MOFFAT & GRICE 1983 Symmons Plains 

It was not a pleasant noise but very quick.

You too . I just disliked him. I did see him close up, he was so intense. I heard & saw then in the early days.Bob Jane & him weren’t great friends.

My old man was a moffat fan he was a ford fan (still is), he’s always said his favourite holden driver was gricey. He couldn’t stand brock, dad always tells me how he’d be at the fence at amaroo, oran park cheering on moffat and giving brock the finger. Growing up myself from a young lad (im 24 now) I’ve met moffat numerous times for photos and have things signed. He’s always been a real gentleman. Even had a moment with him when i took his le mans porsche to him to be signed. Speaking of racers dad and I had james brock tearing up when we requested he sign my shirt with “son of a legend” even got a photo holding his 3rd place trophy with him at eastern creek

Moffat had nothing better than other teams, private RX7s such as Peter McLeod proved that, except that Moffat's gearboxes never broke while literally every privateer broke a gearbox or 3. I had a workshop across the road from John Waterhouse, Reliance Rotary in Isa St Fyshwick Act, and John built 6 of the RX7 engines entered for Bathurst the last year of group C. He got every part direct from Racing Beat America, that were 100% genuine Mazda Racing parts. Nothing was home grown. His engines were as quick as Moffats down Conrod and back up the hill, but 4 of the 6 broke gearboxes, as did other RX7. So the truth is Moffat was getting something special in the way of his gearbox, no other advantage. Still that did hurt the privateers.

+Mark Mark Those gearboxes are pretty flimsy, you can keep them together by just not banging hard on them.

Mark Mark yeah moffat was always conscious of stuff like that.

There were thousands upon thousands of lhd rx7s around the world so why wouldnt he be allowed to race either? You may as well bitch about nissan racing the 1.8 turbo...

Wouldn't say that. The Falcons were badly handicapped with weight AND inferior 10" wheels and baggy tyres. When the Falcon finally got better wheels late 1983 it was too late, Group C came to the end. Go the mighty FaaaalcuuunsRIP 1960 - 2016

It's a "1.3" liter engine that fires every 360 degrees rotation of the crankshaft, therefore, and correctly, it is deemed a 2.6 liter by motor racing sporting bodies. to be honest, it's aprox 320hp is not great for a 2.6. It's big advantage was it could produce it's 300+hp from the start of a race all the way to the finish of the race reliably, and that's why it did very well in many endurance races such as Daytona and LeMans (which Moffat won both). When Moffat first got the RX7 from Japan, it came with one spare engine, Moffat questioned this as he had up to 7 spare engines at any one time for the Ford. Mazda scratched their heads with surprise and told him not to worry, it never breaks!And he never changed an engine due to failure, nor did he have any special qualifying engine either. The Ford days however had a qualifier and a spare (and one in the car, i.e. 3 engines for each car) at every track, and one sitting in a ute on standby at his workshop ready to be transported overnight if needed.

Yeah, yet over the history of rotary engines people complained about the weight of the car ( 3:23 mark). With the same rationale, then perhaps weight should be added according to the liter of the vehicle. Rx7 - 1.3L approx 920kg (2028 lbs) Commodor - 5.8L 1230kg (2711 lbs), but calculating liter to weight ratio, it should be 1861kg (4104 lbs) Not sure if they had to do it but in the later years it was discussed that rotary engine cars should be required to add more weight. So much for innovation... Create a new type engine and the standard engine racers want to hold it back rather than think of ways to improve their engines.

@@RyanTreks Hold it back? The wretched thing is virtually extinct. And that's good. Dead end technology that nearly bankrupted Mazda.

when you have a car that's that light of course it has an advantage that' s why V8 supercars have to be the same weight and horsepower to make it even.

Moffat and another Ford driver were always winning to Cams about Brock and the Holdens. Just couldn't accept they weren't in the same class as drivers.

@@captainkaos1770 what a clown