moffat was forced to sit out the 1985 Australian season. 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 also won the inaugural Australian Sports Sedan Championship that year, driving firstly a Chevrolet Monza and later a Ford Capri RS3100. Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. Published: 2022-09-21. Moffat and Harvey then drove a steady race (mostly in the rain) to finish 4th with 468 laps completed. He helped steer the first GT-HO to a debut victory at the Sandown Three-Hour in 1969. 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 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. Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. See the official Redcliffe harness race results for 01/03/2023 including margins, finishing order, starting odds and more at Racenet! [2] As of 2019 he is studying for a PhD entitled The role of schools in reducing potential for radicalisation. Ford's two factory Falcon XAs at Sandown in 1973. [22][23], In April 2020, Moffat released a second book, No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome, an updated book about the programme. 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. 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). 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. 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. Despite suffering from the flu, Moffat put the RX-7 on pole and he and Gregg Hansford went on to win the Valvoline 250 from the XE Falcon of ATCC winner Dick Johnson. This race would be seen as the start of the Moffat-Brock rivalry that would dominate Australian touring car racing in the years to come. With the 25 regular entries joined by wildcards from Triple Eight, Erebus Motorsport and Matt Chahda Motorsport, a total of 28 cars . Moffat's 351-cubic inch V8-powered Falcon title winner actually started its racing life the previous year in 1972. The 1995 Tooheys 1000 saw the team struggle once more. 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. 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. 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. 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. The HDT's other car driven by John Harvey and Neal Lowe finished the race in 2nd place after a relatively trouble-free run. 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 . [7][8][9] There followed a meeting with 40 parents, mostly Christian and Muslim, at which some parents reportedly complained they were not happy that their children "learn that it's OK to be gay". Taylor-Smith is a four-time . The 1970s was a pivotal decade for 'Bathurst' -- dominated by two giants of touring car racing. Andrew also brings personal experience of low vision, although this doesn't hold him back from cycle racing and competitive fencing. I taught 7600 pupils a no outsiders lesson and trained 1350 teachers. Moffat also continued to race his Monza in Sports Sedans to some success. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Moffat also races as a co-driver for Tickford Racingin the Pirtek Enduro Cupin a Ford Mustang GT, alongside Cameron Waters. Due to the severe tyre problems suffered by the works GTHOs, Moffat was called into the pits early to change tyres. 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. </p> <p>Attention to all C8 New Car OWNERS . 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. Listen to this article. 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. Although Moffat has lived permanently in Australia for over 50 years, his broad Canadian accent has remained intact and continues to be his trademark. With Ford Australia pulling out of motor racing after 1973, Moffat competed as a privateer through the 1974 and 1975 seasons. 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. 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 Moffat also races as a co-driver for Tickford Racing in the Pirtek Enduro Cup in a Ford Mustang GT. The citation itself was given by his old friend and sparring partner, Peter Brock. [6][5] The Canadian got the class pole and led the first half . 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. Andrew Moffat nationality Australian age 39 years old born April 5, 1983 Racing highlights 2007 1st Bathurst 12 Hour Race - Class C Racing career summary Driver relations Son of Allan Moffat. 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. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. "[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. Motorsport Australia will establish an investigatory tribunal to look into Sunday's crash-affected Trans Am race at Symmons Plains. The car ultimately was a DNF after head gasket failure on lap 129 of 161 with Hansford at the wheel. Moffitt is the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, a title captured driving for Hattori Racing Enterprises. If you know of things missing or have corrections, please log in and submit them. 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. Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship, Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship, Finesse Motorsport, PPCGB/Kraftwerk Racing. However, with new sponsorship from Cenovis Vitamins, the team was able to carry on running the Sierra's (which by this stage were only seen at Sandown and Bathurst) until they and other turbo cars (such as the 4WD Nissan GT-R) were banned by CAMS at the end of 1992. [1], In 2016, Parkfield School, where he was at the time assistant head teacher, was rated as "outstanding" by Ofsted, and particular mention given to "the provision for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is a strength and permeates the school's work. 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. Moffat was 'the man' when it came to racing and winning in GT-HOs. 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). He and co-driver Alan Hamilton finished fourth. He spent the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons paired with Chaz Mostert, combining for a Gold Coast race win in '18. At the end of 1990, the team suffered a blow when it lost its major sponsor ANZ. This turned out to be fortunate as it allowed him to avoid the Bill Brown rollover going over Skyline which blocked the track and took out approximately a quarter of the field who had no warning of the impending disaster. Its speed and reliability saw it climb from 51st to 13th place by half distance. The rolling average of the graph is 10 days. [27], Moffat also speaks as a children's rights communicator, and has presented at the Humanists UK 2019 convention, and the 2019 Blackham lecture with Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson. 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. The teams' (and indeed Moffat's own) final race win was in the Fuji 500 in Japan in 1989. Ford withdrew its factory team from motor racing after 1973 (during which time Moffat won his first ATCC and the first Bathurst 1000 for the factory team) and Allan Moffat Racing became the leading Ford team in Australian touring car racing, with Moffat winning the ATCC in 1976 and 1977, as well as the famous 1-2 win in the 1977 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 at Bathurst when he was partnered by multiple 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Jacky Ickx. 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). From then on, the team's appearances were restricted to the Bathurst 1000, with two RS500s until 1992, and until its final appearance in 1996, a sole Ford EB Falcon V8. Moffat was the first truly professional race-car driver in Australia and he was a ferocious competitor. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. 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