The euphoria of the qualifying result on Saturday quickly turned to despair once again for the bamboo engineering team, as after only four laps of the first race on Sunday, Darryl O’Young tangled with the BMW of Mehdi Bennani ending up embedded in the armco barrier, ending any chance of the dreamed of podium finish.

The first of the scheduled nine lap races began with a scare for Darryl after a tank slapping slide soon after the rolling start was brilliantly saved, costing him only one place to Gabriele Tarquini. An early Safety Car would quickly bunch the field back up again and after the restart Darryl would immediately come under pressure from the BMW of Mehdi Bennani. Under braking for the fifth time for the tight right hander at Lisboa, Benanni would stick the nose of his car down the inside but would fail to get anywhere close to passing. He would though remain in that position, on the right rear bumper of the Cruze as the cars headed down the short stretch before San Francisco Hill. Darryl would move to protect his line into the right hander not realising that Benanni was so close. The pair would collide and Darryl would be speared to the right and head on into the armco barrier lining the street circuit, causing heavy damage to the front right corner and instant retirement.

With race one over, the problem now faced by the team would be how to get the car back to the paddock to assess the damage and hopefully get the car repaired for race two under the strict time limits put on repairing the cars between races. The damage would turn out to be repairable and the team set to work as quickly as they could, but time would be against them. Although a fantastic job was done by all to get Darryl out into race two, time ran out and the pit lane exit was closed before he could join the back of the grid and he would be forced to start from the pit lane after the whole field had passed by from the start.

Once again an early intervention by the Safety Car would allow Darryl to make up some lost ground, thereafter he would put together a strong succession of quick laps to make up eight places from the start finishing in twelfth place overall on the road from the 20 starters and seventh Independent finisher.

So it was an ultimately disappointing end to a season that had promised so much in the early rounds with a championship challenge that had survived through to the Asain leg of the series finally ending in the penultimate races in China.

In the final Yokohama Independent Trophy standings Darryl would finish in sixth place with 88 points and Yuke in 13^th place with 26 points.