Howard Marsden and More Moffat Victories
By 1971 Howard Marsden was the new team manager at Ford. Moffat drove his Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III to an 'all the-way' win at the 1971 Hardie Ferodo 500 at Bathurst. 1972 saw the Supercar Controversy which killed off the Phase 4 Falcon project. Ford was forced to use the Phase 3 GTHO again for its Bathurst campaign and in a race that started on a wet track the light-footed Holden Torana GTR XU-1 won the day. But Ford did add a major trophy to their cabinet by winning the 1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship.
In 1973 the Ford team contested the Australian Touring Car Championship with Allan Moffat winning from Holden rival Peter Brock. At Bathurst (now a 1,000 km race) Moffat and co-driver Ian Geoghegan won in a Falcon XA GT after early leader John Goss was involved in a collision and Doug Chivas famously ran out of petrol.
On 25 January 1974, the Ford Motor Company announced that they were pulling the plug on factory involvement in motor racing, with the effects of the 1973 Oil Crisis being cited as one of the reasons for the company's withdrawal. The Australian Ford works team was wound up, with Moffat driving as a privateer in 1974 with sponsorship from Brut 33.
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