Richard Britton (1970-2005) was one of Ireland's leading Motorcycle Road Racers before his untimely death at Ballybunnion road races on September 18th 2005.

Born in 1970, Richard was married to Maria and had one son, Loris whom he called after the Moto GP star Loris Capirossi. Richards racing career began when he raced in Irelands Clubman series where he won the 400cc class and in 1998 he moved to race on pure road circuits where he was sponsored by Alan Gregg of the Schimmell race team. At the end of that year he won the first of his four Regal 600 Championships but an accident at the start of the 1999 season meant he had to sit most of the season through injury. In 2000 Richard was taken under the wing of new sponsor PJ O'Kane and was drafted into the O'Kane racing team. The next two seasons saw him continue his winning ways again taking both of the Regal 600 championships. With new machinery for 2002 again, and for the first time in Irish history, Richard won his fourth, (and his third successive) 'Regal 600 Championship'. In 2003, Patsy O'Kane withdrew from the sport but allowed Richard to keep the bike that he had campaigned his 2002 season on. It was difficult for Richard to obtain machinery in 2003 but with the kind help from Mick Morgan of ‘MSS Kawasaki’, they supplied him with a new bike for the up coming season. Richard took it to the limit and was duly crowned 'Irish 600 Road Race Champion' at the 'Dundalk Road Races', Darver, Co Louth, at the end of 2003.

In 2004 Richard moved to the DMRR racing team from where he achieved moderate success and in 2005 secured his own sponsorship to run what was to be his last season.

Career highlights

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2004 Tandragee 100 Fastest Lap: 3m 03.729 104.706mph (New Course Record).

2004 International Northwest 200 - Rides the BSB John Reynolds Rizla Suzuki.

2004 Faugheen Road Races – Race win – New Lap record.

2004 Mid-Antrim 150 August 7th 2004 - Fastest Lap: 107.391mph New Lap Record.

2004 Killalane 11th Sept 2004 - Fastest lap & outright lap record at 105.174mph.

2003 Sets a new lap record for the Dundrod 150 circuit at 127.530mph.

2003 Rides for the British Supersport MSS Kawasaki Team.

2003 600 Irish Road Race Champion.

2003 2nd Junior 400 TT.

2003 SS600 RACE UGP 4th.

2003 Production 600 Race UGP 4th.

2003 Production 1000 Race UGP 4th.

2003 Superbike Race One 4th.

2003 Superbike Race Two 3rd.

2003 Awarded the Sam McClements Trophy for most successful Superbike rider in 2002 by the MCUI.

2002 Regal 600 Champion.

2002 Takes 3rd place in the NW200 Superbike race.

2002 3rd Junior 400 TT.

2002 5th Senior TT.

2002 Becomes the fastest Irish rider to lap the TT circuit at 124.29mph.

2002 Ulster GP two 3rd places in both Superbike races lapping at over 127mph.

2001 Regal 600 Champion.

2000 Regal 600 Champion.

1998 Regal 600 Champion.

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