Sunny Wong (racing driver)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wong.

Yat Shing "Sunny" Wong (in Chinese):王日昇, born 29 July 1978) is a Hong Kong racing driver currently competing in the TCR Asia Series. Having previously competed in the China Touring Car Championship, Asian Touring Car Series, Hong Kong Touring Car Championship and Asian Formula Renault Series amongst others.

Yat Shing Wong 王日昇
Nationality	Hong Kong
Born	(1978-07-29) 29 July 1978 (age 46) British Hong Kong
TCR Asia Series career
Debut season	2015
Current team	WestCoast Racing
Car number	28
Starts	2
Previous series
2014-15 2013 2010-12 2010-11, 13 2009	China Touring Car Championship Asian Touring Car Series Hong Kong Touring Car Championship Asian Formula Renault Series China Formula Campus

Racing career

Wong began his career in 2009 in China Formula Campus. In 2010 he switched to the Asian Formula Renault Series, finishing 6th in the standings in 2013. He raced in the Hong Kong Touring Car Championship from 2010–12, winning the championship in 2012. In 2013 he raced in the Asian Touring Car Series, he finished the season 2nd in the championship standings. In 2014 he switched to the China Touring Car Championship finishing 4th in the championship standings in 2015.^[1]

In November 2015 it was announced that he would race in the TCR Asia Series & TCR International Series, driving a Honda Civic TCR for WestCoast Racing.^[2][3][4][5]

On 25 July 2019, Teamwork Huff Motorsport ended its TCR UK programme, the team had entered Sunny Wong into the 2019 TCR UK series, committing to its entry before the news that the series was to be combined with the Touring Car Trophy.^[6]

On 18 November 2019, Sunny Wong took his Subaru Impreza WRX to a pole-to-flag win in the Macau Touring Car Cup. The race was called to an end only after seven laps, of which five were completed behind the safety car.^[7]

Racing record

Complete TCR International Series results

(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	21	22	DC	Points
2015	WestCoast Racing	Honda Civic TCR	SEP 1	SEP 2	SHA 1	SHA 2	VAL 1	VAL 2	ALG 1	ALG 2	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	SAL 1	SAL 2	SOC 1	SOC 2	RBR 1	RBR 2	MRN 1	MRN 2	CHA 1	CHA 2	MAC 1 15	MAC 2 Ret	NC	0
2016	Suncity Racing Team	Citroen C-Elysée	BHR 1	BHR 2	EST 1	EST 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	IMO 1	IMO 2	SAL 1	SAL 2	OSC 1	OSC 2	SOC 1	SOC 2	CHA 1	CHA 2	MRN 1	MRN 2	SEP 1	SEP 2	MAC 1 22	MAC 2 Ret	NC	0

^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

TCR Spa 500 results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2019	Teamwork Huff Motorsport	Alex Hui Samuel Hsieh Paul Poon	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	PA	428	7th	3rd

References

1. "Sunny Wong career statistics". Driver Database. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
2. "WestCoast add fourth car for Sunny Wong in Macau". tcr-series.com. 9 November 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
3. "Sunny Wong expects to adapt quickly to TCR Honda at Macau". TouringCarTimes.com. 9 November 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
4. Hudson, Neil (9 October 2015). "31 cars entered for the 2015 Guia Race of Macau". TouringCarTimes.com. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
5. Hudson, Neil (15 November 2015). "Josh Files and Igor Skuz join Campos, complete 30 car Macau entry". TouringCarTimes.com. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
6. "Teamwork Huff Motorsport ends TCR UK programme". Touring Cars Net. 25 July 2019.
7. Renato Marques (19 November 2018). "Sunny Wong wins 'little taste' Macau Touring Car Cup". Macau Daily Times.

External links

• Sunny Wong career summary at DriverDB.com