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Born | (1968-04-04)April 4, 1968 (age 56) Toronto,Ontario, Canada |
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24 Hours of Le Mans career | |
Years | 2009 –2012 |
Teams | Flying Lizard Motorsports |
Best finish | DNF |
Class wins | 0 |
Darren Law (born April 4, 1968) is anAmerican racing driver.
Law started racing at the age of 10 in go-karts in 1978. At age 14 Law was theInternational Kart Federation national champion, and shortly thereafter began racing cars in various amateur classes on the west coast of the United States. In 1991 he spent a season in England and was a factory driver forElden Racing Cars' factory team inFormula Renault competition. In 1996 and 1997 he competed in theNorth American Touring Car Championship for the privateerHartong MotorsportsBMW outfit and won the Detroit Grand Prix, finished 8th in points in the series' two years of operation. In 1998 he made his Sports car racing debut in a Porsche GT2 for G&W Motorsports. In 1999 he made aNASCARCraftsman Truck Series start atHeartland Park Topeka, and competed in 3 events that year.
He joined theGrand American Road Racing Association'sRolex Sports Car Series in 2000 and finished 2nd in GTU class points. The following year he was the GT class champion. In 2002 he moved from production cars to prototypes and raced in the Rolex Series' SRPII class and was second in points. In 2003 he finished 4th in the new Daytona Prototype class, the series top category.
In 2004 he competed in both the Daytona Prototypes where he finished 14th and theAmerican Le Mans Series GT2 class where he finished runner up in the GT2 class driver's championship. 2005 saw Law continue to split his time between DP, where he finished 12th for theBrumos Porsche team, and ALMS GT2 where he finished 13th in points forFlying Lizard Motorsports andAlex Job Racing. He continued with the same teams and series in 2006 and finished 14th in Grand Am DP and 10th in ALMS GT2. Driving for the same teams again in 2007, he improved to 6th in points in both series. In 2008, still with the same teams, he improved to 4th in the Daytona Prototype championship but dropped back to 7th in ALMS GT2.
Law was a part of the 200924 Hours of Daytona-winning crew driving a Brumos Racing-runRiley-Porsche, along withDavid Donohue,Antonio García andBuddy Rice.[1]
He currently resides inPhoenix, Arizona.
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position, races initalics indicate fastest race lap)
Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Pos | Points |
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1990 | WSR1 | MMR | WSR2 | CAJ | WSR3 | SON1 | FIR 6 | SON2 | PIR 16 | ??? | ??? |
Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
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2009 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 997 GT3-RSR | GT2 | 194 | DNF | DNF |
2010 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 997 GT3-RSR | GT2 | 61 | DNF | DNF |
2011 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 997 GT3-RSR | GTE Am | 211 | DNF | DNF |
2012 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 997 GT3-RSR | GTE Am | 313 | 27th | 4th |
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(key)(Races inbold indicate pole position, Results areoverall/class)
Year | Team | Class | Make | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Rank | Points | Ref |
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2014 | GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing | P | RileyCorvette DP | Chevrolet 5.5LV8 | DAY 18 | SEB | LBH | LAG | DET | WGL | MOS | IMS | ROA | COA | PET | 59th | 1 | [3] |
Source:[2] |