Peter Kox

Peter Kox

Kox on the podium at the 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race.
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(1964-02-23) February 23, 1964 Eindhoven, Netherlands
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1996 – 1997, 1999 – 2000, 2002 – 2010
Teams	David Price Racing, Team BMW Motorsport, Racing for Holland, Spyker Squadron, Prodrive Racing, Convers MenX Team, Aston Martin Racing, IPB Spartak Racing, Young Driver AMR
Best finish	3rd (1997)
Class wins	1 (2003)

Petrus Dionysius Lambertus Theodorus Kox (born 23 February 1964 in Eindhoven) is a racing driver from the Netherlands.

Kox began racing in karts in 1978, winning five titles until 1982. In 1983 he moved to automobiles, winning the Marlboro Formula Ford Challenge and was second and third in the Benelux and Dutch Formula Ford 2000 Championships, respectively, the following year. His single-seater racing career was interrupted several times and only took off in 1989 when he won the Benelux Formula Opel Championship in 1989.

In 1990 Kox raced in the British Formula 3 Championship where he came third with two victories. He moved up to Formula 3000 in 1991, staying there for two seasons and winning one race.

Unable to find a seat in Formula One, Kox moved to touring cars driving a BMW, winning five races in the Dutch series in 1993 on his way to the championship title. In 1995 he became a works BMW driver in the German Supertouring Championship, coming second in the series, and also winning the Spa 24 Hours. In 1996 he joined the BMW Motorsport, making a handful of British Touring Car Championship appearances but focusing his efforts on the development program for the McLaren F1 GTR, winning a race in the BPR Global GT Series. The following year he drove the car in the FIA GT Championship, winning once more. He also took a class win in the Spa 24 Hours with a Diesel-powered BMW.

From 1998 to 2000 Kox returned to touring cars, becoming a Honda works driver. He raced full-time in the BTCC in 1998 and 1999 (coming 7th overall in 1999), before taking second place in the Euro STC in 2000. The following year he joined the Carly Motors squad in a BMW and also took a win in a one-off race in the FIA GT Championship, with the Prodrive Ferrari 550 Maranello.

Kox continued with Prodrive for the following seasons, winning the GTS class in the Laguna Seca ALMS race in 2002 and the 2003 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2004 and 2005 he raced for several different teams, including Prodrive (in the Ferrari and Aston Martin DBR9) and Reiter Engineering (in the Lamborghini Murcielago). In 2006 he split his time between the MenX team, Aston Martin and Spyker, in FIA GT, Le Mans, Le Mans Series and ALMS.

In 2007 and 2008 Peter Kox is a works driver for Lamborghini, driving in the FIA GT Championship and ADAC GT Masters. He took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2007 with the works Aston Martin and 2008 with IPB Spartak Lamborghini. He did win the Sepang 12 Hours in 2010 for Arrows Racing in an Lamborghini LP560.

Peter Kox was a development driver for the Acura NSX GT3 in 2016, and will drive it in the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge for RealTime Racing.

His daughter Stéphane Kox is also a racing driver.

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos.	Pts
1988	Tamchester Racing	Reynard 88D	Cosworth	JER	VAL	PAU	SIL	MNZ	PER	BRH	BIR	BUG	ZOL 7	DIJ	NC	0

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
1996	West Competition David Price Racing	John Nielsen Thomas Bscher	McLaren F1 GTR	GT1	338	4th	3rd
1997	Team BMW Motorsport BMW Team Schnitzer	Roberto Ravaglia Éric Hélary	McLaren F1 GTR	GT1	358	3rd	2nd
1999	Konrad Motorsport Talkline Racing for Holland	Jan Lammers Tom Coronel	Lola B98/10-Ford	LMP	213	DNF	DNF
2000	Konrad Motorsport Racing for Holland	Jan Lammers Tom Coronel	Lola B2K/10-Ford	LMP900	38	DNF	DNF
2002	Spyker Automobielen	Norman Simon Hans Hugenholtz	Spyker C8 Double-12R	GT	142	DNF	DNF
2003	Veloqx Prodrive Racing	Tomáš Enge Jamie Davies	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	GTS	336	10th	1st
2004	Prodrive Racing	Alain Menu Tomáš Enge	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	GTS	325	11th	4th
2005	Aston Martin Racing	Pedro Lamy Tomáš Enge	Aston Martin DBR9	GT1	327	DNF	DNF
2006	Convers MenX Team	Alexey Vasilyev Robert Pergl	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	GT1	196	DNF	DNF
2007	Aston Martin Racing	Johnny Herbert Tomáš Enge	Aston Martin DBR9	GT1	337	9th	4th
2008	IPB Spartak Racing Reiter Engineering	Mike Hezemans Roman Rusinov	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT	GT1	266	NC	NC
2009	Aston Martin Racing	Stuart Hall Harold Primat	Lola-Aston Martin B09/60	LMP1	252	DNF	DNF
2010	Young Driver AMR	Tomáš Enge Christoffer Nygaard	Aston Martin DBR9	GT1	311	22nd	3rd

