 In 1973 the Ford team contested the Australian Touring Car Championship with Allan Moffat winning from Holden rival 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 the HDT car he shared with Brock out of petrol.On 25 January 1974, the Ford Motor Company announced that they were ending 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.