Profile
Team: TOM’S
2011 Season: All-Japan Formula 3 Championship
Age: 19
DOB: 17 August 1991
Height: 1.88m
Nationality: English
Residence: Singapore
First Race: 2000, Cadet Kart
Heroes: Michael Schumacher, Jaime Alguersuari, Robert Kubica
Goals: To win both the Le Mans 24-hour Endurance Race and the Formula 1 World Championship
About Richard Bradley
Although 2010 is his first season in formula cars, that didn’t stop 2010 Formula BMW Pacific champion Richard Bradley from leading the Drivers’ Championship and Rookie Cup right from the start. After seven victories in five race meetings, Bradley clinched the overall Formula BMW Pacific Drivers’ Championship and Rookie Cup titles.
Having only raced competitively in karts previously, Bradley is a renowed multiple British kart racing champion who has raced at KF1 (Karting Formula 1), the highest level of karting. Since he first started karting at the age of eight, Bradley has gone on to win several titles, including the 2008 British Open Championship. He became the youngest ever winner of a Formula A S1 MSA British Kart Championship round at the age of 15 years and 8 months and had three Top 6 finishes in the 2009 CIK FIA Super KF1 European Championship. In addition, he was a CIK-FIA sponsored young driver in the 2009 CIK-FIA Super KF1 World Cup and CIK-FIA Super KF1 World Championship.
Bradley made a spectacular debut in his rookie single-seater season at the opening rounds of the Formula BMW Pacific Championship which were held as support races to the Formula 1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix. Clinching back-to-back victories in Rounds 1 and 2, Richard qualified in pole position and set the fastest lap times for his first two ever single-seater races. His pole position time was a new record in a Formula BMW at Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia.
Away from the track, Bradley continues to be an inspiration to aspiring race drivers and fellow motorsports enthusiasts. Chosen as the ambassador for F1 in Schools in Singapore, Bradley advocates the importance of technical and engineering knowledge in motorsports, and has also given talks on his racing experiences at community events like the K1 Karting Series 2010.
For 2011, Richard has progressed to Formula 3 and will be racing in the 2011 All-Japan Formula 3 Championship with TOM’S, the performance and racing arm of Japanese automotive brands Toyota and Lexus. This is his debut F3 season.
About TOM’S (www.tomsracing.co.jp)
Established in 1974, TOM’S Co. Ltd. specialises in the tuning of Toyota engines and other touring car components, competition parts as well as in the development and sale of semi-Toyota genuine parts. TOM’S is also the appointed works racing team of Toyota Motor Corporation and has scored a number of notable successes both in Japan and abroad.
TOM’S has an impressive F3 track record, with remarkable successes in its history of F3 since 1985. It won 14 out of 16 races in the 1988 British F3 Championship with drivers such as 1996 F1 champion Damon Hill and former F1 drivers Martin Donnelly and J.J. Lehto. Subsequently, TOM’S won the All-Japan F3 Championship for the first time in 1991 and has won it 14 times (1991, 1993 – 1995, 1997 – 1999, 2003, 2005 – 2010) to date.
Former All-Japan F3 champions TOM’S have groomed include eight-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen, two-time All-Japan GT champion Michael Krumm, former F1 driver Pedro de la Rosa, 2010 Australian Touring Car Champion James Courtney and F1 driver Adrian Sutil. TOM’S has also won the prestigious Macau Grand Prix five times (1992, 1998 – 1999, 2007 – 2008).
