Dan Eaves

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Dan Eaves

BTCC record
Nationality
Teams	Team Halfords Peugeot Sport UK
Drivers championships	0
Wins	6
Podium finishes
Poles	-
Fastest laps	-
Debut season	2000
First win	2004
Best championship position	3rd
Final season (2005) position	3rd (269 points)

Dan Eaves is a British auto racing driver, born on 3 June 1975. He started racing karts in 1990 before switching to cars in 1994. He raced in the National Saloon Cup in 1999 and 2000, finishing 4th in the series both times. In 2000 the BTCC ran a Class B for these cars, and Eaves entered 2 rounds in his Peugeot. This was enough to earn him a drive with Vic Lee's factory Peugeot team for the 2001 BTCC, in a 406.

This was a transitional year for the championship, and Eaves finished 5th out of a fairly thin field, although he beat veteran team-mate Steve Soper. For 2002 Peugeot pulled out but the team remained, with Halfords backing and now with Independent status. Eaves won Indy honours ahead of former Superbike racer Aaron Slight, and team-mate Tim Harvey. For 2003 his team-mate was Carl Breeze, this time in a VLR-built 307, and after a slow start he was Independent class winner several times. The team pulled out before 2004, but Dan found a drive with Team Dynamics in a Honda. He was 8th in the standings that year, taking his first ever championship win.

In 2005 Eaves continued with Team Dynamics (which was entered as Team Halfords in reference to their main sponsor) racing a Honda Integra. He recorded five wins, including 3 at Thruxton - the first (and so far only) time that one driver has won three BTCC races in one meeting,he also won the final race at the Croft circuit in Yorkshire. He ended the season 3rd in the championship after a fight to take second place in the championship was ended when he was caught up in a controversial crash casued by a shove from Yvan Muller going into turn 1 that also collected Jason Plato. Muller retained 2nd place in the championship and Dan finished in 3rd place in the Championship.

At the end of the 2005 season it seemed a certainty that Eaves would be retained by his team, but as of February 2006 it was unclear where his future lies. A falling out with team owner Steve Neal resulted in Team Dynamics replacing Dan Eaves with Gordon Shedden for the 2006 season.

Eaves was poised to join Team Clyde Valley Racing in the 2007 BTCC season, when the team were tipped enter a pair of bio-ethanol Chevrolet Lacettis. However, the team did not appear in that year or in 2008, and is only scheduled to enter in 2009.^[1]