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

In 2006 he raced 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 conceded the drive full-time.

For 2007 Watts drove for Team LNT in the Le Mans Series in a Panoz Esperante GT-LM. He was also invited to join A1 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 signed to the SAS Lechner Racing team with team mate Damien Faulkner for the F1 Supporting Porsche Supercup series.

A1 Team Great Britain announced that Danny Watts would race for A1 Team Great Britain in Chengdu he came 3rd in both the sprint and feature race.

For 2009 he raced for Strakka Racing in the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans driving a Ginetta Zytek GZ09s. In the opening round of the Le Mans Series at Barcelona he claimed overall pole on the teams LMP1 debut.

In 2010 he retained his seat for Strakka Racing in the Le Mans Series however the team moved down to the LMP2 category now using a HPD arx-01c. The car took the class victory at Le Mans finishing 5th overall.

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danny watts huge crash at oulton park 2001..and he walked away unhurt!!!
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Strakka Racing's Danny Watts gives us his own personal tour of the Circuit de la Sarthe at Le Mans, the very place where the team smashed numerous records last year
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Live interview with Danny Watts who was David Haye's sparring partner for his fight with Nikolai Valuev. theboxingtruth.com
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MUSIC: RUDE KID. JOHAN ESBENSEN, JASPER WATTS, TRAVIS BARKER, ROB DYRDEK, KEN GUSHI, TANNER FOUST, SCION RACING, BRETT SUBE, SAMMY BAPTISTA, DANNY SUPA, RICHARD MASSIE, LAMONZO COLEMAN, OLAN PRENATT, NASTY CREW, GHETTS, BLAKE JOHNSON, JAMES QUANTANCE, DJ MUGGS, DAN JOYCE, AARON GUARDARDO, TONY CASTILLO, MATT LEMOND
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Reigning Le Mans LMP2 Champions Strakka Racing unveil their 2011 challenger at the annual Scrutineering event at La place des Jacobins in the Le Mans City centre. Drivers Nick Leventis, Danny Watts and Jonny Kane are in attendance as the HPD-ARK 01D breaks cover. Produced by Brunswick Studios www.brunswickstudios.co.uk
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Two great hiphop tracks with footage of bikemaster Danny MacASkill.
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throwaway footage from summer, fall, and before. featuring Julian Izzaguirre Mike Battista Sterling William Smith Chris Garcia Ricky Albera Mike Piwowar Raf Aleev Kashif Williams Mikey Calcagno Corey Henderson Jon Whalen Danny Bezinovich Karion Martin Emmet Duffy Stephan Watts
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Men's Tag Team Pro Wrestling. All Star Wrestling From The 80's. Tiger Dori Singh & Danny Denton vs Eddie Watts & Buddy Wayne. Ref: Gary Allen. Manager: Master Singh. Special Guest: The Frog.
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Worcester News--However, he did begin the game with a strong line-up of Rod Middleton, Aleksas Zimnickas, Justin Dobbins, -Danny- Gilbert and David -Watts-. ... - Date : Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:53:17 GMT+00:00
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Planetlemans.com--We're going to run Macau (with -Danny Watts- and Richard Meins) and that will be the end of the season for us. We will then go into a big testing program, ... - Date : Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:27:28 GMT+00:00
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Endurance-series.com--Pour renforcer les troupes de l'équipe United Autosports en Chine, -Danny Watts- pilotera l'une des deux Audi R8 LMS engagées par la structure ... - Date : Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:16:34 GMT+00:00

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

Year Class No Tyres Car Team Co-Drivers Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2007 GT2 81   Panoz Esperante GT-LM
Ford (Élan) 5.0L V8
GB Team LNT GB Tom Kimber-Smith
US Tom Milner, Jr.
60 DNF DNF
2009 LMP1 23   Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S
Zytek ZJ458 4.5L V8
GB Strakka Racing GB Nick Leventis
GB Peter Hardman
325 21st 14th
2010 LMP2 42   HPD ARX-01C
HPD AL7R 3.4L V8
GB Strakka Racing GB Nick Leventis
GB Jonny Kane
367 5th 1st
2011 LMP2 42   HPD ARX-01d
HPD HR28TT 2.8L Turbo V6
GB Strakka Racing GB Nick Leventis
GB Jonny Kane
144 DNF DNF

Winners of Autosport's British Club Driver of the Year

1982-83: Martin Bolsover * 1984: Rod Birley * 1985: Chris Cramer * 1986: Paul Warwick * 1987: Eddie Irvine * 1988: Allan McNish * 1989: David Coulthard * 1990: Warren Hughes * 1991: Kelvin Burt * 1992: Oliver Gavin * 1993: Dario Franchitti * 1994: James Matthews * 1995: Guy Smith * 1996: Peter Dumbreck * 1997: Doug Bell * 1998: Richard Lyons * 1999: Andy Priaulx * 2000: Michael Caine * 2001: Mike Jordan * 2002: Danny Watts * 2003: Lewis Hamilton * 2004: James Pickford * 2005: Andrew Kirkaldy * 2006: Sam Bird * 2007: Duncan Tappy * 2008: Adam Christodoulou * 2009: Sarah Moore



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