10 things you didn’t know about Richard …

• His father Tony was a huge inspiration and encouraged him to go karting when he was a child. Tony was the 1972 British Special Saloon Champion in a Cosworth engined Mini.
• When he was 9 years old he started his racing career at Snetterton race circuit.
• At 15 Richard was captain of the English Karting Team, racing in the World Championships against future F1 stars like Jarno Trulli and Giancarlo Fisichella.
• Richard won the 100cc British Championship in 1990.
• Richard was runner-up in the McLaren Autosport Young Driver of the Year in 1994.
• He is currently training for his second London Marathon. In 2010 he will join members of the British Racing Drivers’ Club in support of the children’s charity CLIC Sargent.
• His Richard is a keen cook and trained at the Victoria Centre in London, famous as the grad school of Jamie Oliver.
• Richard’s former engineer from the Opel Lotus series was David Lloyd who is now the Race Operations Manager of the Ferrari Formula 1 Team
• During his first Porsche Supercup Championship winning year, Richard finished on the podium in every race.
• Richard became the first English Porsche Factory Driver since Derek Bell in the 1980’s