Moffat was 'the man' when it came to racing and winning in GT-HOs. Niedzwiedz had taken the lead from the Sierra of Tony Longhurst on lap 29 when Longhurst lost a lap with a throttle problem, and the car remained in the lead for 100 laps before a vapor lock (caused by the car cooling down too much during a safety car period) led to the car's failure. He drove a Porsche 934 turbo to win the Australian Sports Car Championship. For the 1994 Tooheys 1000, Moffat had his race engines supplied by Dick Johnson Racing and the team, with drivers Miedecke and Englishman Jeff Allam were more competitive, qualifying 16th and finished a well-deserved 8th, only four laps behind the winning Falcon of Dick Johnson and John Bowe. One of Australia's most iconic motorsport legends is Allan Moffat. The citation itself was given by his old friend and sparring partner, Peter Brock. In 2014 teacher Andrew Moffat resigned from a primary school in Birmingham after parents complained they did not want . 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. Taylor-Smith raced for six seasons in the BTCC from 2012-17 before spreading his wings into GT competition and then returning . 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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. The 33-year-old series veteran completes an all-Irish line-up at the wheel of the Midlands squad's Vauxhall Astras, with Dubliner Taylor-Smith joining Northern Irish GT convert and BTCC rookie Andrew Watson. 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. The 1980 Bathurst 1000 was the last time Moffat drove a Ford Falcon at Mount Panorama. 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. 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. ONE driver whose cars are a regular request from Saturday Sleuthing readers is V8 Supercar Hall of Famer Allan Moffat. 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. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. He currently drives the No. Allan Moffat also tested a Jaguar XJS at Bathurst in 1985. In 1980 he competed in various cars and in various countries. 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. ADVERTISEMENT Allan Moffat (racecardriver) Wiki,Age,Birthday,Biography,Height,Net Worth .. Allan Moffat's About . 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 1986 European campaign was to be a precursor to an all-out attack on the 1987 World Touring Car Championship. 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. 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, 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. He also did a guest drive for the Holden Dealer Team taking third place in the 1980 Hang Ten 400 at Sandown driving a Holden Commodore. [2], Early in his career Moffat worked with challenging youths in the West Midlands including those involved in gang culture. James Moffat(born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. 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. He has since worked as a TV commentator for Channel 7 and a spokesman for BMW. [9] In a statement, the school said, "Theobjections were primarily voiced by those whose own religion took an opposing stance to homosexuality. With this car Moffat and his team won an incredible 101 of the 151 events entered, though surprisingly he was not able to secure the Australian Touring Car Championship with the Mustang, losing out twice to the Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1 of Bob Jane in 1971 and 1972. 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 Fuji race was held just two days after his 50th birthday). [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. </p> <p>If you have to cancel within 10 days, your spot will be offered to the waitlist. Published: 2022-09-21. Andrew Fischer . For the 1994 Tooheys 1000, Moffat had his race engines supplied by Dick Johnson Racing and the team, with drivers Miedecke and Englishman Jeff Allam were more competitive, qualifying 16th and finished a well-deserved 8th, only four laps behind the winning Falcon of Dick Johnson and John Bowe. The car ultimately was a DNF after head gasket failure on lap 129 of 161 with Hansford at the wheel. Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. James Moffat is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. 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. 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. Ford, smarting from the Phase IV controversy the year before, withdrew their factory teams from the competition at the end of 1973. Allan Moffat. 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. 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. They had 9 children: Andrew Race Moffatt, Thomas Moffatt and 7 other children. The race was still entered as driving for the Ford Works Team. 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. 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). [11], In June 2019, Moffat, along with seven other prominent school leaders, presented a parliamentary briefing on behalf of the National Association of Head Teachers, entitled Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. The 1970s was a pivotal decade for 'Bathurst' -- dominated by two giants of touring car racing. According to the team the car was repaired 'better than new' and Brock recorded a 2:18.80 lap in Saturday afternoon's practice. Moffat, 79, who took out Bathurst in 1970, 1971, 1973, and 1977 was a great rival of Peter Brock, who won the big race in 1972, 1975, 1978, 1979 and 1980. 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's Monza was the fifth chassis (c/n 1005) to roll out of DeKon's Libertyville, IL shop in 1975. On 21 March 1975, he enhanced his reputation as an international class driver when he drove a BMW 3.0CSL with West Germany's Hans-Joachim Stuck, British driver Brian Redman and American Sam Posey to win the 12 Hours of Sebring for the factory-backed BMW Motorsport with many considering this win to be the 3.0CSL's crowning achievement in racing. Alongside this project, for six months I developed a . The programme addresses issues of inclusion, and covers topics which are protected by the 2010 Equality Act, including religion or belief system, race, gender reassignment and sex, not sexual orientation. DeKon began producing a few silhouette race cars for IMSA GT class racing, using the Chevrolet Monza as a shell. The 10 greatest Auto Racing drivers. Moffat is now 79 and many of his toughest race rivals, including Peter Brock, Bob Jane and Ian 'Pete' Geoghegan have died. Moffat and his Coke Mustang were involved in two of the most memorable ATCC races on record. 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. Photo: Supplied. [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. 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