Daniel Gaunt

This article is about the New Zealand racing driver. For the Australian professional golfer, see Daniel Gaunt (golfer).

Daniel Gaunt
V8 Supercar Record
Nationality	New Zealand
Car #	47
Current team	Stone Brothers Racing
Series Championships	0
Races	19
Round Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Race Wins	0
Pole positions	0
2010 Championship position	34th (539 points)

Daniel Gaunt, born 27 February 1985, in Auckland, is a New Zealand racing driver.

Formula Racing

After rising through the ranks of New Zealand Formula Ford, which included a third place finish in the 2002 New Zealand Grand Prix, Gaunt moved to Australia, competing in the Formula 4000 category and winning the 2003 Australian Drivers' Championship. With Formula 4000 collapsing, the title did not lead anywhere and Gaunt returned to New Zealand. After a win in the 2004 Lady Wigram Trophy driving a Dallara F3, Gaunt moved on to compete in the inaugural Toyota Racing Series, finishing third in the final standings.^[1] A season in Champ Car Atlantics followed with the Paul Newman owned Newman/Wachs Racing. After single race as the back-up driver for A1 Team New Zealand Gaunt returned to New Zealand Gaunt won the 2006 Toyota Racing Series title.

Sedan Racing

Drives in 2008 proved slim with guest drives in Toyota Racing Series, Australian Carrera Cup and a late season drive with Team Kiwi Racing in V8 Supercars. Over the 2008/09 NZ motor racing summer season Gaunt competed in the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge with the XXX Motorsport team, finishing 3rd overall and then stepped up to a full time drive for McElrea Racing in the Australian Fujitsu Development Series. From there he was recruited by Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport to drive in the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series but was replaced mid season. In 2011 he is driving for Stone Brothers Racing satellite team James Rosenberg Racing for the Phillip Island and Bathurst endurance races.

Career results

Season	Series	Position	Car	Team
2001	New Zealand South Island Formula Ford Championship	1st
2003	Australian Drivers' Championship	1st	Reynard 96D Holden	Ralt Australia
2005	Toyota Racing Series	4th	Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota
2005–06	Toyota Racing Series	1st	Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota
2006	Champ Car Atlantic Championship	24th	Swift 016.a Mazda-Cosworth	Newman/Wachs Racing
2006	Indy Pro Series	31st	Dallara IPS Infiniti	Brian Stewart Racing
2006–07	Toyota Racing Series	1st	Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota
2008	Toyota Racing Series	16th	Tatuus TT104ZZ Toyota
2008	V8 Supercar Championship Series	54th	Ford BF Falcon	Team Kiwi Racing
2009	Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series	5th	Ford BF Falcon	McElrea Racing
2009	V8 Supercar Championship Series	41st	Ford FG Falcon	Stone Brothers Racing
2010	V8 Supercar Championship Series	34th	Holden VE Commodore	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport
2011	Australian GT Championship	13th	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup S Mosler MT900 GT3	Vodka O Racing

Champ Car Atlantic

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2006	Newman Wachs Racing	LBH 20	HOU DNS	MTY 15	POR 8	CLE1 22	CLE2 21	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	MTL	ROA	24th	22

Complete Indy Lights results

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2006	Brian Stewart Racing	HMS	STP1	STP2	INDY	WGL	IMS	NSH	MIL	KTY	SNM1 14	SNM2 9	CHI	31st	38

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2006–07	A1 Team New Zealand	NED SPR	NED FEA	CZE SPR	CZE FEA	BEI SPR	BEI FEA	MYS SPR	MYS FEA	IDN SPR	IDN FEA	NZL SPR	NZL FEA	AUS SPR	AUS FEA	RSA SPR	RSA FEA	MEX SPR	MEX FEA	SHA SPR PO	SHA FEA PO	GBR SPR	GBR SPR	2nd	93

References

1. ^ "Black Bullet Profile: Daniel Gaunt". Black Bullets website. http://www.nzmotorsport.co.nz/content/blackbullet.cfm?id=7527. Retrieved 2009-01-08. 

• Racing Reference profile
• Driver Database profile
• Motorsport.com news and photos

Sporting positions
Preceded by Will Power	Winner of the Australian Drivers' Championship 2003	Succeeded by Neil McFadyen
Preceded by Brent Collins	Toyota Racing Series Champion 2005–06 & 2006–07	Succeeded by Andy Knight
Preceded by Hamad Al Fardan	Winner of the New Zealand Grand Prix 2007	Succeeded by Andy Knight
Preceded by Andy Knight	Winner of the New Zealand Grand Prix 2009	Succeeded by Earl Bamber

Persondata
Name	Gaunt, Daniel
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Short description
Date of birth	1984
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