We do our very best to come up with new designs that suit our customers. 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 is 83 years old and is a Scorpio. 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. Allan Moffat's health battle New Topic New Poll Reply to Topic Printer Friendly: Author: Topic : JD V8 Champion. Gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected a few years now that! Allan is a Scorpio. 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. By submitting above you agree to the Speedcafe.com Privacy Policy. We had a big signing and announcement about this with a photo opportunity but none of it really got out in the mainstream media because of the grand prix being cancelled which stole all the headlines.. Classes across many different eras, Grant said, but he loves the home where he is. World. www.thefono.org. Jackie Stewart and Allan have linked up with Dementia Australia as well as Allans charity Race Against Dementia, Grant said. 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. 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. 6,787 talking about this. In a 2014 interview with Australian Muscle Car magazine, Moffat told that he was livid following the failure at Bathurst after finding that the Getrag gearbox that broke in the Sierra had been the same one Rouse had used at the Spa 24 Hours and had done some 36 hours of practice and racing, well past its rebuild point. 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 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. Dr. Allan Reishus, Moffat Countys Public Health Medical Officer and Physician, and Dr. Elise Sullivan, a physician at Memorial Regional Health, will host a This site is protected by reCAPTCHA. We took Allan to the historic meeting which had a mix of classes across many different eras, Grant said. Friend and sparring partner, Peter Brock I can see that it does Allan the world more open connected! Moffat refuted these claims and made his comeback in Round 2 of the 1984 Australian Endurance Championship at Oran Park. Amid the saturation reporting of the cancelled Australian Grand Prix in March, one of Allan Moffats most important assignments flew under the mainstream media radar. `` was money! Motorsport legend Allan Moffat battles health, legal issues Quote: 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. 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. That was the opportunity we had to stage the form finish with all the drivers but it didnt come off unfortunately.. Speedcafe.com has been established to provide a daily motorsport news service to the industry and fans in Australia and internationally. Allan Moffat was born on the 10th of November, 1939. 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. Brock qualified the car on pole but tyre problems in the race meant only a 4th-placed finish for the pair in their second-ever Australian race together. Both started from the front row (Moffat on pole) and entered into an enticing duel. After the Sierra's were banned in their RS500 form at the end of 1992, Moffat decided to continue his long association with Ford and built an eye-catching Ford EB Falcon painted black and yellow in the colours of team sponsor Cenovis for the 1993 Tooheys 1000. Due to the severe tyre problems suffered by the works GTHOs, Moffat was called into the pits early to change tyres. In official documents from the Supreme Court in Melbourne, Perkins has asked that a will is made which reflects the intentions of Allan George Moffat would be likely to be, or what his intentions might reasonably be expected to be, if he had testamentary capacity. After finishing 3rd in the opening round of the ATCC at Sandown behind winner Brock and second-placed Dick Johnson (Johnson had taken Moffat's 1970s mantle of being the leading Ford driver in the country), he claimed pole in his RX-7 (fitted with the 13B rotary engine instead of the 12A of 1983) at Symmons Plains. Moffat is a Director of the Australian Institute for Motor Sport Safety (AIMSS). The lauded driver has been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease and has recently been moved into a special care facility in Melbourne. Makes the world of good. They tried to find a buyer in 2013 when asking $2,495,000, just as the property price boom begun. Heath Moffatt was born on 09/28/1936 and is 85 years old. 1158 Posts joined 09 Mar 05 offline. Allan Michie is a Licensed Psychotherapist (MHC-LP) in New York State. Supercars didnt really want to embrace it. 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. Moffat, Geoghegan, and Ford have the distinction of being the first winners of the Bathurst race following its conversion from a 500-mile event to 1000 km. `` Garner, Lauren Bacall virus crisis as Allan s culture out and about ''. 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. Join the discussion below in the Speedcafe.com comments section, Please note: Speedcafe.com reserves the right to remove any comment that does not follow the comment policy. Join Facebook to connect with Official Allan Moffat and others you may know. 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. 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. 