🏳️ Don Whittington

Don Whittington is a competitive amateur who raced at the club level, posting a rating of 2,538. His record encompasses two seasons of karting competition in the SKUSA SuperNationals during 2012 and 2013, where he made two starts without recording a podium finish. His average finishing position across classified starts was P23, placing him in the middle of the field in a competitive amateur environment. In his limited racing career, he finished ahead of several drivers who would go on to establish stronger credentials; notably, he beat Oliver Askew, who later became a professional champion in Indy NXT, as well as Nick Boulle, Milan Dontje, and Axel Matus in single-race encounters, though these isolated results do not indicate a consistent pattern of dominance over stronger competition.[1]

Whittington's racing activity came late in his life and briefly at the SuperNationals level before his retirement in 2013. His career on record was modest in scope and results, though he was better known to motorsport history for his role in the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans, where he and his brother Bill completed a famous overall victory in a Porsche 935; Klaus Ludwig, a far more experienced driver, performed the majority of the driving in difficult conditions. The Whittington brothers' motorsport activities and their circumstances drew significant historical attention in later years.[2]