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. 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. The team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. He was later awarded an MA in emotional and behavioural difficulties from the University of Birmingham. James Moffat (born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. Never the most naturally-talented driver, he was ruthless about getting the best from himself, his team and his cars. [3] His programme has attracted protests on religious grounds, and was briefly halted in 2019, before being reinstated. He spent the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons paired with Chaz Mostert, combining for a Gold Coast race win in '18. One aim of the club is to make connections between school children and reduce the risk of radicalisation in vulnerable groups. Ford's two factory Falcon XAs at Sandown in 1973. 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. He started his racing career at the wheel of a Triumph TR3. Moffat first entered the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) in 1965, driving a Lotus Cortina. [2][5] Moffat was also responsible for training primary school teachers on how to manage homophobic bullying, using resources, some of which he had written while a teacher, including Challenging Homophobia In Primary Schools: An early years resource (2007), later published as Challenging Homophobia In Primary Schools (CHIPS) (2012). These are the ones you will hear a lot about in years to come. According to the team the car was repaired 'better than new' and Brock recorded a 2:18.80 lap in Saturday afternoon's practice. 1984 was a tough year for Allan Moffat Racing. 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. Moffat, Geoghegan, and Ford have the distinction of being the first winners of the Bathurst race following its conversion from a 500-mile event to 1000 km. He has also went on to work with Many different schools. It was also the 6th Sandown endurance win of Allan Moffat's career and Gregg Hansford's first major touring car victory since the pair shared won the 1984 Valvoline 250 at Oran Park in Sydney. 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. Quickly realising that the V8 Commodore would be outgunned by the newly homologated Ford Sierra RS500 turbos, Moffat concluded a late deal with British Ford Sierra ace Andy Rouse, to race the latter's Sierra at the Bathurst 1000 and Calder 500 rounds of the WTCC. After the Sierra's were banned in their RS500 form at the end of 1992, Moffat decided to continue his long association with Ford and built an eye-catching Ford EB Falcon painted black and yellow in the colours of team sponsor Cenovis for the 1993 Tooheys 1000. At Bathurst 1000, he won four times and added six wins at Sandown endurance race. Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. 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. 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? [25][18][26] He did not come out to his family until he was 27. [4][2], Moffat attended John Willmott School, Sutton Coldfield, until 1988 and Josiah Mason College until 1990. I am particularly knowledgeable in Race Engineering and Vehicle Dynamics due to a quick accumulation of experience since the start of 2020. 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). 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 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. One of Australia's most iconic motorsport legends is Allan Moffat. He did it again the following year in the latest GT-HO Phase Two and three weeks later scored his first Bathurst 500 win. Andrew's school receives 'outstanding' Ofsted report, No Outsiders highlighted as a key strength. Making way for Jacobson and Everingham is Zane . 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. [11] He is openly gay and has received threatening emails and abuse because of his sexuality throughout the protests. Moffat also won the inaugural Australian Sports Sedan Championship that year, driving firstly a Chevrolet Monza and later a Ford Capri RS3100. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The track: 6.213km. The 1995 Tooheys 1000 saw the team struggle once more. 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. 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). Class: C-CLASS No NR. [9] In a statement, the school said, "Theobjections were primarily voiced by those whose own religion took an opposing stance to homosexuality. He drove a Porsche 934 turbo to win the Australian Sports Car Championship. 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. <p>Can we show you some, Something went wrong. 20 June 2020. 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 was unable to repeat his 1977 successes over the following three years. 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. By the midpoint of the race the Moffat/Ickx car and the Bond/Alan Hamilton car led the field by over two laps. [13], The same year, Moffat was a finalist for the Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation.[11]. 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. The Fuji race was held just two days after his 50th birthday). 8.5 . Both started from the front row (Moffat on pole) and entered into an enticing duel. Moffat also races as a co-driver for Tickford Racing in the Pirtek Enduro Cup in a Ford Mustang GT, alongside Cameron Waters. Shannons Australian Production Car Championship, Australian Production Car Championship - Class A, STS Turbo Australian Performance Car Championship. Both sides claim in documents filed in the Supreme Court that the legendary driver has been held captive or isolated by the other. [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. 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. The wild, whale-tailed factory racer competed in the GTX category for modified production cars. 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. They had 9 children: Andrew Race Moffatt, Thomas Moffatt and 7 other children. He had been eligible for citizenship since the early 1970s but, in his own words, "one way or another I never followed it through." [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. 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. 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. [22][23], In April 2020, Moffat released a second book, No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome, an updated book about the programme. 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. He became the youngest driver ever to compete in the BTCC when he made his debut at the Knockhill round of the 2013 season. 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. Ford Falcon XA. Allan Moffat Wikipedia. Here, children learn more about the programme and visit other local schools to tell pupils about it. The bank had been recording end of financial year losses and had decided that it would not be right to continue sponsoring the team after it was forced to lay off some 3,000 employees. Other wins included the 1974 Sandown 250 and the 1975 Rothmans 300. Motorsport Australia will establish an investigatory tribunal to look into Sunday's crash-affected Trans Am race at Symmons Plains. 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. 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. [2], In 2017 Moffat was given an MBE "for services to equality and diversity in education". 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