Allan Moffat may have raced factory Fords, Mazdas and even Holdens, with his BMW cameo at the 12 Hours of Sebring also well known, but how about Porsche?
A four-time winner of the Australian Touring Car Championship and at Bathurst, Moffat added another accolade in 1980 by scoring the Australian Sports Car Championship.
In between his fight to have his Mazda RX-7 entry accepted and battling to get a Ford prepared to the Group C regulations for Bathurst, Moffat was charged by Australian Porsche distributor Alan Hamilton to drive a factory 934 Turbo RSR.
Moffat won three rounds during the 1980 Australian Sports Car Championship at Sandown Baskerville and Winton to win the crown by five-points from Peter Hopwood driving the Lotus Elan.
The 934 Turbo RSR was imported by Hamilton in 1976 and won the 1977 ASSC I his hands sharing the drive with fellow Porsche driver John Latham.
Then the Porsche sat idle for two years after it was banned from competition by CAMS before the rules allowed the 934 RSR back into competition.
Hamilton was due to drive it again in 1980, but was injured in a Formula 5000 crash at Sandown and asked Moffat to race it instead.
Updated to 934.5 specification for Moffat’s title winning season, it was then sold to Martin Sampson in 1981 where it was driven by John Walker, who came out of retirement for 1981.
Transferring through private owners since its retirement from competition at the end of 1981, this Porsche has a total of 11 races for six wins and is an exciting addition to the Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival.
Back in its distinctive Federation Insurance livery from the 1980 season, the 934 RSR will form part of the Porsche Rennsport category at the event.
The Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival will take place on March 8-9.