Richie Stanaway

Richie Stanaway
Richie during 2022 Bathurst 1000 Qualifying
Nationality	New Zealander
Born	24 November 1991 (1991-11-24) (age 32) Tauranga, New Zealand
Racing licence	FIA Platinum
Supercars Championship career
Car number	26
Current team	Grove Racing
Championships	0
Races	85
Wins	2
Podiums	4
Pole positions	0
2023 position	26th

Richard Stanaway (born 24 November 1991) is a racing car driver from New Zealand. He currently competes full-time in the Supercars Championship, driving the No. 26 Ford Mustang GT for Grove Racing.

Career

New Zealand

Born in Tauranga, Stanaway was originally from a motocross background, before making the switch to speedway at the age of twelve. Following that came a brief foray into kart racing prior to making his formula car debut in 2007 after being selected for the New Zealand SpeedSport Scholarship. He competed in the 2007/08 Formula First championship finishing third overall as the highest placed rookie.

Stanaway then made the jump to the New Zealand Formula Ford Championship with Hamilton-based, debutant team TSR Racing alongside team-mate Martin Short. Prior to National championship he raced in the winter series to prepare, winning numerous races in the process with the newly imported Mygale chassis. Stanaway won the 2008/09 New Zealand Formula Ford Championship with fourteen race wins, becoming only the second driver in history to win the title as a rookie.

He then competed in the 2009 Australian Formula Ford Championship with Adelaide-based, Team BRM, making their debut in the Formula Ford championship after a long history of Formula 3 experience. During his Australian Formula Ford campaign in April 2009, Stanaway made his debut in New Zealand's Toyota Racing Series during a one-off appearance on the Hamilton 400 street circuit, scoring both pole positions and winning both races on debut. He then had to pull out halfway through the Australian Formula Ford Championship to take up testing and racing opportunities in the ADAC Formula Masters Championship in Germany. Despite missing six of the races, Richie finished sixth place in the 2009 Australian Formula Ford Championship taking one race win and six podium finishes.

Europe

In July 2009 Stanaway took up a testing opportunity at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz with Ma-Con Motorsport, a German team competing in the ADAC Formula Masters Championship. The test was organised by Tauranga businessman Maurice O' Reilly, a past investor of New Zealand Indy 500 winner, and Indycar series champion Scott Dixon. Stanaway impressed and was offered a race seat for the remaining six races of the 2009 ADAC Formula Masters Championship held at Nürburgring, Sachsenring and Oschersleben. The required budget was raised through a group of investors and on 22 August 2009 Richie made his European debut at the famous Nürburgring circuit. During the six races, he scored two pole positions and numerous podium finishes, and following the signing of a management contract with RRT Holdings, headed by businessman Martin Reiss, the decision was made to return to contest the full ADAC Formula Masters Championship in 2010.

For the 2010 ADAC Formula Masters Championship Stanaway dominated proceedings, taking twelve race wins and finished no lower than second place throughout the whole championship. Following that he completed tests with 2010 Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup championship winning team, Koiranen Bros. Motorsport at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya, also a test with ATS-Formel 3 cup (German Formula 3) team Van Amersfoort Racing in Oschersleben, and a thorough testing programme with Tech-1 racing in Formula Renault 2.0. Richie then made his racing debut in the United Kingdom, competing in the Formula Renault UK winter cup with Atech-GP which took place at Snetterton and Pembrey, he took a race win and numerous podium placings over the six race series.

Richie was then released from his management contract with Martin Reiss to then sign with Gravity Sport Management, a management group headed by Lotus-Renault Formula One team principal Eric Boullier, and contested the 2011 ATS-Formel 3 cup (German Formula 3) with Dutch team Van Amersfoort Racing. He replaced Pedro Nunes for the remainder of the 2011 GP3 Series season with the pace-setters, Lotus ART, he will begin at the penultimate round of the championship in Belgium. He finished 8th in the first race and therefore started from pole in the second, where he kept the lead and won the race.

