He is a celebrity race car driver. He also drove at the 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans, sharing a Porsche 935 turbo with future Indycar legend Bobby Rahal, where they were forced to withdraw whilst in fourth place. 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. Or perhaps both of them were. Andrew Moffatt, 1850 - 1943 Andrew Moffatt 1850 1943. . "[11] Moffat also has responsibility for pastoral care of pupils and teachers within the school. Mar 1, 2023, 12:21 AM. He had been eligible for citizenship since the early 1970s but, in his own words, "one way or another I never followed it through." Between them, Allan Moffat and Peter Brock won eight of 10 Bathurst 500/1000s between 1970-79. . Regular Members - Racing drivers who have participated successfully in major professional events, i.e. Give it another shot! Ultimately the Moffat lead Sierra would finish second behind the Sierra of Dick Johnson and John Bowe. Allan Moffat Racing was an Australian motor racing team owned by multiple-championship winning Canadian-Australian racing driver Allan Moffat. Professional Race Car Driver Director - Enviroworx Ltd Youngest ever in BTCC ARDS Instructor/Tuition 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. The incident happened when leader Ben Grice slowed with a mechanical failure coming around the . The last 12 months have been an emotional rollercoaster for Andrew Moffat. With the arrival of Group A regulations in 1985 the RX-7 proved uncompetitive and Moffat sat out the season, racing only once in his Bathurst RX-7 at the 24 Hours of Daytona, although Moffat did test a Mazda 929 at Calder in late 1984, before Mazda decided to withdraw the cars due to uncompetitive times. Moffat returned to Australia but also spent more time in the US, continuing to drive the Cortina as well as Ford Mustangs for Carroll Shelby in Trans-Am with various Australian co-drivers including Trans-Am regular Horst Kwech and Ford Australia's, and future Holden rival, Harry Firth. In 2014 teacher Andrew Moffat resigned from a primary school in Birmingham after parents complained they did not want . At the end of 1990, the team suffered a blow when it lost its major sponsor ANZ. 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. More racing: Classic . Moffat is now 79 and many of his toughest race rivals, including Peter Brock, Bob Jane and Ian 'Pete' Geoghegan have died. The HDT's other car driven by John Harvey and Neal Lowe finished the race in 2nd place after a relatively trouble-free run. 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. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. 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 . He drove a Porsche 934 turbo to win the Australian Sports Car 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. 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. Allan Moffat. He started his racing career at the wheel of a Triumph TR3. Making way for Jacobson and Everingham is Zane . The race though only gave the Brock/Moffat team 5th place after they lost some 7 minutes in the pits bypassing a leaking oil cooler. 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. 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. Jacobson will form part of the four-man enduro roster for Tickford along with returnees James Moffat and Zak Best and new signing Tyler Everingham. Moffitt is the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, a title captured driving for Hattori Racing Enterprises. 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. 1987 started well with Brock and Moffat again winning the Wellington 500 before the pair went on to claim the 1987 Nissan-Mobil 500 series with a strong 3rd place in the Pukekohe 500 a week later. 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. Membership Categories. Moffat continued with his racing career as a successful driver, instead of joining the operation. 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). 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. Moffat also races as a co-driver for Tickford Racing in the Pirtek Enduro Cup in a Ford Mustang GT, alongside Cameron Waters. The incident happened when . Andrew Millard. Sydney-based motoring journalist Evan Green caught wind of these plans however and his article, with headlines across the country that screamed, "160mph Supercars on Our Roads!" In what was also his last Bathurst race, Klaus Niedzwiedz returned to the team, where he joined production car expert Ken Douglas in a strong run to finish 10th after Niedzwiedz qualified the older model (EB compared to the EF) and underpowered Falcon in 25th place. Andrew Moffat qualified as a teacher in 1996, taking up a position as a Year 1 class teacher in Derby. 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. [25][18][26] He did not come out to his family until he was 27. 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). 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. Following an off-season split between Brock and Holden in February 1987, Moffat left the team and hurriedly reassembled Allan Moffat Racing for the inaugural World Touring Car Championship with a Holden VL Commodore SS Group A purchased covertly from Brock. He spent the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons paired with Chaz Mostert, combining for a Gold Coast race win in '18. Moffat refuted these claims and made his comeback in Round 2 of the 1984 Australian Endurance Championship at Oran Park. 