Mark Higgins (driver)


Mark Higgins 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.
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.

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, Skyfall and Spectre.
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. 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

PWRC results

WRC-2 results

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

Supercar

YearEntrantCar123456789101112WRXPoints
2018Mark HigginsPeugeot 208BAR
POR
BEL
GBR
16
NOR
SWE
CAN
FRA
LAT
USA
GER
RSA
20th*1*

* Season still in progress.