Darren Turner

Darren Turner
Darren Turner in 2013
Nationality	British
Born	(1974-04-13) 13 April 1974 (age 50) Camberley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
FIA World Endurance Championship career
Debut season	2012
Current team	Aston Martin Racing
Racing licence	FIA Gold
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	2003 –
Teams	Prodrive Racing, Aston Martin Racing
Best finish	5th (2007)
Class wins	3 (2007, 2008, 2017)
Car number	98
Starts	59
Wins	8
Poles	11
Fastest laps	2
Best finish	3rd in 2013
Previous series
2008–09 2008 2007–09 2006–08 2003, 2005–08 2003, 2007–09 2002 2000–01 2000–01 1999 1998 1997 1997, 1999 1995–96 1994 1993	Rolex Sports Car Series Formula Ford 1600 Le Mans Series BTCC American Le Mans Series FIA GT Championship ASCAR DTM Formula One testing Italian Formula 3000 Formula Palmer Audi British Formula 3 Formula One testing Formula Renault UK Formula Vauxhall Lotus FFirst Great Britain W. Series
Championship titles
2007, 2008 2017 1993	24 Hours of Le Mans – GT1 24 Hours of Le Mans – LMGTE Pro FFirst Great Britain W. Series
Awards
1996	McLaren Autosport Award

Darren Turner (born 13 April 1974) is a British racing driver and owner of Base Performance Simulators. He races for Aston Martin Racing as a factory driver and also works as a high performance test driver for Aston Martin.

He was McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year in 1996. He is a former test driver for the McLaren Formula One team, but has raced primarily in touring cars and sportscars since 2000. He spent 2 years in the DTM for Keke Rosberg's Mercedes-Benz-powered team, also winning several ASCAR races. In 2006 he raced sportscars for Aston Martin, but also competed five rounds of the British Touring Car Championship for SEAT, sharing their 2nd car with James Thompson. In his first drive for the team he finished 3rd.

He remained with the team for 2007, now full-time team-mate to Plato. Luck was again against him at Rockingham – after qualifying on pole the car had an electrical failure before race one. His first win came in race 11 at Croft [1] Archived 8 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine, with two more at Knockhill.

As well as driving for SEAT in the BTCC, Darren also competed in the 2007 Le Mans 24 Hours, competing in the GT1 class driving for Prodrive Aston Martin Racing alongside David Brabham and Rickard Rydell. After a tense fight against the Corvette Racing Corvette C6.R of Johnny O'Connell, Jan Magnussen and Ron Fellows, the Aston prevailed to win a Le Mans class race for the first time since the return of Aston Martin to endurance sportscar racing.

He opened his 2008 racing season by competing in the Rolex 24 finishing 4th in class and overall sharing a Krohn Racing Pontiac-Riley with Niclas Jonsson and Ricardo Zonta. At the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans Turner won the GT1 class (13th overall) driving an Aston Martin DBR9 shared with David Brabham and Antonio García.

Turner also participated in the Gold Coast 600 race as part of the 2011 International V8 Supercars Championship. He entered the race as a replacement driver to Dan Wheldon, who was scheduled to drive in the race but was killed in a 15-car crash at the IndyCar World Championship race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, less than a week before the race.

In 2012, Turner competed in the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship with Aston Martin Racing in the GTE-Pro class Aston Martin Vantage.

In the 80th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2012, Turner and the Aston Martin Racing finished third place in the GTE-Pro class along with his co-drivers the German Stefan Mücke and the Mexican Adrián Fernández, their Aston Martin Vantage 4.5 L-V8 covered a total of 332 laps (2,811.65 miles), in the Circuit de la Sarthe without failure or serious mechanical problems. Also the team achieved the fastest lap of the category with 3 minutes and 54.928 seconds.^[1][2]

Turner continued to race for Aston Martin Racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship until 2020, notching up numerous victories, the biggest of which was his third 24 Hours of Le Mans win, which came in 2017. He raced the #97 Aston Martin Vantage GTE to a class win in GTE Pro, alongside Jonny Adam and Daniel Serra. It was Turner who took the GTE pole position for the 2017 race with a time that broke the lap record.