In November 2011 Stanaway tested the new BMW M3 DTM car as one of three young drivers and then in December he tested for Formula Renault 3.5 Series team Gravity–Charouz Racing in the invite-only test ^[1] at Aragon, Spain where he topped the times on the first two days and finished the three-day test with the fastest overall time. ^[2]

Touring Cars

Stanaway contested the 2018 Supercars Championship driving a Ford Falcon FG X for Tickford Racing

He made his Supercars debut for Super Black Racing in 2016, co-driving with Chris Pither in the Pirtek Enduro Cup series. He impressed on debut in Sandown, fighting his way from a pit-stop down up to 3rd with slick tyres on a damp track. His team were caught out by a safety car and would eventually drop to 17th and one lap down. In 2017 Stanaway competed in the Sydney round of the Super2 Series, winning the final race. He then drove in the Pirtek Enduro Cup with Cam Waters, winning the Sandown 500 from pole position. They then lead the Bathurst 1000 before an incident on a restart after the safety car, breaking the rear wing. They repaired the car and they went on to finish 16th, 3 laps down. They also finished in 2nd the first race of the Gold Coast 600, but suffered steering damage in the second race, resulting in a finish position of 21st. It was announced in early December that Stanaway will drive full-time in the Supercars Championship with Tickford Racing.

In 2019 he moved to Garry Rogers Motorsport after a poor season in 2018. He aggravated a previous neck injury and missed seven races ^[3] making a return at The Bend SuperSprint. At the Gold Coast 600 he was stood down for missing an autograph signing ^[4] but reinstated at the next round at Sandown. After a difficult two years in Supercars, Stanaway retired from the sport in November 2019. ^[5]

In 2021, Peter Adderton from Boost Mobile floated the idea of running a Wildcard entry for Stanaway and four time Bathurst winner Greg Murphy in the upcoming Bathurst 1000. The idea gained massive fan support, helping to convince Stanaway and Murphy to return for the first time since 2019 and 2014 respectively. On 8 June 2021 it was confirmed that the two would return in an Erebus Motorsport run Boost Mobile supported entry. ^[6] On 12 November 2021 the wildcard was postponed due to travel restrictions between Australia & New Zealand. In late April 2022 Erebus Motorsport confirmed that the Wildcard would be revived for the upcoming Bathurst 1000. ^[7] There were plans to run Stanaway & Murphy in solo events prior to Bathurst but those plans fell through, the two had three test days prior to the 1000 with the first set to be run at Winton Motor Raceway on 7 June.

In 2023 he would join Triple Eight to partner Shane van Gisbergen for the Supercars Enduro races, as well as to race in GT World Challenge Australia and GT World Challenge Asia. ^{[8] [9]} He would score 2 podiums in GT and 2 podiums in Supercars, including victory at the Bathurst 1000. ^[10] On 21 August it was announced that he would be driving full-time for Grove Racing in 2024. ^[11]

Racing record

Karting career

Season	Series	Position
2007	New Zealand Top Half Series - Rotex Light	10th
	New Zealand Top Half Series - Formula Junior	17th

