Allan Moffat
| Allan Moffat OBE |
|
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born |
10 November 1939 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Retired | 1989 |
| Related to | Andrew Moffat (son) James Moffat (son) |
| Australian Touring Car Championship | |
| Years active | 1965–89 |
| Teams | Allan Moffat Racing |
| Starts | 100 |
| Wins | 32 |
| Best finish | 1st in 1973, 1976, 1977 & 1983 Australian Touring Car Championship |
| Previous series | |
| 1976 1980 1986 1986 1987 |
Australian Sports Sedan Ch. Australian Sports Car Champ. Australian Endurance Champ. FIA Touring Car Champ. World Touring Car Champ. |
| Championship titles | |
| 1970 1970 1971 1973 1973 1975 1976 1976 1977 1977 1980 1982 1983 1984 |
South Pacific Touring Series Bathurst 1000 Bathurst 1000 Australian Touring Car Champ. Bathurst 1000 12 Hours of Sebring Australian Sports Sedan Ch. Australian Touring Car Champ. Australian Touring Car Champ. Bathurst 1000 Australian Sports Car Champ. Australian Endurance Champ. Australian Touring Car Champ. Australian Endurance Champ. |
| Awards | |
| 1978 1999 |
Order of the British Empire V8 Supercars Hall of Fame |
Allan George Moffat OBE (born 10 November 1939 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian-Australian racing driver known for his four wins in the Australian Touring Car Championship, six wins in the Sandown 500 and his four wins in the Bathurst 500/1000. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999.
Moffat and his long-time friend and rival (and later co-driver) Peter Brock are the only drivers to have won The Great Race at Bathurst in both its 500-mile and 1000-kilometre formats.
Born in Canada, 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. He started his racing career at the wheel of a Triumph TR3.
Allan Moffat and Jon Leighton drove a Ford Lotus Cortina to fourth place in the 1964 Sandown 6 Hour International at Melbourne's Sandown Park. The race was the first of what would eventually become the Sandown 500.
Moffat first entered the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) in 1965, driving a Lotus Cortina. Following this Moffat spent time in the United States where he drove in the new Trans-Am Series in 1966, showing his talent by winning the 3rd round of the series, the Bryar 250, at the Bryar Motorsports Park, outright in an Under 2L division Lotus Cortina on 10 July 1966, leading home Bruce Jennings driving a Plymouth Barracuda by over a lap.
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