| Darryl O'Young | |
|---|---|
 Darryl O'Young in October 2010. | |
| Nationality | Chinese (Hong Kong) |
| Born | Darryl Hayden O'Young (1980-03-26)March 26, 1980 (age 45) Vancouver,British Columbia, Canada |
| FIA World Endurance Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2014 |
| Current team | Aston Martin Racing |
| Car number | 55 |
| Starts | 6 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Best finish | 13th (LMGTE Pro) in 2014 |
| Previous series | |
| 2015 2015 2014 2013 2010 2011–2013 2010–13 2009 2008 2008–2009 2007 2004–2011 2002–2003 2001 2001 | FIA GT World Cup GT Asia Series FIA World Endurance Championship Dubai 24 Hour DTM Bathurst 12 Hour WTCC FIA GT Championship Malaysia Merdeka Endurance Race Macau GT Cup Porsche Supercup Porsche Carrera Cup Asia USA Formula Renault 1600 Pro Chinese Formula Ford 2000 Canadian Formula Ford 1600 |
| Championship titles | |
| 2023 2015 2011,2012 2006, 2008 | Greater Bay Area GT Cup (GT3) GT Asia Series Bathurst 12 Hour Porsche Carrera Cup Asia |
| Statistics up to date as of 12 February 2013. | |
| 24 Hours of Le Mans career | |
|---|---|
| Years | 2009,2013 - |
| Teams | Endurance Asia Team, Interush |
| Best finish | 2nd(2013) |
| Class wins | 0 |
Darryl Hayden O'Young (Chinese:歐陽若曦;pinyin:Ōuyáng Ruòxī;Jyutping:Ngau1joeng4 Joek6hei1) is a Canadian-born[1] Hong Kong businessman, team owner, driver manager and former racing driver.
O'Young began racing in 1988 at the age of eight. Trained by his father, he honed his driving skills in karting winning numerous championships. The highlight of his karting career was becoming Canadian National Champion and USA National Champion in the same year.
After Formula Ford 1600 and 2000, O'Young progressed intoFran Am Pro 1600 and2000 in the United States.
O'Young, then 24-years old, competed in the Porsche Infineon Carrera Cup Asia driving for Jebsen & Co, the Hong Kong Porsche dealer team, tasting his first major international success in 2005 winning his first Macau Grand Prix title.
O'Young is best known for his 17 appearances at his home race, the Macau Grand Prix between 2004 and 2021 in various categories including the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, Macau GT Cup, World Touring Car Championship, and the FIA GT World cup. He has won the race overall 4 times, whilst also taking two class victories in the World Touring Car Championship Independents class.
In 2005, O'Young was invited to join theHong Kong Le Mans Team set up byMatthew Marsh. The pair raced aPorsche 911 GT3 RSR in theLe Mans Endurance Series.
O'Young also took part in the 2005FIA GT Championship - China Round race at theZhuhai International Circuit, since the Hong Kong Le Mans Team entered the race as part of its 2005 programme. The pair finished fourth in the GT2 class.
In 2006, O'Young joined Renauer Motorsport for his first of severalSpa 24 Hours race appearances in the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR. His best finish came in the Spa 24hrs came in 2009, finishing 5th in the GT2 class with Prospeed Competition alongside Richard Westbrook, Emmanuel Collard, and Sean Edwards.
On 22 October 2006, O'Young took his 1st championship title inPorsche Carrera Cup Asia after winning both races at theZhuhai International Circuit.
For 2007, O'Young joined Schnabl Engineering - LKM - Team Jebsen to take part in thePorsche Mobil 1 Supercup. He was the first Hong Kong driver to take part in the European series.[1]
For 2008, O'Young competed in both Porsche Supercup and Porsche Carrera Cup Asia. O'Young was crowned series champion after the final race atBahrain International Circuit. He had 196 points and 4 wins in the season. He became the first-ever double champion in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia.[2]
O'Young also competed in theMerdeka Millennium Endurance Race in Malaysia. Driving for Porsche Club Singapore, he won the race with Mok Wing Sun andAlexander Nicholas Davison. The trio completed 308 laps in 12 hours in their Porsche 997 RSR.[3]
O'Young completed a motor racing hat-trick on 16 November 2008 when he took top honors at the Windsor Arch Macau GT Cup, driving a Porsche 997 GT3 Cup. He beats Danny Watts by more than two seconds. This was the third time he has won in a Porsche in Macau.[4]
In 2009, O'Young announced that he would compete the entire2009 FIA GT Championship season. He drove in the GT2 category in a Porsche GT3 RSR partnered with Porsche Junior Driver, Marco Holzer, with Belgium-based Prospeed Competition, the official Porsche factory-supported team in the FIA GT championship. In doing so, he was the first Chinese race driver to compete a full championship in the FIA GT.[5]
In 2009, O'Young also competed in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia for Team Jebsen, his 6th and final season for the team, where he finished 3rd overall in the championship standings at the end of the year.
