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 a complete lack of reliability 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
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| 1988 | Kaliber Industrial Control Services Racing | Ford Sierra RS500 | A M | Template:AUS | 
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| 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 |
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NUR Ret | ||||||||||||
| 1989 | Mercedes-Benz AMG Team | Mercedes-Benz 190E | C M |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| F | S | F | S | F | S | F | S | E | F | S | F | S | F | S | F | S | F | S | E | F | S | F | S | 2nd* | 93* | |||||||
| AUS 8 |
AUS 4 |
JPN Ret |
JPN 11 |
USA 2 |
USA 3 |
AFR 5 |
AFR 8 |
RAC 4 |
PAU Ret |
PAU 13 |
CZE 4 |
CZE 2 |
ITA 3 |
ITA 4 |
GBR | GBR | SWE | SWE | BEL | GER | GER | MAC | MAC | |||||||||