TEAM DRIVERS
RICHARD HROMIN - SSM #11 & ITS #99
RP Performance welcomes back Richard Hromin for the 2019 Racing season. Rich brings to the team over 18 years of experience behind the wheel at various tracks around the North East. He has numerous Wins and Podium finishes along with two SCCA Championships and a runner up season finish in the SCCA Mid-Atlantic Road Racing Series (MARRS). Rich was Skip Barber graduate in 1997 and went on to obtain his SCCA Competition License in 2000. He started out his driving career with KingRat Motorsports where he raced a Spec Miata. He moved on to the Weekend Warrior Group and is now part of the RP Performance Family. Rich currently works as a high-performance security driving instructor for BSR at Summit Point Motorsports Park having done so since 2011. He has numerous Wins and Podium finishes along with two SCCA Championships and two runner ups season finishes in the SCCA Mid-Atlantic Road Racing Series (MARRS).Rich has also taken on RP’s driver instructor/coaching team for both new and experience drivers.
DAN DUNCAN - SSM #69
As a kid I grew up around racing; my dad made a name for himself in the MARRS series racing Club Formula Fords. He was MARRS champion 3 times in the mid to late 90s with numerous race wins and track records. The Club Ford category died out in the late 90s and early 00s but I always romanticized the times I had as a kid watching my dad compete. Once I got my drivers permit, I got a taste for Motorsports auto crossing my dad’s 1995 BMW M3. I was hooked before I even started. My dad offered me the deal of a lifetime when I was a junior in high school saying if I could keep my grades up and put up half the money for a car, he would help me purchase a Showroom Spec Miata. I got a job at a pizza place and saved every penny I could. Senior year of high school was when we purchased the car and I started my first season of racing. I am now approaching my 6th season of racing and still have so much to learn. My main goal is to focus on having fun and enjoying the time I get to spend with my friends and family.
HECTOR GARRIDO - SSM #64
A good friend Luis Gavignano told me we were going to Connecticut for 4 days trip. I thought it was going to be a usual McDonald’s business one however; when we got there it was at Lime Rock Skip Barber Racing School. During his school time I observed, took lots of pictures, asked many questions and the entire environment of race cars, track and people made me feel in a different exciting world. On our way back to Virginia Luis asked me “Did you like it?”. My answer was I loved it. I received from Luis one of the best gifts ever a three-day Skip Barber Racing School at Lime Rock. So, on November 2012 I was back at Connecticut and now it was my turn to be inside a race car. After School I became an SCCA member went to Summit Point, walked into RP Performance, met Bret de Pedro who advised me “If you want to have fun SSM is the best group to start” and helped me find a race car.
When people ask me why racing, well it is very hard to explain with words, it just has been so much fun running with 40 plus cars in SSM, a gentleman’s class, meeting cool people, sharing with families and making new friends. There are no words to describe the feeling I have when I am racing. I guess just a smile on my face every time I get out of the race car can tell the story.
RYAN MALONEY - SSM #15
I got into racing when I was 7, racing GoKarts. I raced them till I was 16 then moved over to SSM at 21. My Dad got me into racing from watching him race at Summit Point in the SRX7 class. The thing that I like most about racing is the competition.
EDUARDO ARISPE - SSM #26
Car enthusiast pretty much since birth first got into racing through autocross in 2005. This was just a short stepping stone for progressing into track days and time trials. It then didn’t take long before acquiring a competition license and started road racing in the Mid Atlantic Road Racing Series in 2013. From the beginning my road racing experience has been absolutely great mostly due to RP Performance and its amazing crew. Their experience, their friendliness, and their willingness to help has made them my race family, my "track" home. One thing that is sure is that for all my racing years to come RP Performance will surely be part of it!
Dan Conway SSM #97 & SM #97
Dan Conway of RP Performance hails from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Dan began his racing life in 2012 at the age of 17 when, after attending the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, he decided to get his racing license as part of his High School Senior Project.
Dan attended 2 Skip Barber Racing Schools, at which he met entrepreneur and acclaimed Gentleman racer Enzo Potolicchio. Potolicchio funded Dan's racing adventures in the Skip Barber Mazdaspeed Challenge in 2012, and placed Dan in 2 Grand Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge races in an APR Motorsports Volkswagen Jetta. Dan then raced directly for Potolicchio's 8Star Motorsports in the IMSA Prototype Challenge at Sebring International Raceway in 2014.
Dan has spent the last 6 seasons racing in various Mazda Miata classes in both sprint and endurance racing, collecting a class victory at the 13 Hours of VIR and numerous Showroom Spec Miata wins in the SCCA Washington DC Region's Mid Atlantic Road Racing Series. In 2020,
Dan is moving up to run in Spec Miata, with the goal of competing in and winning the Spec Miata class of the SCCA National Championship Runoffs in the near future."
Dave Wible #18
Dave Wible of RP Performance comes to us from outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“I received my SCCA comp license from the Panoz School in 2004. I purchased my first car (SSM) from Bret de Pedro in 2006. Won the 12hr of summit with RP in 2007 and 2008. Won 2013 and 2014 SSM championship MARRS series.” Dave continued to race into 2020.
