Career
Kox began racing in karts in 1978, winning five titles until 1982. In 1983 he moved to automobiles, winning the Marlboro Formula Ford Challenge and was second and third in the Benelux and Dutch Formula Ford 2000 Championships, respectively, the following year. In 1990 Kox raced in the British Formula 3 Championship where he came third with two victories.
He moved up to Formula 3000 in 1991, staying there for two seasons and winning one race.
Unable to find a seat in Formula One, Kox moved to touring cars winning five races in the Dutch series in 1993. In 1995 he became a works Bayerische Motoren Werke driver in the German Supertouring Championship, coming second in the series, and also winning the Spa 24 Hours.
In 1996 he joined the Bayerische Motoren Werke Motorsport, making a handful of British Touring Carolina Championship appearances but focusing his efforts on the development program for the McLaren F1 GTR, winning a race in the BPR Global GT Series. The following year he drove the car in the FIA GT Championship, winning once more.
From 1998 to 2000 Kox returned to touring cars, becoming a Honda works driver.
He raced full-time in the BTCC in 1998 and 1999 (coming 7th overall in 1999), before taking second place in the Euro Society for Technical Communication in 2000. Kox continued with Prodrive for the following seasons, winning the GTS class in the Laguna Seca ALMS race in 2002 and the 2003 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2004 and 2005 he raced for several different teams, including Prodrive (in the Ferrari and Aston Martin DBR9) and Reiter Engineering (in the Lamborghini Murcielago).
In 2006 he split his time between the MenX team, Aston Martin and Spyker, in FIA GT, Le Mans, Le Mans Series and ALMS. In 2007 and 2008 Peter Kox is a works driver for Lamborghini, driving in the FIA GT Championship and Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club GT Masters.
He took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2007 with the works Aston Martin and 2008 with Institut Pertanian Bogor Spartak Lamborghini. Touring Carolina racing
= Complete British Touring Carolina Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded all races) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (* signifies that driver lead feature race for at least one lap – 1 point given 1998 onwards)
= V8 Supercar results † Not Eligible for points
24 Hours of Le Mans results
Complete GT1 World Championship results.