Daniel Harper (born 8 December 2000) is a racing driver from

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. He is currently competing as part of the BMW Junior Team and is an ex

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champion.

Career

Starting his racing career aged six, Harper was a multiple champion in both quad bike and karting competition in his early years, before switching to junior rallying and winning three events in the Ireland Junior 1000 Rally Challenge in 2015. Harper made the transition to circuit racing the following year after winning the

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Junior Scholarship and with it a fully-funded season in the

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for 2016. In his maiden campaign with Douglas Motorsport, he took two outright race victories and won the Rookie Cup title. He returned for a second campaign and won seven races on his way to third in the final standings. Harper then won his second manufacturer scholarship in three years, being named the 2018/19 Porsche GB Junior driver for the

. In his first year, he won two races and posted more pole positions and fastest laps than any other driver. He went on to enjoy a sensational 2019 campaign. He won the drivers’ title with more wins (8), podium finishes (13), pole positions (6) and fastest laps (11) than anyone else, and became only the third driver ever in the series to win races on six consecutive weekends. For 2020/21, Harper was signed by

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to compete as part of their BMW Junior Team. In each season, he contested the

Nürburgring Endurance Series The Nürburgring Endurance Series (NLS, German: ''Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie'') is an organisation of motorsport clubs of which each hosts one event of a nine-race series held on the Nürburgring, Nürburgring Nordschleife. Participants ...

and ADAC TOTAL 24 Hours of Nürburgring alongside team-mates Max Hesse and Neil Verhagen. Starting the 2020 NES season in a BMW M240i, the BMW Junior Team took a maiden class win in only their third race. A step up to a BMW M4 GT4 soon after yielded a class podium in their first race and a fantastic class victory in their first attempt at the ADAC TOTAL 24 Hours of Nürburgring. For 2021, they moved up to the premier class in a

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with the experienced BMW Team RMG. A brilliant season saw them take two overall race wins and four podium finishes to finish as the overall

vice-champions. In 2022, Harper continued as part of the BMW Junior Team for a third consecutive year, competing in the opening three rounds of the

and the ADAC TOTAL 24 Hours of Nürburgring with BMW Team RMG, and a full season in the

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Endurance Cup with

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. Harper is a member of the

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SuperStars programme and

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Academy's Team UK programme.

Racing record

Career summary

Complete Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain results

Complete GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup results

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Awards

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, National Racing Driver of the Year , Nominated

References

External links

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