Pat O'Connor is a racing driver from United States who last raced in Formula 1 for Kurtis Kraft. O'Connor has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 5 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,775 ranks O'Connor 510th 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.
| 1958-05-30 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway | DNF | −116 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | ▸Formula 1 | Kurtis Kraft | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P22 | −116 | 4,775 |
| 1957 | ▸Formula 1 | Kurtis Kraft | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | P23 | +84 | 4,891 |
| 1956 | ▸Formula 1 | Kurtis Kraft | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P28 | −10 | 4,807 |
| 1955 | ▸Formula 1 | Kurtis Kraft | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P26 | +88 | 4,818 |
| 1954 | ▸Formula 1 | Kurtis Kraft | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P27 | −71 | 4,729 |
Pat O'Connor was an American racing driver whose career spanned from 1954 to 1958, with five Formula 1 starts for Kurtis Kraft and no wins or podium finishes. His Racer Rating of 4,775 places him among professional-level drivers in the single-seater field of that era. Over his career, he averaged a finishing position of 11th across classified starts, achieving isolated results against stronger competitors; he finished ahead of Jim Rathmann, Duane Carter, Tony Bettenhausen, and Eddie Johnson in individual races, all drivers with ratings in the high 4,000s to 5,000s.[1]
O'Connor's racing took place during the early years of Formula 1's open championship, a period when the grid drew heavily from American drivers and cars. Kurtis Kraft, his team for all five starts, proved competitive enough to accumulate five wins across its entire racing programme while fielding 87 drivers, with Rathmann as its most accomplished pilot. O'Connor's presence in that lineup reflected the calibre of mid-grid professional drivers of the 1950s, though his brief tenure and lack of classified results at the championship level left him without the podium finishes that marked the more successful careers of his contemporaries.