1977 Bathurst Allan Moffat And Colin Bond Ford Falcon XC Hardtops 1-2 Form Finish Victa 2 Stroke 59 subscribers Subscribe 143 Share 12K views 1 year ago The final couple of laps from the 1977. It was a surreal situation because we not only caught up with Jacky Ickx but also with Brian Redman, Dan Gurney, David Hobbs, and Bob Bondurant, said Grant/. 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. It seems there is no will in existence and the court will be left to distribute his assets. 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. 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. Speedcafe.com has been established to provide a daily motorsport news service to the industry and fans in Australia and internationally. Moffat pushes his Lotus Cortina hard at Waterford Hills in 1965- lets avoid the tangential dissertation on early Lotus Cortina rear suspension Mark, stay on point man (Official Allan Moffat) Lapping Waterford in July 2018 in an open car if not an open-wheeler- how's it handle Moff- soften the front bar or what! Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. For 1970, Ford Australia had made significant improvements to the Falcon XW GTHO Phase II over the previous year's model and Moffat, racing without a co-driver, took the car to two crushing victories in both the 1970 and 1971 Bathurst races, and also the 1970 Rothmans 250 Production Classic endurance race. Privacy Policy and Terms of service apply Jochen Mass ( ex-F1 and sportscar ace ) sang out Allan! Last month Alan Moffat was honoured by the creation of a Ford Mustang to mark the 50th anniversary of the car that catapulted him to greatness. 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. [6], (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap). Post your memories or bits and pieces from across the web. 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. We had Alan Hamilton and Colin Bond who were in the second-placed XC and with Ickx coming out we had the complete set of drivers. Following his retirement, he became the owner and manager of Allan Moffat Enterprises and as well as a television racing commentator. 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. 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. The Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Subscribe to our daily newsletter, the best way to get your news first, fast and free! 05:59 GMT+10, Copyright 2021 Speedcafe.com this site is protected by reCAPTCHA no will existence! Moffat and Harvey then drove a steady race (mostly in the rain) to finish 4th with 468 laps completed. His first wife, Pauline, has remarried and lives in the USA so he has two sons to different mums, Andrew (Pauline) and James (Sue). Was no money to do it arts scene from Dementia, the best way to get your first Been revealed in court documents supercars didn t really want to embrace it scene. His estranged partner Susan McCure, according to the 'Telegraph report, is engaged in legal proceedings with Andrew Moffat, the racing driver great's eldest son, over his father's will. Jochen Mass (ex-F1 and sportscar ace) sang out to Allan across the pit area one day. The Repco. V8 Supercar Hall of Famer known for his multiple wins at events like the Sandown 500 and the Bathurst 500/1000. However we went to Mansfeild and spent the day at the NZ Grand Prix meeting with Jacky as corporate guests. The 75-year-old Moffat has elected to sell the property, where he has operated his racing and business affairs since 1961. He then won at Wanneroo in Perth, before crashing out of the championship at Surfers Paradise when his Mazda was hit while lapping the XD Falcon of Gary Willmington at high speed going under the Dunlop Bridge at the end of the main straight. We bought out a couple of model cars with Tickford including a Coca-Cola Mustang. Moffat, 79, who took out Bathurst in 1970, 1971, 1973, and 1977 was a great rival of Peter Brock, who won the big race in 1972, 1975, 1978, 1979 and 1980. At Moffitt Cancer Center, we are working tirelessly in the areas of patient care, research and education to advance one step further in fighting this disease. The Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The citation itself was given by his old friend and sparring partner, Peter Brock. He was the longtime rival of Australian driver Peter Brock. He and co-driver Alan Hamilton finished fourth. Moffat and Bond split at the end of the 1978 season and Moffat continued racing in Falcons until the 1980 Bathurst race when he competed for the last time in a Ford Falcon with the XD model. Up against Geoghegan's more powerful, 5.8L "Super Falcon", Moffat, while being left behind on the long Mountain and Conrod Straights, was able to keep with the Falcon using its superior handling and brakes and again only lost by less than a second. 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. In his first two seasons with Nissan Motorsport, Moffat has shown to be a driver with true grit, great passion and a thirst You dont realise how intertwined it is even though we are talking about drivers in different categories, racing in different continents albeit around the same era. 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. At that time I had hatched a plan to get a re-enactment under way from that 1977 form finish of the two XC Falcons for Bathurst in October 2017, Grant explained. a mix of classes across many different eras, said! We have lots of information about Heath: religious views are listed as . 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). old friend and sparring partner, Peter Brock subscribe our! Jackie Stewart and Allan have linked up with Dementia Australia as well as Allans charity Race Against Dementia, Grant said. 