During this time Moffat drove his RX-7 to victories in the 1982 and 1984 Australian Endurance Championships. Six wins in the Sandown 500 including 1969, 1970, 1974, 1982, 1983 and 1988. James Moffat stepped back to enduro duties with Tickford Racing in 2018, after seven full-time Supercars seasons. No Outsiders resource piloted by Andrew Moffat in his own school. [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). 2017. 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. 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. created the Supercar scare. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. 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. Ginetta extends partnership with SRO to develop Ginetta race series, Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli GT Drivers Championship, Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli SGT Drivers Championship, Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli XGT Drivers Championship, Trans Am Championship presented by Pirelli, Hi-Q Components NZ Formula First Championship, SAS Autoparts MSC F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series, Gulf Western Oil Touring Car Masters Series, Intercontinental GT Challenge powered by Pirelli, The Big Machine Spiked Coolers TA2 Series. It was at Parkfield where he first implemented his No Outsiders programme on inclusivity and tolerance for children in primary schools. Moffat's teaching programme educates children on all aspects of the Equality Act 2010, including gender and sexuality, through 35 picture books. 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. 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. Andrew Moffat qualified as a teacher in 1996, taking up a position as a Year 1 class teacher in Derby. Career [ edit] British Touring Car Championship [ edit] Laps: 161. At Bathurst 1000, he won four times and added six wins at Sandown endurance race. 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. 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. [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. 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. Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. 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 incident happened when leader Ben Grice slowed with a mechanical failure coming around the . Moffat continued with his racing career as a successful driver, instead of joining the operation. 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 returned to drive his XB Falcon GT Hardtop full-time in the 1976 ATCC and won his second title. 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. Your email or your password was wrong. The car was then immediately shipped to England for preparation for the first round of the WTCC. The Ford squad swooped to sign Moffat when he left Garry Rogers Motorsport at the end of 2017. Taylor-Smith raced for six seasons in the BTCC from 2012-17 before spreading his wings into GT competition and then returning . [22][23], In April 2020, Moffat released a second book, No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome, an updated book about the programme. Allan Moffat was born on November 10, 1939 (age 83) in Canada. [10] The programme does not address sex or sex education. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. Advertisement. 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). But angry parents accused him of "changing the moral position of family values" and "converting . 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. 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. 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. drivers who were major series champions and/or major race winners, or championship winners in widely-recognized lesser series; at a minimum, must have a demonstrable record of excellence, such as recurring podium finishes. 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. James Moffat finished second driving for Nissan Motorsport in the 2014 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. [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. Following the change from Improved Production to Group C for the ATCC in 1973, Moffat's Boss 302 Mustang was no longer eligible for that series. 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. Andrew passed away in 1920, at age 83 at death place. The second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. [3] [2], In 2017 Moffat was given an MBE "for services to equality and diversity in education". 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's first Bathurst with a Falcon since 1980 did not turn out much better than their previous attempt which had only lasted 3 laps. Moffat and Gregg Hansford won in what was Moffat's first drive in the Sandown enduro in a Ford since 1979 and his first win in the traditional pre-Bathurst enduro since 1983. [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. The experience was an unhappy one though as Moffat did not get to drive in either race, with the Sierra expiring under Rouse before his first stints at the wheel were scheduled to finish. By his own admission, Moffat did the wrong thing and turned his wipers on which only made the situation worse as it smeared the oil over the window, and with the race only being 13 laps long he was forced to carry on. 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. 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). Jacobson will form part of the four-man enduro roster for Tickford along with returnees James Moffat and Zak Best and new signing Tyler Everingham. 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. [25][18][26] He did not come out to his family until he was 27. The HDT's other car driven by John Harvey and Neal Lowe finished the race in 2nd place after a relatively trouble-free run. This saw the team privately enter Falcons in both the 1979 and 1980 Bathurst 1000's. Moffat, Brock and John Harvey finished the race itself in 22nd place after suffering two head gasket failures. The team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. He started his racing career at the wheel of a Triumph TR3. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. They had 9 children: Andrew Race Moffatt, Thomas Moffatt and 7 other children. James Moffat(born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. competing against his half-brother Andrew . [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. [24], Moffat describes teaching as "the best job in the world" and "an honour". Moffat also races as a co-driver for Tickford Racing in the Pirtek Enduro Cup in a Ford Mustang GT, alongside Cameron Waters. 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. [6], (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap). 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. Due to the wet conditions the Mazda slid off the road at high speed, took out an ABC television camera cable and slammed head on into a bush that was hiding a tree stump. Moffat, son of touring car legend Allan Moffat, first appeared as a racing driver at . <p>Can we show you some, Something went wrong. 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. 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 meant that the Brock/Moffat car would start 11th on the grid. 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. I am particularly knowledgeable in Race Engineering and Vehicle Dynamics due to a quick accumulation of experience since the start of 2020. He won six Truck Series races in 2018 and has 12 career wins total. [15] Following continuing protests, the programme was temporarily halted at these schools in March 2019, whilst a resolution with parents and guardians was sought. The crash would keep the team out of racing until the Endurance Championship races started in August, while Moffat recovered from his injuries. 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. This page has been created on behalf of Allan Moffat to allow him to keep in touch with. Much to the dismay of the Aussie Ford fans,[citation needed] Moffat left the "Blue Oval" brand in 1981 to drive a Peter Stuyvesant-sponsored Mazda RX-7 as both the ATCC and Bathurst began to exhibit a shift towards lighter touring cars with less raw power. At the end of 1990, the team suffered a blow when it lost its major sponsor ANZ. One aim of the club is to make connections between school children and reduce the risk of radicalisation in vulnerable groups. 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. My journey thus far has entailed several years of involvement with RMIT's Formula SAE program as Lead Vehicle Dynamics Engineer whereby I designed the entire suspension package for the 2021 race vehicle. Moffat himself was hampered by an injured wrist sustained in Friday's crash. [16] Moffat, as an openly gay staff member, was advised by the police to do a risk assessment of his travel arrangements from school. In 2019, following Moffat's nomination for the Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation, protests grew and spread to other schools in the area. "[21], In 2020, the school announced Moffat had taken on a development lead position across the academy trust, in order to train more teachers to deliver the No Outsiders programme. The race was the first of what would eventually become the Sandown 500. 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