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2007	Formula First Manfeild Winter Series		3	0	0	1	1	170	14th
2007-08	OEM Supply NZ Formula First Championship	Sabre Motorsport	24	4	1	5	18	1368	3rd
2008	Formula Ford Manfeild Winter Series	TSR Racing	9	5	1	3	7	610	3rd
	Australian Formula Ford Championship	GForce Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2008-09	New Zealand Formula Ford Championship	TSR Racing	21	11	3	4	15	1215	1st
2009	Australian Formula Ford Championship	Team BRM	16	1	0	2	6	164	6th
	ADAC Formel Masters	ma-con motorsport	6	0	1	0	2	52	8th
	Toyota Racing Series - Hamilton 400 Trophy		2	2	2	1	2	150	1st
2010	ADAC Formel Masters	ma-con motorsport	18	12	2	9	17	315	1st
	Formula Renault UK Winter Cup	Atech GP	6	1	0	1	3	99	5th
	Toyota Racing Series	ETEC Motorsport	6	1	0	2	3	362	10th
2011	German Formula 3 Championship	Van Amersfoort Racing	18	13	10	8	16	181	1st
	GP3 Series	Lotus ART	4	1	0	0	1	7	20th
2012	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Lotus	5	0	0	0	0	8	22nd
2013	Porsche Supercup	DAMS	9	0	0	0	0	43	12th
	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	6	0	0	1	1	27.75	19th
	Rolex Sports Car Series - GT		1	0	0	0	0	27	79th
2014	GP3 Series	Status Grand Prix	18	2	1	1	5	125	8th
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Lotus	4	0	0	0	1	21	18th
	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Am	Aston Martin Racing	3	0	0	1	3	54	10th
2015	GP2 Series	Status Grand Prix	18	2	0	0	2	60	10th
	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing V8	7	1	3	1	1	78	9th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Pro		1	0	1	1	0	N/A	6th
	European Le Mans Series - GTC	TF Sport	1	0	0	0	0	10	11th
	24 Hours of Nürburgring - SP9	Aston Martin Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	14th
2016	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	7	1	0	0	3	88	7th
	European Le Mans Series - GTE		1	0	1	0	1	16	15th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Pro		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	6th
	24 Hours of Nürburgring - SP9		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
	International V8 Supercars Championship	Super Black Racing	4	0	0	0	0	324	44th
2017	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	3	0	0	0	0	32	14th
	Super2 Series	Prodrive Racing Australia	4	1	0	1	3	188	25th
	Supercars Championship		4	1	0	0	2	594	28th
2018	Supercars Championship	Tickford Racing	31	0	0	0	0	1214	25th
2019	Supercars Championship	Garry Rogers Motorsport	23	0	0	0	0	1146	24th
2022	Supercars Championship	Erebus Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	144	42nd
2023	GT World Challenge Australia - Pro-Am	Triple Eight Race Engineering - JMR	4	0	0	0	2	45	11th
	GT World Challenge Asia - GT3	Triple Eight JMR	4	0	0	0	0	6	37th
	Supercars Championship	Triple Eight Race Engineering	2	1	0	0	2	558	26th
	Intercontinental GT Challenge	Grove Racing	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2024	Supercars Championship	Grove Racing	20	0	0	0	0	1267*	17th*

Complete GP3 Series results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	Points
2011	Lotus ART	IST FEA	IST SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	NÜR FEA	NÜR SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA 8	SPA SPR 1	MNZ FEA 10	MNZ SPR 19			20th	7
2014	Status Grand Prix	CAT FEA 3	CAT SPR 4	RBR FEA 4	RBR SPR 3	SIL FEA 7	SIL SPR 1	HOC FEA 13	HOC SPR 7	HUN FEA 1	HUN SPR 6	SPA FEA 7	SPA SPR 2	MNZ FEA 9	MNZ SPR Ret	SOC FEA 12	SOC SPR Ret	YMC FEA 12	YMC SPR 7	8th	125

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Pos	Points
2012	Lotus	ALC 1 Ret	ALC 2 6	MON 1 Ret	SPA 1 NC	SPA 2 Ret	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	MSC 1	MSC 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	HUN 1	HUN 2	LEC 1	LEC 2	CAT 1	CAT 2	22nd	8
2014	Lotus	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	ALC 1	ALC 2	MON 1	SPA 1 Ret	SPA 2 8	MSC 1 9	MSC 2 3	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	HUN 1	HUN 2	LEC 1	LEC 2	JER 1	JER 2	18th	21

Complete Porsche Supercup results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
2013	DAMS	CAT 9	MON 7	SIL 13	NÜR 10	HUN Ret	SPA 13	MNZ Ret	YMC 17	YMC 4	12th	43

