Let us remember that you will no longer see the likes of an Allan Moffat in this country as racing has changed.....he was the team..the inspiration and the driving force. He is now struggling health wise ....Legend.
What everyone forgets, when they rave about Brock etc., was that the Falc was considerably heavier than the Torana, the power was similar, and yet Moff could peel off a lap like this. Man was a genius.
Agree. I get Brock was a brilliant driver, yet, his car was near 200kg lighter. With the $$ behind him with HDT, he should of been winning.. Watching him in his early years, is a totally different story to when Holden got behind him and poured in super funds. Not too sure how famous he'd be with out that input. Guess the same may be said of Moff.( though Moff was never the loaded man people thought he was, he struggled financially). yet, Moff's car was still way heavier, harder on brakes etc etc.. Which ever way people wish to view it, it was still the BEST days of Australian motor racing.. period. ( my humble little opinion, after watching motor racing in OZ for near 50 years.dont watch it anymore.. couple hrs of bathurst is my yearly dose, it's utter crap today)
@@Niknteen1 Everything you said is basically correct BUT please stop using American phrases. You're talking about oz racing and a (former Canadian) now aussie legend. I nearly puked, I mean vomited/spewed when I read 'period'. Please don't. It's a North American term. Been watching too much overseas road racing?
a few years ago when I was a cabbie I had the privelage of moving Allan, his wife and James from the Clipsal track to their hotel - we discussed this lap, the 1-2 finish, and James and I talked about our fave moff cars - apart from the coupes, the trans am mustang was discussed as one of his best. I told them I wasn't going to charge them but Allan wouldn't hear of it and tipped me - a very memorable day...
@@captainkaos754 he had very little rescourses compared with the Holden teams and did a great job with what he had . Highly respected by all of his peers except for you I see .
Moffatt was usually pretty composed when he spoke, but at the end of this clip you can see and feel the emotion as he realised what he had done. He was pretty close to the "ragged edge" during this lap - he nearly hit the fence on the right hand side coming out of the Dipper, while the way that the car bottomed out when going through the Cutting and over the humps on Conrod Straight showed that he was giving 110%.
Moffat, unlike Brock, wasn't a natural talent. Oh he did have talent in spades, but it wasn't something that came natural to him. He worked long and hard to get to be as good as he was in a race car. That lap he literally put everything into, and you have to remember that Group C Touring Cars in Australia were little more than hotted up road cars with a few safety mods thrown in. When Evan Green was trying to interview him, Moff was buggared. And Alan wasn't one of those once a year drivers like Peter Janson. He really did work on his fitness (and despite his longtime sponsorship with Rothmans of Pall Mall tobacco, he wasn't a smoker)
Agree Graham Clayton, Moffat is normally very composed but you sense he gave it everything. I'm a Holden fan but I think all of us, not matter what side of the fence we were on, owe a debt of gratitude to Alan Moffat - without him the racing wouldn't have been the same.
Exactly. Brocky was the golden child from Holden and the darling of the crowds.....but without the 'bad guy' Moffat, would have it been the same? Even Brock himself acknowledged that without Marvin it would have been a lot different.
Hi guys, I’m 57, so grew up in the time of Brock vs Moffat. As we have all grown older, we recognise what we didn’t back then. We were experiencing a golden time in Australian motor racing. I was always a Ford and Moffat fan, (sorry, I just couldn’t keep the smile off my face when you hear a GTHO Ph3 change down,.......music), but I admire both drivers. Brock was clearly the more naturally gifted, but Moffat, he gave the rest of us mere mortals hope. He showed us what sheer guts and determination could bring about. You could see how he was always totally spent when getting out of a race car. And who of my generation forget the duals between the Mustang and the Bob Jane Camero up the back straight at Sandown. Ah,.......I know,.......just living in the past. Need I talk about F5000 and the Tasman Series.....
@@Chrismkeough to my understanding, Brock was a naturally gifted driver (like Jim Clark), & Moffat was a technical driver. Not wrong just different & both brilliant drivers! And I believe that Dick Johnson was probably better than the both of them! & this is coming from a one eyed Holden/ Brock fan!
I'm not a Ford fan, nor a Holden fan but those were the days and the COBRAS sure had a great sound. Moffat was a legend and the upcoming young guns like Brock, Johnson had great teacher's
Very a emotional at the end as he had just set the fastest lap ever around the circuit 2:21:59 on a nearly dry track! Must have scared the shit out of him, he did state that he probably could not go harder than that. Well done Moff, you deserved far more credit and applause than you got! You put in huge ground work to get the most out of what you had and did an exceptional job.
