One of the first fully professional racing drivers in Australia, he has also been the most controversial of the last 15 years.
Moffat has always been controversial because he says what he thinks, doesn't tolerate fools gladly, makes no bones about being in the business for the biggest possible amounts of money, and because on the track he gives no quarter and asks for none. He has been involved in panel-beating punch-ups on the track with most of the great names of Australian sedan racing - Ian Geoghegan, Bob Jane, John Harvey, Norm Beechey and even quiet Colin Bond. His much-raced and for a while unbeatable Trans-Am Mustang rarely finished a race meeting without bent panels in a few places.
In America, where once he washed cars and did odd-jobs and errands just to hang around the fringe of a race team, he is now regarded as one of the two or three best sedan drivers in the world. But in Australia one spectator will tell you he's the best in the world, while the guy next to him will tell you Moffat is a mug who couldn't drive out of sight on a dark night.
Allan George Moffat is a racing driver - a very good one. He is intense before, after, and especially during a race. He has only recently made any attempt to disguise the absolutely animal ambition, which at times forms an almost visible force-field around the sheik-like tent from which he operates at race meetings.
Moffat is involved in motor racing for many reasons. Perhaps the most important to him, since he married, is to create a rock-firm foundation based on his name and goodwill, from which he can build a business - one not necessarily dependant on Sunday successes.
It is not enough to be a good driver.
Moffat realises this. His main rivals already have businesses - Jane, Geoghegan - both could exist without motor racing... although neither, obviously, would choose to do so. Moffat has only one business - himself. He prepares proposals, looks after the sponsors, does them proud. He also prepares a racing car. For this purpose he employs two full-time mechanics.
As a self-promotions man, Moffat has been unquestionably successful. He has signed contracts with powerful companies - Ford, Coca-Cola, Goodyear and BP. Later, when his name was well known he formed "associations" with smaller firms - Bars Leaks and Wilkinson Sword. None of his major sponsorships came without considerable effort:
