The following year Moffat received an Order of the British Empire in 1978 for exceptional services to motor sport. He became the youngest driver ever to compete in the BTCC when he made his debut at the Knockhill round of the 2013 season. 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. Moffat and his Coke Mustang were involved in two of the most memorable ATCC races on record. [16] Moffat, as an openly gay staff member, was advised by the police to do a risk assessment of his travel arrangements from school. 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. 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. He failed to place in the top 10 in 1969, finished 6th in 1970, 2nd in 1971 and 3rd in 1972. The rolling average of the graph is 10 days. [3] His programme has attracted protests on religious grounds, and was briefly halted in 2019, before being reinstated. Allan George Moffat is a former racing driver from Australia, best known for his triumphs in the Australian Touring Cars Championship (ATCC) and races like Bathurst 500/1000 and Sandown 500. Moffat also races as a co-driver for Tickford Racingin the Pirtek Enduro Cupin a Ford Mustang GT, alongside Cameron Waters. 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. 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. 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). 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 and Harvey then drove a steady race (mostly in the rain) to finish 4th with 468 laps completed. The following graph shows the change in the DriverDB Rating of Aiden Moffat over time since January 1st 2013. He and co-driver Alan Hamilton finished fourth. 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. Advertisement. 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). 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). 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. 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. [6][5] ADVERTISEMENT Allan Moffat (racecardriver) Wiki,Age,Birthday,Biography,Height,Net Worth .. Allan Moffat's About . Andrew Moffat MBE (born 1972) is a British teacher at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham, and the author of several books and educational resources, including the No Outsiders programme, an approach to teaching primary school-aged children about diversity and tolerance, for which he was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize. Aiden Moffat (born 28 September 1996) is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Laser Tools Racing. Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship, Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship, Finesse Motorsport, PPCGB/Kraftwerk Racing. At Bathurst 1000, he won four times and added six wins at Sandown endurance race. Today we take a look at the last of . Moffitt is the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, a title captured driving for Hattori Racing Enterprises. Between them Moffat and Brock had won 14 of the previous 17 Sandown Enduro's. [10] The programme does not address sex or sex education. Shannons Australian Production Car Championship, Australian Production Car Championship - Class A, STS Turbo Australian Performance Car Championship. Both sides claim in documents filed in the Supreme Court that the legendary driver has been held captive or isolated by the other. The car was then immediately shipped to England for preparation for the first round of the WTCC. Shane van Gisbergen and co-driver Garth Tander have claimed a second Bathurst 1000 victory as a duo after surviving a frantic sprint finish in Holden's farewell appearance at Mount Panorama. 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. 34 Holden VF Commodore for Garry Rogers Motorsport. He has since worked as a TV commentator for Channel 7 and a spokesman for BMW. 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. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. If you know of things missing or have corrections, please log in and submit them. 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). 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. No Outsiders resource piloted by Andrew Moffat in his own school. The car ultimately was a DNF after head gasket failure on lap 129 of 161 with Hansford at the wheel. 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 was unable to repeat his 1977 successes over the following three years. Moffat's early success with the team included running the Trans-Am Ford Mustang he was given as a gift from Ford's American 'in-house' race car fabrication and engineering facility "Kar Kraft", with the car finished by Bud Moore Engineering. Moffat also continued to race his Monza in Sports Sedans to some success. 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). After the Sierra's were banned in their RS500 form at the end of 1992, Moffat decided to continue his long association with Ford and built an eye-catching Ford EB Falcon painted black and yellow in the colours of team sponsor Cenovis for the 1993 Tooheys 1000. Moffitt . 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. 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. Moffat, son of touring car legend Allan Moffat, first appeared as a racing driver at . With the 25 regular entries joined by wildcards from Triple Eight, Erebus Motorsport and Matt Chahda Motorsport, a total of 28 cars . [3] He would add a second victory in the final round at Brands Hatch. First appointed to the Board in August 2011. An emotional win for @J_Moffat in the first TransAm race of 2023. . The wild, whale-tailed factory racer competed in the GTX category for modified production cars. Published: 2022-09-21. 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. James Moffat stepped back to enduro duties with Tickford Racing in 2018, after seven full-time Supercars seasons. [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], In 2017 Moffat was given an MBE "for services to equality and diversity in education". Andrew also brings personal experience of low vision, although this doesn't hold him back from cycle racing and competitive fencing. 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. Moffat, therefore, made his debut in that race in 1969 in a Ford works team entered Ford Falcon XW GTHO. 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). Give it another shot! The team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. 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 refuted these claims and made his comeback in Round 2 of the 1984 Australian Endurance Championship at Oran Park. Although Moffat has lived permanently in Australia for over 50 years, his broad Canadian accent has remained intact and continues to be his trademark. 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. [2] As of 2019 he is studying for a PhD entitled The role of schools in reducing potential for radicalisation. Drivers have been warned to leave extra time for their Monday morning . Moffat's Mustang 1969 2015 'No Outsiders in Our School' resource is first published. [28], Moffat entered into a civil partnership in 2006.[1]. 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. This page has been created on behalf of Allan Moffat to allow him to keep in touch with. The car hit a tree stump (hidden by grass) which saw Moffat suffer a broken hand, a fractured sternum and heavy bruising. 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". One aim of the club is to make connections between school children and reduce the risk of radicalisation in vulnerable groups. 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. Across NASCAR, F1, IndyCar, and others. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. 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. The race was still entered as driving for the Ford Works Team. 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. 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. TRIPLE EIGHT RACE ENGINEERING/RED BULL AMPOL RACING The incident happened when leader Ben Grice slowed with a mechanical failure coming around the . What a brilliant term- 15 conferences and 25 schools visited. While not showing any discomfort on RaceCam, he was unable to push as hard as he would have liked although he lost no time to the leaders during his driving stints. Making way for Jacobson and Everingham is Zane . More racing: Classic . It was driven to victory by Allan Moffat and Ian Geoghegan in the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, avenging . Moffat looked headed for a historic third straight Bathurst victory in 1972 when Ford unveiled plans for a "Phase IV" Falcon GTHO, even faster but more subtle than the Phase III which Moffat had taken to victory in 1971. 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. 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. This was followed by the 1986 Castrol 500 at Sandown. Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. Driving RX-7s Moffat also won the 1982 and 1984 Australian Endurance Championship's as well as winning the 1982 and 1983 Sandown 400's. 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. 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]. Instead he managed to do something that very few had managed to do. Class: C-CLASS No NR. Pic: an1imaegs.com / Ian Smith. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. 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). 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. 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. Ford Falcon XA. James Moffat (born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. Bathurst's legend was penned by two drivers: Moffat and Brock. 2016. created the Supercar scare. Laps: 161. Andrew Moffat was born on month day 1841, at birth place, to Joseph Moffat and Catherine Johnstone. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. 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 . 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 . Aiden Moffat (born 28 September 1996) is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Laser Tools Racing. 10.2L W. P SP. 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