page_title: Allan Moffat
section_title: 1972
hierarchical_section_title: Allan Moffat / Racing career / 1972
caption_attribution_description: English: Allan Moffat in the Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III at Surfers Paradise International Raceway, Round 1 of the South Pacific Touring Car Series, 6th February 1972. Photo by Graham Ruckert.
context_page_description: Allan George Moffat OBE 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. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999.
  Moffat and his long-time friend and rival Peter Brock are the only drivers to have won The Great Race at Bathurst in both its 500-mile and 1000-kilometre formats.
  In October 2018, he was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.
context_section_description: Moffat looked headed for an historic third straight Bathurst victory in 1972 when Ford unveiled plans for a "Phase IV" Falcon GTHO, even faster but more subtle than the Phase III which Moffat had taken to victory in 1971. Sydney based motoring journalist Evan Green caught wind of these plans however and his article, with headlines across the country that screamed, "160mph Supercars on Our Roads!" created the Supercar scare. Facing pressure from the media and government not to produce this car, as entering it at Bathurst would also require at least 200 units to be sold at dealerships in Australia, Ford scrapped production of the Phase IV and forced Moffat and other Ford drivers to resort to year-old Phase III cars for Bathurst that year. Peter Brock won the race that year for arch-rival manufacturer Holden after wet weather and brake dramas hobbled the Fords. 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.
caption: Moffat in the works Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III at Surfers Paradise International Raceway, February 1972
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