Driver

The two-time SCCA national champion scored major upsets against factory teams in Can-Am, Trans-Am and IMSA Camel GT, finishing 2^nd in points in the 1972 Can-Am and Trans-Am and narrowly losing the ‘74 Camel GT title to inductee Peter Gregg after Minter’s engine failed while leading the season finale. Inductee Richie Ginther hired him to drive his Porsche 911 and Minter rewarded him with the 1969 SCCA C-Production national crown. A year later he won the 1970 BSR title for Vasek Polak. That same year Roy Woods put him in his ‘69 Camaro in the Trans-Am. Against the greatest assemblage of factory teams ever, Minter captured the 1970 Donnybrooke round in a stunning upset. In 1972, Minter tied McLaren’s Denny Hulme for 2^nd in points in the Can-Am in his Vasek Polak Porsche 917/10, behind inductee Mark Donohue’s turbocharged, newer-spec factory car. For that, Ferry Porsche personally awarded Minter the Pedro Rodriguez Trophy for most aggressive Porsche driver. In 1973 Minter won his class and finished 2^nd overall at Daytona and 2^nd overall at Sebring.