1984 would prove to be a frustrating year for Moffat. Top speed: 300km/h. [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. * Drove Murray Carter's Phase III Falcon at Adelaide International Raceway in 1973 due to his own Falcon being stolen the night before the race. Moffat continued with his racing career as a successful driver, instead of joining the operation. [16] Moffat, as an openly gay staff member, was advised by the police to do a risk assessment of his travel arrangements from school. The recent confirmation that international Porsche ace Jaxon Evans will join Jack Smith at Brad Jones Racing locked in the field for the 2022 running of the Bathurst 1000. The car hit a tree stump (hidden by grass) which saw Moffat suffer a broken hand, a fractured sternum and heavy bruising. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. 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. Niedzwiedz and fellow German Frank Biela finished second for Moffat in the 1989 Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst. Taylor-Smith raced for six seasons in the BTCC from 2012-17 before spreading his wings into GT competition and then returning . The. Moffat's last race, and indeed last race win, was in 1989 driving with Niedzwiedz. While it was extremely close between the New South Welshman and James Golding in Qualifying , Mawson was far more dominant in the race as he finished more than six seconds ahead of . Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. . ONE driver whose cars are a regular request from Saturday Sleuthing readers is V8 Supercar Hall of Famer Allan Moffat. [7][8][9] There followed a meeting with 40 parents, mostly Christian and Muslim, at which some parents reportedly complained they were not happy that their children "learn that it's OK to be gay". This was followed by the 1986 Castrol 500 at Sandown. This significantly cut into the team's finances and plans to run the car in the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship were shelved. Aiden Moffat (born 28 September 1996) is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Laser Tools Racing. 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. One of Australia's most iconic motorsport legends is Allan Moffat. James Moffat (born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. 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. Moffat then went on to finish second behind Brock in the Surfers Paradise 300 to claim the final Australian Endurance Championship, and the final ever championship run under CAMS Group C rules. 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. Allan Moffat also tested a Jaguar XJS at Bathurst in 1985. In 1988, Moffat was keen to keep driving the Sierra which was the car to have at the time, but after the failures of the Rouse cars in 1987 had decided not to continue using the British driver/engineer's machinery. No Outsiders resource piloted by Andrew Moffat in his own school. [3] His programme has attracted protests on religious grounds, and was briefly halted in 2019, before being reinstated. [28], Moffat entered into a civil partnership in 2006.[1]. The second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. Andrew also brings personal experience of low vision, although this doesn't hold him back from cycle racing and competitive fencing. Thanks @ExcelsiorMAT for making it possible. He persuaded Swiss touring car tuning ace Ruedi Eggenberger to build him a customer Sierra RS500 that was identical to the works Fords that the Eggenberger team was using in the renamed ETCC. 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 this time, Moffat also raced in the Australian Sports Sedan Championship, winning the inaugural national title in 1976 driving both a Ford Capri RS3100 and (in a shock to Ford fans), a DeKon built Chevrolet Monza. Due to the severe tyre problems suffered by the works GTHOs, Moffat was called into the pits early to change tyres. Under this partnership, Ginetta will run three championships which will compete at Intelligent Money British GT Championship rounds from the 2023 season. Following Ford's decision to withdraw from Australian motorsport, in 1981 Allan Moffat Racing became the factory Mazda team racing the RX-7 until 1984. 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. Moffat himself was hampered by an injured wrist sustained in Friday's crash. The team's final appearance in the Australian Touring Car Championship was in 1990 with Gregg Hansford driving a Sierra. 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). 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. The race was the first of what would eventually become the Sandown 500. 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. Children: James Moffat, Andrew Moffat. Moffat had actually been near last on the first lap of the race after his Falcon became stuck in neutral as he was powering out of The Cutting. The pair were due to co-drive with Aussie privateer racer Tony Mulvihill at Spa, but unfortunately the Sydney driver failed to qualify. 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 21-year-old Scot therefore joins . 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 . In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. Although Moffat left the HDT still on good terms with Brock, he purchased the car through a middleman to avoid any friction with having his former employer knowing the true buyer. Moffat maintains the view that he never wanted to pit at the time and that had he been left "to his own devices", he and Alan Hamilton would have won 1969 500. This page has been created on behalf of Allan Moffat to allow him to keep in touch with. We are a Motorcycle Track day organization offering expert coaching at every level. Moffat began to design the No Outsiders programme of learning prior to becoming assistant head teacher at Parkfield Community School, an academy school in Birmingham, UK. 