Dan Clarke

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Dan Clarke

Nationality	British
Champ Car #	4
Current team	Minardi Team USA
Race starts	27
Series Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	2
Pole positions	1
First Champ Car race	2006 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
Last Champ Car race	2007 Gran Premio Tecate	edit

Dan Clarke is a British auto racing driver born October 4, 1983 in Mexborough, most recently competing in the Champ Car World Series.

1 Early career
2 Champ Car
3 Motorsports Career Results
- 3.1 American Open Wheel
  - 3.1.1 Champ Car
4 External links

[edit] Early career

Dan Clarke on the podium at Silverstone 9th October 2005

Dan Clarke in his Räikkönen Robertson Racing F3 at Silverstone 9th October 2005

A veteran of British Formula Ford where he won the prestigious Formula Ford Festival, he moved up the British Formula Three Championship in 2005 in a team part owned by Kimi Räikkönen, Räikkönen Robertson Racing, and finished 5th overall, taking one win at Castle Combe.

[edit] Champ Car

With a series of impressive tests he was signed to drive in the Champ Car World Series for CTE Racing - HVM, owned jointly by Cedric the Entertainer and Keith Wiggins, in 2006 as a teammate to the even younger Nelson Philippe. This was despite Danish driver Ronnie Bremer having publicly claimed to have a drive with the team.

He finished 6th at Portland and 7th at Burke Lakefront Airport, where he was battling for 2nd with Mario Dominguez when they collided on the penultimate lap. Dan was again competitive at San Jose, moving up from 9th to 2nd before a gearbox failure put him out at mid-distance. At his next race, in Denver, Clarke moved into 3rd place in the final lap (because of a collision of two drivers ahead of him) to achieve his first podium finish as a Champ Car driver. Indeed, the Denver 3rd place was the first podium finish for a Champ Car Rookie driver in the 2006 racing season.

He returned to the team for the 2007 season, now named Minardi Team USA, joined by new teammate and former Minardi F1 driver Robert Doornbos. Clarke had a troubled season finishing 13th in the overall standings and missing one race, at Zolder having been ejected from the event for causing a multi-car crash in practice. He did however record a second place at Road America.

[edit] Motorsports Career Results

[edit] American Open Wheel

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

[edit] Champ Car

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Team	Rank	Points
2006	CTE-HVM	LBH 11	HOU Ret	MTY 13	MIL 8	POR 6	CLE 7	TOR Ret	EDM 9	SJO Ret	DEN 3	MTL 4	ROA 6	SRF Ret	MXC Ret	CTE-HVM	12th	175
2007	Minardi	LVS Ret	LBH 12	HOU Ret	POR 9	CLE 11	MTT Ret	TOR Ret	EDM 8	SJO Ret	ROA 2	ZOL DNP	ASN 11	SRF Ret	MXC Ret	Minardi	13th	129