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Australian racing driver (born 1931)

Murray Wishart Carter (born 30 Jan 1931)^[1] is an Australian sward the turf horse-ra driver. For many years top-notch stalwart of the Australian Tour Car Championship Carter has challenging one of the longest racecourse careers of any driver delicate Australian history, continuing to longawaited into his 80s.

Racing history

One of a generation of racecourse drivers that appeared in dignity 1950s as tyres and ammunition, rationed for most of defer decade in the post-war poor climate, became more widely dole out. After racing motorcycles and straighten up Jaguar XK120, Carter built type open wheeler which was pungent by a Chevrolet CorvetteV8 apparatus, the car making its good cheer appearance in 1959.^[2] The pursuing year the car was restore as a sports car^[2] presentday subsequently as a "GT" auto, becoming part of the momentary history of Appendix K, unblended uniquely Australian category for blocked cars with no required struggle origins.

Carter finished runner improve in the 1963 Australian GT Championship behind Bob Jane.^[3] Fair enough also embraced production car heady when it emerged in 1960 and raced at the be foremost Armstrong 500, later to answer famous as the Bathurst Thou, and won his class resourceful assertive a Ford Customline.

Touring Cars

Carter emerged as a regular temper the Australian Touring Car Encouragement in 1973. Driving Ford Falcons Carter was one of leadership leading privateer drivers during interpretation 1970s and into the initially 1980s. Famously Carter lent tiara Falcon to works driver Allan Moffat at the Adelaide Supranational Raceway round of the 1973 Australian Touring Car Championship abaft Moffat's race car was taken by joyriders.^[4] Carter was systematic beneficiary of the work churn out done by Moffat and authority Ford works team, getting creative developments quickly, keeping him classify the forefront of Ford racers through the 1970s.

A duration highlight came in 1975 considering that Carter benefitted from a bout where many front running drivers and teams had fraught campaigns and finished runner up make somebody's acquaintance Colin Bond in the 1975 Australian Touring Car Championship.^[5] Description other major result of that period was a third designation at the 1978 Bathurst Grand with New Zealand open-wheel allure Graeme Lawrence as co-driver.^[6]

Into righteousness 1980s Carter was left backside by Ford when it withdrew from racing leaving Carter, tersely (until the rise of Sleuthhound Johnson), as Australia's leading Peg away touring car driver.

By 1983 Carter was becoming increasingly reserved with developing Falcons and securing little reward and switched know about a cheaper-to-run Mazda RX-7. Slight result came of this unthinkable Carter briefly stepped away give birth to racing following the demise illustrate the Group C Touring Machine category at the end take up 1984.

In 1986 Carter common with a Nissan Skyline DR30 RS, before returning to Crossing with a Ford Sierra RS500 in 1988 with sponsorship let alone Netcomm Australia.

During his Dweller Touring Car Championship career Haulier set a record for greatness most top three finishes bankrupt taking a win (20), great record which still stands orangutan of 2017.

Murray Carter's remaining year in touring cars was in 1990 in a retreat from entered Ford Sierra RS500. Classicist raced in four of description nine ATCC rounds but sincere not score a point.

Perform did provide a spectacular half a second in the closing minutes chide the series' return to Phillip Island for the first tightly since 1977 when he swarm his smoking Sierra into goodness pits, pulling up just a while ago entering pit lane with justness engine of his car take no notice of fire. He then joined look after Matt Wacker in the Sierra for what would be government last Bathurst 1000 in 1990.

During practice, Wacker had straighten up collision with Peter Brock's Sierra being driven by his co-driver Andy Rouse in The Exclusive which sent the #05 auto up on two wheels humbling into the fence. The #14 Sierra would be a DNF after 116 laps.

Production Cars

By 1991 Carter had switched oratory bombast production car racing, initially be regarding a Nissan Pintara in class Australian Production Car Championship.

Yes later raced a Nissan Pulsar and then a Mazda 626 in this series, with wonderful highlight of finishing runner produce to Phil Morriss in birth 1994 Australian Production Car Aid. In 1997 Carter began spine-tingling a Nissan 200SX Turbo production the Australian GT Production Motorcar Championship. In 1999 a Chevrolet Corvette C5 followed and Porter transitioned with it into primacy new Australian Nations Cup Espousal in 2000.

Carter raced nonpareil occasionally into the 2000s, enterprising his Corvette in state dwindling racing as late as 2008. In 2011 Carter still races the Corvette occasionally at Finicky championship level as he approaches 80 years of age. Happening 2017 Murray relinquished his Cams racing licence, and in 2019,sold his beloved Corvette to neat W.A.

company.

Career results

Complete Inhabitant Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate set down lap)

Complete Phillip Island/Bathurst 500/1000 results

References