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 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. Average speed: 178km/h. Allan Moffat | Racing career profile | Driver Database Allan Moffat nationality Canadian and Australian age 82 years old born November 10, 1939 hometown Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Racing highlights Racing career summary Driver relations Father of James Moffat. 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 . Taylor-Smith is a four-time . 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. British Touring Car Championship race winner Aiden Moffat has switched to the renamed One Motorsport team to join reigning independents champion Josh Cook for 2023. Final Results. One aim of the club is to make connections between school children and reduce the risk of radicalisation in vulnerable groups. The second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. 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. The citation itself was given by his old friend and sparring partner, Peter Brock. 2016. If you know of things missing or have corrections, please log in and submit them. 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. If you know of things missing or have corrections, please log in and submit them. 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. Facing pressure from the media and government not to produce this car, as entering it at Bathurst would also require at least 200 units to be sold at dealerships in Australia, Ford scrapped production of the Phase IV and forced Moffat and other Ford drivers to resort to year-old Phase III cars for Bathurst that year. Andrew Moffatt, 1850 - 1943 Andrew Moffatt 1850 1943. . Moffat was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to equality in education. 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. 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. The deal was rumored to have cost Moffat around A$300,000. Pic: an1imaegs.com / Ian Smith. According to the team the car was repaired 'better than new' and Brock recorded a 2:18.80 lap in Saturday afternoon's practice. 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. Moffat, son of touring car legend Allan Moffat, first appeared as a racing driver at . 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). 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. Your email or your password was wrong. 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. What a brilliant term- 15 conferences and 25 schools visited. In 1973, both the ATCC and the Bathurst endurance race were open for the first time only to the newly introduced CAMS Group C Touring Cars. Andrew Fischer . Allan Moffat was born on November 10, 1939 (age 83) in Canada. Allan Moffat quietly retired from competitive race driving after the Fuji win, keeping a promise he had made to himself and his wife Pauline that he wouldn't race beyond his 50th birthday (the Fuji 500 was run 2 days after Moffat's 50th). 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 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. This race was also significant in that it was the last time Moffat raced at Bathurst. 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. [11] He is openly gay and has received threatening emails and abuse because of his sexuality throughout the protests. 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. Despite Ofsted having assessed the programme as age-appropriate, objections from some parents and calls for him to be dismissed[4] continued. Moffat was reportedly livid when he found out that the gearbox that failed on the Sierra at Bathurst was actually the same one Rouse had used in his Ford Sierra RS Cosworth at Spa earlier in the season and had already done over 36 hours of racing and qualifying by the time it got to Bathurst, well past its normal re-build point. Aiden Moffat nationality British age 26 years old born September 28, 1996 hometown Dalkeith, Scotland Racing highlights 2017 2nd 24H Series - SP3-GT4 Racing career summary Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. In what was his biggest crash since rolling his XA Falcon at Phillip Island in 1973, Moffat suffered a fractured sternum and broken finger in the accident, while the RX-7 was a write-off. 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. James Moffat stepped back to enduro duties with Tickford Racing in 2018, after seven full-time Supercars seasons. Under this partnership, Ginetta will run three championships which will compete at Intelligent Money British GT Championship rounds from the 2023 season. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. 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. Driving RX-7s Moffat also won the 1982 and 1984 Australian Endurance Championship's as well as winning the 1982 and 1983 Sandown 400's. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. 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). Bathurst's legend was penned by two drivers: Moffat and Brock. With Mazda not interested in Group A racing (he tested a Mazda 626 at Calder Park but it proved to be uncompetitive), Moffat was forced to sit out the 1985 Australian season. 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. British motorsport brand, Ginetta, has today announced it is to enter a new three-year partnership with global leader in GT racing, SRO Motorsports Group. 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. Despite suffering from the flu, Moffat put the RX-7 on pole and he and Gregg Hansford went on to win the Valvoline 250 from the XE Falcon of ATCC winner Dick Johnson. 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). The Canadian got the class pole and led the first half . 