Climbing the mountain

Resource Information

The work Climbing the mountain represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Cumberland Council Library Service. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Climbing the mountain

Statement of responsibility

Allan Moffat with John Smailes

Creator

• Moffat, Allan, 1940-

Contributor

• Smailes, John

Author

• Moffat, Allan, 1940-
• Smailes, John

Subject

• Automobile racing -- New South Wales | Bathurst -- History
• Motorsports -- Australia -- History
• Automobile racing -- New South Wale | Bathurst -- History
• Automobile racing drivers -- Biography
• Moffat, Allan George, 1939-
• Automobile racing -- Australia -- History
• Ford Falcon automobile -- History
• Autobiographies
• Autobiography
• Automobile racing drivers -- Australia -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Allan Moffat sits high in the pantheon of Australian motor sport. Through the heyday of touring car racing in the '70s and '80s his rivalry with Peter Brock was legendary. Over a 17-year period, either Brock or Moffat won at Bathurst on 13 occasions. Moffat won four Australian Touring Car Championships, Brock won three. But whereas Brock was the charismatic crowd pleaser, Moffat was notoriously taciturn and intense - a man of few words and most of them gruff. Now aged 76, Moffat is telling his story for the first time. His book is the compelling account of a young Canadian who moved to Australia with his family as a boy and became one of our greatest racing drivers. It's a tale of the great rivalry with Brock, that surprisingly ended with a driving partnership and huge mutual respect, and it's about nostalgia for the glory days of motor sport in this country, when the concept of Holden vs Ford really did divide the nation, and when Mount Panorama was the true Mecca for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Australians. Filled with intense rivalries, huge egos, on-course stories and incidents, and all against the backdrop of our motor sport history over more than forty years, this is THE book for all fans of Australian motor racing

Biography type

autobiography

Biographical or historical data

John Smailes is a journalist, motor sport commentator, publicist and until recently the proprietor of a specialised communications agency. He was co-commentator with Will Hagon on the ABC's national coverage of the Australian Touring Car Championship at the combative height of the Ford vs Holden wars. His most recent book was a massive 560-page authorised history of the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport.

Cataloging source

WWBK

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult