David Richards
See also: Richards
David Richards (born the June 3rd 1952 in Great Britain) is a former copilot of rally, from now on directing of automobile team of sport. Indissociable of the company Prodrive which it founded in 1984 and which it chairs since, he also directed the stables Benetton and British American Racing in Formule 1. Since 2007, it is one of the joint owners of the British manufacturer Aston Martin.
Biography
Copilot in rally of the Finn Ari Vatanen (with whom he becomes world champion in 1981 on Ford), David Richards quickly puts a term at his sporting career to found in 1984 the Prodrive firm, charged to prepare and engage of the cars in competition. With the passing of years 1990, Prodrive obtains a world famous successfully by ensuring the official engagement of the Subaru Legacy then Impreza in the championship of the world of the rallys. Hake McRae, Richard Burns and Petter Solberg becomes thus world champion on Subaru de Prodrive. With the head of Prodrive, David Richards quickly becomes the major figure of the world of the rallys. By acquiring the commercial laws of the championship of the world, it has the even appearance of a " Bernie Ecclestone of the rallys .With the autumn 1997, David Richards appears for the first time in Formule 1 when the family Benetton invites it to replace Flavio Briatore with the direction of the team. But the experiment lasts only one year. At the end of 1998, following important differences in opinion with the Benetton family on the future of the stable, David Richards prefers to leave. It carries out its return Formulates 1 of them at the end of 2001, with the direction of the stable British American Racing, to replace Craig Pollock. The arrival of Richards at BAR is accompanied in same time by an entry by Prodrive in the capital by the stable. But at the end of 2004, at the conclusion three seasons during which BAR progresses regularly, Richards and Prodrive are thorough outside by Honda, become shareholder of BAR to a total value of 45%. Richards is replaced with the head of BAR by Nick Fry, which was hitherto its right-hand man at Prodrive.
Whereas the Prodrive firm gradually diversified its activities (let us quote in particular successes of Ferrari and Aston-Martin prepared by prodrive for the competitions of Endurance), it should (with at its head David Richards) carry out its return Formulates of them 1, this time as a stable with whole share, in 2008. Prodrive indeed obtained TRUSTED it twelfth and last ticket of inscription in the championship of the world.
Since March 2007, David Richards is one of the joint owners of the British manufacturer Aston Martin, which it repurchased with Ford.
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