Darren continues to race, competing in events including the Nürburgring 24 Hours.

As a high performance development driver for Aston Martin, Turner has worked on the development of cars including the Aston Martin Vulcan and the Aston Martin Valkyrie.

Turner is also a regular competitor at the Goodwood Revival and in 2018 he was named "Rolex Driver of the Meeting" in recognition of his performances at the event.

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics 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	DC	Points
2000	Team Rosberg	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	HOC 1 12	HOC 2 8	OSC 1 13	OSC 2 Ret	NOR 1 11	NOR 2 12	SAC 1 8	SAC 2 8	NÜR 1 15	NÜR 2 8	LAU 1 C	LAU 2 C	OSC 1 DNS	OSC 2 DNS	NÜR 1 13	NÜR 2 11	HOC 1 10	HOC 2 6			14th	19
2001	Team Rosberg	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	HOC QR 6	HOC CR 8	NÜR QR 9	NÜR CR 16	OSC QR 14	OSC CR DSQ	SAC QR 9	SAC CR Ret	NOR QR Ret	NOR CR 11	LAU QR 10	LAU CR 9	NÜR QR Ret	NÜR CR 8	A1R QR 14	A1R CR 10	ZAN QR 15	ZAN CR 8	HOC QR 9	HOC CR 8	15th	15
Sources:[3][4][5]

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
2003	Veloqx Prodrive Racing	Anthony Davidson Kelvin Burt	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	GTS	176	DNF	DNF
2004	Prodrive Racing	Colin McRae Rickard Rydell	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	GTS	329	9th	3rd
2005	Aston Martin Racing	David Brabham Stéphane Sarrazin	Aston Martin DBR9	GT1	333	9th	3rd
2006	Aston Martin Racing	Tomáš Enge Andrea Piccini	Aston Martin DBR9	GT1	350	6th	2nd
2007	Aston Martin Racing	David Brabham Rickard Rydell	Aston Martin DBR9	GT1	343	5th	1st
2008	Aston Martin Racing	David Brabham Antonio García	Aston Martin DBR9	GT1	344	13th	1st
2009	Aston Martin Racing	Anthony Davidson Jos Verstappen	Lola-Aston Martin B09/60	LMP1	342	13th	11th
2010	Aston Martin Racing	Juan Barazi Sam Hancock	Lola-Aston Martin B09/60	LMP1	368	DNF	DNF
2011	Aston Martin Racing	Stefan Mücke Christian Klien	Aston Martin AMR-One	LMP1	4	DNF	DNF
2012	Aston Martin Racing	Stefan Mücke Adrián Fernández	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	332	19th	3rd
2013	Aston Martin Racing	Stefan Mücke Peter Dumbreck	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	314	17th	3rd
2014	Aston Martin Racing	Stefan Mücke Bruno Senna	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	310	35th	6th
2015	Aston Martin Racing	Stefan Mücke Rob Bell	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	110	DNF	DNF
2016	Aston Martin Racing	Marco Sørensen Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	338	23rd	5th
2017	Aston Martin Racing	Jonathan Adam Daniel Serra	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	340	17th	1st
2018	Aston Martin Racing	Nicki Thiim Marco Sørensen	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	GTE Pro	339	23rd	8th
2019	Aston Martin Racing	Nicki Thiim Marco Sørensen	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	GTE Pro	132	DNF	DNF
Sources:[3][6]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded in first race) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded all races) (* signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap – 1 point awarded all races)

