Darryl O'Young
Darryl O'Young Yeuk-Hay ( Chinese 歐陽 若 曦 ; born March 26, 1980 in Vancouver ) is a Chinese automobile racing driver . He lives in Hong Kong .
Career
Beginnings in motorsport
O'Young began his racing career in 1988 at the age of eight. Trained by his father, he proved his driving skills in karting and won numerous championships. The climax of his karting career was reached in 2000 when he won the Canadian and US championships.
After a season in Formula Ford , he started in Formula Renault in the United States in 2002 and 2003 before moving to the Porsche Infineon Carrera Cup Asia at the beginning of the following year .
Sports car
In 2005, O'Young finished third overall in the Porsche Infineon Carrera Cup Asia for Jebsen & Co , the Porsche importer from Hong Kong.
He got this year is also the possibility of the team Noble Group - Group M Racing of Matthew Marsh in the Le Mans Endurance Series to go to the start. The two competed in three races with a Porsche 996 GT3 RSR and scored one point in the GT2 classification.
In 2005 O'Young also had a job with this team in the FIA GT Championship . At the China race at the Zhuhai International Circuit, he and his teammate Marsh drove a Porsche 996 GT3 RSR and took fourth place in the GT2 class.
In 2006 O'Young competed for the Renauer Motorsport Team at the Spa 24 Hours , but could not classify.
In the same year he won the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia with Team Jebsen after winning seven races, including the two in Zhuhai.
In 2007 O'Young competed for the Schnabl Engineering - LKM - Team Jebsen in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup . He was the first rider from Hong Kong to take part in this series.
In October and November he drove the races in Shanghai, Zhuhai and Macau of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia as a guest starter. He won the race in Macau after his opponent Danny Watts received a 30-second penalty for overtaking under a yellow flag, repeating his Macau result from 2005.
In 2008 , O'Young competed in both the Porsche Supercup and the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia. In the latter he was champion for the second time with 196 points and four wins this season. He also won the Macau GT Cup, which was held instead of the former Porsche Carrera Cup Asia race.
For 2009 he planned to contest the entire season in the FIA GT Championship - this would have made O'Young the first Chinese racing driver to have completed a full season in this series. However, he missed the third race in Oschersleben. At the end of the season in which he competed with the factory-supported Porsche 997 GT3 RSR of the Belgian Prospeed Competition team, he finished 13th in the GT2 classification.
In the same year the title defense in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia failed; he had to be satisfied with third place overall behind Christian Menzel and Tim Sugden .
In addition, O'Young contested the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the first time in his career in a Porsche 997 GT3 RSR . The vehicle broke down after 16 hours.
In 2010 he took part in the Daytona 24-hour race and finished 13th in the GT class with his team-mates. He was also to make his DTM debut for Phoenix in an Audi . However, he did not start the race.
World Touring Car Championship
O'Young has been competing in the World Touring Car Championship for Bamboo Engineering since 2010 . In his first year Harry Vaulkhard was his teammate, in 2011 Yukinori Taniguchi . In 2012 it is the Italian Pasquale Di Sabatino . O'Young drives a Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T in the championship .
statistics
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 |
 Endurance Asia Team
|
Porsche 997 GT3 RSR |
 Philippe Hesnault
|
 Plamen Kralev
|
not classified | |
| 2013 |
 AF Corse
|
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 |
Piergiuseppe Perazzini
|
Lorenzo Case
|
Rank 26 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Palmarès ( PDF ; 119 kB) ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ LMES 2005 in a nut shell
- ↑ Results: 2006 Round 4 - Spa-Francorchamps fiagt.com
- ↑ Porsche Carrera Cup - Race Classification ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) macau.grandprix.gov.mo
- ↑ Windsor Arch Macau GT Cup - Race Classification ( PDF ; 72 kB) ( Memento from August 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) macau.grandprix.gov.mo
- ↑ Driver Biography: Darryl O'Young fiagt.com
- ↑ Driver Biography: Darryl O Young fiagt.com
- ↑ Points Chart: FIA GT2 Driver Championship fiagt.com (Note: O'Young is listed twice in the championship table - probably by mistake: once as "Darryl O'Young" with 13 points in 13th place and once as "Darryl O Young "with a point in place 21.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | O'Young, Darryl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | O'Young Yeuk-Hay, Darryl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vancouver , Canada |