User:Darren Whittington (racing driver)

Darren, like all young children growing up in the 80’s watched the likes of Senna, Prost, Brock, Johnson and dreamed of one day being a race car driver. At the age of 7, he was delighted to wake up Christmas morning to see a go kart that his parents had purchased to try his hand a car control. That decision started a life long passion of speed and competition.

In 2002 at the Age of 16 he bought his first car, an AE86 4AGE corolla seemed a good platform to learn to race tin tops. In 2002 Darren attended his first track day at lakeside park raceway in QLD. The car was far from perfect, but was still quite competitive. He ended up finishing 4th position in the points of the competition.

In 2004 Darren made contact with a Subaru Workshop where he established a very good relationship and started driving a Subaru through them.

From 2005-2007 Darren drove a Subaru Liberty, Subaru Forester and a  DC2 Honda Integra type R, the cars were all supported by Subievolution in Brendale QLD. All Cars had success at both Queensland raceway and Lakeside raceway in different championships.

By 2008 it was time for a different challenge, so Darren purchased a Honda S2000 and started straight away to get it track ready.

Darren started running the car at timeattack, again supported by Subievolution. Running many events during 2009 it was clear to see that the car had a lot of potential and was going to do very well in the championship.

At the start of the 2010 Championship they entered 2 cars, the s2000 and also Thomas Saunter-Chun's Dc5 Integra Type R. The two Took out the championship First and 3rd Respectively.

Following the success of the previous year Darren returned with a large amount of respect and started working on other car's setups. This testing included a vast array of cars over the year for eg. Porsche GT3 Cup car's, Numerous Porsche GT3/RS, Numerous Mitsubishi Evo’s, an array of Subaru WRX’s, V8 Powered Supra and a host of Honda S2000's.

Darren is still involved in timeattack Driving a Subaru for Subievolution but the new challenge of the Australian GT Championship is just another mountain to climb and conquer.

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