Darren Law

Darren Law 2005 in Laguna Seca

David Donohue and Darren Law's 2011 Daytona prototype at Road America

Darren Law (born April 4, 1968 in Toronto ) is a former American car racing driver of Canadian descent and motorsport official.

Racing career

Darren Law started motorsport as a teenager . At the age of 14, he competed in kart races and switched to Formula Renault in 1991 . After a few years in touring car racing , where he finished eighth overall in the North American Super Touring Championship in 1996 and 1997 , he started his career as a GT and sports car driver in 1998 .

By the end of his driving career, Law had driven 278 sports car races; he celebrated three overall and 9 class wins and finished 20 races on the podium of the top three. His first overall victory was also his greatest success in an international sports car race. In 2009 he won the Daytona 24-hour race on a Riley Mk.XI together with David Donohue , Antonio García and Buddy Rice . He celebrated his last success at the 2012 2-hour race in Detroit , a race in this year's Grand-Am Sports Car Series .

In 2009 he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . After three failures in a row, he made his only finish at the 24-hour race in France in 2012 . Together with Spencer Pumpelly and Seth Neiman , he achieved 27th place overall in a Porsche 997 GT3 RSR from Flying Lizard Motorsports . He was able to place better at the 12-hour race in Sebring , where he finished eleventh overall in 2009 and 2010 . It was his best results in the final classification of the endurance race at the Sebring International Raceway .

In 2001 he secured the overall standings in the GT class of the Grand-Am Sports Car Series, where he was second overall in 2000 and 2002 and third overall in various racing classes in this racing series in 2011 and 2012. In addition, he finished second overall in the GT class of the American Le Mans Series in 2004 .

Motorsport official

During his time as a professional pilot, Law was already active as a driving instructor at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving . After the end of his driving career, he also ended his activity there and switched to the management of Flying Lizard Motorsports.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2009	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Seth Neiman	failure	accident
2010	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Seth Neiman	failure	cooler
2011	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Spencer Pumpelly	Seth Neiman	failure	accident

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1998	First Union	Porsche 993	Steve Pepper	Mike Fitzgerald		failure	mechanics
1999	G&W Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT2 Evo	Sylvain Tremblay	Steve Marshall	Danny Marshall	Rank 17
2000	Prototype Technology Group	BMW M3 E46	Peter Cunningham	Brian Cunningham		failure	Engine failure
2001	Kelly-Moss Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Cort Wagner	Rick Polk		failure	drive shaft
2002	The Racers Group	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Michael Schrom	Kevin Buckler		failure	accident
2004	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Jon Fogarty	Johannes van Overbeek		Rank 12
2005	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Jon Fogarty			Rank 12
2006	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Seth Neiman	Lonnie Pechnik		Rank 12
2007	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Seth Neiman	Lonnie Pechnik		Rank 27
2008	Flying Lizard Motorsports 44	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Seth Neiman	Alex Davison		Rank 13
2009	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Seth Neiman	Johannes van Overbeek		Rank 11
2010	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Seth Neiman	Richard Lietz		Rank 11
2011	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Seth Neiman	Marco Holzer		Rank 17
2012	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Seth Neiman	Andy Lally		Rank 25

Web links

Commons : Darren Law  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Darren Law at the Driver Database
• Darren Law at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ North American Super Touring Championship 1996
2. ^ North American Super Touring Championship 1997
3. ↑ 2009 Daytona 24 Hours
4. ↑ 2012 2 Hours of Detroit
5. ↑ Grand-Am Sports Car Series 2001
6. ↑ American Le Mans Series GT-Class 2004
7. ^ Darren Law and Flying Lizard Motorsports