Kevin Procter

Kevin’s History:

Kevin’s first rally car a Talbot Sunbeam which he rolled the first night he got it…
After that little indiscretion, he went on to take lots of class wins before moving onto a two-wheel drive Ford Escort Cosworth but a crash on the Riponian Rally meant an upgrade to a four-wheel drive clubman-specification Ford Sapphire which was kept for the next eight years with lots of success.
A Ford Escort Cosworth was then purchased but it wasn’t particularly reliable so the Procter’s Motorsport Team bought a Ford Puma which comprised an Escort WRC engine and running gear with the Puma shell.
During this time, his Brother-in-law Dave Bellerby was doing Rallycross and kept saying that Kevin should have a go so it was decided after an evening out they would buy a car and the next day went to Carlisle and bought the Lotus Exige off Mike Dresser!
After that Kevin bought Charlie Payne’s Subaru Impreza Group A car which was the machine that gave him some of his best results and the one he enjoyed driving the most.  He sold that May 2008 and bought a current Subaru WRC S7 which former World Champion Richard Burns once drove, the S7 led him to Victory at the 2008 Christmas Stages Rally at Croft.
However, Kevin soon realised he needed a four-wheel drive car so the Puma was converted into Rallycross specification at relatively low cost but he never really did much success and there was also some reliability issues with the car.
At the start of the 2008 season, he started looking out for a new car and eventually found the Ford Focus which had just finished sixth in the 2007 European Rallycross Championship so he purchased this from Jos Kuypers.
He contended his first event in the Focus at the British round in Pembrey, September 2008 fresh from collecting the car from Kuypers and took an outright victory with no testing, the Focus was returned to Tony Bardy’s workshop where it was prepared for the 2009 European Rallycross Championship which Kevin finished as the highest placed Brit of 12th overall.
Kevin has once again appeared as a guest driver at the 2010 Autosport International Show and is committing to the 2010 ERC and will do some selected rounds of the MSA BRC.