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Darryl O'Young is a Canadian-born Hong Kong racing driver who was born on 26 March, 1980 in Vancouver, Canada. He is currently 44 years old. O'Young began his racing career in karting in 1995, and moved up to the Formula Renault series in 1998. He competed in the British Formula 3 Championship in 2000 and 2001, and then moved to the Japanese Formula 3 Championship in 2002. He also competed in the Formula Nippon series in 2003 and 2004. In 2005, O'Young moved to the World Touring Car Championship, where he competed for the SEAT Sport team. He also competed in the Asian Touring Car Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, he moved to the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, where he won the championship in 2009. O'Young has also competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 24 Hours of Daytona, and the 12 Hours of Sebring. O'Young has an estimated net worth of $2 million.

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2020

† — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

2015

In 2015, Darryl O'Young entered the 2015 GT Asia Series with Craft-Bamboo Racing. Sharing the #99 car with Australian Jonathan Venter and Daniel Lloyd and claimed a total of 4 wins en route to the Drivers' Championship title. He again entered the Vita Lemon Tea sponsored Aston Martin to the 2015 Macau GT Cup, this time the inaugural FIA GT World Cup. He finished 5th after Edoardo Mortara was penalized post race.

2014

In 2014, Darryl O'Young and the newly merged Craft-Bamboo Racing entered the FIA World Endurance Championship with Aston Martin Racing, sharing the #99 entry with British driver Alex MacDowall and Brazilian Fernando Rees. The team endured a challenging season with a 3rd-place finish in Fuji their best results. The team also entered the 2014 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.

Darryl O'Young returned to the Asian racing scene by entering an Aston Martin Vantage V12 GT3 in 2014 Macau GT Cup, partnering a new major sponsor, Vitasoy. He finished 9th in the race.

2013

Darryl O'Young will take on the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race starting on 22 June 2013, he will drive the no.55 INTERUSH AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia, partnered by Italian drivers Lorenzo Case and Piergiuseppe Perazzini. O'Young was competing at Le Mans for the second time in his career. 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.

O'Young joined ROAL Motorsport for 2013, partnering Tom Coronel in one of their BMW 320 TCs. He qualified tenth for the season opening Race of Italy which meant he started on pole position when the grid was reversed for race two. He didn't score from either race with a best result of twelfth in race two.

2012

On 26 February 2012, O'Young drove a Phoenix Racing Audi R8 LMS to victory in the 2012 Armor All Bathurst 12 Hour held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, Australia.

He moved to the new Special Tuning Racing team for 2012, driving one of their SEAT León WTCCs. He missed the races of the season opening Race 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. A race one clash with Charles Ng at the Race 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 the Race of the United States but was able to continue and finished fourteenth, two places up on his starting position. Prior to the Race of Japan, he left Special Tuning Racing and returned to bamboo–engineering for the final rounds of the season. He was caught up in another pileup at the Race of China but continued, he retired on lap six after an incident. He had a head-on collision with the barriers in testing for Race of Macau, stopping the session just before the end. He went on to the take the independents' pole position in qualifying and then took the class win on both races.

2011

On 6 February 2011 O'Young drove for Audi Sport Team Joest in the 2011 Bathurst 12 Hour held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, Australia. Driving an Audi R8 LMS GT3, O'Young, along with Marc Basseng and Christopher Mies led home team mates Mark Eddy, Craig Lowndes and Warren 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.

O'Young remained with Bamboo Engineering for the 2011 World Touring Car Championship season. He started from pole position in race two at Suzuka Circuit in Japan, but he made a slow start and was hit from the back by Gabriele Tarquini. He ran into the sand trap and retired from the race.

He has raced two times at the Bathurst 12 Hour GT3 endurance event in 2011 and 2012 for the Factory backed Audi team winning both times driving an Audi R8 LMS GT3.

2010

In 2010, Darryl entered the 24 hours of Daytona for the first time in his career driving a Porsche GT3 Cup for Vancouver-based, Bullet Racing managed 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.

In 2010, O'Young came across an opportunity to compete at the top level of touring cars, and drove for Bamboo Engineering in the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season, as teammate to Harry 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–spec Chevrolet 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 at Race of Portugal, Darryl scored his first win in the Independents Championship and also his first world championship point by finishing tenth overall. He arrived in Macau for the final round with a chance of winning the Independents Championship, but was hit by Tom Coronel from behind in race one, thus failing to finish and ending his championship hopes.

Darryl also entered the 2010 1000 km of Zhuhai, a race of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup. He teamed up with Prospeed Competition and Richard Westbrook for the race but the car stopped after 119 laps.

Darryl has been drafted into Audi's line-up for the 2010 DTM season finale in Shanghai to replace Alexandre Premat, who was dismissed by the manufacturer.

2009

In 2009, Darryl announced that he would compete the entire 2009 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, the 29-year-old was the first Chinese race driver to compete a full championship in the FIA GT.

In 2009, Darryl 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, Darryl entered the 24 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, Darryl 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.

2008

For 2008, Darryl is competing in both Porsche Supercup and Porsche Carrera Cup Asia. O'Young was crowned series champion after the final race at Bahrain International Circuit. He has 196 points and 4 wins in the season. He became the first-ever double Class A champion in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia.

Darryl 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.

2007

For 2007, O'Young joined Schnabl Engineering - LKM - Team Jebsen to take part in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup. He was the first Hong Kong driver to take part in the series. [1]

2006

In 2006 Darryl joined Renauer Motorsport for the Spa 24 Hours race, successfully finishing the race with the team.

He has raced for Team Jebsen since 2004 and on 22 October 2006 became series champion of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia after winning both races at the Zhuhai International Circuit.

2005

Darryl was also invited to join the Hong Kong Le Mans Team set up by Matthew Marsh in 2005. The pair raced a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR in the Le Mans Endurance Series.

Darryl also took part in the 2005 FIA GT Championship - China Round race at the Zhuhai 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.

1988

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.

1600

After Formula Ford 1600 and 2000 Darryl progressed into Fran Am Pro 1600 and 2000 in the United States.