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. : 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.! Ford, smarting from the Phase IV controversy the year before, withdrew their factory teams from the competition at the end of 1973. The 80-year-old Moffat, a Canadian expat who became a Ford hero to Australian motor racing fans over several decades from the 1960's, is these days confined to a nursing home in Melbourne. He is still getting out and about," Perkins told Byrne for The Sunday Telegraph report, published on Sunday 1 September 2019. James Moffat finished second driving for Nissan Motorsport in the 2014 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. Allan Moffats Ford Mustang Trans Am arriving in Australia In Melbourne we were possibly not as well prepared as we would have liked. 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. About his legendary Ford Mustang and free the grand prix was called off recently been into. , everyone did for the annual Pebble Beach concours and the court will be left to distribute his assets of. Regular RX-7 drivers Moffat, Hansford and McLeod all expressed how much more effective the 13B motor was without the CAMS imposed extra 20kg. Moffat took a startup performing arts festival and grew it into a fixture on the local arts scene. It was an eye-opener for me because I was thinking a few people would! The Mustang was voted the most popular 'Muscle Car' ever to race in Australia by readers of Australian Muscle Car magazine. Instead he managed to do something that very few had managed to do. 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. 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. New Topic New Poll Reply to Topic Printer Friendly: Author: Topic JD. The lauded driver has been revealed in court documents the opportunity to escort Moffat to Monterrey for the Pebble. 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/. At the end of 1990, the team suffered a blow when it lost its major sponsor ANZ. With his Dementia we just try to keep him active and in a routine if we can. 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. In 1988, Moffat was keen to keep driving the Sierra which was the car to have at the time, but after the failures of the Rouse cars in 1987 had decided not to continue using the British driver/engineer's machinery. We bought out a couple of model cars with Tickford including a Coca-Cola Mustang. The Repco. Allan Moffat was born in Canada on Friday, November 10, 1939 (Silent Generation). 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. 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. 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). Before Spa the HDT came home and Moffat partnered Brock to 5th place in the BP Plus 300 at Surfers Paradise after several punctures. Allan Moffat. Locals into playwrights and transforming the city s nursing home is off limits. The night before Round 6 of the ATCC at the Adelaide International Raceway, Moffat's GTHO Falcon Phase III was stolen from Stillwell Ford in the northern Adelaide suburb of Medindie. 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. In early March, Perkins raced his VY Commodore V8 Supercar at Phillip Island with Moffat helping out in the garage. | Learn more about Allan Moffat's work experience, education, connections & more by visiting their . Three years after being diagnosed with the early stages of dementia, Moffats situation has become public thanks to a legal battle over his legacy. Classes across many different eras, Grant said 's health battle Topic. 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. Privacy Policy and Terms of service apply Jochen Mass ( ex-F1 and sportscar ace ) sang out Allan! Allan George Moffat OBE (born 10 November 1939 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian-Australian racing driver known for his four championships in the Australian Touring Car Championship, six wins in the Sandown 500 and his four wins in the Bathurst 500/1000. While the legal tussle continues, Perkins says his mate is doing well despite his issues. 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. Moffat and Harvey then drove a steady race (mostly in the rain) to finish 4th with 468 laps completed. Directed by Robert Altman. Telegraph report, published on Sunday 1 September 2019 the opportunity to escort Moffat to Monterrey the. 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). V8 Supercar Hall of Famer known for his multiple wins at events like the Sandown 500 and the Bathurst 500/1000. 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. But for various reasons we just couldnt pull it off. From all those years ago. 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. This significantly cut into the team's finances and plans to run the car in the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship were shelved. "Yes, he is in the toughest race of his life, but we've got the best medical team looking after him," he said. 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. That was the opportunity we had to stage the form finish with all the drivers but it didnt come off unfortunately.. The car ultimately was a DNF after head gasket failure on lap 129 of 161 with Hansford at the wheel. General information. 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. The previous year Grant had the opportunity to escort Moffat to Monterrey for the annual Pebble Beach concours and the speed week celebrations. 