VALE ALLAN MOFFAT OBE

AUSTRALIAN motorsport is mourning the loss of one its greats, Allan Moffat OBE, who died on Saturday November 22 2025 after a long battle with dementia. He was 86.

- Mark Higgins

Allan George Moffat was born November 10, 1939 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada, spending his early life there and teenage years in South Africa where his father was posted by employer, Massey Fergusson. It was also in this country a young Moffat saw his first motor race at the Kyalami circuit.

Another posting saw the Moffat family arrive in Australia in 1961 and it was here Allan bought a Triumph TR-3 and made his racing debut at Hume Weir (NSW). By day he was also employed as a cadet at Volkswagen Australia and by night a student at Taylor's Business College. He soon acquired a Beetle and raced it while also studying at Monash Uni.

Moffat's family had moved back to Canada and Allan followed. He took a job in Ontario selling pots and pans door-to-door, while plotting his racing future.