but we just didn’t go on with it,” Horsley says. “It
wasn’t a lot of effort to do it. It would have looked
pretty standard and we could have built 20 of
them easily (to qualify for Group C).”
But Group C was on its last legs and Group A
was coming. And the international formula would
have required a build of 5000 cars, which Mazda
wasn’t prepared to do.
So 1984 would be the last year for the Big
Bangers, and for Mazda, which in 1983 had
nally scored its treasured manufacturers’ title. It
did so again in 1984, along with another drivers’
title for Moffat, but not another touring car crown.
The ATCC season was curtailed by a
massiveaccidentat a wetSurfers,whenGarry
Bottom right: Moffat’s fi nal Bathurst in a Mazda began
with a ride along the pitwall in #43 and ended, after
jumping into the #42 started by Gregg Hansford, with
an appearance on the podium, with third.
Top: Moffat’s last race on Aussie soil in the RX7 saw
him win the AEC with second place at Surfers.