RICE RACE PREP

 

RICE RACE is a race shop offering premium preparation service to formula car racers in the North East USA and Canada. For more than 30 years RRP has been preparing and racing  winning vehicles in Formula 1600 and Formula 2000. From preparation to vehicle maintenance and  track support, RRP does our very best to provide quality and winning support.

Team owner Greg Rice has been involved in motorsport for more than 40 years. He won ice racing championships as a teenager, then moved to Formula Vee where he won two Canadian Championships, won dozens of races, and had several top-4 SCCA Runoff performances. Rice raced in the Canadian Tire F2000 Series and Mosport/Beckers F1600 Series. He started preparing other racer's cars in 1991 and his customers won several F1600R and F1600B championships in Ontario. In 1994 who worked as data analyst and driver coach for Falcon Racing who finished 1st-3rd in the SCCA Pro F2000 Championship.

Rice began building cars in 2005 and drove his own car to SCCA FST Series Championships in 2006, 2007, 2008. He started preparing race cars for Steve Bamford in 2010. In 2012, Bamford won 9 F1200 races, while Keenan Harris won a round of the OFFC Series in the Rice Race Prep Van Diemen. Rice drove that car to victory in both Watkins Glen Double National events.
2013 was a breakthrough year for Steve Bamford and RICE RACE PREP. Bamford won the Masters Championship in the F1600 Pro Series and was runner-up in the Pro F2000 Masters Championship. He finished 5th and 6th overall in each respective Series. He also raced in SCCA Major events, winning F2000 at COTA, and FF at the SCCA June Sprints. Rice won the F1600 series Engineer-of-the-Year award.

Bamford continued to run at the front of F1600 races and also became a contender in Pro F2000 through 2015. But 2016 was a banner year for  Rice and Bamford,  as Bamford won the FRP F2000 championship in dominating fashion. 2017 saw many different drivers race with RRP.  IMSA Prototype driver Misha Goikhberg, and Team USA  Scholarship drivers Braden Eves, and Colin Mullan were some of the drivers who drove RRP Mygales to multiple wins in 2018. More success came to the team in 2019 as Misha Goikhberg, Alex Scaler, and Simon Sikes all won F1600/FF races and Misha Goikhberg and Andrew Dobbie won F2000/FC races.

While 2020 was a tough year for society, it was a banner year for the RiceRace team, winning 13 of 20 F1600/FF races and scoring one win , and one runner-up in FC races. Simon Sikes won the SCCA June Sprints and the Runoffs, both in FF, while winning the FRP F1600 championship. Simon, and teammate Jackson Lee were both TeamUSA Scholarship winners.

RICE RACE PREP is currently looking to complete their driver line-up for the 2021 season. Please contact RRP for more information.