Allan Moffat

Allan Moffat in the Ford Falcon GTHO on his victory drive in 1970 in Surfers Paradise

Allan Moffat in the 1972 Ford Falcon GTHO in the South Pacific Touring Car Series

Allan George Moffat , OBE , (born November 10, 1939 in Saskatoon ) is a former Canadian racing car driver and racing team owner who is also an Australian citizen. He contested his races with an Australian driver license.

Racing career

Allan Moffat was born in Canada in 1939 and moved to Australia with his parents in 1956. His father worked for Massey Ferguson , a Melbourne-based agricultural vehicle and machinery manufacturer , and took on a managerial role. Moffat, who started motorsport in 1964, became one of the most successful racing drivers in Australian motorsport. Between 1973 and 1984 he won the overall ranking of the Australian Touring Car Championship eight times . His duels with Peter Brock became legendary . His first championship he won in 1973 on a Ford XY Falcon GT of the Australian Ford - factory team . The last overall victory dates from 1984 in the Mazda RX-7 of the own racing team. He won the two most important Australian endurance races several times, six times the Sandown 500 and four times the Bathurst 1000 .

He competed twice in the Sebring 12-hour race , which he won in 1975 together with Brian Redman , Hans-Joachim Stuck and Sam Posey in the works BMW 3.0 CSL . He was also involved twice in the 24 Hours of Le Mans , with the best result in 1982 when he finished 14th in the overall standings.

It was not until 2004 that he received Australian citizenship , which he was awarded at a ceremony as part of the Australian Grand Prix . Allan Moffat, whose sons James and Andy also became racing drivers, retired from the public in 2019 because of Alzheimer's disease .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1980	Dick Barbour Racing	Porsche 935K3	Bob Garretson	Bobby Rahal	failure	Valve damage
1982	Mazdaspeed	Mazda RX-7	Yōjirō Terada	Takashi Yorino	Rank 14

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1968	Shelby Racing	Ford Mustang	Horst Kwal			failure	Engine failure
1975	BMW Motorsport	BMW 3.0 CSL	Sam Posey	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Brian Redman	Overall victory

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
1968	Shelby Racing	Ford Mustang	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
			DNF	DNF
1980	JLC Racing Barbour Racing	Mazda RX-7 Porsche 935	DAY	BRH	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	VAL	DIJ
			24								DNF
1982	Mazdaspeed	Mazda RX-7	MON	SIL	ONLY	LEM	SPA	MUG	FUJ	BRH
						14th

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. 2 volumes. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Allan Moffat  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Results at Racing Sports Cars
• Information about Alan Moffat

Individual evidence

1. ^ Allan Moffat suffers from Alzheimer's