Ho-Pin Tung

Ho-Pin Tung (Chinese: 董荷斌; pinyin: Dǒng Hébīn; born December 4, 1982) is a Chinese-Dutch auto-racing driver who races with a Chinese license.

Career[edit]

Born in Velp, Gelderland, Netherlands, Tung started kart racing in the Netherlands in 1997 before graduating to single-seaters. He won the 2003 Formula BMW Asia series and was rewarded with a test drive with the Williams F1 team.

In 2004 he joined the ATS Formel 3 Cup. Although he scored race wins and podium finishes, he finished 7th in his rookie year.

Tung stayed in the ATS F3 Cup in 2005, finishing the series in third place, before taking the title in 2006, winning 9 races, 4 pole positions and 5 fastest laps.

At the 2007 Chinese Grand Prix he was announced as a BMW Sauber test driver for the rest of the year.

On 4 April 2007, BCN Competición announced that it had signed Tung as its second driver alongside Japanese driver Sakon Yamamoto for the 2007 GP2 series. [1]

Tung drove for Trident Racing team in the 2008 GP2 Asia Series and GP2 Series, scoring his first podium finish in the latter.

In 2009 he raced in the Superleague Formula series. He raced in the first three rounds for Galatasaray S.K. and the latter three rounds for Atlético Madrid. He had his first win in the series at the Jarama round for Galatasaray.

In December 2009, Tung tested for the Renault F1 Team. In January he was announced as the team's third driver. As part of the deal, he returned to the GP2 Series with the DAMS team for the 2010 season.^[1]

On 23 June 2010, the FIA granted Tung a four-race probationary super license, allowing him to compete in Formula One.^[2]

At the Hungaroring round of the GP2 season, Tung sustained a minor fracture of one of his lumbar vertebrae as a result of a first-lap collision with Jules Bianchi, who spun in front of him and suffered a more serious break of the same bone.^[3] Tung was replaced by Romain Grosjean while he recovered.^[4] However, Grosjean kept the seat for the remainder of the season, leaving Tung without a drive until he was called up to replace Christian Vietoris at Racing Engineering for the final round; Vietoris suffering from appendicitis.

IndyCar[edit]

On 22 November 2010, Tung made sporting history as he officially became the first Chinese licensed driver to take the wheel of an IndyCar by testing with the FAZZT Race Team at Sebring International Raceway.^[5]

Tung attempted to qualify for the 2011 Indianapolis 500 with Dragon Racing, but was unsuccessful due to a crash on Pole Day that resulted in a mild concussion. He made his IndyCar debut later that season in August at Infineon Raceway driving for the same team.

Sportscars[edit]

In 2017 Tung produced the shock of the event by leading the race with a LMP2 car with only hours to go after all the top running LMP1 teams either retired or faded away in the race. It was the first time in history that a LMP2 car led the race. In the end the Chinese Jackie Chan DC Racing-Oreca team finished second overall, and first in the LMP2 class after it was overtaken by the Porsche LMP no.2 car. The team was therefore also the first entered team with a Chinese nationality to win a class in the 24 hours of Le Mans.

Racing record[edit]

Complete A1 Grand Prix results[edit]

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Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2006–07	China	NED SPR	NED FEA	CZE SPR	CZE FEA	CHN SPR	CHN FEA	MYS SPR	MYS FEA	IDN SPR Ret	IDN FEA 13	NZL SPR 13	NZL FEA 9	AUS SPR 6	AUS FEA 3	RSA SPR 14	RSA FEA Ret	MEX SPR 6	MEX FEA 10	CHN SPR	CHN FEA	GBR SPR	GBR SPR	15th	22
2008–09		NED SPR 13	NED FEA 9	CHN SPR 17	CHN FEA 12	MYS SPR 10	MYS FEA 9	NZL SPR	NZL FEA	RSA SPR 13	RSA FEA Ret	POR SPR 16	POR FEA 8	GBR SPR	GBR SPR									17th	4

Complete GP2 Series results[edit]

