Better know as Richie Evans "The Rapid Roman", Richard Ernest Evans was born July 23rd 1941. His racing career began in 1962 with the Hobby Cars at Utica-Rome Speedway, driving car #PT-109. In 1965 Richie moved up to the Modified division, claiming his first career victory in the seasons final race. In 1973 Evans worked nearly one-hundred hours a week maintaining two Modified race cars. The effort would reward the 32-year-old driver with his first NASCAR Modified National Championship. This would be the first of nine total NASCAR Modified National Championships, including a  record eight straight from 1978-1985. Evans won the first ever NASCAR Modified Tour Championship in 1985, despite being fataly injured in a practice crash at the seasons final event. He was fourty-four.

In his career Richie won over four-hundred races at tracks from Quebec to Florida. Records indicate he has victories at thirty-seven different tracks in thirteen states and provinces. In 1979 Evans started 60 NASCAR races winning thirty-seven, and finishing in the Top Five fifty-four times. In 1983 he had sixty-eight starts winning thirty-one, and took fifty seven Top Fives. Richie was a twenty-six time Track Champion at eleven different tracks, in four different states. Here is a look at his amazing records.

 Track Championships:  

• Thompson Speedway (Thompson, CT): 4 (1980-81, 1983, 1985)
  
• Utica-Rome Speedway (Vernon, NY): 4 (1972-74, 1978)
  
• Fulton Speedway (Fulton, NY): 3 (1970-71, 1974)
  
• Holland Speedway (Holland, NY): 3 (1978-80)
  
• Shangri-La Speedway (Owego, NY): 3 (1975, 1977, 1982)
  
• New Egypt Speedway (New Egypt, NJ): 2 (1979, 1982)
  
• Spencer Speedway (Williamson, NY): 2 (1983, 1985)
  
• Stafford Speedway (Stafford Springs, CT): 2 (1980-81)
  
• Chemung Speedrome (Chemung, NY): 1 (1978)
  
• Oswego Speedway (Oswego, NY): 1 (1983)
  
• Riverside Park Speedway (Agawam, MA): 1 (1980)

Feature wins: