Gareth McCarthy is an Australian test driver for Demon Racing. He started his GPGSL career in Season 7 as a test driver for Scuderia Minardi.
He joined the GPGSL in S7 with a guest two race meeting deal to run in the last two test sessions for Scuderia Minardi before joining Martini Paddock Racing fulltime as one of their testers for S8.
Not surprisingly, his debut outing for Minardi in S7 yielded a 21st placing, before a hugely promising 14th at the final event of the year highlighted the potential that's just starting to be realised.
The Australian had some very strong performances in the MPR in S8 including the fastest lap at Sepang and third at Suzuka. These results demonstrate solid speed and the general upward trend in performace across the season shows racecraft, edurance and experience building nicely including a very solid 6th placing at the Tester's Feature Race at San Marino.
Two seasons in a race seat in the JHR with mediocre results followed before a sabbatical for a few seasons and a return to testing duties with Demon Racing and then a fill-in for MAC which led to a driver boost/double team boost victory in his best result to date.
Racing record[]
Complete Grandprixgames Super League results[]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap; underlined races indicate most places gained)
Season | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | WDC | Points |
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7 | Van Smirren Motorsports | AUS | GCO | JPN | CAN | USA | FRA | NED | BEL | SUI | ITA | SMR | BRA | OCE | AUT | HUN | GER 21 |
GBR 14 |
28th | 0 | |
8 | Martini Paddock Racing | AUS 5 |
SOA 16 |
SIN 18 |
MAL 1 |
JPN 3 |
CAN 8 |
SAM 9 |
BRA 22 |
BEL 9 |
GER 8 |
AUT 7 |
SMR 6 |
ITA 14 |
MON 14 |
FRA 6 |
LUX 17 |
GBR 6 |
3rd | 230 | |
9 | JHR Developments | AUS 15 |
JPN 15 |
MAL Ret |
RSA 21 |
ESP 19 |
CAN 19 |
USA 16 |
BRA 17 |
BEL 9 |
EUR 22 |
NED 4 |
ITA Ret |
AUT 15 |
CZE 13 |
GER 17 |
FRA 11 |
GBR 10 |
22nd | 19 | |
10 | JHR Developments | AUS 18 |
PAC 13 |
MAL 10 |
JPN 2 |
UAE 7 |
ITA 19 |
AUT 19 |
EUR 14 |
CAN 15 |
USA 11 |
BRA | RSA | OCE | GER | BEL | NED | GBR | FLE | 19th | 23 |
12 | Demon Racing | AUS 10 |
JPN 8 |
USA 8 |
CAN 4 |
SAM 15 |
BRA 5 |
RSA 21 |
12th | 30 | |||||||||||
MAC Racing | AUT 13 |
GER 7 |
BEL Ret |
TUR 1 |
ITA 19 |
GBR 6 |
NED 11 |
18th | 30 | ||||||||||||
13 | Demon Racing | AUS 3 |
MAL 22 |
ITA 17 |
BEL 13 |
AUT 1 |
CAN 3 |
USA 3 |
BRA 17 |
NED Ret |
AZE 7 |
GER 2 |
EUR 2 |
POR 10 |
GBR 12 |
4th | 79 | ||||
14 | Demon Racing | AUS 2 |
JPN 15 |
MAL 1 |
PAC 11 |
ITA 1 |
NED 13 |
UAE 15 |
RSA Ret |
BRA 5 |
CAN Ret |
USA 3 |
GER 9 |
BEL 15 |
GBR 13 |
7th | 68 | ||||
15 | Demon Racing | AUS 5 |
JPN Ret |
RSA 9 |
AUT 15 |
EUR 12 |
POR 12 |
BRA 20 |
CAN 15 |
TUR 3 |
NED 3 |
GER 12 |
BEL 6 |
ITA 9 |
GBR 15 |
9th | 47 |