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. Rather than see Moffat out of the race (he was the series points leader at the time), Murray Carter loaned Moffat his GTHO Falcon for the race. Moffat's stolen Falcon was later found abandoned in the Adelaide Hills, where the thieves who had taken it for a "joy ride" dumped it after running out of fuel. Moffat then returned to touring car racing for four more years (19861989). 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. The team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. [27], Moffat also speaks as a children's rights communicator, and has presented at the Humanists UK 2019 convention, and the 2019 Blackham lecture with Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson. [13], The same year, Moffat was a finalist for the Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation.[11]. Published: 2022-09-21. "[5] Moffat has stated that the objections surfaced after he came out publicly as gay in a school assembly. 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. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. Moffat ran the Mustang in Sports Sedans in 1973 and 1974, though he refused to follow the trend at the time of moving the engine back in the cabin, later stating in a 2004 interview he "was never going to contaminate such a jewel", though he did replace the bodywork with fiberglass to avoid damaging the cars sheet metal. He has also went on to work with Many different schools. The 1970s was a pivotal decade for 'Bathurst' -- dominated by two giants of touring car racing. Allan George Moffat OBE (born 10 November 1939 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian-Australian racing driver known for his four championships in the Australian Touring Car Championship, six wins in the Sandown 500 and his four wins in the Bathurst 500/1000. Laps: 161. Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. 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. However, due to the cold conditions the team put a cover over the front of the car to help warm up the engine. In 1971 he went into the 7th and final round at Oran Park only 4 points behind three-time ATCC champion Bob Jane in his 7.0 litre Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1. 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. 1984 was a tough year for Allan Moffat Racing. During this time Moffat drove his RX-7 to victories in the 1982 and 1984 Australian Endurance Championships. 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. 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. [6], (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap). (270) 781-7973. Oct 4, 2022, 4:33 PM. An emotional win for @J_Moffat in the first TransAm race of 2023. . 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. One aim of the club is to make connections between school children and reduce the risk of radicalisation in vulnerable groups. [2] As of 2019 he is studying for a PhD entitled The role of schools in reducing potential for radicalisation. 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. In 1971 he became the first driver to lead the Bathurst 500 from start to finish while driving the famed Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III. The following graph shows the change in the DriverDB Rating of Aiden Moffat over time since January 1st 2013. 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. Complete British Touring Car Championship results, Complete TCR UK Touring Car Championship results, Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com, 2014 British Touring Car Championship season, "Donington BTCC: Moffat takes maiden win in Race 1", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aiden_Moffat&oldid=1129732938, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 26 December 2022, at 21:47. He won four times at Bathurst and also took four touring car championships, as well as national titles in sports cars and sports sedans, and was Ford's frontline fighter until Dick Johnson hit the big time. If you know of things missing or have corrections, please log in and submit them. 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. The second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. 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. Ford Falcon XA. Final Results. Pic: an1imaegs.com / Ian Smith. Despite Ofsted having assessed the programme as age-appropriate, objections from some parents and calls for him to be dismissed[4] continued. 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. 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!" 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. 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. He currently drives the No. Taylor-Smith is a four-time . Despite not actually winning the race overall, the HDT's two-car attack on the 1986 Spa 24 Hours was considered to be a success because they won the prestigious "Kings Cup" teams prize along with Allan Grice's Commodore (the Kings Cup is awarded to the "team" who has the highest overall placings for at least 3 of their cars at the end of the race). This meant that the Brock/Moffat car would start 11th on the grid. Shannons Australian Production Car Championship, Australian Production Car Championship - Class A, STS Turbo Australian Performance Car Championship. 