Jonkheer Carel Godin de Beaufort was a Dutch nobleman and motor racing driver from the Netherlands. He competed in Formula One between 1957 and 1964.
He participated in 31 World Championship Grands Prix, becoming the first Dutchman ever to score points in the Formula One World Championship, and numerous non-Championship Formula One races. He was one of the last truly amateur drivers in F1, and ran his own cars – painted the vibrant Dutch racing colour: orange – under the Ecurie Maarsbergen banner, the team taking its name from de Beaufort's country estate. In early years he was considered something of a mobile chicane, and a danger to other drivers on the track. However, in later years he matured into a competent and popular competitor.
Always a Porsche devotee (he only drove two World Championship races in anything else) he was a familiar sight at both Championship and non-Championship races in his orange Porsche 718, bought from the Rob Walker Racing Team. Although the 718 was outclassed even in its first year with him, he persisted with it as it was the only design into which he could fit his burly frame. The size of the car, and a streak of self-deprecating humour in de Beaufort himself, earned it the nickname "Fatty Porsche". With stereotypical aristocratic eccentricity he often drove without shoes, and at his final race in Germany was even seen taking practice laps wearing a Beatles wig, rather than his helmet.

So you thought the Spyker was the first Formula 1 car in an orange colored livery? Think again. Carel Godin de Beaufort had all of his Ecurie Maarsbergen cars painted in the Dutch national colors. Including the ex-Rob Walker Porsche 718/2 with the chassis number 201, the car he raced in no less than 57 Grands Prix and which he crashed on that fateful Saturday in 1964 at the Nürburgring. The car’s wreck was returned to Maarsbergen and later restored. It was lent to the Driebergen car museum in the Netherlands before being moved, still owned by the Beaufort family, to the Nationaal Automobiel Museum – also known as the Louwman Collection.