As a founder share holder/Director I have been the driving force behind the development of the business since it's inception in 1998.<br>The company started moving cars for local motor auction houses in Scotland and has grow steadily to it's position today as one of the UK's largest and most flexible car delivery companies delivering more than 300,000 cars per annum throughout the UK.<br . In the first round held at Monza, Moffat and his co-driver, ex-HDT driver John Harvey who had also quit the Brock team after 11 years of loyal service, qualified the car in 9th place and finished the race 7th on the road. It was at Parkfield where he first implemented his No Outsiders programme on inclusivity and tolerance for children in primary schools. 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. This saw the team privately enter Falcons in both the 1979 and 1980 Bathurst 1000's. Give it another shot! Andrew Moffat qualified as a teacher in 1996, taking up a position as a Year 1 class teacher in Derby. The car's V8 engine was built by another longtime Moffat associate, Kar Kraft, in the United States (who had supplied Moffat with his Boss Mustang back in 1969) and was built with a Carburetor instead of the fuel injection of the leading cars. 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. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. Andrew passed away in 1920, at age 83 at death place. He worked as a teacher and schools advisor in several schools before becoming an assistant head teacher at a Birmingham primary school, Chilwell Croft Academy in 2009. 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. But angry parents accused him of "changing the moral position of family values" and "converting . Your email or your password was wrong. Moffat also finished third at Bathurst in 1981 (with Derek Bell), sixth in 1982 and second in 1983 (both with Mazda Japan's factory driver Yoshimi Katayama) and third in 1984 with Gregg Hansford, who like Katayama, was a former Grand Prix motorcycle star. [12] The presentation in Westminster and accompanying document advised parliament on current policy, and asked for clarity and support in providing education around the Equality Act 2010's protected characteristics. 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. The 1980 Bathurst 1000 was the last time Moffat drove a Ford Falcon at Mount Panorama. Moffat refuted these claims and made his comeback in Round 2 of the 1984 Australian Endurance Championship at Oran Park. He was ATCC champion four times, in 1973, 1976, 1977 and 1983. Professional Race Car Driver Director - Enviroworx Ltd Youngest ever in BTCC ARDS Instructor/Tuition 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. Regular Members - Racing drivers who have participated successfully in major professional events, i.e. Power Maxed Racing has announced the signing of Aron Taylor-Smith for the 2023 BTCC season to complete a new-look line-up for the Vauxhall squad. 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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. Membership Categories. 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 race though only gave the Brock/Moffat team 5th place after they lost some 7 minutes in the pits bypassing a leaking oil cooler. Six wins in the Sandown 500 including 1969, 1970, 1974, 1982, 1983 and 1988. The following graph shows the change in the DriverDB Rating of Aiden Moffat over time since January 1st 2013. Before the 1988 Tooheys 1000, the Moffat team's last Australian win, and indeed Allan Moffat's last win on Australian soil, came in the 1988 Enzed 500 at Sandown driving the Eggenberger built Sierra. 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. [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. Drivers have been warned to leave extra time for their Monday morning . Other wins included the 1974 Sandown 250 and the 1975 Rothmans 300. [1], He missed the round at Rockingham due to clashing with his other racing commitments, prior to the next round at Silverstone he switched to Tony Gilham Racing where he would drive an NGTC Volkswagen CC for the remaining two rounds of the season.[2]. Moffat's 351-cubic inch V8-powered Falcon title winner actually started its racing life the previous year in 1972. This was the third ATCC win of his career, but this performance was overshadowed by the victory for Moffat and his new co-driver, Belgian Formula One driver and then four times 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Jacky Ickx in the 1977 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 at Bathurst. Or perhaps both of them were. He did it again the following year in the latest GT-HO Phase Two and three weeks later scored his first Bathurst 500 win. "[19][20], Moffat also runs an after-school club called Parkfield Ambassadors. Laps: 161. Andrew's school receives 'outstanding' Ofsted report, No Outsiders highlighted as a key strength. TRIPLE EIGHT RACE ENGINEERING/RED BULL AMPOL RACING 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. Nothing puts a smile on our faces like seeing the excitement in the eyes of a rider who has achieved a personal goal. The track: 6.213km. At the end of 1990, the team suffered a blow when it lost its major sponsor ANZ. The second race of the National Trans Am Series opener was cut short thanks to a nasty rollover on the front straight. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. 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. He has since worked as a TV commentator for Channel 7 and a spokesman for BMW. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. 2015 'No Outsiders in Our School' resource is first published. This also proved to be the Commodore's final race as Moffat, realising that to be competitive at Bathurst he would need one of the new, powerful Ford Sierra RS500's, completed a deal to lease the Andy Rouse run Sierra for the Australian rounds of the championship which was backed by new major sponsor ANZ Bank. 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. Instead he managed to do something that very few had managed to do. Rather than see Moffat out of the race (he was the series points leader at the time), Murray Carter loaned Moffat his GTHO Falcon for the race. Pic: an1imaegs.com / Ian Smith. [11], In June 2019, Moffat, along with seven other prominent school leaders, presented a parliamentary briefing on behalf of the National Association of Head Teachers, entitled Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. Average speed: 178km/h. James Moffat(born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. 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. While Moffat was one of first real pros of local motor racing and an acknowledged expert at securing and keeping sponsors, his was also an ongoing struggle to find the funding to compete at the top level against rivals who sometimes enjoyed generous budgets. Ford, smarting from the Phase IV controversy the year before, withdrew their factory teams from the competition at the end of 1973. Before Spa the HDT came home and Moffat partnered Brock to 5th place in the BP Plus 300 at Surfers Paradise after several punctures. [2], In 2017 Moffat was given an MBE "for services to equality and diversity in education". The team would later find that it was a blown head gasket and a cracked block. [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). [24], Moffat describes teaching as "the best job in the world" and "an honour". 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. Moffat returned to drive his XB Falcon GT Hardtop full-time in the 1976 ATCC and won his second title. Moffat first entered the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) in 1965, driving a Lotus Cortina. Merry Christmas, everyone xx #nooutsiders. Both sides claim in documents filed in the Supreme Court that the legendary driver has been held captive or isolated by the other. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. Although Moffat and a number of other drivers raced Mustangs for ATCC competition - the five ATCC titles from 1965 to 1969 were won by Norm Beechey (1965) and Ian Geoghegan (196669) driving Mustangs - this car, modified to CAMS Improved Production Touring Car regulations was ineligible for the Bathurst 500 (later Bathurst 1000), which was restricted to standard production cars prior to 1973. 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). 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