Mark Higgins (driver)
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Higgins with a Ford Focus RS WRC 04 at the 2005 Acropolis Rally
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Personal information | |
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Nationality | British |
Born | 21 May 1971 |
World Rally Championship record | |
Active years | 1990 – present |
Teams | Nissan, Volkswagen, Vauxhall, Ford, M-Sport, Stobart Motorsport |
Rallies | 43 |
Championships | 0 |
Rally wins | 0 |
Podiums | 0 |
Stage wins | 1 |
Total points | 2 |
First rally | 1990 RAC Rally |
Mark Higgins (born 21 May 1971) is a Manx rally driver competing in the British Rally Championship. His co-driver was Rory Kennedy.
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Career
Higgins was born on the Isle of Man on 21 May 1971. He began his career in motorsport at the age of nine when he took up karting helped by his mother and father.[1]
By the age of 17, Higgins had successfully competed in a range of motor sport activities such as trial bikes and karts. He impressed many people as a young man and soon attracted the attention of Manx business man Roy Dixon who took the young Higgins under his wings, and at just 17 Higgins began his professional motorsport career with a trip to Sweden to learn from the legendary Finn Timo Mäkinen and Anders Kulläng.
He has won the British Rally Championship three times, 1997, 2005, 2006.[2]
Other work
Higgins has worked for many years with Top Gear's former Stig Ben Collins on various film and television sequences. Higgins was a stunt driver for the James Bond films Quantum of Solace[3] and Skyfall.[4]
Personal life
Higgins lives in Powys, Mid-Wales, with his wife and two children.[4] With his brother and father, he is also a partner in the family rally school located in Carno, near Newtown, Powys
Complete WRC results
PWRC results
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | PWRC | Points |
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2004 | Mark Higgins | Subaru Impreza WRX STi | SWE Ret |
MEX Ret |
NZL Ret |
ARG Ret |
GER | FRA 4 |
AUS Ret |
16th | 5 | |
2005 | Mark Higgins | Subaru Impreza WRX STi | SWE Ret |
NZL Ret |
CYP Ret |
TUR 13 |
ARG EX |
GBR | JPN | AUS 2 |
13th | 8 |
2007 | Mark Higgins | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | SWE Ret |
MEX 1 |
ARG | GRE 4 |
NZL | JPN 5 |
IRE Ret |
GBR 3 |
3rd | 25 |
2008 | Subaru Rally Team USA | Subaru Impreza WRX STi | SWE | ARG | GRE | TUR | FIN | NZL | JPN | GBR Ret |
NC | 0 |
WRC-2 results
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Pos. | Points |
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2013 | Symtech Racing | Ford Fiesta R5 | MON | SWE | MEX | POR | ARG | GRE | ITA | FIN | GER | AUS | FRA |
ESP |
GBR 3 |
23rd | 15 |
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mark Higgins. |
Awards and achievements | ||
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Preceded by | Autosport National Rally Driver of the Year 1997 |
Succeeded by Martin Rowe |
Preceded by | Autosport National Rally Driver of the Year 2000 |
Succeeded by Justin Dale |
Preceded by | Autosport National Rally Driver of the Year 2005–2007 |
Succeeded by Oliver Turvey (combined award) |
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- Official website not in Wikidata
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Manx sportspeople
- People from Montgomeryshire
- British rally drivers
- World Rally Championship drivers
- British stunt performers