The 21-year-old Scot therefore joins . Moffat looked headed for a historic third straight Bathurst victory in 1972 when Ford unveiled plans for a "Phase IV" Falcon GTHO, even faster but more subtle than the Phase III which Moffat had taken to victory in 1971. Moffat was the first truly professional race-car driver in Australia and he was a ferocious competitor. Final Results. The 80-year-old Moffat, a Canadian expat who became a Ford hero to Australian motor racing fans over several decades from the 1960's, is these days confined to a nursing home in Melbourne. Moffat also won the inaugural Australian Sports Sedan Championship that year, driving firstly a Chevrolet Monza and later a Ford Capri RS3100. Under this partnership, Ginetta will run three championships which will compete at Intelligent Money British GT Championship rounds from the 2023 season. competing against his half-brother Andrew . He has also assumed responsibility for delivering the Right Respecting Schools programme, a UNICEF initiative which ensures a safe learning environment based on children's rights. 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 team would later find that it was a blown head gasket and a cracked block. He also appears at various Ford club events across Australia, promotes his longtime backer GT Radial Tyres, and more recently (2009-) has been seen in television adverts in Australia promoting Ford Performance Vehicles GT Falcons. The best result for the team during this period was Niedzwiedz's second place with Frank Biela at the 1989 race. [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). 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. 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 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). Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. The following year Moffat received an Order of the British Empire in 1978 for exceptional services to motor sport. 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. [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. Complete with sponsorship from Rothmans, the team competed in the opening three rounds with Moffat and John Harvey winning the opening Monza 500 race, after the leading six factory BMW M3s were disqualified, before returning for round 5 to finish fourth outright and first in class at the Spa 24 Hour. James Moffat (born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. The team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. Due to the severe tyre problems suffered by the works GTHOs, Moffat was called into the pits early to change tyres. 10.2L W. P SP. 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. Both sides claim in documents filed in the Supreme Court that the legendary driver has been held captive or isolated by the other. Moffitt . 2016. 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. Membership Categories. 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. Andrew Fischer . First appointed to the Board in August 2011. 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. (270) 781-7973. 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. "[11] Moffat also has responsibility for pastoral care of pupils and teachers within the school. [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. 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). 1780m. [22][23], In April 2020, Moffat released a second book, No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome, an updated book about the programme. TRIPLE EIGHT RACE ENGINEERING/RED BULL AMPOL RACING Moffat then returned to touring car racing for four more years (19861989). The Fuji race was held just two days after his 50th birthday). This race was also significant in that it was the last time Moffat raced at Bathurst. 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!" Moffat himself was hampered by an injured wrist sustained in Friday's crash. [9] In a statement, the school said, "Theobjections were primarily voiced by those whose own religion took an opposing stance to homosexuality. By the midpoint of the race the Moffat/Ickx car and the Bond/Alan Hamilton car led the field by over two laps. 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. The Top Ten. 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. Andrew awarded MBE for his work in equality and diversity in education. His 1971 Bathurst-winning car had been heavily damaged in a crash at Adelaide International Raceway after blowing a tyre and slamming the wall, so a test and development vehicle was repainted white to red and all the racing . Or perhaps both of them were. 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. "[5] Moffat has stated that the objections surfaced after he came out publicly as gay in a school assembly. This deal also left Harvey without a drive for the rest of the year as Rouse and his co-driver Thierry Tassin would share the driving with Moffat. After only 15 laps of the second start (the first was aborted after the John Goss Jaguar XJS driven by European Touring Car Champion Tom Walkinshaw had stalled and was hit from behind causing the pit straight to be blocked), Moffat was forced to retire his car with terminal engine problems after only 15 laps and move into Hansford's, which had been originally intended to run about 20 laps, but lasted 161 (with Moffat himself only driving the middle 'lunchtime' stint and Hansford driving the majority of the race). 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. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. In 1980 he competed in various cars and in various countries. Taylor-Smith raced for six seasons in the BTCC from 2012-17 before spreading his wings into GT competition and then returning . 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). This was the last Allan Moffat Racing Falcon to tackle Mount Panorama. Andrew's school receives 'outstanding' Ofsted report, No Outsiders highlighted as a key strength. Under this partnership, Ginetta will run three championships which will compete at Intelligent Money British GT Championship rounds from the 2023 season. 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. 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. 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. The race was still entered as driving for the Ford Works Team. 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. 