32 Facts About Dani Clos

Daniel Clos Alvarez was born on 23 October 1988 and is a Spanish former professional racecar driver and YouTuber.

Success continued in 2002, when Dani won the Copa Campeones Trophy and finished 10th in the Italian Open Masters, against a top-quality field of drivers including Nico Hulkenberg, Sebastien Buemi, Nelson Panciatici, Oliver Oakes and Buemi's cousin Natacha Gachnang amongst others.

Dani Clos called time on his karting career after a 30th place in the 2005 Margutti Trophy.

Dani Clos made the move into single-seaters in 2004, with a campaign in the Formula Junior 1600 championship.

Dani Clos adapted to the cars very well, and ended up a solid 4th place in the championship behind Michael Herck, Marco Barba and Arturo Llobell, with one win and four podiums along the way.

Dani Clos struggled in the pan-European championship, failing to record a finish inside the top ten placings all season.

Dani Clos was slightly more successful in the Italian series despite missing three races due to Eurocup commitments, finishing sixteenth in the championship with 28 points beating teammate Oliver Campos-Hull in the process.

Dani Clos moved to Jenzer Motorsport for both campaigns in 2006, hoping to give him a little more success than what he had for his previous two teams in 2005.

Dani Clos had originally done the double at Misano, which would have taken his tally to four in succession, however he was disqualified due to his car's diffuser height not complying with Eurocup regulations.

Dani Clos won eight of the last nine races to overhaul Zaugg and win the championship by 36 points in the end.

Dani Clos recorded four double victories at Spa, Hockenheim, Misano and Monza and finished second in the single-race meeting at Varano.

Dani Clos had a solid, yet unspectacular first season with a championship position of 13th, with thirteen points.

Dani Clos finished fifteenth during the Masters of Formula 3 event at Zolder, finishing some four seconds behind the eventual Euroseries champion Romain Grosjean and some 42 seconds behind winner Hulkenberg.

Dani Clos returned to the series for a second season in 2008, this time moving to Prema Powerteam.

Dani Clos only recorded six points-scoring finishes during the season, two of which were podium finishes coming at Pau and 2nd in the rain-shortened race at Le Mans.

Dani Clos would have finished level on points with Jon Lancaster on 19 points had he been awarded 5 points rather than 2.5 at Le Mans.

Dani Clos recorded a fastest lap in round 2 at Hockenheim, and started round 4 at Mugello from pole, thanks to the reverse-grid system.

Dani Clos made his debut in Formula Renault 3.5 Series at Le Mans for Epsilon Euskadi, replacing Adrian Valles, who was busy driving the Liverpool FC car in Superleague Formula at Zolder.

Dani Clos picked up the bonus point for progressing the most spots during the race, with ten.

Dani Clos continued in the series at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve, picking up a point for qualifying third in his group.

Dani Clos was replaced by Keisuke Kunimoto for the final two rounds.

Dani Clos scored his first points and podium in the final race at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve, ending up 21st overall.

Dani Clos continued with Racing Engineering into the 2010 season.

Dani Clos became a regular podium contender in 2010, scoring points in every round and had one retirement at the Monaco sprint race.

Dani Clos won his maiden GP2 race at the Turkish sprint round, and as of the Hungaroring race occupied third in the championship.

Dani Clos has remained with Racing Engineering for the 2011 season; his teammates thus far have been Christian Vietoris and Alvaro Parente.

Dani Clos began the 2012 season without a drive, but was drafted into the Barwa Addax team after the first round of the championship, replacing Josef Kral and alongside Johnny Cecotto.

Dani Clos has been employed on a few occasions as a test driver for the Williams F1 team, the first of these came in September 2008, when he participated in a day's testing at Jerez in Spain.

Dani Clos tested again in December 2008 at the same circuit, for another day's testing.

Dani Clos took part in the Abu Dhabi young drivers' test on 15 November 2011 at the Yas Marina Circuit.

Dani Clos drove 68 laps in the HRT F1 Team's F111 and ended the day 12th with a fastest time of 1'45.329.

Dani Clos made his race weekend debut at the Spanish Grand Prix and again took part at the British, German and Hungarian Grands Prix, driving Narain Karthikeyan's car during the first free practice session on these occasions.