Richard Panch (May 28, 1954 – September 1, 1985) was an American NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver from 1973 to 1976.

[1] He was born in Daytona Beach, Florida, and was the son of NASCAR Cup Series veteran Marvin Panch.

Panch had officially raced a grand total of 9,295 laps - the equivalent of 11,040.9 miles (17,768.6 km) of stock car racing – and had led nine of them.

[1] Panch was killed on September 1, 1985, along with the other three people aboard a Piper PA-28 Cherokee that flew into a squall line and heavy rain near Rion, South Carolina, and came apart in mid-air.

[2] This biographical article related to NASCAR is a stub.