Mike Beuttler is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in Formula 1 for March. Beuttler has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 28 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,370 ranks Beuttler 790th 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.
| 1973-10-07 | Watkins Glen | P10 | +84 |
| 1973-09-23 | Mosport International Raceway | DNF | −99 |
| 1973-09-09 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | DNF | −20 |
| 1973-08-19 | Red Bull Ring | DNF | −125 |
| 1973-08-05 | Nürburgring | P16 | −41 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | ▸Formula 1 | March | 14 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | P22 | −217 | 4,370 |
| 1972 | ▸Formula 1 | March | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | P22 | +2 | 4,587 |
| 1971 | ▸Formula 1 | March-Ford | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | P23 | −215 | 4,585 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇳🇿 Denny Hulme | 5,522 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 8% |
| 🇬🇧 Jackie Stewart | 5,923 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 10% |
| 🇧🇪 Jacky Ickx | 4,915 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 10% |
| 🇧🇷 Emerson Fittipaldi | 3,999 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 10% |
| 🇫🇷 François Cevert | 5,337 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 11% |
| 🇺🇸 Peter Revson | 5,214 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 11% |
| 🇸🇪 Ronnie Peterson | 5,168 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0% |
| 🇨🇭 Clay Regazzoni | 5,253 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 25% |
| 🇬🇧 Graham Hill | 5,097 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 13% |
| 🇦🇹 Niki Lauda | 5,364 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 71% |
Mike Beuttler contested three seasons of Formula 1 between 1971 and 1973, piloting a privately entered March. The grids of that era included multiple world champions and some of the finest drivers of the period, yet Beuttler accumulated 28 starts without a podium finish. He did score results against the strongest competition on occasion; he finished ahead of three-time champion Jackie Stewart once across their ten shared races, and ahead of world champion Denny Hulme once in twelve encounters, though the pattern of those head-to-heads shows he spent far more often behind them. His average finishing position when classified was eleventh, reflecting a consistent but uncompetitive presence in a field dominated by established professionals.[1]
March provided twenty-three of his starts and proved an unequal platform; the team's cars would score three victories across their entire history in the database, fielding forty-one drivers in total. Beuttler's Racer Rating of 4,370 places him in the broad middle of a semi-professional driver population, characteristic of a privateer whose career ran against stronger machinery and deeper resources. By 1973, his final season, he recorded no wins or podiums across fourteen rounds and finished twenty-second in the championship.[2]