Richard Piper

The Lotus Esprit S300 of Olindo Iacobelli, Peter Hardman and Richard Piper at the 1994 Le Mans 24-hour race

Richard Piper (born October 22, 1947 in London ) is a former British racing driver .

Career

Richard Piper began his career in 1979 in the British Formula Atlantic Championship . His best place in the overall standings of this championship was 18th in 1981. After these beginnings in monoposto racing, the Briton competed in sports car races in Europe and North America from the mid-1980s. He competed in the World Sports Car Championship and in the IMSA GTP series and was entered several times in the Le Mans 24-hour race .

He celebrated his first race win in 1985 at the Thundersports race at Brands Hatch . The Thundersports racing series was a British sports car series that was driven between 1983 and 1989. He won the Brands Hatch race together with Tiff Needell in a Chevron B26 . He also celebrated his second race win in the Thundersports series. Again with Tiff Needell as a partner, he won the Thruxton race on a March 847 in 1987 .

His best placement at Le Mans was 14th overall in 1992 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1990	PC Automotive	Spice SE89C	Olindo Iacobelli	Mike Youles	Rank 21 and class win
1991	Euro Racing	Spice SE89C	Olindo Iacobelli	Jean-Louis Ricci	not classified
1992	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C	Olindo Iacobelli	Ferdinand de Lesseps	Rank 14
1993	Lotus sport	Lotus Esprit S300	Olindo Iacobelli	Ferdinand de Lesseps	failure	Cylinder overheated
1994	Lotus Cars	Lotus Esprit S300	Olindo Iacobelli	Peter Hardman	failure	accident
1995	PC Automotive Jaguar	Jaguar XJ220	James Weaver	Tiff Needell	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1990	Spice Engineering USA	Spice SE90P	Tomas Lopez	Fermín Vélez	Rank 14

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. 2 volumes. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Richard Piper  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Richard Piper at the Driver Database
• Richard Piper at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ British Formula Atlantic Championship 1981
2. ^ Thunderports Brands Hatch 1985
3. ^ Thundersports Thruxton 1987