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Dan Clarke
Clarke at Silverstone in 2005
Nationality	British
Born	(1983-10-04)4 October 1983 (age 42) Mexborough,South Yorkshire, England
Achievements	2004Formula Ford Festival Winner
Champ Car career
27 races run over 2 years
Years active	2006–2007
Team(s)	CTE Racing-HVM (2006) Minardi Team USA (2007)
Best finish	12th – 2006
First race	2006Grand Prix of Long Beach (Long Beach)
Last race	2007Gran Premio Tecate (Mexico City)
Wins Podiums Poles 0 2 1
NASCAR driver
NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career
1 race run over 1 year
2011 position	87th
Best finish	87th (2011)
First race	2011Zippo 200 (Watkins Glen)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
Statistics up to date as of 29 May 2012.
Previous series
2010 2009 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001	Firestone Indy Lights A1 Grand Prix Champ Car World Series Champ Car World Series British F3 UK Formula Ford UK Formula Ford UK FFord Jnr BRDC FFord

Daniel Clarke (born 4 October 1983) is a Britishauto racing driver, most recently competing in theFirestone Indy Lights series withWalker Racing, having previously competed in theA1GP World Cup of Motorsport and theChamp Car World Series.

A veteran of BritishFormula Ford where he won the Formula Ford Festival in 2004, Clarke moved up theBritish Formula 3 Championship in 2005 in a team part-owned byKimi Räikkönen ofRäikkönen Robertson Racing. Clarke finished fifth overall, taking the team's first win atCastle Combe and setting the circuit outright lap record, which he still holds.

After a series of tests, he was signed to drive in theChamp Car World Series forCTE Racing-HVM, in 2006 as a teammate toNelson Philippe. The team owned jointly byCedric the Entertainer andKeith Wiggins.

He finished sixth atPortland International Raceway and seventh atBurke Lakefront Airport, where he was battling for second withMario Domínguez when they collided on the penultimate lap. Clarke also competed atSan Jose, moving up from ninth to second before a gearbox failure put him out at mid-distance. In his next race, in Denver, Clarke moved into third-place on the final lap because of a collision of two drivers ahead of him to achieve his first podium finish as a Champ Car driver. The Denver third-place was the first podium finish for a Champ Car Rookie driver in the 2006 racing season.

Following on from Denver, Clarke continued to run at the front and narrowly missed out on another podium finish at the next race in Montreal, coming home in fourth-place. Immediately after, Clarke won the Bridgestone Pole Position award at Road America, Wisconsin. He was the first rookie to do so since 2003 and the first British Rookie since Nigel Mansell in 1993. Clarke experienced misfortune towards the end of the season, which saw him forced to settle for "Rookie runner-up" toWill Power after an intense battle between the two drivers.

He returned to the team for the2007 season, now named Minardi Team USA, joined by new teammate and former Minardi and Red Bull Racing F1 driverRobert Doornbos. Clarke had a troubled season, finishing 13th in the overall standings and missing one race. He missed the race atZolder, having been ejected from the event for causing a multi-car crash in practice. He did, however, record a second-place at Road America.

Upon the folding of the Champ Car series into theIndyCar Series, the Minardi team became known as HVM Racing and hired E. J. Viso to drive, leaving Clarke without a team.

He has since driven forGreat Britain in theA1GP series, participating in three rounds of thefourth season of the championship.

First announced as the Team GBR driver halfway into the 2008/2009 series atTaupo, New Zealand, Clarke had little time to adapt to the new car, team and track. He went on to build experience through that weekend and then at the Portimão, Portugal, races. The next race for Clarke was Brands Hatch, UK, in front of his home fans. Despite qualifying technical issues, Clarke put on an impressive performance to drive back from fourteenth-place in the feature to seventh, scoring the fastest race laps in the process.

However, for the second time in his career, his series folded in the off-season, leaving him without a team.

In 2010, Clarke signed on withWalker Racing in theFirestone Indy Lights series, the top feeder series to IndyCar. He joined the team for the second race of the season atBarber Motorsports Park. Clarke finished seventh in points with a pair of second-place finishes atToronto andMid-Ohio. After a slow start learning the car and working with the team, Dan scored a fourth place finish in his first outing at theIndianapolis Motor SpeedwayFreedom 100 and then went on to a successful second half of the season with two second-place finishes atToronto andMid-Ohio, five top-fives and seven top-tenss. He finished up seventh in the series points.

In 2011, Clarke competed in aNASCARNationwide Series race atWatkins Glen International, finishing 39th following an engine failure.^[1]

Clarke returned to professional racing in 2023, taking part in thePorsche Carrera Cup North America for the Nolasport team.^[2]

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(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

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• Dan Clarke driver statistics at Racing-Reference

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