Richard Westbrook

Quick Facts

Full Name	Richard Westbrook
Occupation	Racing Automobile Driver
Date Of Birth	Jul 10, 1975(1975-07-10)
Age	49
Birthplace	Chelmsford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Cancer

Richard Westbrook Biography

Richard Westbrook is one of the most popular and richest Racing Automobile Driver who was born on July 10, 1975 in Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom. Richard Westbrook, a British professional racing driver, was born 10 July 1975. He is known for his success racing Porsche and International sports cars. He attended St Joseph’s College in Ipswich as a junior. He won the Porsche Supercup International Championship in 2006 and 2007 as well as the Porsche Carrera Cup (2004) in his native Britain. Richard signed a factory deal with Porsche at the end of 2007. The British ace went on to compete against the best from the other side. In 2009, Westbrook won four victories in FIA GT2 Championship. This placed him on the World motorsport stage and among the elite ranks of sports car drivers.

After missing the first pair of Austrian races because of a late deal, Westbrook defeated Tim Bergmeister, a German racer, and a host local drivers to win two victories in 1996. The final two rounds were canceled due to budgetary problems.

Having done a few Supercup races in 2002 with Kadach Racing Team and in 2003 with Porsche Cars Great Britain, he returned in 2005 in a Lechner Racing School Team prepared Porsche in rounds which did not clash with his UK commitments. He won the season opener in Bahrain and came 9th overall, adding a fastest lap to his tally too.

Having been unable to secure the budget required to compete and advance his career, Westbrook was forced to take a lengthy six-year break from racing, before convincing a friend to loan him the money to buy a Porsche GT3 Cup Car for the 2002 season.

After a successful 1993 Formula Vauxhall Winter Series campaign (2nd place, 1 win), he traveled to Europe to compete at the Formula Opel Lotus Euroseries. He had a promising debut in 1993, finishing 4th in the series with 1 win. In 1995, he returned to the series and won three more victories. However, he was just short of third.

Richard Westbrook Net Worth

Richard Westbrook is one of the richest Racing Automobile Driver from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Westbrook 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After numerous successes with Porsches, Westbrook signed for the German marque to be the first British Porsche factory driver since Derek Bell back in the 1980s. He participated in a worldwide program that included the FIA GT Championship, Le Mans Series(Farnbacher Racing), and American Le Mans Series. He was the only driver to win at most one race in each of these three categories. He competed in three 24-hour races: Spa 24h (Prospeed Competition GT2 – 6th), Daytona 24h [TRG – GT – 2nd), and Dubai 24 Hours (“Proton Competition A6”).

Born in Chelmsford in 1986, Westbrook started karting at the age of five and gained many titles and wins over the following five years. He won the British Karting Championship in 1990 and captained the British team to the World Championship at Le Mans.

In 1996 Westbrook moved up to Formula 3 and headed for the highly competitive German Formula 3 Series (with Tokmakidis Motorsport) and the Austrian Formula 3 Cup (Achletiner Motorsport). In German F3, he was up against a number of European drivers, including future F1 stars like Nick Heidfeld and Jarno Trulli and he took one win in a short campaign.

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In 2009 Westbrook drove for VICI Racing (T-Mobile VICI Racing) in the American Le Mans Series (including the Sebring 12h) and for Prospeed Competition in the FIA GT Championship. In his first ALMS race of the year he finished fourth at Long Beach, alongside Johannes Stuck. However, it was in the FIA GT Championship where he would achieve his biggest success, winning the GT2 class overall after victories at Silverstone (UK), Adria (Italy), Hungaroring (Hungary) and Zolder (Belgium) backed up by second places in Algarve (Portugal) and Paul Ricard (France), in a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR (997). In the same year he also made appearances in International GT Open, ADAC GT Masters, Rolex Sports Car Series (including the Daytona 24h – 15th), Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland, Porsche Supercup, and Belgian GT.

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Richard Ranked on the list of most popular Racing Automobile Driver. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Richard Westbrook celebrates birthday on July 10 of every year.

There were also outings for Westbrook in the Le Mans Series for Prospeed Competition, but it was his stand-out star performances in a Matech Ford GT1 during the final six rounds of the 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship that would turn heads, taking three podiums alongside Thomas Mutsch.