Mark Higgins (driver)

Mark Higgins
	Higgins with a Ford Focus RS WRC 04 at the 2005 Acropolis Rally
Personal information
Nationality	Manx
Born	21 May 1971
World Rally Championship record
Active years	1990–2008, 2013
Teams	Nissan, Volkswagen, Vauxhall, Ford, M-Sport, Stobart Motorsport
Rallies	47
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	1
Total points	3
First rally	1990 RAC Rally
Last rally	2013 Wales Rally GB

Mark Higgins (born 21 May 1971) is a Manx rally driver competing in the British Rally Championship. His co-driver was Rory Kennedy.

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 businessman Roy Dixon who took the young Higgins under his wing, 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] Skyfall[4] and Spectre.[5]

Higgins also appears as a stunt driver and on-camera in the fifth episode of Amazon's The Grand Tour, a spiritual successor to Top Gear.

Personal life

Higgins lives in Powys, Mid-Wales, with his wife and two children.[4] With his brother and father, he was also a partner in the family rally school located in Carno, near Newtown, Powys.

Racing record

Complete WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1990	Mark Higgins	Suzuki Swift GTi	MON	POR	KEN	FRA	GRE	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV	GBR Ret					NC	0
1991	Mark Higgins	Suzuki Swift GTi	MON	SWE 70	POR	KEN	FRA	GRE	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV	ESP				NC	0
1991	Mark Higgins	Vauxhall Nova														GBR Ret			NC	0
1993	Mark Higgins	Vauxhall Astra GSI 16v	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRE	ARG	NZL	FIN	AUS	ITA	ESP	GBR 19				NC	0
1994	Mark Higgins	Honda Civic VTi	MON	POR	KEN	FRA	GRE	ARG	NZL	FIN	ITA	GBR Ret							NC	0
1997	Nissan Motorsports Europe	Nissan Micra Kit Car	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN Ret	IDN	ITA	AUS				NC	0
1997	Nissan Motorsports Europe	Nissan Almera Kit Car														GBR Ret			NC	0
1998	Nissan Motorsports Europe	Nissan Almera Kit Car	MON	SWE	KEN	POR Ret	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRE Ret	NZL	FIN 15	ITA 18	AUS	GBR Ret				NC	0
1999	Volkswagen Motorsport UK	Volkswagen Golf Kit Car	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN Ret	CHN	ITA	AUS 13	GBR 15			NC	0
2000	Vauxhall Motorsport	Vauxhall Astra Kit Car	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	CYP	FRA	ITA	AUS	GBR 32			NC	0
2001	Mark Higgins	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	MON	SWE	POR	ESP	ARG	CYP Ret	GRE	KEN	FIN	NZL	ITA	FRA	AUS				NC	0
2001	Ford Motor Co	Ford Focus RS WRC 01														GBR Ret			NC	0
2002	Ford Motor Co	Ford Focus RS WRC 02	MON	SWE	FRA	ESP	CYP	ARG	GRE	KEN	FIN	GER	ITA	NZL	AUS	GBR 6			20th	1
2003	Mark Higgins	Renault Clio S1600	MON	SWE	TUR	NZL	ARG	GRE	CYP	GER	FIN Ret	AUS							NC	0
2003	Mark Higgins	Subaru Impreza WRX											ITA 17	FRA 15	ESP	GBR			NC	0
2004	Mark Higgins	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	MON	SWE Ret	MEX Ret	NZL Ret	CYP	GRE	TUR	ARG Ret	FIN	GER	JPN		ITA	FRA 16	ESP	AUS Ret	NC	0
2004	M-Sport	Ford Focus RS WRC 01												GBR 16					NC	0
2005	Mark Higgins	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	MON	SWE Ret	MEX	NZL Ret		CYP Ret	TUR 44		ARG EX	FIN	GER		JPN	FRA	ESP	AUS 10	25th	1
	Mark Higgins	Ford Focus RS WRC 04					ITA 10							GBR 8
	Stobart VK Ford Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 04								GRE Ret
2006	Mark Higgins	Ford Focus RS WRC 04	MON	SWE	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG	ITA	GRE	GER	FIN	JPN	CYP	TUR	AUS	NZL	GBR Ret	NC	0
2007	Mark Higgins	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	MON	SWE Ret	NOR	MEX 10	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE 18	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN 19	IRE Ret	GBR 16	NC	0
2008	Subaru Rally Team USA	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	JOR	ITA	GRE	TUR	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	GBR Ret		NC	0
2013	Symtech Racing	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR 10				31st	1

PWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	PWRC	Points
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
2013	Symtech Racing	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR 3	23rd	15

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

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Supercar

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	WRX	Points
2018	Mark Higgins	Peugeot 208	BAR	POR	BEL	GBR 16	NOR	SWE	CAN	FRA	LAT	USA	GER	RSA	20th*	1*

^* Season still in progress.

References

"Mark Higgins". markhiggins.co.uk. Archived from the original on 29 July 2007. Retrieved 7 August 2007.
"British Rally Championship". www.rallybrc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 27 October 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
Robin Turner (1 November 2008). "Rally driver Mark Higgins' in thrilling Bond scenes". Western Mail. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-19515559
https://www.evo.co.uk/aston-martin/16866/james-bond-spectre-exclusive-interview-with-stunt-driver-mark-higgins%3famp

External links

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Gwyndaf Evans	Autosport National Rally Driver of the Year 1997	Succeeded by Martin Rowe
Preceded by Tapio Laukkanen	Autosport National Rally Driver of the Year 2000	Succeeded by Justin Dale
Preceded by Guy Wilks	Autosport National Rally Driver of the Year 2005–2007	Succeeded by Oliver Turvey (combined award)

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[1] "Mark Higgins". markhiggins.co.uk. Archived from the original on 29 July 2007. Retrieved 7 August 2007.

[2] "British Rally Championship". www.rallybrc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 27 October 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2011.

[3] Robin Turner (1 November 2008). "Rally driver Mark Higgins' in thrilling Bond scenes". Western Mail. Retrieved 1 November 2008.

[BBCWales19515559-4] ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-19515559

[5] ttps://www.evo.co.uk/aston-martin/16866/james-bond-spectre-exclusive-interview-with-stunt-driver-mark-higgins%3famp

Winners of Autosport's National Driver of the Year
Racing winner	1982: Tommy Byrne 1983: Martin Brundle 1984: Johnny Dumfries 1985: Andy Rouse 1986: Andy Wallace 1987: Johnny Herbert 1988: JJ Lehto 1989: Allan McNish 1990: Robb Gravett 1991: David Coulthard 1992: Tim Harvey 1993: Kelvin Burt 1994: Gabriele Tarquini 1995: John Cleland 1996: Frank Biela 1997: Alain Menu 1998: Rickard Rydell 1999: Laurent Aïello 2000: Antônio Pizzonia 2001: Takuma Sato 2002: Robbie Kerr 2003: Nelson Piquet Jr. 2004: James Thompson 2005: Matt Neal 2006: Mike Conway 2007: Jason Plato
Rally winner	1982: Malcolm Patrick 1983: Darryl Weidner 1984: David Llewellin 1985: Mark Lovell 1986: Ken Wood 1987: Louise Aitken-Walker 1988: Malcolm Wilson 1989–90: David Llewellin 1991–92: Colin McRae 1993: Richard Burns 1994: Malcolm Wilson 1995: Alister McRae 1996: Gwyndaf Evans 1997: Mark Higgins 1998: Martin Rowe 1999: Tapio Laukkanen 2000: Mark Higgins 2001–02: Justin Dale 2003: Martin Rowe 2004: Guy Wilks 2005–07: Mark Higgins
Combined winner	2008: Oliver Turvey 2009: Colin Turkington 2010: Jason Plato 2011: Matt Neal 2012: Gordon Shedden 2013: Andrew Jordan 2014: Colin Turkington 2015–16: Gordon Shedden 2017: Lando Norris 2018: Dan Ticktum 2019: Colin Turkington 2020: Harry King