Allan Moffat and Al Turner
In 1969 Canadian-born Allan Moffat joined the Ford team and became the team's No.1 driver. With Harry Firth switching to the Holden Dealer Team, American Al Turner was signed up as the new team boss. The Ford Falcon GTHO Phase 1 with a 351 cubic inch V8 engine looked to be a big threat at the Bathurst 500 but Al Turner's tactic of flying in untested special tyres from the USA proved to be the undoing of the Ford challenge as Falcons kept pulling into the pits with shredded tyres.
The 1970 Bathurst race was a 1-2 victory for the Ford works team with Allan Moffat winning his first Bathurst 500 in a GTHO Phase 2 and team-mate Bruce McPhee holding back in the final laps following team orders.
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