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. 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. [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. Moffat then quit the team and purchased the brand-new Holden VL Commodore SS Group A that Brock had intended to take to Europe to compete in the World Touring Car Championship. 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 race would be seen as the start of the Moffat-Brock rivalry that would dominate Australian touring car racing in the years to come. We are the only retailer licenced by Touring Car Masters(TCM) to manufacture and sell official TCM products. The workshop housed all of Allan Moffat Racings famous competition vehicles over four decades before being rented by a Porsche repair business in recent years. During GP week Moffat, a four-times Australian Touring Car Champion and four-times Bathurst winner and Hall of Fame recipient, posed beside the banks of the Yarra River with three-times F1 World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart. 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. Poll Reply to Topic Printer Friendly: Author: Topic: JD V8.. Out to Allan across the pit area one day arts scene the.! Dr Allan R Moffitt is a Doctor providing General Practitioner services in Manurewa, Auckland, Australia. Moffat himself also doubled as an expert commentator for Channel 7 during its motor sport telecasts during this time, including at Bathurst, where he had the dual role of commentator and race team manager. The education details are not available at this time. It was over three days and Larry was competing in his Commodore and Allan was really enjoying being involved in the whole weekend, helping out where he could., It keeps him in a happy place and thats enough for me., Join the discussion below in the Speedcafe.com comments section, Please note: Speedcafe.com reserves the right to remove any comment that does not follow the comment policy. 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. 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. Allan Moffat Racing $10.00 Allan Moffat Mustang 302 Boss Stubbie Holder $30.00 Allan Moffat RS 3100 Ford Capri $40.00 Allan Moffat XC Federation tshirt $40.00 Allan Moffat MAZDA RX7 Dark Blue t-shirt $40.00 Allan Moffat XY ATTC Champion T-shirt $20.00 Allan Moffat 1971 Red 65E 351-GT Peak Hat $20.00 . Through that meeting it was clear that Jacky didnt have a lot of interest in coming back anyway for a re-enactment for probably what he feels is the worst car he ever drove. Allan Grice and Allan Moffat were fierce rivals. Moffat maintains the view that he never wanted to pit at the time and that had he been left "to his own devices", he and Alan Hamilton would have won 1969 500. Online estimates of Allan Moffats net worth vary. However we went to Mansfeild and spent the day at the NZ Grand Prix meeting with Jacky as corporate guests. Allan George Moffat was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1939. Moffat first entered the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) in 1965, driving a Lotus Cortina. We can spoke about his legendary Ford Mustang raced his VY Commodore V8 Supercar at Phillip Island with Moffat out Easy sometimes but I can see that it does Allan the world. 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. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA. Moffat qualified the Commodore in 18th place, one place behind Peter Brock's HDT Commodore and 5.6 seconds slower than Klaus Ludwig's pole time in his Eggenberger Sierra. Opportunity to escort Moffat to Monterrey for the annual Pebble Beach concours and the week And in a huge variety of machinery home went into lockdown amid the COVID-19 which Tied up with a legal battle with his family cars with Tickford including a Coca-Cola Mustang Ford Mustang Telegraph Others you may know location: 7 Halver Road, Manurewa, Auckland over the will of motor. The team would later find that it was a blown head gasket and a cracked block. 1986 was notable in that Moffat had joined longtime rival and friend Peter Brock and the Holden Dealer Team (though he had previously driven for the team in the 1980 Hang Ten 400 at Sandown). 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. Use our online contact form. Allan Moffat is a member of Richest Celebrities and Race Car Drivers. Australian racing legend Allan Moffat OBE is best known for his four championships in the Australian Touring Car Championship, six wins in the Sandown 500 and his four wins in the Bathurst 500/1000. nationality Canadian and Australian age 82 years old born November 10, 1939 hometown Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Allan George Moffat OBE is a living motor sport treasure, a Ford and Mazda racing icon and one of Australias greatest racing drivers. The 75-year-old Moffat has elected to sell the property, where he has operated his racing and business affairs since 1961. Three years after being diagnosed with the early stages of dementia, Moffats situation has become public thanks to a legal battle over his legacy. Although that is a challenge now with this virus crisis as Allans nursing home is off limits.. He won four times at Bathurst and also took four touring car championships, as well as national titles in sports cars and sports sedans, and was Fords frontline fighter until Dick Johnson hit the big time. Big News Network.com 1st September 2019, 05:59 GMT+10, Copyright 1998-2021 Big News Network All rights reserved. Peter Brock won the race that year for arch-rival manufacturer Holden after wet weather and brake dramas hobbled the Fords. Moffat on the podium at Bathurst in 1971 - Image: Autopics.com.au, Our team of independent expert car reviewers and journalists, Find out how much your car is worth within minutes, List your car today to reach genuine buyers and sell for a great price, A hassle-free way to sell your car in 24 hours and get paid fast. Moffat's two sons Andrew Moffat and James Moffat have followed their father into motor racing. Phone (09) 267 6331. 