The 1970s was a pivotal decade for 'Bathurst' -- dominated by two giants of touring car racing. 34 Holden VF Commodore for Garry Rogers Motorsport. 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. 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. 2015 'No Outsiders in Our School' resource is first published. [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. 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. 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". Your email or your password was wrong. ADVERTISEMENT Allan Moffat (racecardriver) Wiki,Age,Birthday,Biography,Height,Net Worth .. Allan Moffat's About . Andrew Fisher, 33, of Avon, was arrested on Feb. 23 for charges relating to the sexual exploitation of a child. 1780m. The second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. 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. 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 races as a co-driver for Tickford Racingin the Pirtek Enduro Cupin a Ford Mustang GT, alongside Cameron Waters. This was followed by the 1986 Castrol 500 at Sandown. Bathurst's legend was penned by two drivers: Moffat and Brock. 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Father of Andrew Moffat. They had 9 children: Andrew Race Moffatt, Thomas Moffatt and 7 other children. British primary school teacher and author, "Teacher targeted over LGBT work shortlisted for $1m global award", "Gay teacher resigns after parent protest", "Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools", "Gay Birmingham teacher resigns after parents complained that they did not want him to teach their children", "Teacher who started LGBT lessons sent death threat saying 'you wont last long', "School leaders' Parliamentary briefing on Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education", "Anti-equality protests must be stopped by the end of term", "School LGBT teaching row: What is in the No Outsiders books that sparked protests? 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. (270) 781-7973. 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. ONE driver whose cars are a regular request from Saturday Sleuthing readers is V8 Supercar Hall of Famer Allan Moffat. In October 2018, he was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.[1]. Career [ edit] British Touring Car Championship [ edit] Andrew Fischer . 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's last race, and indeed last race win, was in 1989 driving with Niedzwiedz. Between them Moffat and Brock had won 14 of the previous 17 Sandown Enduro's. 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. 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. [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]. [2][5] Moffat was also responsible for training primary school teachers on how to manage homophobic bullying, using resources, some of which he had written while a teacher, including Challenging Homophobia In Primary Schools: An early years resource (2007), later published as Challenging Homophobia In Primary Schools (CHIPS) (2012). He helped steer the first GT-HO to a debut victory at the Sandown Three-Hour in 1969. 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. 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). 1984 would prove to be a frustrating year for Moffat. [3] He would add a second victory in the final round at Brands Hatch. 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. . 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. Moffat's team entered two cars in the race, but only listed Moffat and Hansford as drivers, and had to fight with Bathurst race organisers the Australian Racing Drivers Club (ARDC) to be allowed to start both cars, as both drivers had qualified inside the top 10 (race regulations stated that the top 8 qualifiers were locked in to participate in the Hardies Heroes top 10 run-off, with Moffat 5th and Hansford 6th). Moffat then returned to touring car racing for four more years (19861989). It was also the 6th Sandown endurance win of Allan Moffat's career and Gregg Hansford's first major touring car victory since the pair shared won the 1984 Valvoline 250 at Oran Park in Sydney. Instead he managed to do something that very few had managed to do. By the midpoint of the race the Moffat/Ickx car and the Bond/Alan Hamilton car led the field by over two laps. Moffat was the first truly professional race-car driver in Australia and he was a ferocious competitor. created the Supercar scare. Moffat was 'the man' when it came to racing and winning in GT-HOs. Moffat also continued to race his Monza in Sports Sedans to some success. Between them, Allan Moffat and Peter Brock won eight of 10 Bathurst 500/1000s between 1970-79. . 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). 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. protestors objected principally on the grounds that they did not want their children to be taught about LGBT issues. James Moffat (born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. Peter Brock won the race that year for arch-rival manufacturer Holden after wet weather and brake dramas hobbled the Fords. James Moffat(born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He was later awarded an MA in emotional and behavioural difficulties from the University of Birmingham. 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). Moffat and Bond split at the end of the 1978 season and Moffat continued racing in Falcons until the 1980 Bathurst race when he competed for the last time in a Ford Falcon with the XD model. Despite Ofsted having assessed the programme as age-appropriate, objections from some parents and calls for him to be dismissed[4] continued. 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. Margin. 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. 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. This saw the team privately enter Falcons in both the 1979 and 1980 Bathurst 1000's. [14] 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. Moffat also won the inaugural Australian Sports Sedan Championship that year, driving firstly a Chevrolet Monza and later a Ford Capri RS3100. Since then Andrew has worked in a behaviour unit, a Nurture group, as an AST in behaviour management and inclusion, as manager of a behaviour resource in a primary school and, since 2014, as Assistant Headteacher at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham. Allan Moffat Wikipedia. Andrew passed away in 1920, at age 83 at death place. The wild, whale-tailed factory racer competed in the GTX category for modified production cars. 