CURRICULUM VITAE

Overview 

• Served his apprenticeship at the world renowned BMC Special Tuning Division, Abingdon, Oxfordshire in the 1970s. 

• Since 1977 he has been running his own engine tuning and car preparation business.  With a team compliment of five, Bill Richards Racing (www.billrichardsracing.com) specialises in the building of tuned ‘A’ Series engines and is one of the UK’s leading Mini specialists. 

• The engine of his current Mini Clubman steel race car has the highest known output (188bhp at the wheels) of a normally aspirated “A” series motor. 

• In 1994 Bill was commissioned by Rover to build the engines for several Mini Coopers including the car driven Paddy Hopkirk and Ron Crellin on the 30^th anniversary of their Monte Carlo rally victory. 

• Bill is a circuit racer with an international reputation. He has been the class winner in the SEMSEC Silhouette Championship on multiple occasion’s and held the BARC Modified Saloon Car Championship in 2001-2002, and won the 2005 BARC Track & Race saloon Championship. In addition, he has also competed in races and hillclimbs in Europe and the USA. 

• Bill is a Racing Instructor at the Goodwood Circuit, East Sussex, permanent  driving instructor at  the Lydden circuit, near Dover, Kent and gives tuition at Castle Combe, Wiltshire. 

• Numerous articles on Bill’s engines and cars have appeared in national and international motoring press. 

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