Craig lowndes wants to take his bathurst winning codriver steven richards with him when he leaves red bull racing at the end of the year. Craig lowndes has achieved a fairytale bathurst win on his last fulltime drive at mount panorama, partnering with steven richards to achieve a. Steven richards is currently competing in the porsche payce carrera cup australia championship and a pirtek endurance cup driver for team 18, irwin racing for the three supercars endurance races. Jason richards was, and will always be remembered, as a highly respected race car driver and champion on and off the race track. Richards to compete in funny car at 10 events in 2016 nhra.
Click on the year to see the standings for that year. Steven james richards born 11 july 1972 is a new zealandaustralian racing driver, currently competing in the porsche carrera cup australia championship. While craig lowndes quite rightly grabbed the headlines by scoring a fairytale supercheap auto bathurst win, codriver steven richards is now among an elite group of six drivers to have. Fivetime bathurst winner steven richards has announced his retirement from supercars, and has announced plans to take up a managerial role at team 18. The 47yearold has made the decision after a stellar career that saw him make. Richards arrives at the single car outfit with a fine record, including winning the 2018 great race with craig lowndes. Veteran driver steven richards retires from supercars racing. Steven richards joins the revamped irwin racing to partner mark winterbottom in the 2019 pirtek enduro cup, as a newlycrowned fivetime bathurst winner. Steven richards relationship manager team 18 team 18. Below are the top australian racing drivers according to the currently available data on driver database. Richard stevens racing, benfleet, essex, united kingdom.
Craig lowndes wants to keep steven richards for 2016. Steven richards wikimili, the free encyclopedia wikimili, the free encyclopedia. Floridabased nhra funny car driver dave richards will compete in the paul richards racing entry at 10 nhra events on the 2016 nhra mello yello. The biography with carrer and success in the race driver directory of speedsport magazine. V8 supercars craig lowndes claims seventh bathurst. This is a page about my racing adventures, ill be posting updates from race. Your complete guide to steven richards, including news, articles, pictures, and videos.
Steven richards to run first bmw m6 gt3 in australian gt. Richards became a gun enduro driver following the end of his fulltime supercars career, winning the great race a further three times in 20 with mark winterbottom and a. Steven richards and shane van gisbergen have joined a growing contingent of v8 supercars stars racing in this months spa 24 hours. Threetime bathurst winner richards will race for the.
Steven richards racing career profile driver database. He previously raced in the v8 supercar series for triple eight race engineering teams and ford performance racing. Romain dumas career overview years in numbers the following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the career details further below on the page. Steven richards will race a factorybacked bmw m6 gt3 in this years australian gt championships. Richards, the son of seventime bathurst winner jim richards, is himself a fivetime bathurst winner, having won the event in 1998, 1999, 20, 2015 and 2018. Click on the number of races to see individual races for that year. The son of seventime bathurst winner and four times series champion jim richards, steven made his supercars debut under the australian touring car championship banner in 1995 as a co driver to anders olofsson at the bathurst. Reynolds and youlden combined to control the opening five stints of the race, the car in the effective lead for all but a handful of laps. Also drive at sandown, bathurst and the gold coast with team vortex. Driver of the laser plumbing and electrical, bmw m6 gt3 in the australian gt. Steven richards and shane van gisbergen to race in spa 24. Stock car racer tim richmond died of aids, doctor said. Steven richards talks bathurst craig lowndes red bull.
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