Ken Wharton
Ken Wharton
B Skill 211th
Elo

27.466

Number of Races

16

Number of Wins

0

Number of Podiums

0

Peak Elo

27.578

Time Spent Driving

0s


Frederick Charles Kenneth Wharton (21 March 1916, Smethwick – 12 January 1957, Ardmore, Auckland, New Zealand) was a British racing driver from England. He competed in off-road trials, hillclimbs, and rallying, and also raced sports cars and single-seaters. He began racing in the new National 500cc Formula in his own special, and later acquired a Cooper. His World Championship Grand Prix debut was at the 1952 Swiss event, run to Formula 2 regulations, where he started from 13th position on the grid and finished 4th. He participated in a total of 15 World Championship Grands Prix, from which he scored 3 championship points. In 1951 he "travelled abroad, with Peter Bell's 2-litre E.R.A., to finish 3rd overall in the Susa/Mont Cenis hill-climb and 4th overall in the Aosta/Grand Saint Bernard hill-climb. With a Cooper 500 he also competed in the German Freiburg hill-climb where he was runner-up in the 500 cc class to Stirling Moss." Wharton won the Freiburg event outright in the E.R.A. on 5 August, climbing the 7.4 miles of the Schauinsland Pass, in 8 minutes 5.33 seconds. On 19 August he was fastest at the Vue des Alpes hill-climb, with a time of 3 minutes 57.8 seconds. He won the British Hill Climb Championship every year from 1951 to 1954, and remains the only driver to have won four successive BHCC titles. Other successes with ERA R4D included winning the Brighton Speed Trials in 1954, 1955 and 1956.
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Recent Events

f1-1955 Race at Autodromo Nazionale Di Monza
11 Sep 55 00:00 UTC
  • Position: 20th of 23
  • Points: 0
  • Skill Change: -0.112
  • Car: Vanwall-1955
  • Best Lap: 0s
  • Race Time: 0s
f1-1955 Race at Aintree
16 Jul 55 00:00 UTC
  • Position: 10th of 28
  • Points: 0
  • Skill Change: 0.096
  • Car: Vanwall-1955
  • Best Lap: 0s
  • Race Time: 0s
f1-1954 Race at Circuit De Pedralbes
24 Oct 54 00:00 UTC
  • Position: 8th of 23
  • Points: 0
  • Skill Change: 0.117
  • Car: Maserati-1954
  • Best Lap: 0s
  • Race Time: 0s
f1-1954 Race at Circuit Bremgarten
22 Aug 54 00:00 UTC
  • Position: 6th of 17
  • Points: 0
  • Skill Change: 0.123
  • Car: Maserati-1954
  • Best Lap: 0s
  • Race Time: 0s
f1-1954 Race at Nürburgring
01 Aug 54 00:00 UTC
  • Position: 24th of 24
  • Points: 0
  • Skill Change: -0.281
  • Car: Maserati-1954
  • Best Lap: 0s
  • Race Time: 0s