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^[1] (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

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

References

External links

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