Team Parker Racing is delighted to announce that two-time Porsche Carrera Cup GB champion and 1992 British Touring Car Championship victor Tim Harvey will join the team in the Porsche Sprint Challenge GB at Thruxton this weekend (August 28/29).

Tim first joined the BTCC in 1987, becoming Class A champion in a Rover Vitesse SD1 which had been raced to the overall title by Andy Rouse in ’84. He quickly became a frontrunner in the series, as well as winning the BRDC British C2 Championship, at Macau, and competing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, before winning the title with BMW in the legendary 1992 season.

Remaining a series stalwart through the Super Touring era, where he raced with Renault, Volvo, and Peugeot, Tim racked up 16 victories in the BTCC before becoming a regular in the Carrera Cup, scoring 36 wins and securing two championship titles in 2008 and 2010, before stepping aside from the championship, bowing out with a superb victory at the Carrera World Cup on the Nürburgring Nordschleife.

Since then, Tim has driven a number of different cars for the sheer pleasure of racing, including going back to his roots in Classic Formula Ford 1600, as well as providing years of insight as a popular and key part of ITV’s BTCC and Porsche Carrera Cup GB broadcast team.

He had aimed to return to full-time competition in the Porsche Sprint Challenge GB for its inaugural season in 2020, before the pandemic put a stop to it, but will enjoy his first races in the series in a one-off appearance with Team Parker Racing this coming weekend.

Tim Harvey

“I had a call form Rob at Porsche asking if I wanted to do it and I think I said yes before he’d finished the sentence! I'm 60 years old in three months and a proud Grandfather nowadays, but I'm as excited as a teenager looking forward to their first race!

“I had a go in the car at the taster day in 2019 with the intention of racing it last year, but then COVID came along and scuppered my plans. The taster was enough to help me realise that the Porsche Cayman 718 GT4 Clubsport is a great car, so I’m really looking forward to racing it. I spend many days behind the wheel of a Porsche either on trackdays or driving my own cars, so my passion for driving and Porsche in particular is immense.

“It’s been ten years since I raced a Porsche on the TOCA package and whilst I’ve never competed with Team Parker Racing, I know Team Manager Barry Horne very well from our years racing in the Carrera Cup. It should be a lot of fun.”

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