34 Holden VF Commodore for Garry Rogers Motorsport. Andrew passed away in 1920, at age 83 at death place. 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. 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. The team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. 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. Due to the wet conditions the Mazda slid off the road at high speed, took out an ABC television camera cable and slammed head on into a bush that was hiding a tree stump. 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. These are the ones you will hear a lot about in years to come. Moffat is now 79 and many of his toughest race rivals, including Peter Brock, Bob Jane and Ian 'Pete' Geoghegan have died. Allan Moffat. 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. The 10 greatest Auto Racing drivers. 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Moffat also races as a co-driver for Tickford Racingin the Pirtek Enduro Cupin a Ford Mustang GT, alongside Cameron Waters. 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. Final Results. Moffat's Monza was the fifth chassis (c/n 1005) to roll out of DeKon's Libertyville, IL shop in 1975. 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. (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). Moffitt is the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, a title captured driving for Hattori Racing Enterprises. Before the 1988 Tooheys 1000, the Moffat team's last Australian win, and indeed Allan Moffat's last win on Australian soil, came in the 1988 Enzed 500 at Sandown driving the Eggenberger built Sierra. 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. 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. 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). 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. 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. "[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. The wild, whale-tailed factory racer competed in the GTX category for modified production cars. 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. Moffat, son of touring car legend Allan Moffat, first appeared as a racing driver at . Moffat's last race, and indeed last race win, was in 1989 driving with Niedzwiedz. He is the assistant headteacher at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham, where he invented 'No Outsiders' - a . The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the 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. [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. The latest Head-to-Head comparisons generated for Aiden Moffat. Moffat returned to drive his XB Falcon GT Hardtop full-time in the 1976 ATCC and won his second title. 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. The team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. The team would later find that it was a blown head gasket and a cracked block. . Instead he managed to do something that very few had managed to do. Class: C-CLASS No NR. [16] Moffat, as an openly gay staff member, was advised by the police to do a risk assessment of his travel arrangements from school. One aim of the club is to make connections between school children and reduce the risk of radicalisation in vulnerable groups. [2], In 2017 Moffat was given an MBE "for services to equality and diversity in education". 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. Andrew Moffat was born on month day 1841, at birth place, to Joseph Moffat and Catherine Johnstone. He has also went on to work with Many different schools. The Canadian got the class pole and led the first half . 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. Contents The track: 6.213km. James Moffat finished second driving for Nissan Motorsport in the 2014 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. 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). 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. Then in 1972, he was involved in a race-long dice with Ian Geoghegan at the Easter round of the series (Round 3) at the 6.172 km Mount Panorama Circuit at Bathurst. The. Regular Members - Racing drivers who have participated successfully in major professional events, i.e. He was ATCC champion four times, in 1973, 1976, 1977 and 1983. First appointed to the Board in August 2011. This race was also significant in that it was the last time Moffat raced at Bathurst. Allan Moffat Racing was an Australian motor racing team owned by multiple-championship winning Canadian-Australian racing driver Allan Moffat. The car ultimately was a DNF after head gasket failure on lap 129 of 161 with Hansford at the wheel. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The citation itself was given by his old friend and sparring partner, Peter Brock. Photo: Supplied. Peter Brock won the race in his XU-1 Torana while Moffat kept his points lead by finishing second despite having to start at the rear of the grid. They had 9 children: Andrew Race Moffatt, Thomas Moffatt and 7 other children. 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). This was the first in a line of iconic Falcon hardtops and the last to tackle the Great Race under the official Ford Motor Company factory banner. Margin. 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. Never the most naturally-talented driver, he was ruthless about getting the best from himself, his team and his cars. Andrew Millard. 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). 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. [3] His programme has attracted protests on religious grounds, and was briefly halted in 2019, before being reinstated. In what was his biggest crash since rolling his XA Falcon at Phillip Island in 1973, Moffat suffered a fractured sternum and broken finger in the accident, while the RX-7 was a write-off. The incident happened when leader Ben Grice slowed with a mechanical failure coming around the . 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? James Moffat stepped back to enduro duties with Tickford Racing in 2018, after seven full-time Supercars seasons. Moffat is a Director of the Australian Institute for Motor Sport Safety (AIMSS). With PMR fielding an all-new line-up in 2023, the fate of its 2022 drivers Ash Hand and Michael Crees is unclear. Average speed: 178km/h. He did enter and qualify for the 1989 Tooheys 1000, but decided not to actually race as the lead team car driven by Niedzwiedz and fellow German Frank Biela had a chance at victory, and since they were much faster than he was in the car (approximately 68 seconds per lap in qualifying) he felt it best to leave them to it. 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. MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia - Four-Time Bathurst 1000 winner Alan Moffat, known as 'Mr Ford' for much of his career, is battling health and legal issues in the final days of his life. He was only moderately successful in the Australian Touring Car Championship races, placing third in 1974 with two round wins and undertaking a limited campaign in 1975. 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. 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. Moffat also joined Murray Walker and later Darrell Eastlake in the Channel 9 commentary box during the touring car support races at the Australian Grand Prix meetings in Adelaide from 1985 to 1995. According to the team the car was repaired 'better than new' and Brock recorded a 2:18.80 lap in Saturday afternoon's practice. He became the youngest driver ever to compete in the BTCC when he made his debut at the Knockhill round of the 2013 season. The teams' (and indeed Moffat's own) final race win was in the Fuji 500 in Japan in 1989. DeKon began producing a few silhouette race cars for IMSA GT class racing, using the Chevrolet Monza as a shell. This is an inclusive school that celebrates diversity. British Touring Car Championship race winner Aiden Moffat has switched to the renamed One Motorsport team to join reigning independents champion Josh Cook for 2023. Indeed last race, and indeed Moffat 's last race win, in! 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