page_title: Dani Clos
section_title: GP2 Series
hierarchical_section_title: Dani Clos / Career / GP2 Series
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Dani Clos alla prima variante Monza 2011
context_page_description: Daniel Clos Álvarez is a Spanish professional racecar driver who was, in 2012, the test driver for the now defunct HRT Formula One team.
context_section_description: Having tested for both GP2 Series teams and ones in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Clos was signed by the Racing Engineering team for the 2009 GP2 Series on 8 February 2009. He scored his first points and podium in the final race at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, ending up 21st overall. In the off-season, he contested two rounds of the GP2 Asia Series for Trident Racing. He continued with Racing Engineering into the 2010 season. Clos became a regular podium contender in 2010, scoring points in every round and had one retirement at the Monaco sprint race. He won his maiden GP2 race at the Turkish sprint round, and as of the Hungaroring race occupied third in the championship. At the Belgian round of the championship, he suffered a compressed vertebra in a collision at the start of the feature race, and did not take part in the sprint race. Clos has remained with Racing Engineering for the 2011 season; his teammates thus far have been Christian Vietoris and Álvaro Parente. The team also competed in the GP2 Asia Series for the first time, in which Clos, partnered with Nathanaël Berthon, scored a race win at Imola to finish ninth in the championship. In the main series, he finished ninth in the championship with a best finish of two second places.
  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 Král and alongside Johnny Cecotto. After four races in the seat, Král returned to take it back over.
  In November 2014, it was announced Clos would be racing with Arden International alongside Tio Ellinas for the 2015 season.
caption: Clos driving for Racing Engineering at the Monza round of the 2011 GP2 Series season.
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