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 moment is remembered as one of the most famous in Australian motor sport history and still regarded by many as Ford's finest hour. 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. Mini Challenge ace Ronan Pearson is to step up to the British Touring Car Championship this season with a plum seat in the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai squad. 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. 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. 34 Holden VF Commodore for Garry Rogers Motorsport. The team would later find that it was a blown head gasket and a cracked block. Pic: an1imaegs.com / Ian Smith. The 1970s was a pivotal decade for 'Bathurst' -- dominated by two giants of touring car racing. 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. 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. . 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. Allan Moffat Racing was at various times the official factory team for Ford and Mazda in Australian touring car motor racing as well as racing Holdens and Chevrolets. [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]. 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. 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 unfortunately caused the car to miss the Hardies Heroes Top 10 run off the next day as the car could not be repaired in time, its place in the top 10 being taken by the Commodore of former motorcycle racer Graeme Crosby. The lead car finished four places behind the team's second car, which finished in 18th spot. Your email or your password was wrong. [1], In 2016, Parkfield School, where he was at the time assistant head teacher, was rated as "outstanding" by Ofsted, and particular mention given to "the provision for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is a strength and permeates the school's work. 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. Ford Falcon XA. 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. Moffat was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to equality in education. This saw the team privately enter Falcons in both the 1979 and 1980 Bathurst 1000's. 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's Mustang 1969 </p> <p>If you have to cancel within 10 days, your spot will be offered to the waitlist. . Class: C-CLASS No NR. He currently drives the No. He and co-driver Alan Hamilton finished fourth. Age-appropriate books are used as part of the programme to illustrate key concepts, such as Odd Dog Out by Children's Book Prize winner Rob Biddulph which covers inclusion, Stonewall Book Award winner Julin Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love which looks at diversity and gender roles, and And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson which looks at same-sex marriage and parenting. Moffat was the first truly professional race-car driver in Australia and he was a ferocious competitor. 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 ultimately was a DNF after head gasket failure on lap 129 of 161 with Hansford at the wheel. Allan Moffat Racing was at various times the official factory team for Ford and Mazda in Australian touring car motor racing as well as racing Holdens and Chevrolets. TRIPLE EIGHT RACE ENGINEERING/RED BULL AMPOL RACING This significantly cut into the team's finances and plans to run the car in the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship were shelved. DeKon began producing a few silhouette race cars for IMSA GT class racing, using the Chevrolet Monza as a shell. 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. Moffat and John Harvey also drove their Holden VL Commodore SS Group A to 4th outright and first in Div.3 at the 1987 Spa 24 Hours. According to the team the car was repaired 'better than new' and Brock recorded a 2:18.80 lap in Saturday afternoon's practice. 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). 1780m. 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. 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. Andrew Fischer . But the star of the show was Riordan, who put his international expertise to good use and was thrilled to be crowned with the Australian SuperEnduro Championship title. These mildly modified cars replaced both the existing highly modified Group C Improved Production Touring Cars (which had contested the ATCC since 1965) and the virtually standard Group E Series Production Touring Cars (which had previously contested the Bathurst event). Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. 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. He worked as a teacher and schools advisor in several schools before becoming an assistant head teacher at a Birmingham primary school, Chilwell Croft Academy in 2009. The school has a 98% majority of children with Muslim parents, and the Allan Moffat's Life Path Number is 7 as per numerology . Other wins included the 1974 Sandown 250 and the 1975 Rothmans 300. 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