Jason Richards
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| Jason Richards | |
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| V8 Supercar Record | |
| Nationality | New Zealander |
| Car # | 3 |
| Current team | Tasman Motorsport |
| Series Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podium finishes | 2 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| 2006 Championship position | 18th (1469 pts) |
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Jason Richards (born April 10, 1976 in Nelson, New Zealand) is a V8 Supercar racecar driver.
He started his motor racing career at the age of eight in 1985, driving in karting events in his home country of New Zealand. He made his move out of karting in 1993 after 35 championship titles, entering the Mini 7s.
After much success again, Richards was offered the Canterbury Racing School Formula Ford drive for the Nissan Mobil 500 meetings at Wellington and Pukekohe.
After a short stint in the English Formula Ford Championship, Richards returned to New Zealand to sign with BMW Motorsport NZ as junior driver, winning the 1995/96 Class 1 Touring Car Championships for the team, along with nine out of 12 series races.
Promoted to lead driver, Richards won the next three NZ Touring Car Championships prior to joining Team Kiwi for the V8 Supercar series in Australia in 2001. Battling testing restrictions and the tyranny of distance, Richards finished an extremely creditable 19th in the 2002 V8 Supercar Series.
Richards moved to the new South Australian Team Dynamik in 2003, putting in some strong results, including a narrow failure to snatch victory in the Sandown 500 from Mark Skaife in the race's dying stages.
He then made the decision to move to the newly-formed Tasman Motorsport outfit in 2004 and has developed into a driver who believes he is capable of standing on the top step of a V8 Supercar podium.
Coming back from a major roll over in the 2005 round at Queensland Raceway, Richards quickly returned to stride and promptly placed the repaired Commodore into the top 10 in the following round at Oran Park Raceway.
His podium results in the Sandown and Bathurst endurance events in 2005 helped cement his place as a ‘coming man’ of the V8 Supercar category and he returns in 2006 for his third season with the Melbourne-based team.
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[edit] Career highlights
- Winner, New Zealand Touring Cars Championship 1998/99, 2000/01
- 11th, Bob Jane T-Marts 1000 at Mount Panorama Circuit 2002
- 5th, Oran Park V8 Supercar round 2003
- 3rd, Betta Electrical Sandown 500 2005
- 2nd, Supercheap Auto 1000 at Bathurst 2005
[edit] Championship Results
- 2000 Team Kiwi Racing Holden Commodore VT 52nd
- 2001 Team Kiwi Racing Holden Commodore VX 24th
- 2002 Team Kiwi Racing Holden Commodore VX 19th
- 2003 Team Dynamik Holden Commodore VY 26th
- 2004 Tasman Motorsport Holden Commodore VX/VY 14th
- 2005 Tasman Motorsport Holden Commodore VZ 17th
[edit] Bathurst 1000 Stats
- Debut: 1997 (BMW 320i with Brett Riley)
- Starts: 8 (including 2 Super Touring)
- Best Result: 2nd (2005, Holden Commodore VZ with Jamie Whincup)
[edit] References
| Teams contesting the 2006 V8 Supercar Championship Series | |||||||||
| Stone Brothers Racing | Holden Racing Team | Tasman Motorsport | Ford Performance Racing | Jack Daniel's Racing | WPS Racing | ||||
| 1 Russell Ingall 4 James Courtney |
2 Mark Skaife 22 Todd Kelly |
3 Jason Richards 23 Andrew Jones |
5 Mark Winterbottom 6 Jason Bright |
7 Steven Richards 11 Paul Dumbrell |
8 Max Wilson 10 Jason Bargwanna |
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| Team BOC | Toll HSV Dealer Team | Dick Johnson Racing | Paul Cruickshank Racing | Fujitsu Racing | Garry Rogers Motorsport | ||||
| 12 John Bowe 14 Brad Jones |
15 Rick Kelly 16 Garth Tander |
17 Steven Johnson 18 Will Davison |
20 Marcus Marshall | 25 Warren Luff 26 Jose Fernandez |
33 Lee Holdsworth 34 Dean Canto |
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| Team Sirromet Wines | Supercheap Auto Racing | Autobarn Racing | Team Betta Electrical | Team Kiwi Racing | |||||
| 39 Alan Gurr 39 Fabian Coulthard 67 Paul Morris |
50 Cameron McConville 51 Greg Murphy |
55 Steve Owen | 88 Jamie Whincup 888 Craig Lowndes |
021 Paul Radisich | |||||
