Richard Dean (racing driver)

Richard Antony Dean is a former British Racing Driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans GT2 class in 2006.

[1] In 2010, Richard Dean founded the sports car racing team United Autosports with Zak Brown.

[4] In his final year of racing in Japan, 1995, Richard Dean contested the Japanese Touring Car Championship with Trans Global.

[4] Tom Kristensen, the most successful Lemans driver in history, was also racing in Japan at that time and became an acquaintance of Dean.

[12] He was racing with fellow British co-drivers Lawrence Tomlinson and Tom Kimber-Smith as part of Team LNT.

[13] Dean and the team made history that day as the only car to have beaten a Porsche in the GT2 class at Le Mans.

In 2009, Richard Dean and long-term friend Zak Brown founded United Autosports,[2] an Anglo-American motorsport race team and business based in West Yorkshire, UK.