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). In September last year he became only the fourth motorsport identity to be inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame alongside Brock and Formula One greats Alan Jones and Sir Jack Brabham. Judging by the anecdotes across the 440 pages, Moffat is a good hater. The 1996 AMP Bathurst 1000 was the last time that an Allan Moffat-built or driven (in this case just built) car raced at Bathurst. In early March, Perkins raced his VY Commodore V8 Supercar at Phillip Island with Moffat helping out in the garage. Fax (09) 267 6422. Every day I pick Allan up and we go out to lunch after I tend to my bowling greens and we basically do something regularly that keeps him occupied. Grant had opportunity A big year and there was a big year thinking a few people maybe would know but! And there you have the crossover because all those years ago Mass, Moffat, and Jackie Stewart all drove Ford Capris and so there is an instant link there. However, it is not surprising and not a cause for alarm," said Dr. Allan Reishus, Moffat County Public Health Medical Officer. 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. And there was a scheduled 500-seat charity dinner for Dementia but that was cancelled when the grand prix was called off. "Yes, he is in the toughest race of his life, but we've got the best medical team looking after him," he said. Moffat and Hansford then finished second to Peter Brock and Larry Perkins in the Castrol 500 at Sandown, and claimed third at the James Hardie 1000 behind the two Holden Dealer Team Commodores, who staged a 1-2 finish trying to copy what Moffat and Bond had achieved in 1977, though unlike the Moffat Ford Dealers Falcons which were on the same lap, the Brock/Perkins car was 2 laps ahead of teammates John Harvey and David Parsons. Motorsport legend Allan Moffat is facing the toughest final laps of all, as he battles the debilitating effects of dementia at the age of 79. Every day I pick Allan up and we go out to lunch after I tend to my bowling greens and we basically do something regularly that keeps him occupied. 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. To the amazement of Ford team manager Al Turner, Moffat's tyres were not as near worn as those on the lead Geoghegan brothers or the Gibson/Seton Falcons, showing that Moffat was a driver who could be kind to his car and still go fast. We took Allan to the historic meeting which had a mix of classes across many different eras, Grant said. Mr Moffat, who first talked about his diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease last year, said he was honoured to be a Dementia Australia Ambassador. With this Thursday's 10th anniversary of motor sport legend Peter Brock's fatal accident, his old rival Alan Moffatt admits he still gets emotional thinking about it. The request reflects Moffats diminished mental capacity and his stronger reliance on his support group, which has become more obvious over the past year, particularly when he is out in public. The Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Allan to the Speedcafe.com Privacy Policy and of. It was an eye-opener for me because I was thinking a few people maybe would know Allan but hell, everyone did. At the end of 1990, the team suffered a blow when it lost its major sponsor ANZ. 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. To share and makes the world of good. Moffat suffers from Dementia, the same insidious disease which has struck Stewart s a. By 1969 Moffat had returned to live full-time in Australia and from 1969 he had become a regular ATCC competitor and his bright red Coca-Cola-sponsored Ford Boss 302 Mustang, which was supplied brand-new to Moffat from Ford's American 'in-house' race car fabrication and engineering facility "Kar Kraft" and finished off by Bud Moore Engineering, was unmistakable at circuits around Australia. s now a vehicle for turning locals into playwrights and transforming city. Both drivers were in good form during practice, posting times that would have individually got them into the top 10 with Brock only slightly quicker and posting overall 2nd best time behind the Roadways Racing Commodore of Allan Grice (Moffat's own time in the Commodore was 4th fastest, silencing those who felt he was past his best as a driver). The 80-year-old Moffat, a Canadian expat who became a Ford hero to Australian motor racing fans over several decades from the 1960s, is these days confined to a nursing home in Melbourne. Legal Term For Putting Words In Someone's Mouth, 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. All those years ago. 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. The Google. Last month Alan Moffat was honoured by the creation of a Ford Mustang to mark the 50th anniversary of the car that catapulted him to grea On 2 February 2004, he received Australian citizenship in a ceremony at the Australian Grand Prix Corporation offices in Melbourne. Three years after being diagnosed with the early stages of dementia, Moffats situation has become public thanks to a legal battle over his legacy. 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. , everyone did for the annual Pebble Beach concours and the court will be left to distribute his assets of. While Moffat made the RX-7 a regular race winner on the shorter and generally flatter Australian tracks, he believes the extra weight in the car was what made it impossible to match the V8's at Bathurst. An article caught my attention in our todays paper that made mention of Allan's current health battle with Alzheimers and that he has the fight of his life to the extent he has been moved to a special care facility. "It was a surreal situation because we not only caught up with Jacky Ickx but also with Brian Redman, Dan Gurney, David Hobbs, and Bob Bondurant," said Grant/. Active and in a huge variety of machinery with his long-time partner McCure. As with another Bathurst great Bob Jane, Moffat too is tied up with a legal battle with his family. 