Pancho
Carter won the 1972 USAC Midget Championship at the age of 22
and won a total of 23 USAC midget features by the time he
discontinued driving these cars after the 1978 season.
Pancho was inducted into the “National Midget Auto
Racing Hall of Fame” in 1990, one year after his father Duane
received the honor.
He drove in the Indianapolis 500 for the first time in 1974
and was voted “Rookie of the Year.” He has appeared in 17
Indianapolis events.
Pancho was the first man to win both the USAC National
Midget Championship and the USAC Sprint Car title, which he
won twice, in 1974 and 1976.
Carter won the “Hut Hundred” in 1972 and again in 1975
and has won victories in three different USAC divisions.
He was born while his parents were on the way to a race
at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “Pappy” had constantly referred to
his wife’s pregnant condition as his “little paunch,” thus the
nickname “Pancho”.
