The race was still entered as driving for the Ford Works Team. 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. 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. Andrew Moffat qualified as a teacher in 1996, taking up a position as a Year 1 class teacher in Derby. 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. . 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). Alongside this project, for six months I developed a . Here, children learn more about the programme and visit other local schools to tell pupils about it. The race was the first of what would eventually become the Sandown 500. 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. This left Moffat and other Ford drivers to form their own privateer teams, despite the Factory team and Moffat being victorious in both the 1973 ATCC - his first-ever - and the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 (with co-driver Ian Geoghegan). In 2019, following Moffat's nomination for the Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation, protests grew and spread to other schools in the area. Motorsport Australia will establish an investigatory tribunal to look into Sunday's crash-affected Trans Am race at Symmons Plains. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. It was driven to victory by Allan Moffat and Ian Geoghegan in the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, avenging . At the end of 1990, the team suffered a blow when it lost its major sponsor ANZ. This meant that the Brock/Moffat car would start 11th on the grid. [25][18][26] He did not come out to his family until he was 27. These are the ones you will hear a lot about in years to come. Photo: Supplied. An emotional win for @J_Moffat in the first TransAm race of 2023. . Moffat's two sons Andrew Moffat and James Moffat have followed their father into motor racing. [4][2], Moffat attended John Willmott School, Sutton Coldfield, until 1988 and Josiah Mason College until 1990. 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. 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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. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. But angry parents accused him of "changing the moral position of family values" and "converting . With Ford Australia pulling out of motor racing after 1973, Moffat competed as a privateer through the 1974 and 1975 seasons. Moffat also competed at the 24 Hours of Daytona in an RX-7, taking a class win in 1982 with co-drivers Lee Mulle and Kathy Rude. 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? 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. 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. 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. 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. Niedzwiedz gave the Moffat-ANZ team pole position at the 1990 Tooheys 1000 while he had also won the Top 10 run-off in 1988 when race regulations meant that the run-off did not count for grid positions. Membership Categories. They then almost pulled off an upset at the Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst where Eggenberger himself joined the team and along with his Ford Europe driver, German ace Klaus Niedzwiedz. Or perhaps both of them were. He helped steer the first GT-HO to a debut victory at the Sandown Three-Hour in 1969. "[11] Moffat also has responsibility for pastoral care of pupils and teachers within the school. Laps: 161. No Outsiders resource piloted by Andrew Moffat in his own school. 20 June 2020. 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. The Top Ten. [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. Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Moffat moved to Australia as a 17-year-old college student with his parents when his father, who worked for Massey Ferguson, was transferred to Melbourne for work and in the early 1960s embarked on his record-setting motor racing career. On 2 February 2004, he received Australian citizenship in a ceremony at the Australian Grand Prix Corporation offices in Melbourne. While Moffat made the RX-7 a regular race winner on the shorter and generally flatter Australian tracks, he believes the extra weight in the car was what made it impossible to match the V8's at Bathurst. 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. 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. What a brilliant term- 15 conferences and 25 schools visited. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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). </p> <p>Attention to all C8 New Car OWNERS . Moffat, Brock and John Harvey finished the race itself in 22nd place after suffering two head gasket failures. The car ultimately was a DNF after head gasket failure on lap 129 of 161 with Hansford at the wheel. The event was marked by the fact that it was only the second time Moffat had raced a Holden and the first time that he was driving in the same team as his archrival Peter Brock. I taught 7600 pupils a no outsiders lesson and trained 1350 teachers. Under this partnership, Ginetta will run three championships which will compete at Intelligent Money British GT Championship rounds from the 2023 season. 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. 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). Andrew Fisher, 33, of Avon, was arrested on Feb. 23 for charges relating to the sexual exploitation of a child. Aiden Moffat (born 28 September 1996) is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Laser Tools Racing. The 10 greatest Auto Racing drivers. Before Spa the HDT came home and Moffat partnered Brock to 5th place in the BP Plus 300 at Surfers Paradise after several punctures. Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. The 1995 Tooheys 1000 saw the team struggle once more. [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. Peter Brock won the race that year for arch-rival manufacturer Holden after wet weather and brake dramas hobbled the Fords. THE RACE. Moffat also races as a co-driver for Tickford Racing in the Pirtek Enduro Cup in a Ford Mustang GT, alongside Cameron Waters. Professional Race Car Driver Director - Enviroworx Ltd Youngest ever in BTCC ARDS Instructor/Tuition [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. Published: 2022-09-21. "[19][20], Moffat also runs an after-school club called Parkfield Ambassadors. 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). The 1996 AMP Bathurst 1000 was the last time that an Allan Moffat-built or driven (in this case just built) car raced at Bathurst. The track: 6.213km. More racing: Classic . The teams' (and indeed Moffat's own) final race win was in the Fuji 500 in Japan in 1989. He failed to finish Bathurst again in 1976 despite taking pole and leading comfortably with co-driver Vern Schuppan. 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 Moffat and Brock had won 14 of the previous 17 Sandown Enduro's. 8.5 . 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". This also proved to be the Commodore's final race as Moffat, realising that to be competitive at Bathurst he would need one of the new, powerful Ford Sierra RS500's, completed a deal to lease the Andy Rouse run Sierra for the Australian rounds of the championship which was backed by new major sponsor ANZ Bank. THE 2022 BATHURST GRID. 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, therefore, made his debut in that race in 1969 in a Ford works team entered Ford Falcon XW GTHO. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. 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. 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). Although there were accusations that the RX-7 was a sports car and not a touring car (including Moffat's former Works Team boss, Howard Marsden, who by the 1980s led Nissan's racing program in Australia), Moffat was able to win the 1983 ATCC (his 4th and last title) as well as finishing second at Bathurst in 1983 and third in 1984, the last year of the locally developed Group C Touring Car rules. By 1969 Moffat had returned to live full-time in Australia and from 1969 he had become a regular ATCC competitor and his bright red Coca-Cola-sponsored Ford Boss 302 Mustang, which was supplied brand-new to Moffat from Ford's American 'in-house' race car fabrication and engineering facility "Kar Kraft" and finished off by Bud Moore Engineering, was unmistakable at circuits around Australia. [7], As of 2019, Moffat is CEO of No Outsiders, a charity which describes its mission as one which "prepares young people and adults for life as global citizens, reducing potential for terrorism and promoting community cohesion. 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. 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. 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. At mid-race, Moffat was forced to slow in order to free a jammed gearbox but battled back to only be six-tenths of a second behind Jane at the finish. 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. One of Australia's most iconic motorsport legends is Allan Moffat. 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 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. 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