By the midpoint of the race the Moffat/Ickx car and the Bond/Alan Hamilton car led the field by over two laps. [6], (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap). Ultimately the Moffat lead Sierra would finish second behind the Sierra of Dick Johnson and John Bowe. This was the last Allan Moffat Racing Falcon to tackle Mount Panorama. Career [ edit] British Touring Car Championship [ edit] This meant that the Brock/Moffat car would start 11th on the grid. Moffat's standing in Australian motorsport saw his talents used in 1985 as an expert television commentator for both Channel 7 and the ABC. Ford's two factory Falcon XAs at Sandown in 1973. 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. 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 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. The Top Ten. [18], In 2019, Birmingham City Council applied to the High Court for an injunction to create an exclusion zone to protect the schools from organised protests following an investigation by the Commission for Countering Extremism which revealed the protests had been taken over by Hizb ut-Tahir and other pro-Islamist groups, unconnected to either school, with a specific aim to "entrench social division" and "amplify hate" against LGBT people. He drove a Porsche 934 turbo to win the Australian Sports Car Championship. Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. Regular RX-7 drivers Moffat, Hansford and McLeod all expressed how much more effective the 13B motor was without the CAMS imposed extra 20kg. James Moffat(born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. Father of Andrew Moffat. I taught 7600 pupils a no outsiders lesson and trained 1350 teachers. [2], Early in his career Moffat worked with challenging youths in the West Midlands including those involved in gang culture. [14] The race was still entered as driving for the Ford Works Team. 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]. 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. 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. 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. Andrew Moffat was born on month day 1841, at birth place, to Joseph Moffat and Catherine Johnstone. After finishing 3rd in the opening round of the ATCC at Sandown behind winner Brock and second-placed Dick Johnson (Johnson had taken Moffat's 1970s mantle of being the leading Ford driver in the country), he claimed pole in his RX-7 (fitted with the 13B rotary engine instead of the 12A of 1983) at Symmons Plains. Moffat's Monza was the fifth chassis (c/n 1005) to roll out of DeKon's Libertyville, IL shop in 1975. Moffat's time in Trans-Am included competing with Kwech in the Trans-Am class at the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring and driving four Trams-Am races in a Mercury Cougar for Bud Moore Engineering. 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 . Following 1974 Moffat sent the Mustang back to Bud Moore in America where it sat for sale until 1995 when it was purchased and restored by Queensland based entrepreneur David Bowden (who other than himself and his sons has never let anyone other than Moffat drive the car, even turning down a request from the late Ian Geoghegan). [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. 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. 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. Niedzwiedz and fellow German Frank Biela finished second for Moffat in the 1989 Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst. [1], In May 2019, Moffat led Birmingham Pride along with LGBT Muslims Saima Razzaq and Khakan Qureshi. Moffat also races as a co-driver for Tickford Racing in the Pirtek Enduro Cup in a Ford Mustang GT. He and co-driver Alan Hamilton finished fourth. It was driven to victory by Allan Moffat and Ian Geoghegan in the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, avenging . 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. He started his racing career at the wheel of a Triumph TR3. It was the first time the Moffat name had been on the Bathurst 1000 podium since Allan finished third in 1984. 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. 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. Moffat's stolen Falcon was later found abandoned in the Adelaide Hills, where the thieves who had taken it for a "joy ride" dumped it after running out of fuel. 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 . 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. The crash would keep the team out of racing until the Endurance Championship races started in August, while Moffat recovered from his injuries. 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. 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. Despite the unhappy experience with Rouse machinery, at the Wanneroo Park round in 1988, Moffat debuted an Eggenberger Motorsport built RS500 with team principal Ruedi Eggenberger and driver Klaus Niedzwiedz often joining the team for the Bathurst 1000 over the next few years. 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. 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. With PMR fielding an all-new line-up in 2023, the fate of its 2022 drivers Ash Hand and Michael Crees is unclear. During this time Moffat drove his RX-7 to victories in the 1982 and 1984 Australian Endurance Championships. Merry Christmas, everyone xx #nooutsiders. The following graph shows the change in the DriverDB Rating of Aiden Moffat over time since January 1st 2013. First appointed to the Board in August 2011. On 2 February 2004, he received Australian citizenship in a ceremony at the Australian Grand Prix Corporation offices in Melbourne. 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). The Eagle County Sheriff's Office received a tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children task force program that an IP address in Avon was potentially using online networks to receive and share child sexual abuse materials. Two-time S5000 Australian Drivers Championship winner Joey Mawson got his 2023 campaign off to the perfect start as he claimed pole position and the race one win. 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. 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. 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. 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 1996 AMP Bathurst 1000 was the last time that an Allan Moffat-built or driven (in this case just built) car raced at Bathurst. [3] 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. The second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. Moffat also races as a co-driver for Tickford Racing in the Pirtek Enduro Cup in a Ford Mustang GT, alongside Cameron Waters. 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. Moffat only finished 9th in that years ATCC after a horror crash in Round 4, at Surfers Paradise, in the wet after colliding with the Ford XD Falcon of Garry Willmington at the end of the main straight, which sent the Moffat Mazda off the track at high speed. Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship, Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship, Finesse Motorsport, PPCGB/Kraftwerk Racing. Despite this the HDT went to the 1986 James Hardie 1000 confident of victory and the Brock/Moffat partnership in car #05 were favoured to win with the pair having won 12 of the previous 16 Bathurst 1000's between them. 