I dont get the negative comments here guys, seriously all these cars were part of the greatest time in Australian racing. When real cars raced not the crap we have now! Go buy a v8 rear drive volvo...oh sorry it dont exist! I encourage everyone to head up to the Leyburn classic auto sprints in Qld. and re-visit these classic cars driven at ten tenths, it is an experience you won't forget, the badge simply don't matter.
Professional to the core, and what a legend he is.. And this shows the enormous stress and exertion involved in wrestling the big Falcon around the mountain as it was back then. Real track, real cars and real balls..
Funny you say that.I have heard it directly from one of the ex-factory ford drivers that when Carol Smith came out to work on the cars,they couldn't believe it was the same guy who wrote the books.They were not that impressed with the guy.And I have the utmost respect from the factory ford driver/bathurst winner who told me that.
Having driven around Mt Panorama at a considerably slower speed my admiration for the drivers has only risen, especially coming down off Skyline heading to Conrod. It was hair-raising at 60 ks an hour, never mind what Moffat is doing here with nothing more than minimal amco railing o_O
Did you see how the Falcon's nose rose up coming over the 2nd hump on Conrod? Makes it easy to see how Mike Burgman's crash would have happened in 1986.
159 MPH, but that's HALFWAY down the straight, there was another 400m of full throttle to come... 175 - 180 MPH would be nearer to the truth considering that the TCM's manage over 280kph WITH the chase in the way...
Phenomenal lap, great driver. What I liked about this era was that they were trying to do the same thing (go fast/win) using different engineering solutions. Big powerful and fast Ford Falcons, but heavy on brakes and fuel and more difficult in handling. Smaller less powerful but lighter and better on brakes and handling Holdens. And a whole gamut of other cars besides.
Watching Dick Johnson's TruBlue XC down straight at Surfer's Paradise 1979, possibly a more beautiful looking and sounding car than Moffat's ...it led all day, then , lost.I can't remember why.
Crashed on the back straight when the brake linings came off the RF disc pads. The linings sheered off at the end of the front straight and he had too much speed. Another time the cdi ignition failed and we stole a standard distributor from a car in the pit area just to get him back out, we were about 3 laps down but stayed out on the track.
There are few things more asthetically pleasing that a hardtop being driven around the mountain by a virtuoso. The 1000 in 1978 wasn't a happy hunting ground for Allan and if I remember correctly Carol Smith, the team manager who engineered the '77 victory, had gone back to the states by then. May have had a bearing on the lack of success that year.
Ford didn’t spend any extra money after winning in ‘77 , (but in reality the A9X’s all broke down). Cams wouldn’t let the Falcons have a dry sump , and Ford didn’t help with any go faster bits for homologation as they basically pulled out due to issues with CAMS approving parts for the opposition brand and not for Ford.
Great Footage ,So thank U ! What a Legend ! What a man ! A bit hard hard to Say True Blue, but the next best thing anyway ? As a Canadian ,He Came here to Australia & fitted inn perfectly ?To the Aussie Way of Life & With a Skill few will master ?A Real man & gentlemen ! Quietly spoken ,Generous to all ,humble & a Champion bloke ! And never ever got the Accolades that He deserved ! Yes ,He was Speechless after his Shoot out lap & pole setting one at that ! But I Remember a few years before this in His Phase 3 HO doing exactly the Same ! He was I think even more fired Up ,because He could hardly talk at all ? What a Champion 😂🏆 in every Sense of the Word ! Simply never the Same Since his departure ? Especially to The Ford Teams & the Ford Fraurity ! I believe 159 mph is a little Short ? Murray Carter Clocked 178mph down Conrod in the xa GT, being the fastest Car down Conrod that year ! So here ,this being possibly 2 years Later proves my point ? Thank U once again, as an old bloke,appreciated this So much & Thank U Allen !
@Holden308 Mike Burgman's crash wasn't directly related to the hump, according to the Bathurst annuals of the time he was off the track before the second hump
The radar appeared to come out around the middle of Conrod, be interesting to see what speed it pulled before the braking zone? I believe a couple of years later with cars like the Camaros, they were getting close to the 300 mark, getting cars to go fast has never really been an issue, getting them to handle though, that's another matter.