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? In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. Moffat's last race, and indeed last race win, was in 1989 driving with Niedzwiedz. 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. [10] The programme does not address sex or sex education. Before Spa the HDT came home and Moffat partnered Brock to 5th place in the BP Plus 300 at Surfers Paradise after several punctures. No Outsiders resource piloted by Andrew Moffat in his own school. Photo: Supplied. DeKon began producing a few silhouette race cars for IMSA GT class racing, using the Chevrolet Monza as a shell. Moffat and his Coke Mustang were involved in two of the most memorable ATCC races on record. With Ford Australia pulling out of motor racing after 1973, Moffat competed as a privateer through the 1974 and 1975 seasons. It was driven to victory by Allan Moffat and Ian Geoghegan in the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, avenging . 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. 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 Eagle County Sheriff's Office received a tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children task force program that an IP address in Avon was potentially using online networks to receive and share child sexual abuse materials. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. 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. Driven by Charlie O'Brien and Andrew Miedecke, the car qualified 18th but retired with gearbox failure after completing just 41 of the race's 161 laps. Eggenberger and Niedzwiedz also managed to join Moffat for other Australian races, with Ruedi joining the team for the Phillip Island round of the 1990 ATCC which saw Hansford finish 5th,[4] and also the 1990 Sandown 500 where Niedzwiedz qualified 5th in his first look at the Sandown circuit, though he and Hansford would fail to finish the race. THE RACE. He did enter and qualify for the 1989 Tooheys 1000, but decided not to actually race as the lead team car driven by Niedzwiedz and fellow German Frank Biela had a chance at victory, and since they were much faster than he was in the car (approximately 68 seconds per lap in qualifying) he felt it best to leave them to it. More racing: Classic . He has since worked as a TV commentator for Channel 7 and a spokesman for BMW. Between them, Allan Moffat and Peter Brock won eight of 10 Bathurst 500/1000s between 1970-79. . Allan Moffat also tested a Jaguar XJS at Bathurst in 1985. 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. Merry Christmas, everyone xx #nooutsiders. Across NASCAR, F1, IndyCar, and others. Although Moffat has lived permanently in Australia for over 50 years, his broad Canadian accent has remained intact and continues to be his trademark. [6], (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap). Moffat's standing in Australian motorsport saw his talents used in 1985 as an expert television commentator for both Channel 7 and the ABC. 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. 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). Both started from the front row (Moffat on pole) and entered into an enticing duel. 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. 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The 21-year-old Scot therefore joins . Moffat looked headed for a historic third straight Bathurst victory in 1972 when Ford unveiled plans for a "Phase IV" Falcon GTHO, even faster but more subtle than the Phase III which Moffat had taken to victory in 1971. Moffat was the first truly professional race-car driver in Australia and he was a ferocious competitor. Final Results. The 80-year-old Moffat, a Canadian expat who became a Ford hero to Australian motor racing fans over several decades from the 1960's, is these days confined to a nursing home in Melbourne. Moffat also won the inaugural Australian Sports Sedan Championship that year, driving firstly a Chevrolet Monza and later a Ford Capri RS3100. Under this partnership, Ginetta will run three championships which will compete at Intelligent Money British GT Championship rounds from the 2023 season. competing against his half-brother Andrew . He has also assumed responsibility for delivering the Right Respecting Schools programme, a UNICEF initiative which ensures a safe learning environment based on children's rights. 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 team would later find that it was a blown head gasket and a cracked block. He also appears at various Ford club events across Australia, promotes his longtime backer GT Radial Tyres, and more recently (2009-) has been seen in television adverts in Australia promoting Ford Performance Vehicles GT Falcons. The best result for the team during this period was Niedzwiedz's second place with Frank Biela at the 1989 race. [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). 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. 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 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). Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. The following year Moffat received an Order of the British Empire in 1978 for exceptional services to motor sport. 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. [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. Complete with sponsorship from Rothmans, the team competed in the opening three rounds with Moffat and John Harvey winning the opening Monza 500 race, after the leading six factory BMW M3s were disqualified, before returning for round 5 to finish fourth outright and first in class at the Spa 24 Hour. James Moffat (born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. The team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. Due to the severe tyre problems suffered by the works GTHOs, Moffat was called into the pits early to change tyres. 10.2L W. P SP. 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. Both sides claim in documents filed in the Supreme Court that the legendary driver has been held captive or isolated by the other. Moffitt . 2016. 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. Membership Categories. 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. Andrew Fischer . First appointed to the Board in August 2011. 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. (270) 781-7973. 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. "[11] Moffat also has responsibility for pastoral care of pupils and teachers within the school. [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. 