Tim Harvey

Tim Harvey, MBE (born on 20 November 1961, Farnborough, UK) is a British racing driver best known for winning the 1988 World Touring Car Masters.

He is widely regarded as one of the finest touring car drivers of his generation, having achieved great success in both international and domestic series before he ended his top line career in 2002.

World Touring Car Masters

1988: Ford

Harvey joined the World Touring Car Masters in the inaugural 1988 season driving for Ford alongside Andy Rouse, Steve Soper and Roland Ratzenberger. Harvey shocked the paddock by beating his vastly more experienced teammates and taking six wins on his way to an unexpected title win.

1989-1990: Mercedes-Benz

Despite the title win with Rousesport, Ford opted to link up with the German Zakspeed outfit in 1989. However, Harvey received a lucrative offer from Mercedes-Benz to lead up their Class C outfit for the next two years. Harvey made the jump to Stuttgart and was joined by Mauro Baldi, Armin Hahne and an aging Jochen Mass. Class C was more challenging than the top class, with strong competition coming not only from German rivals BMW but also from strong independent outfits such as Prodrive. Harvey only managed a single class win in 1989, but was consistent enough to finish the year second in class behind Prodrive's Johnny Cecotto.

Harvey remained at Mercedes-Benz in 1990. However it was a very disappointing season as Harvey only finished eighth in the class standings, once again only taking a single class win.

1991-1992: Vauxhall

1991 brought a change for Harvey as he joined the Vauxhall Sport factory team run by German team Irmscher. He joined the 1990 Class D champion, German Bernd Schneider as the two Vauxhall drivers became the highest-paid drivers on the 1991 grid. As the Cavalier was the car to beat in the first half of the season, Harvey seemed as if he was to cement his position as one of the main candidates for the championship, with two wins and several more podiums as he and his team left Monza. However, Lady Luck then sharply turned their back against the Briton as unreliability in the next three rounds caused him to score no points and with the Vauxhall having lost ground to BMW and Toyota, Harvey suddenly had to fight to even stay in the top 5. Eventually, Harvey bounced back with points finishes in the last three races to finish fifth in the championship.

Tim Harvey's second year for Vauxhall in 1992 started off slowly - a decent showing in Australia was then followed by an unfortunate engine failure in the Japanese feature race. Harvey then bounced back after this poor weekend with two podium finishes at Road America as he moved up 10 places in the championship standings into third position.

Later Career

Following his retirement from top level competition, Harvey became a mainstay in the Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain, taking the series title in 2008 and 2010 - becoming the championship's most successful driver in the process.

He combined this program with a commentator role for ITV as part of their coverage of the British Touring Car Championship, with most of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB races being a part of the TOCA package.

Complete Career Results

Complete World Touring Car Masters Results

Year	Team	Car	Class
1988	Kaliber Industrial Control Services Racing	Ford Sierra RS500	A M	Template:AUS				Template:USA								Template:FRA		Template:GBR				Template:BEL							WDC	Pts	Class	Pts
				E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E					1st	254	1st	369
				BAT Ret	BAT 15	FUJ 1	FUJ 3	GLN 1	GLN 1	NOR 4	NOR 2	KYA Ret	KYA 2	HOC 1	HOC 2	CHA 2	CHA 3	BIR 1	BIR 1	MNZ 2	MNZ 2	SPA Ret	SPA 3	NUR Ret
1989	Mercedes-Benz AMG Team	Mercedes-Benz 190E	C M			Template:USA				Template:FRA						Template:FRA		Template:GBR		Template:BEL				Template:AUS					WDC	Pts	Class	Pts
				E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E					19th	60	2nd	266
				FUJ 19	FUJ Ret	GLN 14	GLN 21	KYA Ret	KYA 23	PAU DNQ	PAU DNQ	BRN 13	BRN 19	MNZ 13	MNZ 25	CHA 8	CHA 17	BIR DNQ	BIR DNQ	SPA 12	SPA Ret	NUR 7	NUR 16	BAT 11
1990	Mercedes-Benz AMG Team SONAX	Mercedes-Benz 190E	C M			Template:USA				Template:GBR		Template:FRA						Template:FRA		Template:GBR		Template:BEL				Template:AUS			WDC	Pts	Class	Pts
				E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E			45th	13	8th	262
				FUJ 20	FUJ 23	GLN 20	GLN 23	LAG 16	LAG 23	BRH Ret	BRH 27	PAU 18	PAU 23	BRN 17	BRN 22	MNZ 23	MNZ 23	CHA DNQ	CHA DNQ	BIR Ret	BIR 23	SPA Ret	SPA Ret	NUR 12	NUR Ret	BAT Ret
1991	Vauxhall Sport	Vauxhall Cavalier	M	Template:AUS				Template:USA				Template:GBR	Template:FRA					Template:GBR				Template:BEL							WDC		Pts
				F	S	F	S	F	S	F	S	E	F	F	S	F	S	F	S	F	S	E	F	S	F				5th		137
				AUS Ret	AUS 9	JPN 1	JPN 5	USA Ret	USA 6	AFR 2	AFR 2	RAC 1	PAU 4	CZE 9	CZE 3	ITA 3	ITA 3	GBR Ret	GBR 17	SWE Ret	SWE 13	SPA DNQ	GER 4	GER 7	MAC 4
1992	Vauxhall Sport	Vauxhall Cavalier	M	Template:AUS				Template:USA				Template:GBR	Template:FRA						Template:GBR				Template:BEL						WDC		Pts
				F	S	F	S	F	S	F	S	E	F	S	F	S	F	S	F	S	F	S	E	F	S	F	S		3rd*		31*
				AUS 8	AUS 4	JPN Ret	JPN 11	USA 2	USA 3	AFR	AFR	RAC	PAU	PAU	CZE	CZE	ITA	ITA	GBR	GBR	SWE	SWE	BEL	GER	GER	MAC	MAC