Kelvin Burt

Kelvin Burt (born 7 September 1967 in Birmingham) is a British auto racing driver. After attending the Jim Russell Racing Drivers' School in 1987 he turned to Formula Ford racing, battling hard against David Coulthard for the championship. He won his class in a British Touring Car Championship round at Oulton Park, before spending 1991 winning the Formula Vauxhall Lotus series, and being voted Autosport Club Driver of the Year. He moved up to British F3 in 1992, winning the title with Paul Stewart Racing in 1993 with nine wins, a record for a British driver.

Burt did some Porsche Supercup races in 1994, becoming the only Brit to win a race in that form of the series. He also became the test driver for the Jordan Grand Prix Formula One team midseason, and the Jordan team put a contract option to consider having him race in F1. However, while that did not come to fruition, he did surface again as a test driver for Arrows in 1996.

For 1995, Burt had his first full BTCC season, replacing the retiring Andy Rouse in Rouse's Ford team. He took eighth overall, only two places behind experienced team-mate Paul Radisich. He then spent two years with Tom Walkinshaw's Volvo team, winning a further race. He also did two meetings for GA (then racing as Team Sureterm) in the main class in 2004, scoring 11 points, more than all their other drivers bar Carl Breeze put together.

For 1998, Burt went to Japan, racing successfully in both Touring Cars and GTs, coming fifth overall in the Touring Car series. He raced in Sweden in 2000 before dominating the British GT series' GTO Class in 2001, taking eight wins for Parr Motorsport in a Porsche. He was ASCAR runner-up in 2002. In 2003, he raced in the FIA GT Championship for Team Maranello in a Ferrari, taking two third places. In 2006, he did the Porsche Supercup race at Silverstone, whilst forging a punditry career as co-commentator to Martin Haven for British F3. He gained wider attention for a huge crash he has during the Porsche Carrera Cup race at Thruxton, in which his car barrel-rolled after contact with James Sutton and cleared a fence. Burt was not badly hurt, although a marshal was treated for shock. As the Carrera race was part of the BTCC meeting at the track, footage was screened by ITV in their coverage of the series.

Racing record

Complete British Touring Car Championship results (key) Races in bold indicate pole position (1 point awarded – 1996–2002 all races, 2004 just for first race, 1990 and 2002 in class) Races in italics indicate fastest lap (1 point awarded – 1990, 2002 and 2004 all races, 1990 and 2002 in class) signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap (1 point awarded all races – in 2004 only)

Year Team Car Class 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 OverallPos Pts ClassPos 1990 BMW Team Finance BMW M3 OULovr:5cls:1 DONRet‡ THR SIL OUL SIL BRHovr:5‡cls:2‡ SNE BRH BIR DON THR SILovr:12cls:6 19th 26 12th 1994 Team Mondeo Ford Mondeo Ghia THR BRH1 BRH2 SNE SIL1 SIL2 OUL DON1 DON2 BRH1 BRH2 SIL KNO1 KNO2 OUL BRH1 BRH2 SIL1 SIL2 DON1 DON2 27th 0 1995 Valvoline Team Mondeo Ford Mondeo Ghia DON1 DON2 BRH1 BRH2 THR1 THR2 SIL1 SIL2 OUL1 OUL2 BRH1 BRH2 DON1 DON2 SIL KNO1 KNO2 BRH1 BRH2 SNE1 SNE2 OUL1 OUL2 SIL1 SIL2 8th 117 1996 Volvo 850 Racing Volvo 850 20v DON1 DON2 BRH1 BRH2 THR1 THR2 SIL1 SIL2 OUL1 OUL2 SNE1 SNE2 BRH1 BRH2 SIL1 SIL2 KNO1 KNO2 OUL1 OUL2 THR1 THR2 DON1 DON2 BRH1 BRH2 11th 66 1997 Volvo S40 Racing Volvo S40 DON1 DON2 SIL1 SIL2 THR1 THR2 BRH1 BRH2 OUL1 OUL2 DON1 DON2 CRO1 CRO2 KNO1 KNO2 SNE1 SNE2 THR1 THR2 BRH1 BRH2 SIL1 SIL2 10th 60 2002 Gary Ayles Motorsport Alfa Romeo 156 BRH1 BRH2 OUL1 OUL2 THR1 THR2 SIL1ovr:15†cls:3† SIL2ovr:14†cls:1† MON1 MON2 CRO1 CRO2 SNE1 SNE2 KNO1 KNO2 BRH1 BRH2 DON1 DON2 N/A 0† NC† 2004 Team SuretermGA Motorsports Vauxhall Astra Coupé THR1 THR2 THR3 BRH1 BRH2 BRH3 SIL1 SIL2 SIL3 OUL1 OUL2 OUL3 MON1 MON2 MON3 CRO1 CRO2 CRO3 KNO1 KNO2 KNO3 BRH1 BRH2 BRH3 SNE1 SNE2 SNE3 DON1 DON2 DON3 16th 11

† Not eligible for points

‡ Endurance driver – not eligible for points

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 DC Pts 1998 Toyota Team TOM's Toyota Chaser FUJ1 FUJ2 MOT SUG1 SUG2 SUZ1 SUZ2 MIN1 MIN2 AID FUJ 5th 86

Complete Swedish 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 DC Pts 2000 Volvo S40 RacingTeam Sweden Volvo S40 KAR1 KAR2 KNU1 KNU2 MAN1 MAN2 FAL1 FAL2 AND1 AND2 ARC1 ARC2 KAR1 KAR2 MAN110 MAN2Ret 22nd 1

Complete British GT Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 DC Points 2001 Parr Motorsport Porsche 996 GT3-RS GTO SIL1 SNE1 DON1 OUL1 CRO1 ROC1 CAS1 BRH1 DON1 KNO1 THR1 BRH1 SIL1 1st 164

24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 2003 Veloqx Prodrive Racing Anthony Davidson Darren Turner Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello GTS 176 DNF DNF

Partial Porsche Supercup results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 2 points awarded 2008 onwards in all races) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 DC Points 2006 MRS-PC Service Team PZM Porsche 997 GT3 BHR ITA1 GER1 ESP MON GBR USA1 USA2 FRA GER2 HUN ITA2 NC‡ 0‡ † — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

‡ — Guest driver – Not eligible for points.

24 Hours of Silverstone results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 2010 Wessex Vehicles Nigel Mustill Phil Bennett Rob Huff Aquila CR1 3 1 178 DNF DNF