Live: WRC champion & F1, Prodrive and Motorsport UK boss David Richards #315
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Live from the Bicester Scramble, Andrew Frankel and Dan Prosser interview motorsport legend David Richards about his long and varied career.
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| 0:00.0 | So please welcome to the stage, Mr David Richards CBE. |
| 0:08.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:15.0 | Thank you, Andrew. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome, David. |
| 0:18.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:19.0 | Thanks everybody for turning up. |
| 0:20.0 | I thought I was just coming for an interview with you two guys. I didn't know this was going on. Ignore them, ignore them, they're not here. There's so much that we want to talk about, David. I think we've got four hours of your time today. Okay. We've got a GT race at Silverstone later. Oh, okay. Well, listen, let's start in Scotland. |
| 0:39.3 | You were in Scotland a few weeks ago to announce Rally Scotland for next year, a new round of the World Rally Championship. |
| 0:46.3 | How pleased are you that Britain is once again hosting the world's best rally drivers? |
| 0:50.3 | Well, it's a great moment for us all because it was very sad when we lost the world |
| 0:56.1 | championship in Wales. |
| 0:57.1 | It was, you know, consequence of all sorts of local things. |
| 1:00.1 | I can understand. |
| 1:01.1 | It's been there for many, many years and served a great purpose. |
| 1:05.3 | But anyone who loves rallying and really wants to see the rally come back to the UK. And it's the hard work of the team here at Motorsport, UK, has been quite incredible. |
| 1:15.2 | It's a major undertaking to bring a world championship rally to any country in the world. |
| 1:20.8 | You've got to raise an awful lot of money to do it. |
| 1:23.3 | And in this day and AIDS, that's not so easy. |
| 1:26.5 | But it has a great halo effect it's not just about |
| 1:30.6 | bringing the world championship back to UK it's about what it does for grassroots motorsport as |
| 1:35.0 | well it's you know the encouragement it gets to everyone to start a little 12 car club rallies you |
| 1:40.2 | and and that's what I'm more interested in but now I'm really looking forward to going back to Aberdeen next year and seeing the World Championship come then. |
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