Daniel Lu

Lu was born in Shanghai on 9 May 2001 to a British father and a Chinese mother, and was named "Dragon" by his grandparents. He has a younger brother, Nathan Lu Wenhu, who is four years his junior and previously competed in karting.^[1]

Lu also attended the British International School of Shanghai and the University of Devon.^[2]

Lu began his karting career at the age of fourteen and most notably won the Rotax Max Kart Challenge China Cup Youth Division in 2015.^[3][4] In early 2017, Lu made his single-seater debut at the Buriram round of the 2016–17 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship.^[5]

For the rest of 2017, Lu competed for Absolute Racing in Formula Masters China, in which he took eight wins on his way to runner-up in points, three behind Taylor Cockerton.^[6] Alongside his Formula Masters China commitments, Lu competed in all but one rounds of the Asian Formula Renault Series for Asia Racing Team,^[7] taking four wins to finish second in points and winning the Renault Road to Champion class.^[8] During 2017, Lu also competed for BVM Racing in the Monza and Jerez rounds of the Euroformula Open Championship.^[9]

Despite testing Formula Renault machinery in Europe at the end of 2017,^[10] Lu became a Porsche China Young Driver and switched to Porsche Carrera Cup Asia for 2018.^[11][12] In his rookie year in the series, Lu scored a best result of fourth at Fuji en route to a seventh-place points finish.^[13]

Returning to Porsche Carrera Cup Asia as a Porsche China junior for 2019, Lu won in Singapore en route to a fourth-place points finish.^[14][15] During 2019, Lu also raced part-time in the China GT Championship, winning at Shanghai and Ningbo in the GTC class alongside Jacky Wu.^[16][17] Initially signing with Team Jebsen for the following year, Lu joined them in 2021 after the previous season was cancelled due to the pandemic.^[18] In his third full-tims season in the series, Lu won four races and clinched the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia title at season's end.^[19][20]

Following a two-year hiatus, Lu returned to racing in 2024 by competing for EBM in one-off appearances in Porsche Carrera Cup Asia and GT World Challenge Asia.^[21][22] The following year, Lu joined Absolute Racing as one of the team's two Porsches for their campaign in GT World Challenge Asia,^[23][24] whilst also returning to the China GT Championship.^[25] Obtaining only one class podium among the two campaigns, Lu found more success in SRO GT Cup for Team Pegasus, in which he won in Beijing and Macau to end the season runner-up in the Silver Cup points.^[26][27]

Racing career summary

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Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2016–17	Formula 4 South East Asia Championship	Meritus.GP	7	0	0	0	1	0	NC
2017	Formula Masters China	Absolute Racing	18	7	3	4	11	218	2nd
	Asian Formula Renault Series – Class A	Asia Racing Team	10	4	4	4	8	231	2nd
	Euroformula Open Championship	BVM Racing	4	0	0	0	0	0	25th
2017–18	Porsche GT3 Challenge Middle East		4	0	0	0	1	59	17th
2018	Porsche Carrera Cup Asia	Porsche China Junior Team	13	0	0	0	0	98	7th
2018–19	Asian Le Mans Series – GTC	EKS Motorsports	1	0	0	0	1	18	2nd
2019	Porsche Carrera Cup Asia	Porsche China Junior Team	14	1	0	0	2	166	4th
	China GT Championship – GTC		2	0	0	0	2	28	10th
2020	China Endurance Championship – GT3 Pro-Am	FFA Racing	?	?	?	?	?	?	3rd
2021	Porsche Carrera Cup Asia	Team Jebsen	15	4	1	0	10	284	1st
2022	Porsche Carrera Cup Asia	Climax Racing	8	?	?	?	?	72	7th
2023	Shanghai 8 Hours – GTC	Z.SPEED	1	1	1	?	1	—N/a	1st
	Thai Super Series – GT3	Absolute B-Quik Racing	2	0	?	0	1	0	NC†
2024	Porsche Carrera Cup Asia	EBM Giga Racing	3	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	GT World Challenge Asia	EBM	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
	GT World Challenge Asia – Silver-Am		2	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
	Thai Super Series – GT3	Absolute B-Quik Racing	2	1	?	0	1	35	12th
2025	China GT Championship – GT3	610 Racing	4	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	GT World Challenge Asia	Absolute Racing	12	0	0	0	0	1	48th
	GT World Challenge Asia – Silver-Am		10	0	0	0	1	73	11th
	GT World Challenge Asia – Silver		2	0	0	0	0	24	9th
	SRO GT Cup	Team Pegasus	5	2	2	0	3	78	2nd
	SRO GT Cup – Silver			2	2	0	3	86	2nd
	Greater Bay Area GT Cup		1	1	0	0	1	—N/a	1st
Sources:[28][29][30][31][32]

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^† As Lu was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

Complete Formula Masters China results

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Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	Points
2017	Absolute Racing	SEP1 1 1	SEP1 2 1	SEP1 3 3	SEP1 4 1	SEP2 1 8	SEP2 2 1	SEP2 3 4	SEP2 4 3	ZIC1 1 1	ZIC1 2 Ret	ZIC1 3 2	ZIC2 1 10	ZIC2 2 2	ZIC2 3 1	SIC 1 1	SIC 2 4	SIC 3 4	SIC 4 5	2nd	218

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Complete Euroformula Open Championship results

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Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	DC	Points
2017	BVM Racing	EST 1	EST 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	LEC 1	LEC 2	HUN 1	HUN 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	MNZ 1 16	MNZ 2 15	JER 1 Ret	JER 2 16	CAT 1	CAT 2	25th	0

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Complete Asian Le Mans Series results

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Year	Team	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	Pos.	Points
2018–19	EKS Motorsports	GTC	Porsche 991 GT3 Cup	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SHA 2	FUJ	CHA	SEP	2nd	18

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Complete GT World Challenge Asia results

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Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2024	EBM	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	Silver-Am	SEP 1	SEP 2	BUR 1	BUR 2	FUJ 1	FUJ 2	SUZ 1	SUZ 2	OKA 1	OKA 2	SIC 1 4	SIC 2 7	0	NC
2025	Absolute Racing	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	Silver-Am	SEP 1 3	SEP 2 5	MAN 1 8	MAN 2 4	BUR 1 9	BUR 2 9	FUJ 1 Ret	FUJ 2 6	OKA 1 6	OKA 2 4			11th	73
			Silver											BEI 1 4	BEI 2 4	9th	24

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