Barry Brown - SSM #5
I was inspired to get into racing after meeting Juan Fangio (the nephew) at a Toyota Owners Club event in 1992. He took me out on a track for hot laps and I was hooked. By the time 1993 rolled around I already had my SCCA license and was racing in the ITC class. In 1995 I switched to a Dodge and raced in the Neon Challenge series as well as other SCCA races. In 1999 I competed only in National races (now called Majors) and raced in the Runoffs from then to 2005.
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One highlight of my racing career was that during the National race at Summit Point in 2009 I beat the guy who later won the Runoffs and I set the lap record in the SSC class at Summit Point. As I’ve gotten older I’ve slowed a bit, but still enjoy racing my Miata along with the rest of the gang at RP Performance. Barry has moved over to ITA with some other teammates.
David Pinto SSM #70
"David Pinto #70 of RP Performance joins us from nearby Rockville MD. His addiction to speed started at an early age, but his wallet took very long time to catch up. David started tracking his daily driver in 2012, switched to a Miata in 2017, completed the 2019 racing school and finally found a home in the SSM class where the fun-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable.” "On track you can find David fighting for second to last place with his arch rival, James Small."
Ben Jones SSM #10
Ben Jones of RP Performance comes to us from Chesterfield, VA. Ben began racing with SCCA and RP Performance in 2018 after completing the DC region’s annual competition school. Following a short stint in Spec Miata as a rookie in 2018, Ben has since competed in the SSM Miata class, where his green and yellow 1991 Miata is easy to pick out. Ben was initially drawn to the SSM by the tough competition, high car counts, and accessibility of the class. What keeps him in it is the friendships and camaraderie, and the opportunity to continue to learn, adjust, and improve as a driver.
Racing is a family affair for Ben, whose wife, Rebecca, and son, Jacob joins in on the race-weekend fun and camp in the paddock. Ben and his family are based in Chesterfield, VA.
Andy O’Brien SSM #14
Andy O’Brien of RP Performance joins us from Winchester, VA. “Andy’s interest in racing began with watching Formula 1 racing in the mid-to-late 1980’s. Over the years, Andy has attended the Australian, Canadian and US Grand Prix’s. On his 40th birthday he attended a Bertil Roos 1-day program in an aero car and he was hooked. Shortly thereafter, he acquired his first Corvette, a 1998 coup. Andy tracked this and his subsequent Corvette, a 2008 Z06, for approximately 8-years before he decided to attend the SCCA school at Summit Point in March 2019. Following successful completion of school, Andy acquired a 1992 Miata and continues to rely on RP for trackside support and major mechanical repairs.”
David Stern SSM #07
David Stern of RP Performance comes to us from Northern Virginia. As the grandson of an avid drag racer, he began racing in a quarter midget series at the age of five. Throughout his teens and early twenties, David enjoyed modifying Japanese imports and dabbled in both drag racing and auto cross. He found his true love of road course racing in 2009 when he did his first “Friday at the Track” in his Honda S2000.
In 2012, David joined SCCA and began building his SSM Miata. He completed competition school in 2014 and has enjoyed racing at every position on track, no matter if it is the front or back of the pack. David loves everything about racing and is always there to lend a helping hand... or a beer!
JEREMY RUTTER - SSM #37
Jeremy has been part of the RP Performance family since SCCA Driver’s School in 2012. He raced part-time in the SSM class for 7 years, scoring his first win at VIR in May 2018. With the expert guidance of the RP Performance crew, Jeremy notched 34 Top 10s and 16 Top 5s in 45 races. Jeremy now lives in California and has transitioned to the SM class, but continues to race under the RP Performance banner!
Sam Scott SSM #85
Sam Scott of RP Performance comes to us from Baltimore, Maryland. I’ve been into driving since I was a little kid, when one of my favorite things was steering the lawnmower or car up the driveway from my dad’s lap. I smartly exchanged my sporting aspirations for the world of motorsports at 11, when I gave up little league in favor of indoor karting leagues. When I turned 16, I got my first Miata and started auto crossing. Sophomore year of college, I started doing HPDE events, and went through the entire ‘track car build’ process, learning how to do all my own wrenching along the way. I started sim racing around the same time, which satisfied the competitive side of things and was a great primer for the finer points of performance driving and road racing.
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At the end of the 2018 season, I was comfortable in advanced HPDE; it was time to make the move to competition. Rather than continue to strip out my track day car, I opted to jump in head-first with a Showroom Spec Miata. I started racing SSM, and it’s one of the most fun and intense, things I’ve ever done. My driving took a huge step up after just a handful of events in this series. I still have a lot to learn, though! I’m extremely fortunate to have had my parents supporting me with the space and tools to make all my DIYing possible. I’m also grateful to RP Performance for helping get me up to speed as quickly as possible. I can’t wait for more seasons of SSM, and I’d like to try some endurance racing next.
Kahlil Natirboff #19 of RP Performance, comes to us from Washington, DC. “I grew up near Summit Point WV and was drawn to the excitement of sports cars at an early age. In my teens, I flagged at Summit Point Raceway. Now, I am participating in club racing in the SSM class and enjoying every moment.
