Tim Richmond

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tim Richmond
Occupation	Race Car Driver
Date Of Birth	Jun 7, 1955(1955-06-07)
Age	69
Date Of Death	1989-08-13
Birthplace	Ashland
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Gemini

Tim Richmond Biography

Tim Richmond is one of the most popular and richest Race Car Driver who was born on June 7, 1955 in Ashland, Ohio, United States. Fan fan in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series who won numerous championships and led an extremely well-known life outside of the track.

Tom Cruise played Cole Trickle, a character loosely based on Richmond, in the 1990 film Days of Thunder. played Cole Trickle, a character that was loosely based on Richmond in the film of the same name from 1990. Days of Thunder.

Richmond excelled in sports; he set a conference record in high hurdles and his high school football career was stellar enough that the academy retired his sports jersey after his gridiron days were over. Miami Military Academy named him Athlete of the Year in 1970. Richmond’s other interests included flying, and he earned his private pilot license at age 16. Following high school graduation, Richmond attended Ashland University for about one year before dropping out.

A friend of Richmond’s father co-owned a sprint car and Richmond joined the team as a crew member for Dave Shoemaker. In 1976, 21-year-old Richmond took the car onto Lakeville Speedway at Lakeville, Ohio for some practice laps. “Somebody put a stopwatch on me,” Richmond said. “I was running laps faster than Dave had been. It was the first time I had ever driven a race car.” Richmond and his father found a red, white and blue-colored No. 98 car in Pennsylvania, which was the same number and paint scheme that Richmond used on model cars as a child. In his first competition at the track, officials placed Richmond in the slowest heat. He passed several cars before spinning out and breaking an axle. Although he made several attempts to get the car pointed in the right direction, the broken axle prevented the car from driving straight. After being towed to the pits, he parked the car for the rest of the event. Later that season, they towed the car to Eldora Speedway, only to have Richmond crash the car again. In response, Richmond’s father fired him as the driver. The next season, Al Richmond bought a SuperModified better suited to his son’s driving style. In 1977 Tim Richmond became both Sandusky Speedway’s Rookie of the Year and the SuperModified class track champion.

He was born living in Ashland, Ohio.

Tim Richmond Net Worth

Tim Richmond is one of the richest Race Car Driver from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tim Richmond 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

With 13 wins and with 78 Top Ten finishes over his eight years of racing In 1998, he has been named as one of NASCAR’s fifty Greatest Drivers of All Time in 1998.

He was among the first NASCAR drivers to move out of open wheel race to standard cars, paving the way for other drivers.

Timothy Lee Richmond (June 7, 1955 – August 13, 1989) was an American race car driver from Ashland, Ohio. He competed in IndyCar racing before transferring to NASCAR’s Winston Cup Series. Richmond was one of the first drivers to change from open wheel racing to NASCAR stock cars full-time, which later became an industry trend. He won the 1980 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year award and had 13 victories during eight NASCAR seasons.

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Who is Tim Richmond Dating?

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Richmond raced for three teams in 1981. He started the season by competing in 15 events for Ulrich. He had his first career top 10 finish, taking tenth place at Bristol Motor Speedway, soon followed by a sixth at Talladega and a seventh-place finish at Texas World Speedway. After Kennie Childers hired him away from Ulrich mid-season, Richmond had top 10 finishes at Pocono and Bristol. For the final seven races of the season, he drove for Bob Rogers and had a top 10 finish at Dover International Speedway. Overall for the season, Richmond had six top 10 finishes to place 16th in season points.

Facts & Trivia

Tim Ranked on the list of most popular Race Car Driver. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tim Richmond celebrates birthday on June 7 of every year.

In 1983, Richmond began racing for Raymond Beadle whom he had known before he started racing. He returned to the three-cornered Pocono racetrack, earning his first oval victory. During the season, he accumulated four pole positions (Darlington, Pocono, Charlotte, and Atlanta), one win (Pocono), and fifteen top 10s on his way to finishing tenth in season points. He made his first appearance in a NASCAR Busch Series car, but did not finish any of the three races he entered that season.

Is Tim Richmond Arca related to Tim Richmond?

Yes, that’s really his name. Tim Richmond is of no relation to the late NASCAR Cup Series driver from the 1980s, beyond attempting to carve out a career path as a stock car racer, as well.

Who is Tim Richmond in the ARCA series?

Timothy Richmond (born September 12, 1998) is an American professional stock car racing driver who competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series driving the No. 27 car for his team, Richmond Motorsports. Statistics current as of February 12, 2021.

Is Tim Richmond dead?

August 13, 1989

Was Tim Richmond ever married?

A former beauty queen and actress says race car driver Tim Richmond infected her with the AIDS virus the night he proposed marriage , three years before he died of the disease.

Is Days of Thunder based on Tim Richmond?

The character was largely based on Dale Earnhardt, and Cruise’s Cole Trickle was a sketch of Tim Richmond. Randy Quaid was a slicker version of the team owner Rick Hendrick, and Robert Duvall’s crew chief Hogge was, as Hendrick said, “a better Harry Hyde than Harry Hyde ever was. That just blew me away.”