Peter Gethin

Former F1 driver
Name = Peter Gethin
Nationality = flagicon|UK British
Years = F1|1970 - F1|1974
Team(s) = McLaren, BRM, Hill
Races = 31 (30 starts)
Championships = 0
Wins = 1
Podiums = 1
Points = 11
Poles = 0
Fastest laps = 0
First race = 1970 Dutch Grand Prix
First win = 1971 Italian Grand Prix
Last win = 1971 Italian Grand Prix
Last race = 1974 British Grand Prix

Peter Kenneth Gethin (born February 21, 1940) is a former racing driver from England. He was born in Ewell, Surrey.

He participated in 31 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on June 21, 1970. He won the 1971 Italian Grand Prix in the fastest average speed in Formula One history (until the record was broken by Michael Schumacher at the same race in F1|2003), but this was his only podium finish. And there was only a gap of 0.01 seconds between him and second placed Ronnie Peterson (world record). Indeed, he never led an entire lap of Formula One racing,Fact|date=October 2007 as he passed from fourth to first in the last lap. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races.

Gethin also raced for Team McLaren in the 1970 Canadian-American Challenge Cup series, driving the McLaren M8D that had been driven by Dan Gurney in the first three races of the season. Gethin won one race and finished third in the 1970 championship.

In 1974 Gethin won the Tasman Series, a Formula 5000 series held in Australia and New Zealand. Gethin drove a Chevron B24 Chevrolet.

Complete Formula One World Championship results

() (Races in bold indicate pole position)