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). 1780m. [22][23], In April 2020, Moffat released a second book, No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome, an updated book about the programme. TRIPLE EIGHT RACE ENGINEERING/RED BULL AMPOL RACING Moffat then returned to touring car racing for four more years (19861989). The Fuji race was held just two days after his 50th birthday). This race was also significant in that it was the last time Moffat raced at Bathurst. 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!" Moffat himself was hampered by an injured wrist sustained in Friday's crash. [9] In a statement, the school said, "Theobjections were primarily voiced by those whose own religion took an opposing stance to homosexuality. By the midpoint of the race the Moffat/Ickx car and the Bond/Alan Hamilton car led the field by over two laps. 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. The Top Ten. 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. Andrew awarded MBE for his work in equality and diversity in education. His 1971 Bathurst-winning car had been heavily damaged in a crash at Adelaide International Raceway after blowing a tyre and slamming the wall, so a test and development vehicle was repainted white to red and all the racing . Or perhaps both of them were. 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. "[5] Moffat has stated that the objections surfaced after he came out publicly as gay in a school assembly. This deal also left Harvey without a drive for the rest of the year as Rouse and his co-driver Thierry Tassin would share the driving with Moffat. After only 15 laps of the second start (the first was aborted after the John Goss Jaguar XJS driven by European Touring Car Champion Tom Walkinshaw had stalled and was hit from behind causing the pit straight to be blocked), Moffat was forced to retire his car with terminal engine problems after only 15 laps and move into Hansford's, which had been originally intended to run about 20 laps, but lasted 161 (with Moffat himself only driving the middle 'lunchtime' stint and Hansford driving the majority of the race). 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. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. In 1980 he competed in various cars and in various countries. Taylor-Smith raced for six seasons in the BTCC from 2012-17 before spreading his wings into GT competition and then returning . 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). This was the last Allan Moffat Racing Falcon to tackle Mount Panorama. Andrew's school receives 'outstanding' Ofsted report, No Outsiders highlighted as a key strength. Under this partnership, Ginetta will run three championships which will compete at Intelligent Money British GT Championship rounds from the 2023 season. 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. 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. 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. The race was still entered as driving for the Ford Works Team. 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. 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? In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. Moffat's last race, and indeed last race win, was in 1989 driving with Niedzwiedz. 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. [10] The programme does not address sex or sex education. Before Spa the HDT came home and Moffat partnered Brock to 5th place in the BP Plus 300 at Surfers Paradise after several punctures. No Outsiders resource piloted by Andrew Moffat in his own school. Photo: Supplied. DeKon began producing a few silhouette race cars for IMSA GT class racing, using the Chevrolet Monza as a shell. Moffat and his Coke Mustang were involved in two of the most memorable ATCC races on record. With Ford Australia pulling out of motor racing after 1973, Moffat competed as a privateer through the 1974 and 1975 seasons. It was driven to victory by Allan Moffat and Ian Geoghegan in the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, avenging . 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. 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 Eagle County Sheriff's Office received a tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children task force program that an IP address in Avon was potentially using online networks to receive and share child sexual abuse materials. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. 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. Driven by Charlie O'Brien and Andrew Miedecke, the car qualified 18th but retired with gearbox failure after completing just 41 of the race's 161 laps. Eggenberger and Niedzwiedz also managed to join Moffat for other Australian races, with Ruedi joining the team for the Phillip Island round of the 1990 ATCC which saw Hansford finish 5th,[4] and also the 1990 Sandown 500 where Niedzwiedz qualified 5th in his first look at the Sandown circuit, though he and Hansford would fail to finish the race. THE RACE. He did enter and qualify for the 1989 Tooheys 1000, but decided not to actually race as the lead team car driven by Niedzwiedz and fellow German Frank Biela had a chance at victory, and since they were much faster than he was in the car (approximately 68 seconds per lap in qualifying) he felt it best to leave them to it. More racing: Classic . He has since worked as a TV commentator for Channel 7 and a spokesman for BMW. Between them, Allan Moffat and Peter Brock won eight of 10 Bathurst 500/1000s between 1970-79. . Allan Moffat also tested a Jaguar XJS at Bathurst in 1985. 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. Merry Christmas, everyone xx #nooutsiders. Across NASCAR, F1, IndyCar, and others. Although Moffat has lived permanently in Australia for over 50 years, his broad Canadian accent has remained intact and continues to be his trademark. [6], (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap). Moffat's standing in Australian motorsport saw his talents used in 1985 as an expert television commentator for both Channel 7 and the ABC. 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. 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). Both started from the front row (Moffat on pole) and entered into an enticing duel. 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. 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