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2013	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL	SPA 6	LMS	SÃO 5	COA Ret	FUJ 6	SHA 2	BHR Ret		19th	27.75
2014	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Am	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL	SPA 2	LMS	COA 2	FUJ	SHA 2	BHR	SÃO		10th	54
2015	Aston Martin Racing V8	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 6	SPA 1	LMS 9	NÜR 5	COA 4	FUJ	SHA 5	BHR 7		9th	78
2016	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL Ret	SPA 3	LMS 3	NÜR 5	MEX 1	COA	FUJ 6	SHA Ret	BHR	7th	88
2017	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 6	SPA 8	LMS 5	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	14th	32

Complete GP2 Series results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2015	Status Grand Prix	BHR FEA 15	BHR SPR 11	CAT FEA 10	CAT SPR 19	MON FEA 7	MON SPR 1	RBR FEA 23	RBR SPR 15	SIL FEA Ret	SIL SPR 13	HUN FEA 21	HUN SPR 13	SPA FEA 18	SPA SPR 13	MNZ FEA 4	MNZ SPR 4	SOC FEA 7	SOC SPR 1	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	10th	60

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2015	Aston Martin Racing V8	Fernando Rees Alex MacDowall	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	320	34th	6th
2016	Aston Martin Racing	Jonathan Adam Fernando Rees	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	337	24th	6th
2017	Aston Martin Racing	Nicki Thiim Marco Sørensen	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	334	25th	9th

Complete European Le Mans Series results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Rank	Points
2015	TF Sport	GTC	Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL	IMO	RBR	LEC	EST 5		11th	10
2016	Aston Martin Racing	GTE	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 3	IMO	RBR	LEC	SPA	EST	15th	16

Supercars Championship results

Supercars results
Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	Position	Points
2016	Super Black Racing	Ford FG X Falcon	ADE R1	ADE R2	ADE R3	SYM R4	SYM R5	PHI R6	PHI R7	BAR R8	BAR R9	WIN R10 PO	WIN R11 PO	HID R12	HID R13	TOW R14	TOW R15	QLD R16	QLD R17	SMP R18	SMP R19	SAN QR EX	SAN R20 17	BAT R21 12	SUR R22 10	SUR R23 Ret	PUK R24	PUK R25	PUK R26	PUK R27	SYD R28	SYD R29					44th	324
2017	Prodrive Racing Australia	Ford FG X Falcon	ADE R1	ADE R2	SYM R3	SYM R4	PHI R5	PHI R6	BAR R7	BAR R8	WIN R9	WIN R10	HID R11	HID R12	TOW R13	TOW R14	QLD R15 PO	QLD R16 PO	SMP R17	SMP R18	SAN QR 3	SAN R19 1	BAT R20 16	SUR R21 2	SUR R22 21	PUK R23	PUK R24	NEW R25	NEW R26								28th	594
2018	Tickford Racing	Ford FG X Falcon	ADE R1 Ret	ADE R2 20	MEL R3 24	MEL R4 Ret	MEL R5 25	MEL R6 18	SYM R7 25	SYM R8 Ret	PHI R9 19	PHI R10 20	BAR R11 24	BAR R12 19	WIN R13 22	WIN R14 9	HID R15 23	HID R16 19	TOW R17 23	TOW R18 20	QLD R19 12	QLD R20 18	SMP R21 21	BEN R22 22	BEN R23 22	SAN QR 17	SAN R24 20	BAT R25 22	SUR R26 Ret	SUR R27 C	PUK R28 23	PUK R29 20	NEW R30 17	NEW R31 23			25th	1214
2019	Garry Rogers Motorsport	Holden ZB Commodore	ADE R1 18	ADE R2 18	MEL R3 17	MEL R4 21	MEL R5 DSQ	MEL R6 21	SYM R7 16	SYM R8 19	PHI R9 14	PHI R10 23	BAR R11 22	BAR R12 21	WIN R13 25	WIN R14 WD	HID R15	HID R16	TOW R17	TOW R18	QLD R19	QLD R20	BEN R21 16	BEN R22 24	PUK R23 10	PUK R24 9	BAT R25 12	SUR R26 23	SUR R27	SAN QR 19	SAN R28 14	NEW R29 16	NEW R30 15				24th	1146
2022	Erebus Motorsport	Holden ZB Commodore	SMP R1	SMP R2	SYM R3	SYM R4	SYM R5	MEL R6	MEL R7	MEL R8	MEL R9	BAR R10	BAR R11	BAR R12	WIN R13	WIN R14	WIN R15	HID R16	HID R17	HID R18	TOW R19	TOW R20	BEN R21	BEN R22	BEN R23	SAN R24	SAN R25	SAN R26	PUK R27	PUK R28	PUK R29	BAT R30 11	SUR R31	SUR R32	NEW R33	NEW R34	42nd	144
2023	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1	NEW R1	NEW R2	MEL R3	MEL R4	MEL R5	MEL R6	BAR R7	BAR R8	BAR R9	SYM R10	SYM R11	SYM R12	HID R13	HID R14	HID R15	TOW R16	TOW R17	SMP R18	SMP R19	BEN R20	BEN R21	BEN R22	SAN R23 3	BAT R24 1	SUR R25	SUR R26	ADE R27	ADE R28							26th	558
2024	Grove Racing	Ford Mustang GT	BAT1 R1 4	BAT1 R2 11	MEL R3 12	MEL R4 13	MEL R5 7	MEL R6 8	TAU R7 6	TAU R8 10	BAR R9 24	BAR R10 12	HID R11 14	HID R12 10	TOW R13 14	TOW R14 14	SMP R15 16	SMP R16 21	SYM R17 16	SYM R18 17	SAN R19 Ret	BAT R20 9	SUR R21	SUR R22	ADE R23	ADE R24											17th*	1267*

