Sponsored Driver Information: Patrick Richard

Subaru Rally Team Canada

Vehicle:	2008 Impreza WRX STI
Engine:	2.5 L horizontally opposed Subaru Boxer, 16V Turbo
Heads:	High flow "big port"16V JDM heads
Compression Ratio:	>10.0:1
Power/Torque:	> 500 ft-lbs at 3500 rpm, max HP "undisclosed"
Fuel:	109 unleaded
Engine Management:	Autronic SM4 tuned by Rocket Rally
Transmission:	Subaru 6 speed Manual with Dogbox
Differentials:	Subaru STI Plated Front and Rear Subaru STI DCCD
Center Active Differential:	Rocket Rally Center Differential Controller
Clutch:	ACT 6 puck racing clutch
Exhaust:	Custom 3" Quick Release Rally Exhaust with Catalytic Converter
Steering Rack:	Quick Ratio Steering Rack
Roll Cage:	FIA Homologated T45Multi-point Group N
Seats:	OMP Carbon Fibre FIA Homologated
Safety Harness:	OMP 6 point with cam lock quick release
Fire Cell:	Fuel Safe 80 Litre Fuel Cell
Carbon Panels:	M-Tech Composites Door Cards & Underbody Protection
Rally Lights:	Vision X HID Lights in M-Tech composites Carbon Pod

Patrick Richard, driver for Subaru Rally Team Canada, Founded Rocket Rally Racing in late 1999, Rocket Rally Racing was originally focused around managing the driving career of Patrick Richard After successfully competing Nationally, then Internationally, then at the World Championship level, Rocket Rally has now expanded its core business to offer products and services to other rally drivers and teams. Rocket Rally Racing is the only rally-specific preparation and parts shop in Western Canada.

"We had a lot of folks asking us to help them with technical and/or marketing activities, and officially opening up our doors was a natural extension of where we were," explained Richard. "We already had the equipment and the know how - our international experience and our winning track record is what our whole business is based upon. So it was just a matter of getting the word out there that we were willing to work on customer cars. Plus we have a network of specialists that we can tap into that no one in the North American market really has access to."

Competing in the 2009 Canadian Rally Championship. Running Rocket Rally Racing of Squamish, British Columbia.
 

Overall Rally Championship Titles

• 2009 CRC Championship
• 2008 CRC Championship
• 2005 Rallly America National Champion
• 2004 Rally America National Champion
• 2004 Canadian National Champion
• 2004 North America Rally Champion
• 2002 Canadian National Champion

Open Class (Unlimited Modifications) Rally Championship Titles

• 2004 Canadian National Open Class Champion

Group N (International Production Class) Rally Championship Titles

• 2005 Rally America Group N Champion
• 2004 Rally America Group N Champion
• 2004 North American Group N Champion
• 2002 North American Group N Champion
• 2002 Canadian Group N Champion
• Pikes' Peak International Hillclimb Group N Record Breaker (2004)

Production GT (North American Production Class) Rally Championship Titles

• 2000 Canadian PGT Champion
• 2000 SCCA ProRally PGT Champion
• 2000 North American PGT Champion

Other notable achievements

• First rally was summer of 1999
• Was picked up by Subaru Canada 6 months after his first rally !
• 1995 North American Boardercross Champion (Snowboarding)
• Winner, International Sezoens Rally, Belgium (tarmac)
• 1st North American to ever score points in WRC Production Cup
• Led every gravel round of British Peugeot 206 Super Cup
• Won stages on every round of British Peugeot 206 Super Cup (including tarmac)
• Fastest Grp N car, Rally GB 2002, barring mechanical failuers
• First time ever driving a Group N car - finished 22 seconds off of British champion Mark     Lovell in Factory backed Open Class car
• Never beaten by current crop of top drivers in American or Canadian Rally      Championships