Richard Bradley (racing driver)

Richard Bradley
Richard Bradley
	Bradley in 2021
Nationality	British
Born	17 August 1991 (age 33)
Super Formula career
Debut season	2013
Current team	KCMG
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Car number	18
Previous series
2012; 2011–12; 2010	FIA European F3 Championship; All-Japan Formula Three; Formula BMW Pacific
Championship titles
2010	Formula BMW Pacific

Richard Edward Bradley (born 17 August 1991) is a British racing driver. Bradley currently resides in Bangkok and races under a Singaporean racing license in Formula BMW Pacific and formerly in the All-Japan Formula Three Championship.^[1] He currently competes in the European Le Mans Series with IDEC Sport.

Career

Karting

Bradley began his racing career in karting at the age of eleven and raced in various international championships, progressing to KF1 category in 2008, finishing eighth in the CIK-FIA European Championship.^[2]

Formula BMW Pacific

In 2010, Bradley graduated to single–seaters into the Formula BMW Pacific series in Asia, joining Eurasia Motorsport and racing under a Singaporean racing licence. He dominated from the opening round at Sepang and achieved seven wins on his way to both championship and Rookie titles.^[3]

Formula Three

In 2011, Bradley graduated to the All-Japan Formula Three Championship with Petronas Team TOM'S.^[4] He finished fifth with two podiums.^[5] During the season he also appeared in the Pau and Macau rounds of the FIA Formula 3 International Trophy.^[6]^[7]

For the next year Bradley continued in All-Japan Formula Three Championship with TOM'S. He scored six podiums and progressed to the fourth place in the championship standings.^[8] Also he contested in the Spa round of the FIA European Formula 3 Championship. Bradley also contested the end of year Formula Nippon test for Petronas Team TOM'S.

Super Formula

Bradley made his debut in the Super Formula in 2013 with KCMG, finishing 21st in the standings.^[9]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	FLaps	Podiums	Points	Position
2010	Formula BMW Pacific	Eurasia Motorsport	15	7	2	3	9	217	1st
2011	Japanese Formula 3 Championship	Petronas Team TOM'S	14	0	0	0	2	36	5th
	Macau Grand Prix		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	9th
	FIA Formula 3 International Trophy		2	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
	FIA Formula 3 International Trophy	Carlin	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2012	Japanese Formula 3 Championship	Petronas Team TOM'S	15	0	0	1	6	52	4th
2012	FIA Formula 3 European Championship	Carlin	2	0	0	0	0	6	19th
2013	Super Formula	KCMG	7	0	0	0	0	0	21st
	Asian Le Mans Series - LMP2	KCMG	1	1	0	0	1	40	5th
	Asian Le Mans Series - LMP2	Craft Racing	1	0	0	0	1	40	5th
	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2	KCMG	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2014	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2	KCMG	8	3	1	0	6	130	3rd
2014	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	KCMG	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
2015	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2	KCMG	8	2	2	0	6	155	2nd
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	KCMG	1	1	1	0	1	N/A	1st
	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Eurasia Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	0	21st
2016	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2	Manor	8	0	1	0	1	33	17th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	KCMG	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
	IMSA SportsCar Championship - PC	Starworks Motorsport	5	0	0	0	1	110	15th
2017	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Graff	6	2	0	1	2	86	3rd
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	5th
	Michelin Le Mans Cup - LMP3		1	0	0	0	0	5	31st
	Michelin Le Mans Cup - LMP3	Win Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0	5	31st
2017-18	Asian Le Mans Series - LMP3	WIN Motorsport	4	0	0	0	2	40	5th
2018	Super GT - GT300	Dijon Racing	5	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2019	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Duqueine Engineering	6	0	0	0	1	45	9th
2020	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	IDEC Sport	5	0	0	0	0	21	10th
2021	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Algarve Pro Racing	6	0	0	0	1	27.5	13th
2022	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Duqueine Team	6	0	0	0	0	20	14th
2022	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2	ARC Bratislava	1	0	0	0	0	0	28th
2023	Masters Endurance Legends - Prototypes	DAMAX	2	0	0	0	2	10	28th
2023	Endurance Racing Legends - LMP2B	MacKellar	2	0	0	0	0	23	9th
2024	European Le Mans Series - LMP2 Pro-Am	Algarve Pro Racing	6	1	0	0	4	96	2nd

† – As Bradley was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

Complete Super Formula Results

(Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	DC	Points
2013	KCMG	SUZ 19	AUT Ret	FUJ Ret	MOT 14	SUG Ret	SUZ 13	SUZ 18	21st	0

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2013	KCMG	LMP2	Morgan LMP2	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL	SPA	LMS	SÃO	COA	FUJ 6	SHA	BHR		NC†	0†
2014	KCMG	LMP2	Oreca 03	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL 2	SPA 2								3rd	130
2014	KCMG	LMP2	Oreca 03R	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8			LMS Ret	COA 1	FUJ 2	SHA Ret	BHR 1	SÃO 1		3rd	130
2015	KCMG	LMP2	Oreca 05	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL 4	SPA 3	LMS 1	NÜR 1	COA 2	FUJ Ret	SHA 3	BHR 2		2nd	155
2016	Manor	LMP2	Oreca 05	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL 6	SPA 3	LMS	NÜR Ret	MEX Ret	COA Ret	FUJ 7	SHA 9	BHR 10	17th	33

^† As Bradley was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2014	KCMG	Matthew Howson Alexandre Imperatori	Oreca 03R-Nissan	LMP2	87	DNF	DNF
2015	KCMG	Matthew Howson Nicolas Lapierre	Oreca 05-Nissan	LMP2	358	9th	1st
2016	KCMG	Matthew Howson Tsugio Matsuda	Oreca 05-Nissan	LMP2	116	DNF	DNF
2017	Graff	James Allen Franck Matelli	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	361	6th	5th
2020	IDEC Sport	Paul-Loup Chatin Paul Lafargue	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	366	10th	6th
2022	Duqueine Team	Reshad de Gerus Memo Rojas	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	326	52nd	25th

Complete European Le Mans Series results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Rank	Points
2015	Eurasia Motorsport	LMP2	Oreca 03R	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL	IMO	RBR	LEC Ret	EST		21st	0
2017	Graff	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	SIL 4	MNZ 8	RBR 4	LEC 6	SPA 1	ALG 1	3rd	86
2019	Duqueine Engineering	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	LEC 3	MNZ 6	CAT 4	SIL Ret	SPA 5	ALG Ret	9th	45
2020	IDEC Sport	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	LEC Ret	SPA 7	LEC 7	MNZ 6	ALG 10		10th	21
2021	Algarve Pro Racing	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	CAT 11	RBR 8	LEC 7	MNZ 10	SPA Ret	ALG 3	13th	27.5
2022	Duqueine Team	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	LEC 12	IMO 6	MNZ Ret	CAT 6	SPA 9	ALG 9	14th	20
2024	Algarve Pro Racing	LMP2 Pro-Am	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	CAT 4	LEC 6	IMO 1	SPA 3	MUG 2	ALG 2	2nd	96

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results

(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

Year	Entrant	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points
2016	Starworks Motorsport	PC	Oreca FLM09	Chevrolet LS3 6.2 V8	DAY	SEB	LBH	LAG	DET	WGL 3	MOS 7	LIM	ROA 9†	COA 8	PET 4	15th	110

^† Bradley did not complete sufficient laps in order to score points.

Complete Super GT results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos.	Pts
2018	Dijon Racing	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3	GT300	OKA	FUJ 21	SUZ 22	CHA	FUJ 18	SUG	AUT 28	MOT 26	NC	0

References

^ "Profile". richardbradleymotorsport.com. Richard Bradley. Archived from the original on 15 November 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^ "CIK-FIA European Championship – SKF & KF1 2009". drivedb.com. Driver Database. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^ "Formula BMW Pacific 2010". Driver Database. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^ 開幕ラウンド占有走行 [Travel round the opening possession]. All-Japan Formula Three Championship (in Japanese). Japanese Formula 3 Association. 13 May 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
^ "Japanese Formula 3 Championship – Championship Class 2011". driverdb.com. Driver Database. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^ "Cars admitted" (PDF). Grand Prix de Pau. Alkamel Systems. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 August 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
^ "Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix Provisional Entry List". macau.grandprix.gov.mo. Macau Grand Prix. 6 October 2011. Archived from the original on 18 November 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
^ "Japanese Formula 3 Championship – Championship Class 2012". driverdb.com. Driver Database. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^ "KCMG unveils Richard Bradley as Super Formula driver for 2013". KCMG. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

External links

Official website
Richard Bradley career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Rio Haryanto	Formula BMW Pacific Champion 2010	Succeeded by Lucas Auer (JK Racing Asia Series)

[1] "Profile". richardbradleymotorsport.com. Richard Bradley. Archived from the original on 15 November 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

[2] "CIK-FIA European Championship – SKF & KF1 2009". drivedb.com. Driver Database. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

[3] "Formula BMW Pacific 2010". Driver Database. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

[4] 開幕ラウンド占有走行 [Travel round the opening possession]. All-Japan Formula Three Championship (in Japanese). Japanese Formula 3 Association. 13 May 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2011.

[5] "Japanese Formula 3 Championship – Championship Class 2011". driverdb.com. Driver Database. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

[6] "Cars admitted" (PDF). Grand Prix de Pau. Alkamel Systems. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 August 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2011.

[7] "Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix Provisional Entry List". macau.grandprix.gov.mo. Macau Grand Prix. 6 October 2011. Archived from the original on 18 November 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2011.

[8] "Japanese Formula 3 Championship – Championship Class 2012". driverdb.com. Driver Database. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

[9] "KCMG unveils Richard Bradley as Super Formula driver for 2013". KCMG. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

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