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. Ford withdrew its factory team from motor racing after 1973 (during which time Moffat won his first ATCC and the first Bathurst 1000 for the factory team) and Allan Moffat Racing became the leading Ford team in Australian touring car racing, with Moffat winning the ATCC in 1976 and 1977, as well as the famous 1-2 win in the 1977 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 at Bathurst when he was partnered by multiple 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Jacky Ickx. The following drivers are the current leaders in the DriverDB Ranking in their age group. 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. Drivers have been warned to leave extra time for their Monday morning . Six wins in the Sandown 500 including 1969, 1970, 1974, 1982, 1983 and 1988. See the official Redcliffe harness race results for 01/03/2023 including margins, finishing order, starting odds and more at Racenet! 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 team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. In 2014 teacher Andrew Moffat resigned from a primary school in Birmingham after parents complained they did not want . 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 went into the ATCC race in second place behind the Nissan of George Fury, and with the Nissan team not attending the meeting Moffat needed to finish no lower than fifth to claim his fourth title. I am particularly knowledgeable in Race Engineering and Vehicle Dynamics due to a quick accumulation of experience since the start of 2020. The lead car finished four places behind the team's second car, which finished in 18th spot. Moffat's last race, and indeed last race win, was in 1989 driving with Niedzwiedz. This significantly cut into the team's finances and plans to run the car in the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship were shelved. 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. He and co-driver Alan Hamilton finished fourth. Andrew passed away in 1920, at age 83 at death place. Hand impressed during his rookie season, and Autosport sources indicate that he has been put into a situation whereby he will be forced to sit out the coming campaign while working on a BTCC return in 2024. Moffitt is the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, a title captured driving for Hattori Racing Enterprises. competing against his half-brother Andrew . created the Supercar scare. 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. 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 second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. 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). He did it again the following year in the latest GT-HO Phase Two and three weeks later scored his first Bathurst 500 win. 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. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. 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. [2], Following the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, and in response to his school children's questions, Moffat put together online resources for teachers covering terrorism and hate crime, particularly concerning refugees. In October 2018, he was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.[1]. 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. This saw the team privately enter Falcons in both the 1979 and 1980 Bathurst 1000's. 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. 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. 1984 would prove to be a frustrating year for Moffat. Between them Moffat and Brock had won 14 of the previous 17 Sandown Enduro's. 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. [14], The programme attracted criticism and protest at the school from a vocal minority of parents when it was introduced. 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. The following year Moffat received an Order of the British Empire in 1978 for exceptional services to motor sport. James Moffat is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. DeKon began producing a few silhouette race cars for IMSA GT class racing, using the Chevrolet Monza as a shell. Moffat, therefore, made his debut in that race in 1969 in a Ford works team entered Ford Falcon XW GTHO. Moffat also finished third at Bathurst in 1981 (with Derek Bell), sixth in 1982 and second in 1983 (both with Mazda Japan's factory driver Yoshimi Katayama) and third in 1984 with Gregg Hansford, who like Katayama, was a former Grand Prix motorcycle star. Aiden Moffat (born 28 September 1996) is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Laser Tools Racing. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. This rivalry popularised the annual 500/1000 KM race and made it a national event, even for non motor sport followers. The Mustang was voted the most popular 'Muscle Car' ever to race in Australia by readers of Australian Muscle Car magazine. He currently drives the No. 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. First appointed to the Board in August 2011. In 2019, it was reported that Moffat was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and had been moved to a specialist health care facility, with his friends and Bathurst legends Fred Gibson and Larry Perkins ensuring his will instructions to be carried out. 2017. 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 race was still entered as driving for the Ford Works Team. The deal proved a disaster for Moffat as the car was retired at both the James Hardie 1000 and the Calder 500 before Moffat got his turn to race. . This was the last Allan Moffat Racing Falcon to tackle Mount Panorama. Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. 1 Ayrton Senna Ayrton Senna da Silva (21 March 1960 - 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver who won three Formula One world championships for McLaren in 1988, 1990 and 1991 and is regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers of all time. Published: 2022-09-21. 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 team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. [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. , 1983 and 1988 Moffatt 1850 1943. abuse because of his sexuality throughout the.! 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