🇺🇸 Carter Williams

Carter Williams is a semi-professional driver who raced single-seaters and then shifted to multiclass endurance machinery. He competed in British F4 and GB3 for JHR Developments, a stable that fielded 37 drivers across the index, and later drove Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo cars in the ProAm class for World Speed. He holds an FIA Silver grade, a classification for drivers developing within sportscar racing rather than established professionals.[1]

Williams took three wins and six podiums across 28 starts in British F4 in 2019, his most productive season. He then moved to GB3 in 2020 for ten starts without a podium before stepping back from regular single-seater competition. A decade earlier he had run nine starts in SKUSA SuperNationals karting from 2010 to 2016, taking one podium. In 2023 he returned to racing in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series, competing in both the North American championship and the World Final with ten and two starts respectively. His total record across all series stands at 59 starts, three wins and seven podiums.[2]

In British F4 and GB3, Williams regularly raced against Josh Skelton, an entry-level professional with 53 starts in the category who typically finished ahead of him, and Louis Foster, an established professional and two-time champion at Indy NXT level who proved a consistent measure of the gap between Williams and the front-runners. Among his occasional scalps were Pato O'Ward, an elite professional and IndyCar regular with a 2018 Indy NXT title, and David Malukas, who went on to race full seasons in IndyCar; Williams beat each once in their meetings. His most consistent finishes came in the lower categories of multiclass endurance grids, where he competed against fields mixing amateurs, semi-professionals and graded drivers across multiple classes.