In addition, in 2009, O'Young entered the24 hours of Le Mans for the first time in his career driving a Porsche GT3 RSR. The Chinese driver spearheaded the driver line up made up of Phillip Hesnault of France and Plamen Kralev of Bulgaria. He drove for the first ever Hong Kong team entry, Endurance Asia Team which was managed by Thierry Perrier. The team was the first ever Hong Kong/Chinese team entry in the race's 77-year history. The car broke down after 16 hours and was unclassified.
At the end of 2009, O'Young was invited for his first ARCA Stock Car Test on the Daytona International Speedway. He completed a successful test for Starbeast Motorsport while sharing a car that day with ex-Formula 1 driver, Narain Karthikeyan.
In 2010, O'Young made his first out of six appearances at the24 hours of Daytona in his career, driving a Porsche GT3 Cup for Vancouver-based, Bullet Racing owned by Steve Paquette. The driver line-up included Ross Bentley, Sean McIntosh, and ex-Porsche factory driver Kees Nierop. They ran as high as 3rd place in class and 14th overall near the 13th hour mark of the race, but an incident during the night after an off track excursion by one of the drivers ended all hopes of race victory for the team. They completed the race 20th overall and 13th in the GT class.
On 6 February 2011 O'Young drove forAudi Sport Team Joest in the2011 Bathurst 12 Hour held at theMount Panorama Circuit inBathurst,Australia. Driving anAudi R8 LMS GT3, O'Young, along with Marc Basseng and Christopher Mies led home teammates Mark Eddy,Craig Lowndes andWarren Luff in a 1-2 finish. The winning margin only 0.7141 at the end of 12 hours or racing on the 6.213 km mountain circuit. It was his first of two Bathurst 12 Hour outright victories.
On 26 February 2012, O'Young drove aPhoenix RacingAudi R8 LMS to victory in the2012 Armor All Bathurst 12 Hour held at theMount Panorama Circuit inBathurst,Australia.
O'Young took on the24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race starting on 22 June 2013, his 2nd appearance at the event. He drove the no.55 INTERUSH AF CorseFerrari 458 Italia, partnered by Italian driversLorenzo Case andPiergiuseppe Perazzini. O'Young was competing at Le Mans for the second time in his career and scored a 2nd place podium finish in the Pro-Am class.[6] He finished the enduro in second place in the GTE Am class after starting from 10th on the grid. "I am very proud to put Hong Kong on the Le Mans podium," O’Young commented.[7]
In 2014, O'Young and the newly mergedCraft-Bamboo Racing entered theFIA World Endurance Championship withAston Martin Racing, sharing the #99 entry with British driverAlex MacDowall and BrazilianFernando Rees.[8] The team endured a challenging season with a 3rd-place finish in Fuji their best results.[9] The team also entered the2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, but had to withdraw from the race after a practice accident by Fernando Rees and the car was beyond repair in-time for the main race.[10]
O'Young returned to the Asian racing scene by entering an Aston Martin Vantage V12 GT3 in2014 Macau GT Cup, partnering a new major sponsor,Vitasoy.[11] He finished 9th in the race.
