50 Facts About Darryl O'Young

Darryl Hayden O'Young is a Canadian-born Hong Kong racing driver.

Darryl 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.

Darryl O'Young has won the race overall 4 times, whilst taking two class victories in the World Touring Car Championship Independents class.

In 2005, Darryl O'Young was invited to join the Hong Kong Le Mans Team set up by Matthew Marsh.

Darryl O'Young 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.

In 2006 Darryl O'Young joined Renauer Motorsport for his first of several Spa 24 Hours race appearances in the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR.

On 22 October 2006, Darryl O'Young took his 1st championship title in Porsche Carrera Cup Asia after winning both races at the Zhuhai International Circuit.

For 2007, Darryl O'Young joined Schnabl Engineering - LKM - Team Jebsen to take part in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup.

Darryl O'Young was the first Hong Kong driver to take part in the European series.

For 2008, Darryl O'Young competed in both Porsche Supercup and Porsche Carrera Cup Asia.

Darryl O'Young was crowned series champion after the final race at Bahrain International Circuit.

Darryl O'Young had 196 points and 4 wins in the season.

Darryl O'Young became the first-ever double champion in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia.

Darryl O'Young competed in the Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race in Malaysia.

Darryl 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.

Darryl O'Young beats Danny Watts by more than two seconds.

In 2009, Darryl O'Young announced that he would compete the entire 2009 FIA GT Championship season.

Darryl O'Young 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 2009, Darryl O'Young 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.

Darryl O'Young drove for the first ever Hong Kong team entry, Endurance Asia Team which was managed by Thierry Perrier.

Darryl O'Young completed a successful test for Starbeast Motorsport while sharing a car that day with ex-Formula 1 driver, Narain Karthikeyan.

In 2010, Darryl O'Young made his first out of six appearances at the 24 hours of Daytona in his career, driving a Porsche GT3 Cup for Vancouver-based, Bullet Racing owned by Steve Paquette.

On 6 February 2011 Darryl O'Young drove for Audi Sport Team Joest in the 2011 Bathurst 12 Hour held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, Australia.

On 26 February 2012, Darryl 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.

Darryl O'Young took on the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race starting on 22 June 2013, his 2nd appearance at the event.

Darryl 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.

Darryl O'Young finished the enduro in second place in the GTE Am class after starting from 10th on the grid.

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.

In 2015, Darryl O'Young entered the 2015 GT Asia Series with Craft-Bamboo Racing.

Darryl O'Young again entered the Vita Lemon Tea sponsored Aston Martin to the 2015 Macau GT Cup, this time the inaugural FIA GT World Cup.

Darryl O'Young finished 5th after Edoardo Mortara was penalized post race.

In 2010, Darryl 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.

In race ten at Race of Portugal, Darryl O'Young scored his first win in the Independents Championship and his first world championship point by finishing tenth overall.

Darryl O'Young 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 O'Young remained with Bamboo Engineering for the 2011 World Touring Car Championship season.

Darryl O'Young 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.

Darryl O'Young ran into the sand trap and retired from the race.

Darryl O'Young moved to the new Special Tuning Racing team for 2012, driving one of their SEAT Leon WTCCs.

Darryl O'Young stopped the car and evacuated but the damage was ruled him out of participating in the rest of the weekend.

Darryl O'Young 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.

Darryl O'Young was caught up in another pileup at the Race of China but continued, he retired on lap six after an incident.

Darryl O'Young had a head-on collision with the barriers in testing for Race of Macau, stopping the session just before the end.

Darryl O'Young went on to the take the independents' pole position in qualifying and then took the class win on both races.

Darryl O'Young joined ROAL Motorsport for 2013, partnering Tom Coronel in one of their BMW 320 TCs.

Darryl O'Young entered the 2010 1000 km of Zhuhai, a race of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.

Darryl O'Young teamed up with Prospeed Competition and Richard Westbrook for the race but the car stopped after 119 laps.

Darryl O'Young 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.

Darryl O'Young has raced four times at the Bathurst 12 Hour GT3 endurance.

Darryl O'Young drove two times 2011 and 2012 for the Factory backed Audi team winning both times driving an Audi R8 LMS GT3.

Darryl O'Young claimed third place in the Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race at Sepang, Malaysia.