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	25	26	27	28	29	30	Pos	Pts
2006	SEAT Sport UK	SEAT León	BRH 1	BRH 2	BRH 3	MON 1	MON 2	MON 3	OUL 1	OUL 2	OUL 3	THR 1 3	THR 2 5	THR 3 Ret	CRO 1	CRO 2	CRO 3	DON 1 12	DON 2 9	DON 3 4	SNE 1	SNE 2	SNE 3	KNO 1 10	KNO 2 DSQ	KNO 3 4	BRH 1 Ret	BRH 2 Ret	BRH 3 DNS	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 10	SIL 3 6	14th	41
2007	SEAT Sport UK	SEAT León	BRH 1 Ret	BRH 2 4	BRH 3 DSQ	ROC 1 Ret	ROC 2 6	ROC 3 3	THR 1 3	THR 2 Ret	THR 3 6	CRO 1 4	CRO 2 1*	CRO 3 5	OUL 1 Ret	OUL 2 7	OUL 3 3	DON 1 12	DON 2 6	DON 3 9	SNE 1 6	SNE 2 4	SNE 3 9	BRH 1 3	BRH 2 Ret	BRH 3 15	KNO 1 1*	KNO 2 1*	KNO 3 7	THR 1 18	THR 2 11	THR 3 6	6th	160
2008	SEAT Sport UK	SEAT León TDI	BRH 1 4	BRH 2 5	BRH 3 Ret	ROC 1 2	ROC 2 3*	ROC 3 Ret	DON 1 19	DON 2 4	DON 3 1*	THR 1 6	THR 2 4	THR 3 16	CRO 1 15	CRO 2 9	CRO 3 Ret	SNE 1 2	SNE 2 19*	SNE 3 16	OUL 1 6	OUL 2 Ret	OUL 3 16	KNO 1 Ret	KNO 2 8	KNO 3 1*	SIL 1 3	SIL 2 Ret	SIL 3 19	BRH 1 7	BRH 2 Ret	BRH 3 12	8th	133
Sources:[3][5]

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Points
2010	Young Driver AMR	Aston Martin DBR9	ABU QR Ret	ABU CR 11	SIL QR 4	SIL CR EX	BRN QR 2	BRN CR 2	PRI QR 10	PRI CR 16	SPA QR 10	SPA CR 6	NÜR QR 1	NÜR CR 1	ALG QR 4	ALG CR 10	NAV QR Ret	NAV CR 4	INT QR 2	INT CR 10	SAN QR 10	SAN CR 15	4th	104
2011	Young Driver AMR	Aston Martin DBR9	ABU QR Ret	ABU CR 5	ZOL QR Ret	ZOL CR 7	ALG QR 4	ALG CR 2	SAC QR 3	SAC CR 3	SIL QR Ret	SIL CR Ret	NAV QR 6	NAV CR Ret	PRI QR 3	PRI CR 2	ORD QR 7	ORD CR 5	BEI QR 2	BEI CR 1	SAN QR DNS	SAN CR DNS	2nd	120
Source:[4]

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	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	Final pos	Points	Ref
2011	Holden Racing Team	Holden VE Commodore	YMC R1	YMC R2	ADE R3	ADE R4	HAM R5	HAM R6	PER R7	PER R8	PER R9	WIN R10	WIN R11	HDV R12	HDV R13	TOW R14	TOW R15	QLD R16	QLD R17	QLD R18	PHI Q	PHI R19	BAT R20	SUR R21 14	SUR R22 6	SYM R23	SYM R24	SAN R25	SAN R26	SYD R27	SYD R28			59th	165	[7]
2012	Holden Racing Team	Holden VE Commodore	ADE R1	ADE R2	SYM R3	SYM R4	HAM R5	HAM R6	PER R7	PER R8	PER R9	PHI R10	PHI R11	HDV R12	HDV R13	TOW R14	TOW R15	QLD R16	QLD R17	SMP R18	SMP R19	SAN Q	SAN R20	BAT R21	SUR R22 7	SUR R23 17	YMC R24	YMC R25	YMC R26	WIN R27	WIN R28	SYD R29	SYD R30	NC	0 +	[8]

+ Not eligible for points.

