The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. 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. In 1986, Moffat joined long-time rival Peter Brock's Holden Dealer Team to race a Holden VK Commodore SS Group A in the European Touring Car Championship and the late season Australian Endurance Championship races which included Sandown and Bathurst. 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. Founded in the mid-1960s to support Moffat's touring car racing efforts, the team was closely aligned with Ford Australia's in-house racing team until it was wound up in 1973 (Moffat doubled as the works team's lead driver primarily driving GTHO Falcons). Class: C-CLASS No NR. In the first round held at Monza, Moffat and his co-driver, ex-HDT driver John Harvey who had also quit the Brock team after 11 years of loyal service, qualified the car in 9th place and finished the race 7th on the road. 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. He was later awarded an MA in emotional and behavioural difficulties from the University of Birmingham. At the time of his crash, Moffat had been sitting 3rd in the ATCC (behind Peter Brock, who would miss two rounds while racing at Le Mans, and eventual champion Dick Johnson) after a 3rd at Sandown, DNF at Symmons Plains and a win at Wanneroo and still considered the favourite to retain his 1983 title. Merry Christmas, everyone xx #nooutsiders. 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. Aiden Moffat (born 28 September 1996) is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Laser Tools Racing. Moffat also races as a co-driver for Tickford Racing in the Pirtek Enduro Cup in a Ford Mustang GT, alongside Cameron Waters. Listen to this article. Average speed: 178km/h. 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. 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. 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. created the Supercar scare. Andrew Miedecke was again lead driver and qualified the aging EB Falcon in 16th place but co-driver Mark Noske never got a drive with the car retiring on lap 16 with engine trouble. He eventually finished in an easy third place behind teammate Gregg Hansford in the team's second RX-7, and race winner Peter Brock in his HDT Commodore SS to claim the ATCC by just six points. Moffat's Mustang 1969 Drivers have been warned to leave extra time for their Monday morning . Or perhaps both of them were. 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. Due to the severe tyre problems suffered by the works GTHOs, Moffat was called into the pits early to change tyres. 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. The Canadian got the class pole and led the first half . The Mustang was voted the most popular 'Muscle Car' ever to race in Australia by readers of Australian Muscle Car magazine. 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 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. [17], Following five months of consultation, the programme restarted in September 2019, entitled "No Outsiders for a Faith Community", and included year group consultations with parents in advance of the lessons starting. Moffat is now 79 and many of his toughest race rivals, including Peter Brock, Bob Jane and Ian 'Pete' Geoghegan have died. Allan Moffat's Life Path Number is 7 as per numerology . Both sides claim in documents filed in the Supreme Court that the legendary driver has been held captive or isolated by the other. [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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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 car differed from its Australian configuration, a new rear wing was run on the car and 20kg of ballast was removed, bringing it down to its actual homologated weight of 930kg, while the engine was the same 13B that had carried Moffat and Hansford to third place at Bathurst the previous year. The following graph shows the change in the DriverDB Rating of Aiden Moffat over time since January 1st 2013. 34 Holden VF Commodore for Garry Rogers Motorsport. The teams' (and indeed Moffat's own) final race win was in the Fuji 500 in Japan in 1989. 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. </p> <p>Attention to all C8 New Car OWNERS . The HDT's other car driven by John Harvey and Neal Lowe finished the race in 2nd place after a relatively trouble-free run. Allan Moffat Racing was an Australian motor racing team owned by multiple-championship winning Canadian-Australian racing driver Allan Moffat. 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. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. The lead car finished four places behind the team's second car, which finished in 18th spot. 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. [10] The programme does not address sex or sex education. 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. Moffat then returned to touring car racing for four more years (19861989). Despite the unhappy experience with Rouse machinery, at the Wanneroo Park round in 1988, Moffat debuted an Eggenberger Motorsport built RS500 with team principal Ruedi Eggenberger and driver Klaus Niedzwiedz often joining the team for the Bathurst 1000 over the next few years. 2017. "[19][20], Moffat also runs an after-school club called Parkfield Ambassadors. We are a Motorcycle Track day organization offering expert coaching at every level. Moffat won the fight with the ARDC and his decision to start both cars was vindicated when his own #43 RX-7 was involved in a car banging dual with the Falcon of Steve Masterson soon after the original start. 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. Moffat drove for over half the race with his safety belts undone so that he could put his head out of the driver's window in order to see where he was going, the Falcon having a small oil leak which saw some oil sprayed onto the Mustang's windscreen. Moffat continued as the team owner and manager of Allan Moffat Enterprises, which ran the RS500 Sierra's until the demise of Group A at the end of 1992. Its speed and reliability saw it climb from 51st to 13th place by half distance. 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. 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. [25][18][26] He did not come out to his family until he was 27. 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 drove the RX-7 to four consecutive top-six finishes at Bathurst between 1981 and 1984 including a second in 1983 and 3rd in 1984 while winning his fourth and final ATCC title in 1983. See the official Redcliffe harness race results for 01/03/2023 including margins, finishing order, starting odds and more at Racenet! This occurred despite the setback of a transporter fire which destroyed his race car with several rounds left to run, forcing Moffat to borrow a car from rival John Goss for two rounds. It was the first time the Moffat name had been on the Bathurst 1000 podium since Allan finished third in 1984. James Moffat finished second driving for Nissan Motorsport in the 2014 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. One aim of the club is to make connections between school children and reduce the risk of radicalisation in vulnerable groups. The car hit a tree stump (hidden by grass) which saw Moffat suffer a broken hand, a fractured sternum and heavy bruising. competing against his half-brother Andrew . The 21-year-old Scot therefore joins . By the midpoint of the race the Moffat/Ickx car and the Bond/Alan Hamilton car led the field by over two laps. Photo: Supplied. 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. Give it another shot! Moffat and his Coke Mustang were involved in two of the most memorable ATCC races on record. [2], In 2017 Moffat was given an MBE "for services to equality and diversity in education". Ultimately the Moffat lead Sierra would finish second behind the Sierra of Dick Johnson and John Bowe. Allan Moffat was born on November 10, 1939 (age 83) in Canada. The race was still entered as driving for the Ford Works Team. 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. 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. 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). To the severe tyre problems suffered by the works GTHOs, Moffat was given an MBE `` services! 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