Complete Super Tourenwagen Cup results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos.	Pts
1995	BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW 318is	ZOL 1 12	ZOL 2 4	SPA 1 7	SPA 2 5	ÖST 1 5	ÖST 2 2	HOC 1 5	HOC 2 6	NÜR 1 13	NÜR 2 12	SAL 1 2	SAL 2 2	AVU 1 3	AVU 2 2	NÜR 1 2	NÜR 2 3	2nd	397

Complete Japanese Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos.	Pts
1995	BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW 318i	FUJ 1	FUJ 2	SUG 1	SUG 2	TOK 1	TOK 2	SUZ 1	SUZ 2	MIN 1	MIN 2	AID 1	AID 2	SEN 1	SEN 2	FUJ 1 8	FUJ 2 Ret	24th	3

Complete British Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded all races) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (* signifies that driver lead feature race for at least one lap – 1 point given 1998 onwards)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	Pos	Pts
1996	BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW 320i	DON 1	DON 2	BRH 1	BRH 2	THR 1	THR 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	OUL 1	OUL 2	SNE 1	SNE 2	BRH 1	BRH 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	KNO 1	KNO 2	OUL 1	OUL 2	THR 1 7	THR 2 10	DON 1 12	DON 2 7	BRH 1 2	BRH 2 6	14th	26
1998	Team Honda Sport	Honda Accord	THR 1 10	THR 2 7	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 11	DON 1 7	DON 2 Ret	BRH 1 14	BRH 2 7	OUL 1 Ret	OUL 2 Ret	DON 1 4	DON 2 Ret	CRO 1 7	CRO 2 Ret	SNE 1 16	SNE 2 Ret	THR 1 13	THR 2 7	KNO 1 7	KNO 2 14	BRH 1 6	BRH 2 7*	OUL 1 7	OUL 2 Ret	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 7*	12th	52
1999	Team Honda Sport	Honda Accord	DON 1 9	DON 2 7	SIL 1 9	SIL 2 5	THR 1 6	THR 2 5	BRH 1 Ret	BRH 2 4	OUL 1 9	OUL 2 7	DON 1 7	DON 2 Ret	CRO 1 3	CRO 2 9	SNE 1 6	SNE 2 1*	THR 1 9	THR 2 9	KNO 1 Ret	KNO 2 2	BRH 1 9	BRH 2 4*	OUL 1 5	OUL 2 Ret	SIL 1 7	SIL 2 Ret	7th	113
2000	Redstone Team Honda	Honda Accord	BRH 1	BRH 2	DON 1 Ret	DON 2 9	THR 1	THR 2	KNO 1	KNO 2	OUL 1	OUL 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	CRO 1	CRO 2	SNE 1	SNE 2	DON 1	DON 2	BRH 1	BRH 2	OUL 1	OUL 2	SIL 1	SIL 2			13th	2

Complete European Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Pts
2000	JAS Engineering	Honda Accord	MUG 1 1	MUG 2 1	PER 1 2	PER 2 13	A1R 1 1	A1R 2 13	MNZ 1 2	MNZ 2 1	HUN 1 4	HUN 2 4	IMO 1 3	IMO 2 3	MIS 1 2	MIS 2 3	BRN 1 1	BRN 2 9	VAL 1 3	VAL 2 3	MOB 1 9	MOB 2 8	2nd	232
2002	Carly Motors Team Isert	BMW 320i	MAG 1 8	MAG 2 Ret	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 DNS	BRN 1 8	BRN 2 Ret	JAR 1 7	JAR 2 6	AND 1 8	AND 2 8	OSC 1	OSC 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	PER 1	PER 2	DON 1	DON 2	EST 1	EST 2	17th	1

Complete European Super Production Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Pts
2001	Ravaglia Motorsport	BMW 320i	MNZ 1	BRN 1	MAG Ret	SIL 1	ZOL 2	HUN 2	A1R 9	NÜR 2	JAR 4	EST DSQ	1st	117

V8 Supercar results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	DC	Pts
2012	Dick Johnson Racing	Ford FG Falcon	ADE R1	ADE R2	SYM R3	SYM R4	HAM R5	HAM R6	PER R7	PER R8	PER R9	PHI R10	PHI R11	HDV R12	HDV R13	TOW R14	TOW R15	QLD R16	QLD R17	SMP R18	SMP R19	SAN Q	SAN R20	BAT R21	SUR R22 Ret	SUR R23 Ret	YMC R24	YMC R25	YMC R26	WIN R27	WIN R28	SYD R29	SYD R30	NC	0 †