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2012	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SEB 3	SPA Ret	LMS 3	SIL 2	SÃO 2	BHR 2	FUJ 3	SHA 1		35th	7
2013	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 1	SPA 4	LMS 3	SÃO 2	COA Ret	FUJ 1	SHA 1	BHR Ret		3rd	125.5
2014	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 3	SPA 4	LMS 10	COA 1	FUJ 9	SHA Ret	BHR 2	SÃO 1		5th	102
2015	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 5	SPA 5	LMS Ret	NÜR 6	COA 6	FUJ 6	SHA 6	BHR 3		10th	67
2016	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 3	SPA Ret	LMS 2	NÜR 5	MEX 1	COA 5	FUJ 6	SHA Ret	BHR 5	6th	115
2017	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 7	SPA 7	LMS 1	NÜR 7	MEX Ret	COA 5	FUJ 6	SHA 7	BHR 6	7th	101
2018–19	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8	SPA 7	LMS 5	SIL	FUJ	SHA	SEB 9	SPA	LMS Ret		18th	25
2019–20	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Am	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8	SIL 2	FUJ 11	SHA 3	BHR 2	COA 2	SPA	LMS	BHR		11th	78.5
Source:[3]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points	Ref
2014	Aston Martin Racing	GTLM	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 V8	DAY 8	SEB	LBH	LGA	WGL	MOS	IMS	ELK	VIR	COA	PET		40th	24	[9]
2015	Aston Martin Racing	GTLM	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 V8	DAY 6	SEB 6	LBH	LGA	WGL	MOS	ELK	VIR	COA	PET			19th	52	[10]
2020	Heart of Racing Team	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8	DAY	DAY	SEB	ELK	VIR	ATL 6	MDO	CLT	PET 11	LGA	SEB 2		31st	77	[11]
2021	Heart of Racing Team	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8	DAY 5	SEB	MDO	DET	WGL	WGL	LIM	ELK	LGA	LBH	VIR	PET	49th	285	[12]
2022	Heart of Racing Team	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8	DAY 9	SEB	LBH	LGA	MDO	DET	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	PET	59th	230	[13]
2023	Heart of Racing Team	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8	DAY 1	SEB	LBH	LGA	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	IMS	PET		44th	375	[14]
Source:[3]

^* Season still in progress.

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Rank	Points
2016	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 1	IMO 5	RBR 4	LEC 3	SPA 5	EST 1	1st	98
2017	Beechdean AMR	LMGTE	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 3	MNZ 3	RBR 6	LEC 5	SPA 3	ALG 4	5th	75
Source:[3]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
2018	Beechdean AMR	Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3	GT3	OUL 1 2	OUL 2 6	ROC 1 3	SNE 1 11	SNE 2 2	SIL 1 9	SPA 1 Ret	BRH 1 4	DON 1 5	5th	102.5
2019	M2 Competition	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	GT3	OUL 1	OUL 2	SNE 1	SNE 2	SIL 1	DON 1	SPA 1 13	BRH 1	DON 1	NC†	0†
2021	Newbridge Motorsport	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4	GT4	BRH 1	SIL 1 14	DON 1	SPA 1 7	SNE 1 20	SNE 2 19	OUL 1 11	OUL 2 19	DON 1 17	4th	106.5
2022	Newbridge Motorsport	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4	GT4	OUL 1 20	OUL 2 15	SIL 1 15	DON 1 24	SNE 1 19	SNE 2 18	SPA 1 18	BRH 1 11	DON 1 19	2nd	163
Source:[3]

^† As Turner was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	DC	Points
2019	D'station Racing AMR	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	GT300	OKA	FUJ	SUZ	CHA	FUJ 11	AUT	SUG	MOT	NC	0
Source:[3]

• Darren Turner official website
• Darren Turner career summary at DriverDB.com
• Profile at BTCCPages.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Mikkel Mac Johnny Laursen Andrea Rizzoli	European Le Mans Series LMGTE Champion 2016 With: Alex MacDowall & Andrew Howard	Succeeded by Jody Fannin Robert Smith
Preceded by Mia Flewitt Euan Hankey	British GT Championship GT4 Pro-Am Champion 2021-2022 With: Matt Topham	Succeeded by Michael Johnston Chris Salkeld
Awards
Preceded by Jonny Kane	McLaren Autosport BRDC Award 1996	Succeeded by Andrew Kirkaldy