Dave Charlton is a racing driver from South Africa who last raced in Formula 1 for McLaren. Charlton has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 11 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,188 ranks Charlton 935th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 1975-03-01 | Kyalami | P14 | +29 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | ▸Formula 1 | McLaren | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P22 | +29 | 4,188 |
| 1974 | ▸Formula 1 | McLaren | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P21 | −24 | 4,160 |
| 1973 | ▸Formula 1 | Team Lotus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P22 | −82 | 4,184 |
| 1972 | ▸Formula 1 | Team Lotus | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | P22 | −322 | 4,266 |
| 1971 | ▸Formula 1 | Lotus-Ford | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P23 | −170 | 4,588 |
| 1970 | ▸Formula 1 | Team Lotus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P26 | +17 | 4,758 |
| 1968 | ▸Formula 1 | Brabham-Repco | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P25 | −122 | 4,741 |
| 1967 | ▸Formula 1 | Brabham-Climax | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P22 | +64 | 4,864 |
Dave Charlton was a South African racing driver who competed in Formula 1 between 1967 and 1975. He made eleven starts in the championship, all for McLaren and Team Lotus, without recording a win or podium finish. His average finishing position across classified starts was fifteenth, reflecting a career spent in the mid-field and beyond the points-scoring positions typical of the era.[1]
Despite the absence of results in the championship itself, Charlton's record contains isolated performances of note. He finished ahead of Clay Regazzoni, Jochen Rindt, and Mario Andretti on single occasions, each of them drivers of considerably stronger standing; Rindt and Andretti were both world champions. These results, while solitary, demonstrate that Charlton was capable of outpacing established and accomplished competition on occasion, even if consistency at that level proved beyond his reach over the span of his Formula 1 career.[2]
Charlton's involvement with Team Lotus, which fielded him in five of his starts, placed him within one of the grid's most successful operations; the team accumulated 45 race wins across its history and later developed drivers of the calibre of Mika Häkkinen. His nine seasons of racing activity, concluded in 1975, marked the end of a career spent principally in the top category of single-seater racing.