Richard Keen (racing driver)

Keen, born in Amersham, England,[1] started his karting career in 1999. In 2001, he entered both the Super 1 National JICA Championship and the Trofeo Andrea Margutti ICA Junior, finishing eleventh and 23rd respectively.[2] For 2002, he once more competed in the Super 1 National JICA Championship, finishing tenth overall.[2] In 2003, he entered the ABkC Formula TKM karting series that year, finishing third overall.[3]

Keen began his car racing career in 2003 in the Zip Formula Great Britain series, before completing a full season in the BRDC 1600 Formula Ford the following year; he finished as runner-up in the latter series, with four wins.[2] In 2004, he also entered two events of the British Formula Ford.[2] In 2005, Keen moved into the Formula BMW UK series driving for Team SWR Pioneer, and finished on the podium once from four races.[2] He then switched to the Formula Renault 2.0 UK series, driving for Team Firstair, and finished fourteenth in the championship standings, with 130 points from sixteen races,[2] and won the Graduate Cup.[4] In addition to the Formula BMW UK and Formula Renault UK series, he also entered the Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Series, taking a podium and finishing seventh overall.[2] For 2006, he remained in the Formula Renault 2.0 UK, once more driving for Team Firstair, who had been renamed to Position 1 Racing, and finished fourteenth once more, this time with 160 points from twelve races.[2] In September, Keen switched from the Formula Renault UK to the World Series by Renault, being entered by EuroInternational in the Donington Park round of the series.[5] Although he was also entered by the team in the season finale at Barcelona,[5] he stepped down from the event, and was replaced by Nil Monserrat.[6] He also entered the Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Series in 2006 for Fortec Motorsport, taking a podium and finishing sixth overall.[2] In 2007, Keen entered six rounds of the Formula Renault 2.0 UK for Apotex Scorpio Motorsport,[2] alternating with David Epton during the first half of the season.[7] He also entered the Formula Palmer Audi Autumn Trophy, taking the series' title with two victories and two podiums.[8] In 2008, he entered the seventh round of the main Formula Palmer Audi series, taking a podium in race one, and winning the other two races of the event.[8] He did not race in 2009, although he did test for the Caparo Pro 1000 series.[7]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)