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🇨🇭 Heini Walter

Racing driver from Switzerland. Formula 1, Porsche.
Driver facts
Full name
Heini Walter
Born
28 July 1927(b. 1927)
Nationality
Switzerland
Current team
Porsche
Series
Formula 1
Status
Retired
Career wins
0
Career podiums
0
Career starts
1
Career DNFs
0
Racer Rating
3,182
Heini Walter
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
3,182
Rank 7304 of 40,105 indexed, -7 this season
FIA Categorisation
Not on file
Not yet indexed
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Heini Walter is a racing driver from Switzerland who last raced in Formula 1 for Porsche. Walter has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 1 start.[1]

A Racer Rating of 3,182 ranks Walter 7304th of 40,105 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.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
1962 form
Last 1 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFGER
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
1962-08-05NürburgringFormula 1P14+15
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+15Nürburgring 1962Formula 1P14
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
1962▸Formula 1Porsche100000P16+1,8333,183
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Walter finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇮🇹 Lorenzo BandiniHigher-rated6,318110100%
🇦🇺 Jack BrabhamHigher-rated, 3× champion6,163110100%
🇩🇪 Phil HillFIA Silver, 1× champion6,095110100%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 40,105 drivers indexed
#DriverSeriesRating
7,294🇬🇧 Mike MacDowelFormula 13,183
7,300🇺🇾 Óscar GonzálezFormula 13,183
7,295🇨🇦 Peter RyanFormula 13,183
7,296🇬🇧 Rob SchroederFormula 13,183
7,297🇯🇵 Takashi Hata24H Series3,183
7,298🇿🇦 Trevor BlokdykFormula 13,183
7,299🏳️ Yannick MallegolWEC3,183
7,301🇳🇱 Benjamin Van Den BergLamborghini Super Trofeo Europe3,182
7,302🇺🇸 Bill HoffNASCAR Xfinity3,182
7,303🇺🇸 Chuck ArnoldFormula 13,182
7,304🇨🇭 Heini WalterFormula 13,182
7,305🇬🇧 Joe FryFormula 13,182
7,306🇨🇦 John CannonFormula 13,182
7,307🇧🇪 Mathieu Castelein24H Series3,182
7,308🇳🇱 Nico Pronk24H Series3,182
7,309🇮🇹 Piero DrogoFormula 13,182
7,310🇳🇱 Robert Van Den BergLamborghini Super Trofeo Europe3,182
7,311🇬🇧 Damien MageeFormula 13,181
7,312🇺🇸 Danny O'Quinn Jr.NASCAR Xfinity3,181
7,313🇬🇧 Desmond TitteringtonFormula 13,181
7,314🇫🇷 François MazetFormula 13,181
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Heini Walter was a Swiss driver who made a single Formula 1 start in 1962 for Porsche, finishing 14th at the Swiss Grand Prix on 5 August. His racing record spans only that one season and that one race, placing him at the competitive amateur level; a rating of 3,412 describes a driver quick enough to race among established professionals but without the sustained record at a higher tier that marks a career in the main stream. In that single outing, Walter finished ahead of Lucien Bianchi, an elite professional driver, and Nino Vaccarella, an established professional; this outcome is a notable single result rather than evidence of a pattern, since the sample size does not support broader claims about relative pace.[1]

The Porsche team fielded 16 drivers across its records in the database, the strongest being Wolfgang von Trips, and scored one race win overall. Walter's brief appearance came during the early years of the World Championship, when grids were smaller and the sport remained in flux. His career ended after that 1962 entry, leaving him retired with no wins or podiums on record and no championships to his name.[2]

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
Motorsport: 60 Jahre Ecurie Basilisk[1]
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