He moved to the new Special Tuning Racing team for 2012, driving one of their SEAT León WTCCs. He missed the races of the season opening Race of Italy after a fire in the Sunday morning warm–up session. He stopped the car and evacuated but the damage was ruled him out of participating in the rest of the weekend. A race one clash with Charles Ng at the Race of Austria required O'Young to receive attention at the circuit medical centre and he was forced to miss race two. He was caught up in a pileup at the start of the opening race of the Race of the United States but was able to continue and finished fourteenth, two places up on his starting position. Prior to the Race of Japan, he left Special Tuning Racing and returned to bamboo–engineering for the final rounds of the season. He was caught up in another pileup at the Race of China but continued, he retired on lap six after an incident. He had a head-on collision with the barriers in testing for Race of Macau, stopping the session just before the end. He went on to the take the independents' pole position in qualifying and then took the class win on both races.