John French (racing driver)
Season Series Position Car Team
1962 Australian GT Championship 1st Centaur Waggott GP Cars Racing Team
1964 Australian Touring Car Championship 8th Morris Cooper S
1966 Australian Touring Car Championship 6th Morris Cooper S
1967 Australian Touring Car Championship 8th Morris Cooper S
1969 Australian Touring Car Championship 10th Alfa Romeo 1750 GTV Alec Mildren Racing
1970 Australian Touring Car Championship 12th Morris Cooper S
1971 Australian Touring Car Championship 6th Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase III Allan Moffat Racing Geoghegans Sporty Cars
1972 Australian Touring Car Championship 23rd Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase III Bryan Byrt Ford
1974 Australian Touring Car Championship 10th Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
1975 Australian Touring Car Championship 9th Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
1980 Australian Touring Car Championship 24th Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
1982 Australian Endurance Championship NC Ford XE Falcon Palmer Tube Mills
1983 Australian Endurance Championship NC Nissan Bluebird Turbo Nissan Motor Co. Australia P/L
1984 Australian Endurance Championship NC Ford XE Falcon Palmer Tube Mills
1985 Australian Endurance Championship NC Holden VK Commodore Alf Grant
1986 Australian Endurance Championship NC Holden VK Commodore SS Group A Dulux Auto Colour
1987 World Touring Car Championship NC Mitsubishi Starion Turbo Ralliart Australia
Career results
John French (born 28 November 1930) is an Australian retired racing driver. French was born in Millaa Millaa, Queensland, and his long career lasted from the 1960s to the early 1980s. He won the 1962 Australian GT Championship driving a Centaur-Waggott and in 1969 French paired with Allan Moffat to win the Sandown Three Hour race in a Ford Falcon GTHO Phase I. French was well known multi-franchise car dealer selling BMC vehicles, Alfa Romeo, Renault, Peugeot and Subaru in Brisbane. Many of the marques he sold featured prominently in his professional racing career. Nationally however he is best remembered as Dick Johnson's co-driver to win the crash-shortened 1981 Bathurst 1000 (French was driving the #17 Ford XD Falcon when the race was stopped, but wasn't one of the cars in the accident). He regularly drove the works Ford Falcon GTHO's alongside Allan Moffat, and also drove Moffat's and Ian Geoghegan's Improved Production Ford Falcon GTHOs in the Australian Touring Car Championship rounds when Moffat and Geoghegan were driving their Mustangs.