† Not Eligible for points

FIA GT competition results

Complete FIA GT Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos.	Pts
1997	Team BMW Motorsport	McLaren F1 GTR	GT1	HOC Ret	SIL 1	HEL 11	NÜR 4	SPA 4	A1R Ret	SUZ 8	DON 5	MUG 5	SEB 2	LAG Ret	8th	26
2000	Carsport Holland	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT	VAL	EST	MNZ	SIL	HUN	ZOL	A1R	LAU	BRN	MAG Ret		NC	0
2001	Prodrive All-Stars	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	GT	MNZ	BRN	MAG	SIL	ZOL	HUN	SPA	A1R 1	NÜR 3	JAR		13th	16
	Reiter Engineering	Lamborghini Diablo GT												EST 5
2002	BMS Scuderia Italia	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	GT	MAG	SIL	BRN	JAR	AND	OSC	SPA Ret	PER	DON	EST		NC	0
2004	Reiter Engineering	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT	GT	MNZ	VAL 3	MAG	HOC	BRN	DON	SPA	IMO	OSC	DUB	ZHU	38th	6
2005	Reiter Engineering	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	GT1	MNZ Ret	MAG 13			BRN Ret		OSC 8					59th	1
	Aston Martin Racing†	Aston Martin DBR9				SIL 1	IMO		SPA 5
	MenX	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello									IST 10	ZHU	DUB	BHR
2006	B-Racing RS Line Team	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	GT1	SIL	BRN 6	OSC									26th	12
	Aston Martin Racing BMS	Aston Martin DBR9					SPA 4	PRI	DIJ	MUG
	All-Inkl.com Racing	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT									HUN 8	ADR Ret	DUB
	Spyker Squadron b.v.	Spyker C8 Spyder GT2-R	GT2	SIL	BRN	OSC	SPA	PRI	DIJ	MUG	HUN	ADR	DUB Ret		NC	0
2007	All-Inkl.com Racing	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	GT1	ZHU 11	SIL Ret	BUC Ret	MNZ 10	OSC 5							24th	11
	Reiter Lamborghini								SPA Ret	ADR 6	BRN 8	NOG	ZOL 6
2008	IPB Spartak Racing	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT	GT1	SIL 10	MNZ Ret	ADR	OSC	SPA 8	BUC 8	BUC 7	BRN	NOG	ZOL	SAN	27th	9.5
2009	CRS Racing	Ferrari F430 GT2	GT2	SIL	ADR	OSC	SPA 2	BUC	ALG	PRI	ZOL				22nd	8

^† Not eligible for points

Complete GT1 World Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos.	Pts
2010	Reiter	Lamborghini	ABU QR 15	ABU CR 8	SIL QR 10	SIL CR Ret	BRN QR DNS	BRN CR DNS	PRI QR 2	PRI CR 18	SPA QR 7	SPA CR Ret	NÜR QR 3	NÜR CR 2	ALG QR 12	ALG CR 7	NAV QR 17	NAV CR Ret	INT QR 9	INT CR 12	SAN QR Ret	SAN CR 10	18th	39
2011	Swiss Racing Team	Lamborghini	ABU QR 10	ABU CR 7	ZOL QR 4	ZOL CR 4	ALG QR 10	ALG CR 5	SAC QR 12	SAC CR Ret	SIL QR	SIL CR	NAV QR	NAV CR	PRI QR	PRI CR	ORD QR	ORD CR	BEI QR	BEI CR	SAN QR	SAN CR	16th	31
2012	Reiter Engineering	Lamborghini	NOG QR 8	NOG CR 7	ZOL QR 8	ZOL CR 13	NAV QR 4	NAV QR 7	SVK QR	SVK CR	ALG QR Ret	ALG CR 4	SVK QR 6	SVK CR 7	MOS QR	MOS CR	NÜR QR 1	NÜR CR 3	DON QR 4	DON CR 2			10th	78

Complete FIA GT Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Pts
2013	Lamborghini Blancpain Reiter	Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4	Pro	NOG QR	NOG CR	ZOL QR 2	ZOL CR 1	ZAN QR	ZAN CR	SVK QR 3	SVK CR Ret	NAV QR	NAV CR	BAK QR	BAK CR	12th	36

Complete Blancpain Sprint Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Pts
2014	Blancpain Racing	Lamborghini Gallardo FL2	Pro	NOG QR 12	NOG CR Ret	BRH QR	BRH CR											20th	12
	Reiter Engineering							ZAN QR 16	ZAN CR 7	SVK QR	SVK CR	ALG QR	ALG CR
	NSC Motorsports													ZOL QR 2	ZOL CR Ret	BAK QR	BAK CR
2015	Reiter Engineering	Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 R-EX	Pro	NOG QR	NOG CR	BRH QR	BRH CR	ZOL QR 11	ZOL CR 8	MOS QR	MOS CR	ALG QR	ALG CR	MIS QR	MIS CR	ZAN QR	ZAN CR	24th	4

External links

• Peter Kox official site
• Peter Kox career summary at DriverDB.com
• Kox Racing official site