Education
His World Championship Grand Prix debut was at the 1952 Swiss event, run to Formula 2 regulations, where he started from 13th position on the grid and finished 4th.
His World Championship Grand Prix debut was at the 1952 Swiss event, run to Formula 2 regulations, where he started from 13th position on the grid and finished 4th.
He competed in off-road trials, hillclimbs, and rallying, and also raced sports cars and single-seaters. He began racing in the new National 500cc Formula in his own special, and later acquired a Cooper. He participated in a total of 15 World Championship Grands Prix, from which he scored 3 championship points.
In 1951 he "travelled abroad, with Peter Bell"s 2-litre East.R.A., to finish 3rd overall in the Susa/Mont Cenis hill-climb and 4th overall in the Aosta/Grand Saint Bernard hill-climb.
On 19 August he was fastest at the Vue des Alpes hill-climb, with a time of 3 minutes 57.8 seconds. Other successes with European Research Area R4D included winning the Brighton Speed Trials in 1954, 1955 and 1956.
Success in rallies included winning the Tulip Rally in 1949, 1950 and 1952, driving Fords. In 1957 Wharton was fatally injured when his Ferrari Monza crashed in a sports car race at the Ardmore Circuit in New Zealand.