In 2015, O'Young entered the2015 GT Asia Series with Craft-Bamboo Racing. Sharing the #99 car with Australian Jonathan Venter andDaniel Lloyd and claimed a total of 4 wins en route to the Drivers' Championship title.[12] He again entered the Vita Lemon Tea sponsored Aston Martin to the2015 Macau GT Cup, this time the inauguralFIA GT World Cup. He finished 5th afterEdoardo Mortara was penalized post race.[13]
O'Young retired from racing after the2025 Macau Grand Prix, in which he crashed out of second place in theGreater Bay Area GT Cup.[14]
In 2010, O'Young came across an opportunity to compete at the top level of touring cars, and drove forBamboo Engineering in the2010 World Touring Car Championship season, as teammate toHarry Vaulkhard. His longtime sponsors LKM and A-Ha Coffee joined O'Young on his switch to touring cars, and additional support came from Chevrolet Motorsport. He drove a 2008–specChevrolet Lacetti in the Independents Championship of the WTCC. In doing so, he has also become the first Chinese full-time driver in the FIA World Touring Car Championship. In race ten atRace of Portugal, Darryl scored his first win in the Independents Championship and also his first world championship point by finishing tenth overall. He arrived inMacau for the final round with a chance of winning the Independents Championship, but was hit byTom Coronel from behind in race one, thus failing to finish and ending his championship hopes.
O'Young remained withBamboo Engineering for the2011 World Touring Car Championship season. He started from pole position in race two atSuzuka Circuit inJapan, but he made a slow start and was hit from the back byGabriele Tarquini. He ran into the sand trap and retired from the race.[15]
O'Young moved to the newSpecial Tuning Racing team for2012, driving one of theirSEAT León WTCCs.[16] He missed the races of the season openingRace of Italy after a fire in the Sunday morning warm–up session. He stopped the car and evacuated but the damage was ruled him out of participating in the rest of the weekend.[17] A race one clash withCharles Ng at theRace of Austria required O'Young to receive attention at the circuit medical centre and he was forced to miss race two. He was caught up in a pileup at the start of the opening race of theRace of the United States but was able to continue and finished fourteenth, two places up on his starting position. Prior to theRace of Japan, he left Special Tuning Racing and returned to bamboo–engineering for the final rounds of the season.[18] He was caught up in another pileup at theRace of China but continued, he retired on lap six after an incident. He had a head-on collision with the barriers in testing forRace of Macau, stopping the session just before the end.[19] He went on to the take the independents' pole position in qualifying and then took the class win on both races.
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O'Young joinedROAL Motorsport for2013, partnering Tom Coronel in one of theirBMW 320 TCs.[20] He qualified tenth for the season openingRace of Italy which meant he started on pole position when the grid was reversed for race two.[21] He didn't score from either race with a best result of twelfth in race two.
O'Young also entered the2010 1000 km of Zhuhai, a race of theIntercontinental Le Mans Cup. He teamed up with Prospeed Competition andRichard Westbrook for the race but the car stopped after 119 laps.
O'Young was drafted into Audi's line-up for the2010 DTM season finale in Shanghai to replaceAlexandre Premat, who was dismissed by the manufacturer.[22]
O'Young has raced four times at theBathurst 12 Hour GT3 endurance. He drove two times2011 and2012 for the Factory backed Audi team winning both times driving anAudi R8 LMS GT3. In 2015, he returned with Craft-Bamboo Racing in the Aston Martin V12 GT3 and claimed a brilliant P3 overall.
