MOFFAT MAZDA RX-7 1983 ATCC R1 Calder

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Allan Moffat began his 1983 Australian Touring Car Championship hunt with this great win in 40 degree heat at Calder Park Raceway. Allan's right hand drive #43 Mazda RX-7 endured the arid conditions as other cars fell by the wayside.
The folly in the point system was exposed at the first round at Calder when Moffat won the race from Fury, but Fury actually led the championship by finishing second outright in a smaller capacity car (Moffat scored 25 for winning while Fury scored 27 for finishing second). When Fury took the lead for a brief time at Calder, it was the first time that a turbo powered car had led an ATCC race.
Full results see:
touringcarracin...
1983 Australia Touring Car Championship:
en.wikipedia.o...
Commentated by:
Mike Raymond, Evan Green, Garry Wilkinson and John Shepherd.
Credit to Channel 7 Sport, Australia.
For educational and historic purposes only.
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[@mosca3289]

Love the variety of cars from this era.

[@DMRH69]

The good ole days
5lt V8 vs 1.3lt Rotary vs turbo-4......
SO much better than todays unrelatable million dollar machines

[@Holden308]

The late Mike Raymond never truly liked the turbo's, he just put up with them because they were there. But he was old school and came from a speedway background and so he loved the big V8's. To his credit he never said any different and was one of the leading advocates for when the V8's replaced Group A ten years after this race in 1993.

[@JohnJohnson-hk7cj]

This was the pinnacle of car racing in Aus, grunt v hp v lightweight cars, perfect❤️

[@jasonlaker8723]

Moffat's control under brakes is mental.

[@brapbrapau]

Love the Digital ad in there!

[@80satcc76]

THIS IS AWESOME! Thankyou.

[@kenny8ism]

Great work, many thanks

[@Super100MPH]

You're welcome!

[@adrianryan1975]

Guess there's plenty of Moffat hater's out there.

[@Super100MPH]

Hi Adrian. not as many as you might think. Plenty of admirers that's for sure. The "haters" are probably annoyed he won so often!

[@adrianryan1975]

@@Super100MPH have a few ford nuts at work that really don't like him for unknown reasons? He did a lot for Ford n for that reason he gets my respect plus he's a great pedaller

[@klano8443]

For all the favouritism holden got , where are they now.