Bathurst 1000 results

Stanaway's entry for the 2022 Bathurst 1000.

Year	Team	Car	Co-Driver	Position	Lap
2016	Super Black Racing	Ford Falcon FG X	Chris Pither	12th	161
2017	Prodrive Racing Australia	Ford Falcon FG X	Cameron Waters	16th	159
2018	Tickford Racing	Ford Falcon FG X	Steve Owen	22nd	152
2019	Garry Rogers Motorsport	Holden Commodore ZB	Chris Pither	12th	161
2022	Erebus Motorsport	Holden Commodore ZB	Greg Murphy	11th	161
2023	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6	Shane van Gisbergen	1st	161
2024	Grove Racing	Ford Mustang S650	Dale Wood	9th	161

References

1. "50 drivers gather for last 2011 test". 30 November 2011. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
2. Speedcafe.com (29 November 2011). "Kiwi Stanaway tops Formula Renault test". Speedcafe.com. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
3. Howard, Tom (29 May 2019). "Stanaway to undergo neck treatment". Speedcafe.com. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
4. Howard, Tom (26 October 2019). "Stanaway stood down by GRM at GC600". Speedcafe.com. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
5. Howard, Tom (24 November 2019). "Stanaway 'calls it a day' on motorsport career". Speedcafe.com. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
6. Supercars.com (8 June 2021). "Bathurst return: Murphy and Stanaway to race Erebus Boost wildcard". Supercars Championship . Archived from the original on 10 November 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
7. Supercars.com (30 April 2022). "Murphy/Stanaway Bathurst wildcard revived". Supercars Championship . Archived from the original on 10 November 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
8. "Stanaway joins Australian GT field for Perth". motorsport.com. 26 April 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
9. "Stanaway embracing SVG co-driver pressure | Supercars". supercars.com. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
10. "SVG's parting promise to fanatical Bathurst fans". wwos.nine.com.au. 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
11. "Grove confirms Stanaway Supercars signing after Reynolds exit; Percat leaves WAU". autosport.com. 21 August 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.

External links

• Official website
• Richie Stanaway career summary at DriverDB.com
• Richie Stanaway driver statistics at Racing-Reference

Sporting positions
Preceded by Daniel Abt	ADAC Formel Masters Champion 2010	Succeeded by Pascal Wehrlein
Preceded by Tom Dillmann	German Formula Three Champion 2011	Succeeded by Jimmy Eriksson