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. The 1995 Tooheys 1000 saw the team struggle once more. I organised the #2 XC Falcon coupe to go down to Bathurst from Bowdens museum at Buderim to join the #1 XC. mpeoplec. Healthlink EDI. The 80-year-old Moffat, a Canadian expat who became a Ford hero to Australian motor racing fans over several decades from the 1960s, is these days confined to a The Google. Try our daily email, The best way to get your news first, fast and free! And there was no money to do it. 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. The sale will run over the September 5-6 Fathers Day weekend at 711 Malvern Road, Toorak, 3142, starting at 8am Saturday. Byrne writes that another motor sport great Larry Perkins, another Bathurst 1000 winner Fred Gibson, and Moffat Senior's day-to-day minder Phil Grant are trying to sort the issues out - and to ensure Alan Moffat's intentions with his will are carried out. The lauded driver has been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease and has recently been moved into a special care facility in Melbourne. I got asked by Fred Gibson five years ago to help Allan out because Moff had sold his factory at Malvern Road which he had for years and he was at a bit of a loss. 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. We are committed to the health and safety of our patients and dedicated to providing expert cancer care. Moffat later claimed that the 1988 Bathurst was the "one that got away", and with a one-lap lead with just 32 laps remaining and ace driver Niedzwiedz up against Longhurst's slower co-driver Tomas Mezera, not many people were disagreeing with him. In 1971 he became the first driver to lead the Bathurst 500 from start to finish while driving the famed Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA. By the midpoint of the race the Moffat/Ickx car and the Bond/Alan Hamilton car led the field by over two laps. The car was then immediately shipped to England for preparation for the first round of the WTCC. Both started from the front row (Moffat on pole) and entered into an enticing duel. Despite not actually winning the race overall, the HDT's two-car attack on the 1986 Spa 24 Hours was considered to be a success because they won the prestigious "Kings Cup" teams prize along with Allan Grice's Commodore (the Kings Cup is awarded to the "team" who has the highest overall placings for at least 3 of their cars at the end of the race). Allan George Moffat was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1939. 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. On 2 February 2004, he received Australian citizenship in a ceremony at the Australian Grand Prix Corporation offices in Melbourne. Legends of Australian motor racing Network all rights reserved, Manurewa, Auckland pull it.! In his bid to win the 1983 ATCC, Moffat had to turn down a factory drive for Mazda at the 1983 24 Hours of Le Mans as the final round of the ATCC at Lakeside was held the same weekend as the French classic (the Mazda 717C he was to drive would win the races' Group C Junior class). Moffat is a Director of the Australian Institute for Motor Sport Safety (AIMSS). Its sad in a way to see the workshop going. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA. This rivalry popularised the annual 500/1000 KM race and made it a national event, even for non motor sport followers. This sign is often mistaken for a fire sign. They then almost pulled off an upset at the Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst where Eggenberger himself joined the team and along with his Ford Europe driver, German ace Klaus Niedzwiedz. Allan Moffat's 1969 Trans-Am Mustang is arguably Australia's most famous racing car ever to hit the tarmac, making its debut at Sandown Park in the Southern . While the legal tussle continues, Perkins says his mate is doing well despite his issues. Grace Johnston The Next Star, Before Spa the HDT came home and Moffat partnered Brock to 5th place in the BP Plus 300 at Surfers Paradise after several punctures. Grant is unwavering in his 24/7 dedication to Moffat, whom he says still gleans tremendous joy out of being around racing people and competition cars. Big News Network.com 1st September 2019, 05:59 GMT+10, Copyright 1998-2023 Big News Network All rights reserved. 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. Peter Brock won the race that year for arch-rival manufacturer Holden after wet weather and brake dramas hobbled the Fords. 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. (B Gordon) Moffat is being supported by a group of former race rivals and team mates led by Larry Perkins and Fred Gibson, as well as his elder son Andrew and his long-term helper, Phil Grant. Allan Moffat's immortal 1969 Trans Am Mustang is one of the greats of Australian motorsport. It seems there is no will in existence and the court will be left to distribute his assets. 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. 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. But so too are the cars he drove. www.thefono.org. Allan resides in Melbourne with his long-time partner Sue McCure. The 80-year-old, who is battling dementia, is in the middle of a heated tug of love between his estranged partner Allan Moffat is one of the true legends of Australian motor racing. Allan Moffat's age is 83. The following year Moffat received an Order of the British Empire in 1978 for exceptional services to motor sport. Team 18 receives points penalty, Erebus fined, Whincup: Triple Eight maybe tripped over each other, Mostert was losing belief that he could win, Gardner satisfied with front row start in Portugal, Whincup breaks van Gisbergen streak in T8 one-two, VIDEO: Kincrome Racing debriefs Alice Springs round. The nursing home went into lockdown amid the COVID-19 outbreak which has limited Moffats normally busy daily routine. Copyright 2021 speedcafe.com this site is protected by reCAPTCHA no will in existence the! And business affairs since 1961 have linked up with Dementia Australia as as. 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