Hi to all you Supercars fans around the world!
Steven Richards is an Australian motorsport legend who has recently announced his retirement from Supercars racing. He will no longer be running team SRM (Steven Richards Motorsport). I would like to list some of his outstanding career achievements.
Steven Richards was born on the 11th of July, 1972 in New Zealand.
He won the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 1994 before becoming a professional full time driver.
In 1995 Steven Richards made his Bathurst 1000 debut with co-driver Anders Olofsson, finishing 4th under the Gibson Motorsport team.
In 1996 Steven Richards moved over to Garry Rogers Motorsport.
In 1995 and 1997 Steven Richards also competed in an Alfa Romeo 155, Honda Accord and then he drove a Nissan Primera. In 1996 he made his Australian Touring Car Championship debut in a Holden VF Commodore.
Steven Richards competed with his father, Jim Richards at the Bathurst 1000 in 1996 and 1997 and again in 2004.
In the 1997 Bathurst 1000 he and his father finished in 2nd place.
At the 1998 V8 Supercars Bathurst 1000 as a co-driver to Jason Bright, Richards finished 1st for Stone Brothers Racing.
In that same year he finished 2nd with co-driver Matt Neil in the Touring Car Bathurst 1000. This was an amazing feat because they were driving a Nissan Primera for UK bases Team Dynamics.
He then backed up his Bathurst 1st place the following year (1999) with co-driver Greg Murphy for Gibson Motorsport.
He continued in the same way for nearly another 20 years with one success after the other.
Steven Richards has 5 Bathurst 1000 wins: 1998, 1999, 2013, 2015 and 2018.
He has also won pole position for Bathurst in 2004 and 2007.
In 2014 (just to prove he wasnt too old to be racing he won the Australian Carrera Cup Championship and scored 5th in the Australian GT Championship.
In 2016 he ran in both the Australian GT Championship and Endurance Championship under his own team, Steve Richards Motorsport (SRM).
In total Steven Richards has:
- completed 451 races
- 12 race wins
- & 60 podium finishes.
Now work that out. It means he at approximately gets 1 podium finish per 7 races. Not bad at all.
Teams that Steven Richards have driven for are:
- Garry Rogers Motorsport 1996 1997 1998
- Gibson Motorsport 1999 2000
- Ford Tickford Racing 2001
- Perkins Engineering 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006.
- Ford Performance Racing 2007 2008 2009 2010.
- Ford Performance Racing 2011 2012 2013
- Red Bull Racing Australia 2014 2015
- Team Vortex 2016 & 2017 and Autobarn Lowndes Racing 2018.
Co drivers include:
- Jim Richards 1996 1997 1998
- Mark Winterbottom 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013
- Greg Murphy 1999 2000.
- Craig Lowndes 2014 2015 2016 2017 and 2018.
- Russell Ingall 2002.
- Larry Perkins 2003.
- Paul Dumbrell 2006.
- Jason Bright 1998.
- Glenn Seton 2001.
- James Moffatt 2010.
