Kim Lahaie Richards

Kim Lahaie Richards is an American drag racer and crew chief.

Biography Richards was raised in Lansing, Michigan. She is the daughter of Dick LaHaie, who started drag racing in the 1950s. Dick influenced his daughter by teaching her about the mechanical side of vehicles. Shortly after graduating from high school, Richards went to California and later moved back to the Midwestern United States. She had begun racing in cross-country motorbike races at the age of 14. Richards joined her brother, Jeff, in working with her father's drag team. Prior to this, she worked for a construction gang as a water truck driver. The crew won the 1987 NHRA Top-Fuel Championship. By working as her father's crew chief, Richards helped to secure top-five finishes in the Top Fuel championship between 1986 and 1990. Richards was inducted into the Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.