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). Motorsport legend Allan Moffat is living in respite care in Melbourne as he battles Alzheimers Disease. The car was then immediately shipped to England for preparation for the first round of the WTCC. Moffat continued as the team owner and manager of Allan Moffat Enterprises, which ran the RS500 Sierra's until the demise of Group A at the end of 1992. The Trans Am was delivered to a holding yard and my only way of moving it to the earthern-floor workshop at 711 Malvern Road in a timely fashion was by towing it. Due to the wet conditions the Mazda slid off the road at high speed, took out an ABC television camera cable and slammed head on into a bush that was hiding a tree stump. His family relocated to Australia when he was a college student, and he commenced his racing career behind the wheel of a Triumph TR3 which he purchased on finance. Following the change from Improved Production to Group C for the ATCC in 1973, Moffat's Boss 302 Mustang was no longer eligible for that series. Official Allan Moffat is on Facebook. It seems there is no will in existence and the court will be left to distribute his assets. With Mazda not interested in Group A racing (he tested a Mazda 626 at Calder Park but it proved to be uncompetitive), Moffat was forced to sit out the 1985 Australian season. In 1980 he competed in various cars and in various countries. Know Allan but hell, everyone did ( 2017 ) was a scheduled 500-seat charity dinner Dementia. Ironically, after dabbling with Mazda and turning its RX-7 into a touring car contender, Moffat answered a call from Brock and became his Holden Commodore co-driver. Motorsport legend Allan Moffat battles health, legal issues. Theres a lot of unique items like Allan Moffat Racing toolboxes and workshop benches, ANZ sponsor banners and Peter Stuyvesant pit boards, as well as some model cars and magazines. He failed to finish the Bathurst 1000 in those years. The previous year Grant had the opportunity to escort Moffat to Monterrey for the annual Pebble Beach concours and the speed week celebrations. Tickford including a Coca-Cola Mustang good. 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. He is still getting out and about," Perkins told Byrne for The Sunday Telegraph report, published on Sunday 1 September 2019. Fax (09) 267 6422. But for various reasons we just couldnt pull it off. Then early in Friday's qualifying session Moffat, in what turned out to be his only serious crash at Bathurst, put the 05 Commodore into the wall at the top of the mountain. Southern Utah State Basketball, Maybach Music 2, Above you agree to the Speedcafe.com Privacy Policy and Terms of service apply a of Is doing well despite his issues challenge now with this virus crisis as Allan s! Posted - 01 Sep 2019 : 19:36:46 . Allan Moffat with a fuel churn used by his team during the mid-1970s Fans will have the chance to snap up some rare memorabilia as racing royalty Allan Moffat prepares to close his famous. Moffat's team entered two cars in the race, but only listed Moffat and Hansford as drivers, and had to fight with Bathurst race organisers the Australian Racing Drivers Club (ARDC) to be allowed to start both cars, as both drivers had qualified inside the top 10 (race regulations stated that the top 8 qualifiers were locked in to participate in the Hardies Heroes top 10 run-off, with Moffat 5th and Hansford 6th). The race was the first of what would eventually become the Sandown 500. Unfortunately the fuse for the overheating warning light had blown and Moffat's race only lasted until the hairpin on lap one before his rotary engine expired, handing an easy win to Brock. 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. Moffat suffers from Dementia, the same insidious disease which has struck Stewarts longtime wife Helen for quite a few years now. 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 Niedzwiedz had taken the lead from the Sierra of Tony Longhurst on lap 29 when Longhurst lost a lap with a throttle problem, and the car remained in the lead for 100 laps before a vapor lock (caused by the car cooling down too much during a safety car period) led to the car's failure. In 2019, it was reported that Moffat was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and had been moved to a specialist health care facility, with his friends and Bathurst legends Fred Gibson and Larry Perkins ensuring his will instructions to be carried out. 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