MOFFAT & GRICE 1983 Symmons Plains

[@marco_6145]

This is awesome, what a great era of racing. Moffatt really had that RX7 screaming! Thanks a lot

[@beagle7622]

It was not a pleasant noise but very quick.

[@beagle7622]

Les Small, who looked after Grices car built a car as fast the HDT cars on a fraction of the budget. His 1st Bathurst win was a sample of that.

[@jacquesdemorton5871]

TransAm Mustang, GTHO, Chevy Monza, BDA Escort, Cologne Capri, Falcon Cobra, BMW, Porsche, Rotary Mazda and Commodore. Moffat was THE driver.

[@JohnJohnson-hk7cj]

Back when men led races and told us exactly how things were! No BS❤️ Good on ya Gricey💪💪

[@andrewnorgrove6487]

Some very nice angles of the cars cornering here at symmons plains just 10 k from home in perth

[@HereIsMyOffer]

Moff at 5:55 the Japanese market is LHD?

[@alfaromeo5069]

Great race - Thanks for posting ;-)

[@rosstipler8435]

Moffat had all sorts of tricky bits on that Mazda from Mazda Japan and also did a deal that they wouldn't provide parts to any other Australian team. The other RX7s had to source bits from the USA. Moffat had a rhd and lhd versions for clockwise and counter clockwise circuits ... why was the lhd allowed by cams when Peter Brock wasn't allowed to use Australian made roller rockers that were used on the Brock Holdens. Because Moffat whined that he was at a disadvantage.

[@markmark5269]

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.

[@godfreypoon5148]

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

[@sugarnads]

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

[@sugarnads]

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...

[@Cruelaid]

When I was a young kid there were two people I didn’t like.. Darth Vader & Allan Moffat 😁 Huge respect for Moff now

[@beagle7622]

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.

[@MadLadCheese101]

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

[@kristianhermann5971]

Both standup drivers - great footage

[@RaceDayMedia]

Thank you!

[@klano8443]

Honestly Moffat was the best driver of that era.

[@sezaiyuyucuoglu8249]

Grice was an agro maggot who had a class agenda. He used to accuse anyone not racing in a Holden as a BMW driving snob. Bumping into Moffat around corners was his masterstroke !!

[@nicholasjohnson6724]

Grice was one kool kat 👍👍

[@cecilwilliams8586]

Imagine that was a 12A PP Rotor not the 13B PP that ate the 8s of the day. Funny how they never talk about how they sand bagged the Smallest engined cars in those day as even the Nissans were sand bagged and we termed it the unfairness law. Good racing was always had between them two as no love was lost from either.

[@corriejacobs5876]

Brilliant Mazda you stand your ground

[@harrisionstan3773]

Pure magic at 29.03. Moffat wasn't afraid to lean on smaller cars when he was in Falcons, didn't like it when he was served the same treatment. As for all the chook cooker fanbois and apologists bleating about the 1.3 litre taking on bigger cars, they forget that the dead-end-torquesless-piece-of-shit rotary was in a much smaller, lighter, TWO seat car.

[@kerrykelaher2607]

Rx7 power to weighless ratio s moffat wrang its necklace 😮

[@AssosVideo]

Not bad for a 1.3 lt carburettor non turbo against 5.8 lt V8's

[@dj17q]

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

[@markmark5269]

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.

[@RyanTreks]

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.

[@harrisionstan3773]

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

[@robertunsworth9183]

Alan Moffat sooooo close.

[@davidtagilala5040]

dude moffat one the series in that car and made peter brock brock cry countless times they were eventually banned and by the way thats a 12a get a history lesson the reason why v8 bogans hate rotarys is because of that man and his car!

[@rodgeorge7244]

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.

[@rosstipler8435]

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.

[@josephbrady711]

@@captainkaos1770 what a clown

[@alexfrankl7861]

Small field

[@stephensmith1794]

checkered flag man still standing on the track on the off line...

[@1ihws]

Wonder if that’s the Mazda that became the subject of an enquiry by a certain person who used to work as an insurance executive for Zurich Insurance, and have a “vested” interest, lol …. Nothing would surprise me anymore!!!