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Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	DC	Points
2007	BCN Competición	BHR FEA 15	BHR SPR Ret	CAT FEA 11	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA 13	MAG FEA 14	MAG SPR 17	SIL FEA 17	SIL SPR 15	NÜR FEA 16	NÜR SPR Ret	HUN FEA 9	HUN SPR Ret	IST FEA 9	IST SPR 9	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR 16	SPA FEA 8	SPA SPR 4	VAL FEA 11	VAL SPR 11	23rd	4
2008	Trident Racing	CAT FEA Ret	CAT SPR 14	IST FEA 11	IST SPR Ret	MON FEA 7	MON SPR 2	MAG FEA Ret	MAG SPR 14	SIL FEA 18	SIL SPR Ret	HOC FEA 13	HOC SPR 7	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 14	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 9	SPA FEA 15	SPA SPR 10	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR 8		18th	7
2010	DAMS	CAT FEA 13	CAT SPR 10	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR Ret	IST FEA 11	IST SPR 9	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 13	SIL FEA Ret	SIL SPR 15	HOC FEA Ret	HOC SPR 14	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR DNS	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR				28th	0
	Racing Engineering																			YMC FEA Ret	YMC SPR 13

Complete GP2 Asia Series results[edit]

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Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Points
2008	Trident Racing	DUB FEA 22	DUB SPR 10	SEN FEA Ret	SEN SPR 6	SEP FEA Ret	SEP SPR 16	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR 7	DUB FEA 10	DUB SPR DSQ	21st	1

Superleague Formula[edit]

(Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	Operator	1			2			3			4			5			6			Position	Points
2009	Atlético Madrid	Alan Docking Racing	MAG			ZOL			DON												15th	202
			14	12	X	18	2	C	9	7	X
	Galatasaray S.K.	Ultimate Motorsport										EST			MOZ			JAR			11th	239
												17	7	X	8	7	C	16	1	4
2011	China	Emilio de Villota Motorsport	HOL			BEL															14th	34
			10	11	X

American Open-Wheel racing results[edit]

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IndyCar[edit]

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Rank	Points
2011	Dragon Racing	Dallara	Honda	STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY DNQ	TXS	TXS	MIL	IOW	TOR	EDM	MDO	NHM	SNM 27	BAL	MOT	KTY	LVS	45th	10

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Top 5s	Top 10s	Indianapolis 500 Wins	Championships
1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0

Indianapolis 500[edit]

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2011	Dallara	Honda	DNQ		Dragon Racing

Complete GT1 World Championship results[edit]

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
2011	Exim Bank Team China	Corvette	ABU QR	ABU CR	ZOL QR	ZOL CR	ALG QR	ALG CR	SAC QR	SAC CR	SIL QR	SIL CR	NAV QR	NAV CR	PRI QR	PRI CR	ORD QR Ret	ORD CR 12	BEI QR 14	BEI CR 11	SAN QR	SAN CR	39th	0

24 Hours of Le Mans results[edit]

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2013	KCMG	Alexandre Imperatori Matthew Howson	Morgan LMP2-Nissan	LMP2	241	DNF	DNF
2014	OAK Racing-Team Asia	David Cheng Adderly Fong	Ligier JS P2-Honda	LMP2	347	11th	7th
2015	Pegasus Racing	David Cheng Léo Roussel	Morgan LMP2-Nissan	LMP2	334	19th	9th
2016	Baxi DC Racing Alpine	David Cheng Nelson Panciatici	Alpine A460-Nissan	LMP2	234	DNF	DNF
2017	Jackie Chan DC Racing	Thomas Laurent Oliver Jarvis	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	366	2nd	1st
2018	Jackie Chan DC Racing	Gabriel Aubry Stéphane Richelmi	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	356	10th	6th

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results[edit]

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2016	Baxi DC Racing-Alpine	LMP2	Alpine A460	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL 7	SPA Ret	LMS Ret	NÜR 7	MEX 5	COA 8	FUJ 9	SHA 8	BHR 6	13th	40
2017	Jackie Chan DC Racing	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	SIL 1	SPA 3	LMS 1	NÜR 1	MEX 9	COA 4	FUJ 3	SHA 4	BHR 2	2nd	175
2018–19	Jackie Chan DC Racing	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	SPA 1	LMS 4	SIL	FUJ	SHA	SEB	SPA	LMS		2nd*	43*

^* Season still in progress.

Complete Formula E results[edit]

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Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos	Points
2014–15	China Racing	Spark-Renault SRT 01E	BEI 16	PUT 11	PDE	BNA 11	MIA	LBH	MON	BER	MOS	LON	LON	26th	0

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Ho-Pin Tung career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Inaugural	Formula BMW Asia Champion 2003	Succeeded by Marchy Lee
Preceded by Peter Elkmann	German Formula Three Champion 2006	Succeeded by Carlo van Dam
Preceded by David Cheng	Asian Le Mans Series LMP2 Champion 2014 With: David Cheng	Succeeded by Nicolas Leutwiler
Preceded by Inaugural	Asian Le Mans Series LMP3 Champion 2015–16 With: David Cheng	Succeeded by Nigel Moore Philip Carson