Duane Carter is a racing driver from United States who last raced in Formula 1 for Kuzma. Carter has recorded 0 wins and 1 podium from 8 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 6,176 ranks Carter 127th of 40,700 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 1960-05-30 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway | P12 | +13 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +114 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1952 | Formula 1 | P4 |
| +112 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1953 | Formula 1 | P3 |
| +94 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1954 | Formula 1 | P4 |
| +82 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1951 | Formula 1 | P8 |
| +64 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1959 | Formula 1 | P7 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | ▸Formula 1 | Kuzma | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P14 | +13 | 6,451 |
| 1959 | ▸Formula 1 | Kurtis Kraft | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P14 | +64 | 6,438 |
| 1955 | ▸Formula 1 | Kuzma | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P15 | +29 | 6,375 |
| 1954 | ▸Formula 1 | Kurtis Kraft | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | P13 | +94 | 6,346 |
| 1953 | ▸Formula 1 | Kurtis Kraft | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | P12 | +112 | 6,252 |
| 1952 | ▸Formula 1 | Lesovsky | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | P10 | +114 | 6,140 |
| 1951 | ▸Formula 1 | Deidt | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P14 | +82 | 6,026 |
| 1950 | ▸Formula 1 | Stevens | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P13 | +4,594 | 5,944 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Tony Bettenhausen | 6,070 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 63% |
| 🇺🇸 Jim Rathmann | 6,175 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 57% |
| 🇺🇸 Rodger Ward | 5,914 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 71% |
| 🇺🇸 Jack McGrath | 6,046 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 67% |
| 🇺🇸 Johnnie Parsons | 5,992 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 83% |
| 🇺🇸 Jimmy Bryan | 5,987 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 83% |
| 🇺🇸 Gene Hartley | 5,946 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇺🇸 Fred Agabashian | 5,810 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇺🇸 Eddie Johnson | 4,959 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 83% |
| 🇺🇸 Sam Hanks | 6,121 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80% |
| 🇮🇹 Alberto AscariHigher-rated, 2× champion | 6,252 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 117 | 🇲🇽 Pedro Rodríguez | Formula 1 | 6,222 |
| 118 | 🇯🇵 Kakunoshin Ohta | Super GT | 6,216 |
| 119 | 🇨🇳 Zhou Guanyu | Formula 2 | 6,213 |
| 120 | 🇨🇭 Clay Regazzoni | Formula 1 | 6,212 |
| 121 | 🇯🇵 Felix Rosenqvist | IndyCar | 6,209 |
| 122 | 🇺🇸 Clint Bowyer | NASCAR Truck | 6,206 |
| 123 | 🇮🇹 Elio de Angelis | Formula 1 | 6,204 |
| 124 | 🇺🇸 Chris Buescher | NASCAR Cup Series | 6,195 |
| 125 | 🇮🇹 Giorgio Pantano | IndyCar | 6,189 |
| 126 | 🇮🇹 Piero Taruffi | Formula 1 | 6,184 |
| 127 | 🇺🇸 Duane Carter | Formula 1 | 6,176 |
| 128 | 🇺🇸 Jim Rathmann | Formula 1 | 6,175 |
| 129 | 🇦🇺 Brodie Kostecki | Supercars Championship | 6,172 |
| 130 | 🇮🇹 Davide Valsecchi | GP2 Series | 6,170 |
| 131 | 🇦🇹 Jochen Rindt | Formula 1 | 6,167 |
| 132 | 🇦🇺 Jack Brabham | Formula 1 | 6,163 |
| 133 | 🇿🇦 Tony Maggs | Formula 1 | 6,160 |
| 134 | 🇬🇧 Tom Pryce | Formula 1 | 6,159 |
| 135 | 🇩🇪 Maximilian Günther | Formula E | 6,158 |
| 136 | 🇫🇮 Keke Rosberg | Formula 1 | 6,156 |
| 137 | 🇨🇳 Guanyu Zhou | Formula 1 | 6,147 |
Duane Carter was an established professional racing in Formula 1, a single-class international championship that mixed amateur and semi-professional entrants with graded professionals in the same field. He drove for Kuzma across eight starts between 1950 and 1960, taking one podium finish in that period.[1]
Carter's Formula 1 career spanned a decade but produced limited results; his single podium was his only points finish across the eight races he entered. His most recent indexed season came in 1960, when he started one round and finished fourteenth in the championship standings. For three of his starts, Carter drove for Kurtis Kraft, a team that fielded 87 drivers across the index and won five races; Carter ranked among its strongest drivers.[2]
Carter raced regularly against established professionals including Jim Rathmann and Tony Bettenhausen, both with ten and eleven Formula 1 starts respectively, and was closely matched with each of them. He finished ahead of Rathmann three times and Sam Hanks once, drivers who had also competed in the international single-seater championship.