Danny Watts

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Danny Watts (born December 31, 1979 in Aylesbury, England) is a British racing driver.

He is currently racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup for the Redline Racing team. Initially he shared this drive with Richard Westbrook, only contesting races which clash with Westbrook's Porsche Carrera Cup racing, but after a run of 8 successive victories in the races he started, Richard has conceded the drive full-time. Despite missing several races Danny lies 3rd overall with 3 rounds remaining.

Danny Watts started racing in 1993, when he began karting. After five seasons of karting, he stepped up to single seater racing in 1998 in the UK Formula First championship, in which he dominated with 12 wins. He also competed in the Formula Palmer Audi Winter Series, in preparation for running the main Formula Palmer Audi championship the following year.

2000 saw a step up to the British Formula Renault Championship, when he was team mate to Kimi Räikkönen. In his third year of Formula Renault, he won the championship with 6 wins.

Watts ascended another tier in 2003, stepping up to the British Formula Three Championship, with HiTech Racing. He took his first win in the series the same year in the second race at Castle Combe, having crashed out of the lead in race one. In 2004 he became the first driver for eleven years to win a round of the British Formula Three Championship whilst not driving a car from the Dallara company.

2005 saw a mixed year for Watts. Unable to remain in Formula Three, he contested a handful of races in various disciplines. The same occurred in 2006, though he did make a brief return to F3 for the penultimate race of the season, at Thruxton, for champions Räikkönen Robertson Racing (co-owned by former British FRenault teammate, and now F1 star Kimi Räikkönen). In that race, Watts led the field and dominated proceedings with a convincing win.

For 2007 Watts drove for Team LNT in the Le Mans Series in a Panoz Esperante GT-LM. He was also invited to join A1GP Team Great Britain for the 4th season of the 2007/8 season held in Shanghai, China and took part in the rookie sessions.

In 2008 he has signed to the SAS Lechner Racing team with team mate Damien Faulkner for the F1 Supporting Porsche Supercup series.

Danny is currently in a relationship with BTCC driver Fiona Leggate.

[edit] External links

• danny-watts.com
• Danny Watts career statistics at Driver Database

Sporting positions
Preceded by Carl Breeze	British Formula Renault UK series champion 2002	Succeeded by Lewis Hamilton
Awards
Preceded by Mike Jordan	Autosport British Club Driver of the Year 2002	Succeeded by Lewis Hamilton