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 team would later find that it was a blown head gasket and a cracked block. Allan Moffat. 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. It was driven to victory by Allan Moffat and Ian Geoghegan in the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, avenging . In 1980 he competed in various cars and in various countries. 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). 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. 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. 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 was born on month day 1841, at birth place, to Joseph Moffat and Catherine Johnstone. The night before Round 6 of the ATCC at the Adelaide International Raceway, Moffat's GTHO Falcon Phase III was stolen from Stillwell Ford in the northern Adelaide suburb of Medindie. 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. THE RACE. Moffat himself was hampered by an injured wrist sustained in Friday's crash. He is the assistant headteacher at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham, where he invented 'No Outsiders' - a . Regular Members - Racing drivers who have participated successfully in major professional events, i.e. 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. 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. [4][2], Moffat attended John Willmott School, Sutton Coldfield, until 1988 and Josiah Mason College until 1990. 1984 was a tough year for Allan Moffat Racing. Pic: an1imaegs.com / Ian Smith. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. 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 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. 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 significantly cut into the team's finances and plans to run the car in the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship were shelved. 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. 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. 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. 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. Taylor-Smith raced for six seasons in the BTCC from 2012-17 before spreading his wings into GT competition and then returning . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. Ford Falcon XA. Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. Moffat refuted these claims and made his comeback in Round 2 of the 1984 Australian Endurance Championship at Oran Park. 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. However, due to the cold conditions the team put a cover over the front of the car to help warm up the engine. He has also went on to work with Many different schools. The team was highly successful, winning races on three continents including three Australian Touring Car Championships in 1976, 1977 and 1983, four Bathurst 500/1000s including a memorable 1-2 victory in 1977, and the 1987 Monza 500, which was the inaugural race of the World Touring Car Championship.[1]. 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. Moffat returned to drive his XB Falcon GT Hardtop full-time in the 1976 ATCC and won his second title. 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). Allan Moffat's Life Path Number is 7 as per numerology . [6][5] If you know of things missing or have corrections, please log in and submit them. Moffitt . The experience was an unhappy one though as Moffat did not get to drive in either race, with the Sierra expiring under Rouse before his first stints at the wheel were scheduled to finish. The Ford squad swooped to sign Moffat when he left Garry Rogers Motorsport at the end of 2017. Moffat, Brock and John Harvey finished the race itself in 22nd place after suffering two head gasket failures. With PMR fielding an all-new line-up in 2023, the fate of its 2022 drivers Ash Hand and Michael Crees is unclear. The race was still entered as driving for the Ford Works Team. The latest Head-to-Head comparisons generated for Aiden Moffat. "[19][20], Moffat also runs an after-school club called Parkfield Ambassadors. [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. Moffat's 351-cubic inch V8-powered Falcon title winner actually started its racing life the previous year in 1972. * 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. Merry Christmas, everyone xx #nooutsiders. 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. 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. [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. 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. See the official Redcliffe harness race results for 01/03/2023 including margins, finishing order, starting odds and more at Racenet! Although Moffat left the HDT still on good terms with Brock, he purchased the car through a middleman to avoid any friction with having his former employer knowing the true buyer. Or perhaps both of them were. Moffat then went on to finish second behind Brock in the Surfers Paradise 300 to claim the final Australian Endurance Championship, and the final ever championship run under CAMS Group C rules. Average speed: 178km/h. [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". 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. 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. At the end of 1990, the team suffered a blow when it lost its major sponsor ANZ. [6], (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap). Both started from the front row (Moffat on pole) and entered into an enticing duel. Alongside this project, for six months I developed a . 2016. Contents 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. 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 and Harvey then drove a steady race (mostly in the rain) to finish 4th with 468 laps completed. 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). Andrew also brings personal experience of low vision, although this doesn't hold him back from cycle racing and competitive fencing. 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