"Yes, he is in the toughest race of his life, but we've got the best medical team looking after him," he said. Niedzwiedz gave the Moffat-ANZ team pole position at the 1990 Tooheys 1000 while he had also won the Top 10 run-off in 1988 when race regulations meant that the run-off did not count for grid positions. While both are extremely successful former racing drivers they also share an altogether not widely known common link. Motorsport legend Allan Moffat is living in respite care in Melbourne as he battles Alzheimers Disease. However, due to the cold conditions the team put a cover over the front of the car to help warm up the engine. On 2 February 2004, he received Australian citizenship in a ceremony at the Australian Grand Prix Corporation offices in Melbourne. 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. 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. To share and makes the world of good. : JD V8 Champion and the speed week celebrations disease and has recently moved Not widely known common link extremely successful former racing drivers they also share an altogether not widely known common.! Its been a big job going through it all but theres a lot of interesting bits and pieces that weve dug up, Moffat told Speedcafe.com. According to an exclusive report in The Sunday Telegraph, Fiona Byrne writes that Moffat, who has also won the Sandown 500 six times, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease and has been admitted to a special care facility in Melbourne. 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. It seems there is no will in existence and the court will be left to distribute his assets. Allan Moffats source of wealth comes from being a race car driver. 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! 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 pair were due to co-drive with Aussie privateer racer Tony Mulvihill at Spa, but unfortunately the Sydney driver failed to qualify. Moffat's time in Trans-Am included competing with Kwech in the Trans-Am class at the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring and driving four Trams-Am races in a Mercury Cougar for Bud Moore Engineering. The following two years would see Moffat come into his own as one of Australia's most dominant race drivers, and the Falcon GTHO as an almost unbeatable car. The Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. * Drove Murray Carter's Phase III Falcon at Adelaide International Raceway in 1973 due to his own Falcon being stolen the night before the race. Copyright 2023 Speedcafe.com He was the longtime rival of Australian driver Peter Brock. [5], Since late 2022 a campaign is being run to have Mountain Straight at Mount Panorama renamed to Moffat Mountain Straight or Moffat Straight, (details on Facebook) honouring him and his fierce competition with Holden's Peter Brock, which personified the uniquely Australian Ford vs Holden rivalry. The nursing home went into lockdown amid the COVID-19 outbreak which has limited Moffats normally busy daily routine. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. During a Bowden's Open Day in March 2010, special guest Allan Moffat was there and spoke about his legendary Ford Mustang. Trending videos Doctors and patients discuss the latest medical treatments and health tips Drugs A-Z Search prescription drugs for why they're used, side effects and . "The discovery of a variant strain in Moffat County is of concern. But so too are the cars he drove. Both started from the front row (Moffat on pole) and entered into an enticing duel. 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. 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. However we went to Mansfeild and spent the day at the NZ Grand Prix meeting with Jacky as corporate guests. According to an exclusive report in The Sunday Telegraph, Fiona Byrne writes that Moffat, who has also won the Sandown 500 six times, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease and has been admitted to a special care facility in Melbourne. He also did a guest drive for the Holden Dealer Team taking third place in the 1980 Hang Ten 400 at Sandown driving a Holden Commodore. Despite this the HDT went to the 1986 James Hardie 1000 confident of victory and the Brock/Moffat partnership in car #05 were favoured to win with the pair having won 12 of the previous 16 Bathurst 1000's between them. CHAT WITH US; CALL US AT 1-855-355-5777; Language Support; Assistor/Broker Search; Navigator Site Locations; TTY: 1-800-662-1220; In 1980 he competed in various cars and in various countries. 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. However, it is not surprising and not a cause for alarm," said Dr. Allan Reishus, Moffat County Public Health Medical Officer. Grant said but for various reasons we just couldn t really want to it. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA. 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. A driven senior leader with extensive Uk and International experience in strategic planning across retail, media, marketing, commercial partnerships and events. For the last five years Moffat has been provided with full-time assistance from friend and manager Phil Grant who carries out a profoundly noble but challenging job of keeping the legendary racer active and in the spotlight of the wider motor racing community. 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. For support, contact [emailprotected]. HELP TOPICS & MORE; FORMS; FAQ; GLOSSARY OF TERMS; SITE MAP; LIVE HELP . Out to Allan across the pit area one day arts scene the.! The citation itself was given by his old friend and sparring partner, Peter Brock. This meant that the Brock/Moffat car would start 11th on the grid. He won his second consecutive ATCC title in 1977, backed up brilliantly by new teammate Colin Bond who had switched to Ford after driving the previous eight years for the Holden Dealer Team. This race was also significant in that it was the last time Moffat raced at Bathurst. He currently resides in Canada. Dr Allan R Moffitt is a Doctor providing General Practitioner services in Manurewa, Auckland, Australia. 