Darren grew up karting from a young age and was a winner in Junior and then Senior events. Funding has always been a problem in this tough, expensive sport, and Darren’s early single seater racing was done in a second hand, self prepared car in Formula First. His successes soon resulted in Team drives in Formula Vauxhall and Formula Renault Sport, culminating in winning the coveted McLaren / Autosport / BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award.

Early in 1998 Darren set up his ’25 to F1 Club’ and Amazon joined this small enthusiastic group to help fund his career through its next phase, which was driving in the new Formula Palmer Audi single seater series. Darren was a winner and front runner throughout the season with the final result being fought for at the very last meeting, ending up with Darren second overall.

Darren’s career moved on, and he drove for two years as a Mercedes driver in the prestigious DTM saloon series in Germany; was in the Mercedes Le Mans Team in 1999, and under contract with the McLaren Formula 1 Team as a test driver. He was third in class at Le Mans for Prodrive in a Ferrari in 2004, and a frequent winner in the ASCAR series in Europe. In 2005 Darren was signed by Prodrive as one of their regular drivers in the new Aston Martin DBR9, and in 2006 recorded a second in class at Le Mans, as well as competing in most of the American Le Mans series. In 2007 and 2008 Darren was a class winner at Le Mans in the Aston, and also won several races for Seat in the BTCC saloon car series in the UK with teammate Jason Plato.

2010 again sees Darren driving for Aston Martin at Le Mans in a prototype LMP1, and he is also doing the full FIA GTI world championship with the 'Young driver AMR' teams's DBR9 Aston.

To be employed by such names in motor sport is a testament to Darren’s speed, skill and stamina as a driver, and we at Amazon are pleased to have been supporting him for so long – he has our continued interest and support, and we wish Darren every future success in this most competitive sport.