Italian Rally in Sardinia in May 2011. In 2013, Prodrive created the MINI RX, a 450 bhp rallycross car based on the MINI WRC. It won on its debut at the Munich X Games in July 2013. In 2018 Prodrive created the Megane RX, for GC Kompetition for the FIA World Rallycross Championship, which it continues to compete in today. At the end of 2012 Richards and his wife acquired the Idle Rocks hotel in St Mawes, Cornwall. After a multimillion-pound refurbishment the hotel reopened in the summer of 2013. It is now a Relais and Chateaux Hotel and in 2014 it was voted one of the 50 best beach hotels in Europe by the Sunday Times Travel Magazine. In 2018 it was awarded Britain's top Seafood Restaurant. Richards acquired a second hotel in the village in 2013, the St Mawes Hotel. In May 2015, Richards relocated his Prodrive business from its previous site by the M40 motorway at Banbury, UK to a new facility also alongside the M40 in the same town. Honorary qualifications University of Warwick: Honorary Degree of Master of Arts Cranfield School of Management: Honorary Doctor of Science degree Coventry University: Honorary Doctor of Technology University of Wales: Bangor: Honorary Fellowship University of Wales Institute, Cardiff: Honorary Fellowship Myerscough College: Honorary Fellowship Other interests Richards is a Patron of Hope for Tomorrow, a UK charity dedicated to bringing cancer care closer to patients' homes via Mobile Cancer Care Units (MCCUs). Member of Advisory Board, Cranfield School of Management Chairman of the Tom Pryce Memorial Trust Chairman of trustees of the British Racing Drivers Club Motor Sport Charity Vice-President of the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod Patron of Greenpower Education Trust Vice-President of BEN, the Motor and Allied Trades Benevolent Fund President of Clwyd Vale Motor Club in North Wales Member of the Royal Academy President of Truro & District Motor Club based in Cornwall Footnotes References 1952 births Living people 20th-century Welsh businesspeople 21st-century Welsh businesspeople Welsh motorsport people World Rally Championship people Welsh rally drivers British rally co-drivers Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Apax Partners Aston Martin Formula One team owners Formula One team principals Benetton Formula