Date Of Birth: Lives: Nationality: Seasons in BTCC: Championship Wins: Synopsis:

20th Nov 1961 (Farnborough) Woodstock, Oxon English 1987 - still racing 1992 A popular BTCC figure who has raced and won in all forms of motorsport. Single Seater career cut short by an accident early on so switched to saloons.

Driver History

Harvey came from a motorsport background, with both parents having competed previously and father David was also chairman of the Jaguar Drivers Club for six years. Motorcycles were his first (and still is) passion and he raced motorcross during his early teens before swapping to karting in 1979.

Harvey took the 100cc British National Karting Championship in 1981 before deciding to hang-up his helmet, get married and join his father's estate agency. This decision only lasted 6 months, and in 1983 he returned to racing in Formula Ford 1600 using a 2-year-old chassis he bought with what little savings he had. A total of 12 wins and 7th in the FF Festival brought him plenty of attention and the following year he was invited to test for the Daily Express MG Metro Challenge Scholarship, which he won.

Two seasons in Metros followed, which allowed him the time to find the sponsorship required to return to single seaters. In 1986 he signed as a works driver for Quest Engineering in FF1600 and also lined up a drive for Rover in the Uniroyal Production Saloon Championship. But an accident in the first race of the FF championship put him out of action for the remainder of the season with broken ankles. When he returned to racing the following year he continued with Rover, this time driving a Vitesse in the BTCC. Harvey claimed 3 victories and took a class win in his first season. He also started racing in Group C Sports Cars, taking a second at Le Mans.

1988 saw Harvey continue with Sports Cars in the UK, taking the BRDC championship in both that and the subsequent year for Tiga and Spice teams respectively. Spare weekends allowed him to race in the BTCC in a Rouse Sierra, with which he also won the Macau Guia race in 1989. A prosperous international career in the Group C World Championship with Spice ended when the series went into decline, so he decided to concentrate his attention towards the BTCC for 1990.

A full season in 1990 in the Bristow Motorsport Sierra RS500 saw Harvey take third in class behind the dominant Rouse and Gravett. Harvey's speed was easily a match for the other two drivers, but his 'opposite lock' driving style was less gentle on his tyres and his finishing position was often compromised as a result.