Peter Kox

The Aston Martin DBR9 from Kox / Enge / Herbert 2007 in Le Mans

Peter Kox in the Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT at the Silverstone 1000 km race in 2008

Peter Kox (born February 23, 1964 in Eindhoven ) is a Dutch automobile racing driver .

Career

Like so many racing drivers, Peter Kox began his career in karting . By 1982 he was able to win five titles in this motorsport formula. In 1983 he switched to racing cars and won the overall ranking of the international Formula Ford championship . In 1989 he secured the overall title of the Benelux countries extended Formula Opel Championship .

The Dutchman got into Formula 3000 in 1991 via the British Formula 3 championship (third in the overall standings in 1990) . He drove two seasons in this racing series and was able to celebrate a race win. However , he did not make the hoped-for leap into Formula 1 . He then began to build a career as a touring and sports car driver .

After two years in the Dutch touring car championship, Kox became a works driver for BMW . In 1995 he finished second overall in the Super Touring Car Cup and won the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race . In 1996 he switched to the British Touring Car Championship and competed in sports car races with the McLaren F1 , which had a 12-cylinder BMW engine . He made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a fourth place overall and a year later, as a partner of Roberto Ravaglia and Eric Hélary, achieved his best place in this endurance race with third overall.

After the end of the BMW contract, he drove touring car races for Honda and in Le Mans the Prodrive- Ferrari Maranello - with a class win in 2003 -, the Aston Martin DBR9 and the Spyker C8 .

In recent years, Kox has competed in a Lamborghini Murciélago in the FIA GT Championship and the ADAC GT Masters series .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1996	David Price Racing	McLaren F1 GTR	John Nielsen	Thomas Bscher	Rank 4
1997	BMW Team Schnitzer	McLaren F1 GTR	Roberto Ravaglia	Eric Helary	Rank 3
1999	Talkline Racing for Holland	Lola B98 / 10	Jan Lammers	Tom Coronel	failure	Engine failure
2000	Racing for Holland	Lola B2K / 10	Jan Lammers	Tom Coronel	failure	Tire damage
2002	Spyker Cars NV	Spyker C8 Double-12R	Norman Simon	Hans Hugenholtz Junior	failure	Engine failure
2003	Veloqx Prodrive Racing	Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello	Tomáš Enge	Jamie Davies	9th place and class win
2004	Prodrive Racing	Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello	Tomáš Enge	Alain Menu	Rank 11
2005	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin DBR9	Tomáš Enge	Pedro Lamy	failure	Engine failure
2006	Convers MenX team	Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello	Robert Pergl	Alexey Vasilyev	failure	malfunction
2007	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin DBR9	Tomáš Enge	Johnny Herbert	Rank 9
2008	IPB Spartak Racing	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT	Mike Hezemans	Roman Russinov	not classified
2009	Aston Martin Racing	Lola-Aston Martin LMP1	Stuart Hall	Harold Primate	failure	Engine failure
2010	Young Driver AMR	Aston Martin DBR9	Tomáš Enge	Christoffer Nygaard	Rank 22

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2002	Spyker Squadron	Spyker C8 Double 12R	Derek Hill	Hans Hugenholtz Junior	failure	accident
2003	Veloqx Prodrive Racing	Ferrari 550 Maranello	Tomáš Enge	Jamie Davies	failure	Clutch damage
2005	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin DBR9	Pedro Lamy	Stéphane Sarrazin	Rank 14
2006	Spyker Squadron	Spyker C8 Spyder	Donny Crevels		Rank 19
2007	Spyker Squadron	Spyker C8	Jaroslav Janiš		Rank 23

Web links

Commons : Peter Kox  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Peter Kox at Racing Sports Cars