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. By the midpoint of the race the Moffat/Ickx car and the Bond/Alan Hamilton car led the field by over two laps. Become a carsales member and get the latest news, reviews and advice straight to your inbox. `` was money! 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). 2017 ) was a big year friend and sparring partner, Peter.! This significantly cut into the team's finances and plans to run the car in the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship were shelved. "He is going downhill but he loves the home where he is now. Allan Moffat was born on the 10th of November, 1939. With the help of Tom Hamilton and chief mechanic Lou Mallia, he would go on to win 101 championship and non-championship touring car races from 151 starts in this car between 1969 and 1972, including the first-ever win by one of the seven factory Boss Mustangs built for racing in its debut at the Southern 60 at Sandown in May 1969, yet his dream of winning the ATCC in the Mustang eluded him. Guys And there was a scheduled 500-seat charity dinner for Dementia but that was cancelled when the grand prix was called off. 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. General information. 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. The car was then immediately shipped to England for preparation for the first round of the WTCC. Speedcafe.com has been established to provide a daily motorsport news service to the industry and fans in Australia and internationally. Motorsport legend Allan Moffat is living in respite care in Melbourne as he battles Alzheimers Disease. They tried to find a buyer in 2013 when asking $2,495,000, just as the property price boom begun. 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). Moffat and . Despite being declared the outright winners of the race, they did not receive championship points as the team had not paid the USD$60,000 championship entry fee imposed by series promoter Bernie Ecclestone (only cars whose teams had paid the fee were eligible for points, this saw some leading teams, notably Tom Walkinshaw's TWR who were also to race a Holden Commodore, pull out of the championship before it began). developing a special course for farriers to use acupuncture to improve their results both before and after shoeing. In early March, Perkins raced his VY Commodore V8 Supercar at Phillip Island with Moffat helping out in the garage. Regular RX-7 drivers Moffat, Hansford and McLeod all expressed how much more effective the 13B motor was without the CAMS imposed extra 20kg. 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. 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. It was the first time the Moffat name had been on the Bathurst 1000 podium since Allan finished third in 1984. 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. R Moffitt is a Doctor providing General Practitioner services in Manurewa, Auckland, Australia dr Allan Moffitt! 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"Yes, he is in the toughest race of his life, but we've got the best medical team looking after him," he said. Niedzwiedz gave the Moffat-ANZ team pole position at the 1990 Tooheys 1000 while he had also won the Top 10 run-off in 1988 when race regulations meant that the run-off did not count for grid positions. While both are extremely successful former racing drivers they also share an altogether not widely known common link. Motorsport legend Allan Moffat is living in respite care in Melbourne as he battles Alzheimers Disease. However, due to the cold conditions the team put a cover over the front of the car to help warm up the engine. On 2 February 2004, he received Australian citizenship in a ceremony at the Australian Grand Prix Corporation offices in Melbourne. 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. 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. To share and makes the world of good. : JD V8 Champion and the speed week celebrations disease and has recently moved Not widely known common link extremely successful former racing drivers they also share an altogether not widely known common.! Its been a big job going through it all but theres a lot of interesting bits and pieces that weve dug up, Moffat told Speedcafe.com. According to an exclusive report in The Sunday Telegraph, Fiona Byrne writes that Moffat, who has also won the Sandown 500 six times, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease and has been admitted to a special care facility in Melbourne. 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. It seems there is no will in existence and the court will be left to distribute his assets. Allan Moffats source of wealth comes from being a race car driver. 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! 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 pair were due to co-drive with Aussie privateer racer Tony Mulvihill at Spa, but unfortunately the Sydney driver failed to qualify. Moffat's time in Trans-Am included competing with Kwech in the Trans-Am class at the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring and driving four Trams-Am races in a Mercury Cougar for Bud Moore Engineering. The following two years would see Moffat come into his own as one of Australia's most dominant race drivers, and the Falcon GTHO as an almost unbeatable car. The Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. * Drove Murray Carter's Phase III Falcon at Adelaide International Raceway in 1973 due to his own Falcon being stolen the night before the race. Copyright 2023 Speedcafe.com He was the longtime rival of Australian driver Peter Brock. [5], Since late 2022 a campaign is being run to have Mountain Straight at Mount Panorama renamed to Moffat Mountain Straight or Moffat Straight, (details on Facebook) honouring him and his fierce competition with Holden's Peter Brock, which personified the uniquely Australian Ford vs Holden rivalry. The nursing home went into lockdown amid the COVID-19 outbreak which has limited Moffats normally busy daily routine. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. During a Bowden's Open Day in March 2010, special guest Allan Moffat was there and spoke about his legendary Ford Mustang. Trending videos Doctors and patients discuss the latest medical treatments and health tips Drugs A-Z Search prescription drugs for why they're used, side effects and . "The discovery of a variant strain in Moffat County is of concern. But so too are the cars he drove. Both started from the front row (Moffat on pole) and entered into an enticing duel. 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. 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. However we went to Mansfeild and spent the day at the NZ Grand Prix meeting with Jacky as corporate guests. According to an exclusive report in The Sunday Telegraph, Fiona Byrne writes that Moffat, who has also won the Sandown 500 six times, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease and has been admitted to a special care facility in Melbourne. He also did a guest drive for the Holden Dealer Team taking third place in the 1980 Hang Ten 400 at Sandown driving a Holden Commodore. Despite this the HDT went to the 1986 James Hardie 1000 confident of victory and the Brock/Moffat partnership in car #05 were favoured to win with the pair having won 12 of the previous 16 Bathurst 1000's between them. CHAT WITH US; CALL US AT 1-855-355-5777; Language Support; Assistor/Broker Search; Navigator Site Locations; TTY: 1-800-662-1220; In 1980 he competed in various cars and in various countries. 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. However, it is not surprising and not a cause for alarm," said Dr. Allan Reishus, Moffat County Public Health Medical Officer. Grant said but for various reasons we just couldn t really want to it. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA. 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. A driven senior leader with extensive Uk and International experience in strategic planning across retail, media, marketing, commercial partnerships and events. For the last five years Moffat has been provided with full-time assistance from friend and manager Phil Grant who carries out a profoundly noble but challenging job of keeping the legendary racer active and in the spotlight of the wider motor racing community. 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. For support, contact [emailprotected]. HELP TOPICS & MORE; FORMS; FAQ; GLOSSARY OF TERMS; SITE MAP; LIVE HELP . Out to Allan across the pit area one day arts scene the.! The citation itself was given by his old friend and sparring partner, Peter Brock. This meant that the Brock/Moffat car would start 11th on the grid. He won his second consecutive ATCC title in 1977, backed up brilliantly by new teammate Colin Bond who had switched to Ford after driving the previous eight years for the Holden Dealer Team. This race was also significant in that it was the last time Moffat raced at Bathurst. He currently resides in Canada. Dr Allan R Moffitt is a Doctor providing General Practitioner services in Manurewa, Auckland, Australia. 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. By the midpoint of the race the Moffat/Ickx car and the Bond/Alan Hamilton car led the field by over two laps. Become a carsales member and get the latest news, reviews and advice straight to your inbox. `` was money! 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). 2017 ) was a big year friend and sparring partner, Peter.! This significantly cut into the team's finances and plans to run the car in the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship were shelved. "He is going downhill but he loves the home where he is now. Allan Moffat was born on the 10th of November, 1939. With the help of Tom Hamilton and chief mechanic Lou Mallia, he would go on to win 101 championship and non-championship touring car races from 151 starts in this car between 1969 and 1972, including the first-ever win by one of the seven factory Boss Mustangs built for racing in its debut at the Southern 60 at Sandown in May 1969, yet his dream of winning the ATCC in the Mustang eluded him. Guys And there was a scheduled 500-seat charity dinner for Dementia but that was cancelled when the grand prix was called off. 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. General information. 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. The car was then immediately shipped to England for preparation for the first round of the WTCC. Speedcafe.com has been established to provide a daily motorsport news service to the industry and fans in Australia and internationally. Motorsport legend Allan Moffat is living in respite care in Melbourne as he battles Alzheimers Disease. They tried to find a buyer in 2013 when asking $2,495,000, just as the property price boom begun. 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). Moffat and . Despite being declared the outright winners of the race, they did not receive championship points as the team had not paid the USD$60,000 championship entry fee imposed by series promoter Bernie Ecclestone (only cars whose teams had paid the fee were eligible for points, this saw some leading teams, notably Tom Walkinshaw's TWR who were also to race a Holden Commodore, pull out of the championship before it began). developing a special course for farriers to use acupuncture to improve their results both before and after shoeing. In early March, Perkins raced his VY Commodore V8 Supercar at Phillip Island with Moffat helping out in the garage. Regular RX-7 drivers Moffat, Hansford and McLeod all expressed how much more effective the 13B motor was without the CAMS imposed extra 20kg. 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. 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. It was the first time the Moffat name had been on the Bathurst 1000 podium since Allan finished third in 1984. 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. R Moffitt is a Doctor providing General Practitioner services in Manurewa, Auckland, Australia dr Allan Moffitt! 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