Murray Wishart Carter was born on 30 January 1931 and is an Australian racing driver.
17 Facts About Murray Carter
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For many years a stalwart of the Australian Touring Car Championship Carter has had one of the longest racing careers of any driver in Australian history, continuing to race into his 80s.
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Murray Carter finished runner up in the 1963 Australian GT Championship behind Bob Jane.
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Murray Carter embraced production car racing when it emerged in 1960 and raced at the first Armstrong 500, later to become famous as the Bathurst 1000, and won his class driving a Ford Customline.
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Murray Carter emerged as a regular in the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1973.
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Famously Murray Carter lent his Falcon to works driver Allan Moffat at the Adelaide International Raceway round of the 1973 Australian Touring Car Championship after Moffat's race car was stolen by joyriders.
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Murray Carter was a beneficiary of the work being done by Moffat and the Ford works team, getting new developments quickly, keeping him at the forefront of Ford racers through the 1970s.
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Into the 1980s Murray Carter was left behind by Ford when it withdrew from racing leaving Murray Carter, briefly, as Australia's leading Ford touring car driver.
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Little result came of this and Murray Carter briefly stepped away from racing following the demise of the Group C Touring Car category at the end of 1984.
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In 1986 Murray Carter returned with a Nissan Skyline DR30 RS, before returning to Ford with a Ford Sierra RS500 in 1988 with sponsorship from Netcomm Australia.
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Murray Carter raced in four of the nine ATCC rounds but did not score a point.
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Murray Carter did provide a spectacular moment in the closing minutes of the series' return to Phillip Island for the first time since 1977 when he drove his smoking Sierra into the pits, pulling up just before entering pit lane with the engine of his car on fire.
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Murray Carter then joined with Matt Wacker in the Sierra for what would be his last Bathurst 1000 in 1990.
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Murray Carter later raced a Nissan Pulsar and then a Mazda 626 in this series, with a highlight of finishing runner up to Phil Morriss in the 1994 Australian Production Car Championship.
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In 1997 Murray Carter began racing a Nissan 200SX Turbo in the Australian GT Production Car Championship.
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In 1999 a Chevrolet Corvette C5 followed and Murray Carter transitioned with it into the new Australian Nations Cup Championship in 2000.
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Murray Carter raced only occasionally into the 2000s, driving his Corvette in state level racing as late as 2008.