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). 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. 2015 'No Outsiders in Our School' resource is first published. </p> <p>Attention to all C8 New Car OWNERS . From then on, the team's appearances were restricted to the Bathurst 1000, with two RS500s until 1992, and until its final appearance in 1996, a sole Ford EB Falcon V8. [2] The Sierra, again with Eggenberger in charge of the preparation and with Niedzwiedz and Moffat driving, wore the number 39 designating the year of Moffat's birth (1939) and that he intended to retire from race driving after the race (Allan Moffat had made a promise to his wife Pauline that he would retire once he turned 50. 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. DeKon began producing a few silhouette race cars for IMSA GT class racing, using the Chevrolet Monza as a shell. 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. In 2014 teacher Andrew Moffat resigned from a primary school in Birmingham after parents complained they did not want . [18], In 2019, Birmingham City Council applied to the High Court for an injunction to create an exclusion zone to protect the schools from organised protests following an investigation by the Commission for Countering Extremism which revealed the protests had been taken over by Hizb ut-Tahir and other pro-Islamist groups, unconnected to either school, with a specific aim to "entrench social division" and "amplify hate" against LGBT people. 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. He failed to finish Bathurst again in 1976 despite taking pole and leading comfortably with co-driver Vern Schuppan. He spent the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons paired with Chaz Mostert, combining for a Gold Coast race win in '18. 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]. He received a BA in English with drama and American Studies from the University of Derby in 1993, followed by a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, also from Derby. Moffat's two sons Andrew Moffat and James Moffat have followed their father into motor racing. The incident happened when . Ford's two factory Falcon XAs at Sandown in 1973. Career [ edit] British Touring Car Championship [ edit] Nothing puts a smile on our faces like seeing the excitement in the eyes of a rider who has achieved a personal goal. Both started from the front row (Moffat on pole) and entered into an enticing duel. Moffitt is the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, a title captured driving for Hattori Racing Enterprises. 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. The best result for the team during this period was Niedzwiedz's second place with Frank Biela at the 1989 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. [3] He would add a second victory in the final round at Brands Hatch. The HDT's 1986 European campaign was to be a precursor to an all-out attack on the 1987 World Touring Car Championship. 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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). Give it another shot! 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. 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". 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. 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. This turned out to be fortunate as it allowed him to avoid the Bill Brown rollover going over Skyline which blocked the track and took out approximately a quarter of the field who had no warning of the impending disaster. He has since worked as a TV commentator for Channel 7 and a spokesman for BMW. . Andrew Fisher, 33, of Avon, was arrested on Feb. 23 for charges relating to the sexual exploitation of a child. 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. Moffat, Brock and John Harvey finished the race itself in 22nd place after suffering two head gasket failures. Moffat was 'the man' when it came to racing and winning in GT-HOs. Moffat and his Coke Mustang were involved in two of the most memorable ATCC races on record. Qualifying at the famous circuit had been hit by the notorious Ardennes weather and while Mulvihill set a good enough time when the track was wet, he had not set a time on a dry track and towards the end of the final session the circuit dried and the Texaco sponsored Eggenberger Motorsport Ford Sierra RS Cosworth's significantly improved their times which left only Moffat and Harvey to drive the Commodore. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. [14] [6][5] [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. created the Supercar scare. 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. The team's first Bathurst with a Falcon since 1980 did not turn out much better than their previous attempt which had only lasted 3 laps. 10.2L W. P SP. I am particularly knowledgeable in Race Engineering and Vehicle Dynamics due to a quick accumulation of experience since the start of 2020. Ford, smarting from the Phase IV controversy the year before, withdrew their factory teams from the competition at the end of 1973. [9] In a statement, the school said, "Theobjections were primarily voiced by those whose own religion took an opposing stance to homosexuality. 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. 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 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. 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. 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