Skeeter McKitterick

Skeeter McKitterick (born July 4, 1946 in San Francisco ) is a retired American racing driver .

Career

McKitterick began his career at the age of twelve in karting, which was still young at the time . He won his first monopostor race in 1968 in a Formula Junior - Lotus 22 at the Stardust International Raceway in Las Vegas . By the end of the 1960s, he was victorious in more than 20 Formula Junior, Formula Ford and Formula 3 races , winning the Formula 3 championship of the Formula Racing Association . The American competed in monopostor races until 1977, during which time he won the Formula B championship as a works driver for Alfa Romeo North America in a McLaren Mk4A with an Alfa Romeo engine.

From 1977 onwards he only competed in sports car races. His first place on the top three podium was second overall in the 1977 Mid-Ohio 3 Hours ; drove out as a partner of Jacky Ickx in a Porsche 935 . In 1979 he was ninth overall in the 12-hour race at Sebring and eighth in the 24-hour race at Le Mans . With second place overall at Sebring in 1981 , he achieved his best placement in an international sports car race. In 1982 he drove the Rondeau M382 in the IMSA GTP series and achieved third place in the 100-mile race at Sears Point, the best result for this racing vehicle in this racing series.

He drove sports car races until 1987 and ended his professional racing career in 1988 after finishing 16th overall in the 2-hour race in Del Mar.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1979	Dick Barbour Racing	Porsche 935/78	Edwin Abate	Bob Garretson	Rank 8
1980	Racing Associates Inc.	Porsche 935K3	Charles Mendez	Leon Walger	failure	accident
1982	Garretson Developments	March 82G	Bobby Rahal	Jim Trueman	failure	Leak in the gas tank

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1980	Racing Associates	Porsche 935K3	Bob Akin	Roy Woods	Rank 5
1981	Cooke Woods Racing Garretson Enterprises	Porsche 935K3	Ralph Kent-Cooke	Roy Woods	Rank 2
1982	Garretson Development	Porsche 935K3	Ray Ratcliff	Grady Clay	Rank 7
1983	Grid Motor Racing	Grid Plaza S1	Milt Minter		Rank 12
1985	Leon Bros. Racing	March 85G	Al Leon	Art Leon	Rank 7
1987	Whitehall rock sports	Alba AR5	Ted Boady	Paul Lewis	failure	malfunction
1988	Whitehall rock sports	Spice SE88P	Claude Ballot-Léna	Jean-Louis Ricci	failure	ignition

literature

• Ken Breslauer: Sebring. The official History of America's Great Sports Car Race. David Bull, Cambridge MA 1995, ISBN 0-9649722-0-4 .
• Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .

Web links

• Skeeter McKitterick at Racing Sports Cars
• About Skeeter McKitterick

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1977 Mid-Ohio 3-Hour Race
2. ↑ 1982 Sears Point 100 Mile Race
3. ↑ 1988 Del Mar 2 Hours