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". [13], The same year, Moffat was a finalist for the Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation.[11]. [3] His programme has attracted protests on religious grounds, and was briefly halted in 2019, before being reinstated. 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. 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. Complete with sponsorship from Rothmans, the team competed in the opening three rounds with Moffat and John Harvey winning the opening Monza 500 race, after the leading six factory BMW M3s were disqualified, before returning for round 5 to finish fourth outright and first in class at the Spa 24 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. 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. THE 2022 BATHURST GRID. [14], The programme attracted criticism and protest at the school from a vocal minority of parents when it was introduced. 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. 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 . Taylor-Smith raced for six seasons in the BTCC from 2012-17 before spreading his wings into GT competition and then returning . [3] Then the HDT as a factory team fell apart after Holden cut all official ties with Brock over his public launch of the VL Commodore based HDT Director. 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. 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. He was later awarded an MA in emotional and behavioural difficulties from the University of Birmingham. Moffat's Mustang 1969 1984 was a tough year for Allan Moffat Racing. 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. 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). Under this partnership, Ginetta will run three championships which will compete at Intelligent Money British GT Championship rounds from the 2023 season. Andrew awarded MBE for his work in equality and diversity in education. Moffat also continued to race his Monza in Sports Sedans to some success. [10] The programme does not address sex or sex education. He helped steer the first GT-HO to a debut victory at the Sandown Three-Hour in 1969. Laps: 161. 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). Never the most naturally-talented driver, he was ruthless about getting the best from himself, his team and his cars. Brock lapped the field, the first time in ATCC history a driver had won a race by over a lap, while Moffat, who lead from pole (his 4th of the 8 round series) but gave best to the flying Brock on lap 2, simply drove for the points on a wet track which normally would normally have suited the RX-7 over the heavier Holden. . Moffat's last race, and indeed last race win, was in 1989 driving with Niedzwiedz. Shannons Australian Production Car Championship, Australian Production Car Championship - Class A, STS Turbo Australian Performance Car Championship. The wild, whale-tailed factory racer competed in the GTX category for modified production cars. The 1970s was a pivotal decade for 'Bathurst' -- dominated by two giants of touring car racing. Due to the severe tyre problems suffered by the works GTHOs, Moffat was called into the pits early to change tyres. 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 . Moffat, Brock and John Harvey finished the race itself in 22nd place after suffering two head gasket failures. 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 . Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. 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. [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. 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. 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. 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. Moffitt is the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, a title captured driving for Hattori Racing Enterprises. He then won at Wanneroo in Perth, before crashing out of the championship at Surfers Paradise when his Mazda was hit while lapping the XD Falcon of Gary Willmington at high speed going under the Dunlop Bridge at the end of the main straight. 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). 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. Under this partnership, Ginetta will run three championships which will compete at Intelligent Money British GT Championship rounds from the 2023 season. 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. The judge, Justice Warby upheld a permanent exclusion to the groups, and stated they had deliberately "grossly misinterpreted" the programme by suggesting it promoted paedophilia, which was not true. Ford Falcon XA. Class: C-CLASS No NR. 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. 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. 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. Peter Brock won the race that year for arch-rival manufacturer Holden after wet weather and brake dramas hobbled the Fords. Moffat, Geoghegan, and Ford have the distinction of being the first winners of the Bathurst race following its conversion from a 500-mile event to 1000 km. 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. What a brilliant term- 15 conferences and 25 schools visited. 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. 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. The following year Moffat received an Order of the British Empire in 1978 for exceptional services to motor sport. Nothing puts a smile on our faces like seeing the excitement in the eyes of a rider who has achieved a personal goal. 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. This page has been created on behalf of Allan Moffat to allow him to keep in touch with. Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. 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. Aiden Moffat (born 28 September 1996) is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Laser Tools Racing. 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. Eggenberger and Niedzwiedz also managed to join Moffat for other Australian races, with Ruedi joining the team for the Phillip Island round of the 1990 ATCC which saw Hansford finish 5th,[4] and also the 1990 Sandown 500 where Niedzwiedz qualified 5th in his first look at the Sandown circuit, though he and Hansford would fail to finish the race. 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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. Allan Moffat. 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. Moffitt . [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. Taylor-Smith is a four-time . He received a BA in English with drama and American Studies from the University of Derby in 1993, followed by a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, also from Derby. In 2014 teacher Andrew Moffat resigned from a primary school in Birmingham after parents complained they did not want . 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. Allan Moffat also tested a Jaguar XJS at Bathurst in 1985. 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. This beat the record for youngest driver set by Tom Chilton when he made his debut in 2002 at the age of 17 years and 17 days. 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. Bathurst's legend was penned by two drivers: Moffat and Brock. 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