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 9 wins, a record for a British driver.

He 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 light, he did surface again as a test driver for Arrows in 1996.

For 1995 he had his first full BTCC season, replacing the retiring Andy Rouse in Rouse's Ford team. He took 8th overall, only 2 places behind experienced team-mate Paul Radisich. He then spent 2 years with Tom Walkinshaw's Volvo team, winning a further race. He briefly returned to the BTCC in the Production Class for GA Motorsport in 2002, winning both races he started. 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 he went to Japan, racing successfully in both Touring Cars and GTs, coming 5th overall in the Touring Car series. He raced in Sweden in 2000 before dominating the British GT series' GTO Class in 2001, taking 8 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, but focused on the lower-level Porsche Cup, 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	Overall Pos	Pts	Class Pos
1990	BMW Team Finance	BMW M3	B	OUL 5	DON Ret‡	THR	SIL	OUL	SIL	BRH 5‡	SNE	BRH	BIR	DON	THR	SIL 12																		19th	26	12th
1994	Team Mondeo	Ford Mondeo Ghia		THR	BRH 1	BRH 2	SNE	SIL 1	SIL 2	OUL	DON 1	DON 2	BRH 1	BRH 2	SIL	KNO 1	KNO 2	OUL	BRH 1	BRH 2	SIL 1 14	SIL 2 11	DON 1	DON 2										27th	0
1995	Valvoline Team Mondeo	Ford Mondeo Ghia		DON 1 Ret	DON 2 13	BRH 1 3	BRH 2 4	THR 1 Ret	THR 2 3	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 7	OUL 1 DNS	OUL 2 6	BRH 1 Ret	BRH 2 14	DON 1 9	DON 2 3	SIL 5	KNO 1 3	KNO 2 Ret	BRH 1 13	BRH 2 11	SNE 1 1	SNE 2 12	OUL 1 10	OUL 2 7	SIL 1 4	SIL 2 Ret						8th	117
1996	Volvo 850 Racing	Volvo 850 20v		DON 1 4	DON 2 5	BRH 1 Ret	BRH 2 Ret	THR 1 DSQ	THR 2 13	SIL 1 1	SIL 2 Ret	OUL 1 6	OUL 2 DNS	SNE 1	SNE 2	BRH 1 8	BRH 2 6	SIL 1 7	SIL 2 8	KNO 1 Ret	KNO 2 10	OUL 1 8	OUL 2 8	THR 1 Ret	THR 2 17	DON 1 9	DON 2 12	BRH 1 7	BRH 2 7					11th	66
1997	Volvo S40 Racing	Volvo S40		DON 1 3	DON 2 9	SIL 1 4	SIL 2 Ret	THR 1 Ret	THR 2 13	BRH 1 8	BRH 2 8	OUL 1 9	OUL 2 Ret	DON 1 8	DON 2 Ret	CRO 1 12	CRO 2 12	KNO 1 8	KNO 2 4	SNE 1 Ret	SNE 2 8	THR 1 Ret	THR 2 16	BRH 1 14	BRH 2 6	SIL 1 5	SIL 2 8							10th	60
2002	Gary Ayles Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	P	BRH 1	BRH 2	OUL 1	OUL 2	THR 1	THR 2	SIL 1 15	SIL 2 14	MON 1	MON 2	CRO 1	CRO 2	SNE 1	SNE 2	KNO 1	KNO 2	BRH 1	BRH 2	DON 1	DON 2											NC	0†
2004	Team Sureterm GA Motorsports	Vauxhall Astra Coupé		THR 1	THR 2	THR 3	BRH 1	BRH 2	BRH 3	SIL 1 9	SIL 2 4*	SIL 3 Ret	OUL 1 12	OUL 2 Ret	OUL 3 Ret	MON 1	MON 2	MON 3	CRO 1	CRO 2	CRO 3	KNO 1	KNO 2	KNO 3	BRH 1	BRH 2	BRH 3	SNE 1	SNE 2	SNE 3	DON 1	DON 2	DON 3	16th	11

† Not eligible for points

‡ Endurance driver – not eligible for points

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
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 23†	USA1 2	USA2 6	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.

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	FUJ 1 6	FUJ 2 4	MOT 5	SUG 1 4	SUG 2 1	SUZ 1 Ret	SUZ 2 Ret	MIN 1 9	MIN 2 4	AID 2	FUJ Ret	5th	86

References

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Warren Hughes	Autosport British Club Driver of the Year 1991	Succeeded by Oliver Gavin
Preceded by Tim Harvey	Autosport National Racing Driver of the Year 1993	Succeeded by Gabriele Tarquini
Sporting positions
Preceded by Gil de Ferran	British Formula 3 Champion 1993	Succeeded by Jan Magnussen
Preceded by Joachim Winkelhock	Guia Race winner 1995	Succeeded by Frank Biela