O'Young claimed third place in theMerdeka Millennium Endurance Race atSepang,Malaysia. Driving a Porsche 911 GT3R for LKM Racing, Darryl, team owner Alan Siu, and Japan'sKeita Sawa completed 309 laps of the 12 hour event to finish in third place overall and first in the Pro-Am class.[23]
O'Young currently managesGB3 Championship driverBianca Bustamante.[citation needed]
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Schnabel EngineeringTeam Jebson | Porsche 997 GT3 | BHR 10 | BHR Ret | ESP 20 | MON 15 | FRA 21† | GBR 21 | GER 26 | HUN 15 | TUR 15 | ITA Ret | BEL 17 | 22nd | 14 | |
| 2008 | Schnabel Engineering | Porsche 997 GT3 | BHR Ret | BHR 16 | ESP 18 | TUR 18 | MON 15 | FRA | GBR Ret | GER | HUN 23 | ESP 17 | BEL 20 | ITA 17 | 28th | 4 |
† — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 |  Endurance Asia Team Perspective Racing | Philippe Hesnault Plamen Kralev | Porsche 997 GT3-RSR | GT2 | 186 | NC | NC |
| 2013 |  AF Corse | Piergiuseppe Perazzini Lorenzo Casè | Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 | LMGTE Am | 305 | 26th | 2nd |
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | bamboo-engineering | Chevrolet Lacetti | BRA 1 15 | BRA 2 16 | MAR 1 17 | MAR 2 13 | ITA 1 Ret | ITA 2 12 | BEL 1 20 | BEL 2 12 | POR 1 10 | POR 2 9 | GBR 1 21 | GBR 2 Ret | CZE 1 17 | CZE 2 7 | GER 1 NC | GER 2 12 | ESP 1 14 | ESP 2 17 | JPN 1 10 | JPN 2 9 | MAC 1 Ret | MAC 2 Ret | 15th | 15 | ||
| 2011 | bamboo-engineering | Chevrolet Lacetti | BRA 1 Ret | BRA 2 11 | 14th | 43 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T | BEL 1 10 | BEL 2 4 | ITA 1 7 | ITA 2 6 | HUN 1 12 | HUN 2 8 | CZE 1 7 | CZE 2 Ret | POR 1 12 | POR 2 9 | GBR 1 11 | GBR 2 8 | GER 1 14 | GER 2 11 | ESP 1 15 | ESP 2 14 | JPN 1 11 | JPN 2 Ret | CHN 1 13 | CHN 2 Ret | MAC 1 Ret | MAC 2 12 | ||||||
| 2012 | Special Tuning Racing | SEAT León WTCC | ITA 1 DNS | ITA 2 DNS | ESP 1 10 | ESP 2 Ret | MAR 1 10 | MAR 2 10 | SVK 1 7 | SVK 2 9 | HUN 1 NC | HUN 2 13 | AUT 1 Ret | AUT 2 DNS | POR 1 13 | POR 2 13 | BRA 1 7 | BRA 2 Ret | USA 1 14 | USA 2 12 | 14th | 37 | ||||||
| bamboo-engineering | Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T | JPN 1 11 | JPN 2 13 | CHN 1 Ret | CHN 2 12 | MAC 1 5 | MAC 2 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | ROAL Motorsport | BMW 320 TC | ITA 1 13 | ITA 2 12 | MAR 1 12 | MAR 2 9 | SVK 1 14 | SVK 2 10 | HUN 1 NC | HUN 2 10 | AUT 1 20† | AUT 2 DNS | RUS 1 20 | RUS 2 9 | POR 1 12 | POR 2 13 | ARG 1 15 | ARG 2 18 | USA 1 Ret | USA 2 12 | JPN 1 13 | JPN 2 10 | CHN 1 20 | CHN 2 30† | MAC 1 13 | MAC 2 Ret | 19th | 7 |
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Team Phoenix | Audi A4 DTM 2008 | HOC | VAL | LAU | NOR | NÜR | ZAN | BRH | OSC | HOC | ADR | SHA DNS | NC | 0 |
| Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Reiter Engineering | Lamborghini | NOG QR 8 | NOG CR 7 | ZOL QR 8 | ZOL CR 13 | NAV QR 4 | NAV QR 7 | SVK QR 13 | SVK CR 11 | ALG QR Ret | ALG CR 4 | SVK QR 6 | SVK CR 7 | MOS QR | MOS CR | NÜR QR | NÜR CR | DON QR | DON CR | 17th | 34 |
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Class | Car | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | AF Corse | LMGTE Am | Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 | Ferrari F142 4.5LV8 | SIL | SPA | LMS 2 | SÃO | COA | FUJ | SHA | BHR | 8th | 36 |
| 2014 | Aston Martin Racing | LMGTE Pro | Aston Martin Vantage GTE | Aston Martin 4.5 LV8 | SIL 7 | SPA 5 | LMS WD | COA 10 | FUJ 3 | SHA 4 | BHR | SÃO 5 | 13th | 55 |
| Sporting positions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by | Porsche Carrera Cup Asia Champion 2006 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Porsche Carrera Cup Asia Champion 2008 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Inaugural | Macau GT Cup Winner 2008 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Bathurst 12 Hour Winner 2011 &2012 With:Christopher Mies,Marc Basseng (2011) &Christer Jöns (2012) | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Macau GT Cup Winner 2021 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Liang Jiatong (GT4) | Greater Bay Area GT Cup GT3 Winner 2023 | Succeeded by Han Lichao (GT4) |