Danny Savin

Daniel Matthew Savin (born September 26, 1977 in New York) is an American race car driver, who formerly raced in V8 Champ Car and currently runs for Full Throttle Racing in the TM Master Cup Series.

The Rockstar
Savin is often called The Rockstar for multiple reasons. One of which include infamously trashing multiple hotel rooms. However, Savin earned a good name for himself when he organized a 'driver's and crews band' from 2003 to 2006 with Matt Taylor, Dale Roswell, Roswell's then-crew chief, and pace car driver Nathan Wilson, with several other crew members appearing less regularly. The drivers and crews band annually played during the pre-race festivities for the Round of Phoenix and during the Round of New York, but after 2006.

V8 Champ Car
Savin rose to V8 Champ Car in 1999 at the age of 19 with Mark Pearce Racing, and showed promise, but also demonstrated that he may have been rushed into the series by his sponsors. Despite the pressure, Savin performed adequately enough to keep his drive into 2000. He began to show serious speed when he took his first pole at Long Beach but crashed fairly early on. 2000 was overall a disappointment for Savin, until he scored his first two wins in the last two races of the year, winning on the tricky Phoenix mile and again in difficult conditions in Australia.

Savin scored three more wins across 2001 before announcing he was switching to the TM Master Cup series for 2002. In reality, Savin and Mark Pearce's relationship had fallen through, and Pearce confirmed that Savin wouldn't have been resigned 'for his attitude alone' by any other 'respectable' team.

Despite this, Savin returned to open wheel racing for the Indianapolis 500, nearly winning in his first try in 2003.

Savin is one of only four drivers to run the Indianapolis 500 and the Karjala Grand Prix in the same year, and the only one to do it multiple times. Savin last ran the Indianapolis 500 in 2008, and expressed an interest in trying again in 2012. 2012 marked the first time two drivers performed a Karjala-Indy double, as both Savin and Alexis Rainsford qualified for the event. Rainsford very nearly won from 2nd on the grid, while Savin started on the last row in 32nd spot but worked his way up to 17th by the end of the race.

Savin's rivalry with Mark Pearce was a topic during Bump Day, when Savin qualified his Gessler powered Avril and bumped Mark Pearce Racing's second car out of the field. Savin made very little of the incident, although Pearce said it was "stinging" that Savin had made the race at the expense of his second car.

TM Master Cup Series
If anyone wants to fill in everything 2007-now that's fine. Savin won Karjala twice and as mentioned before won Nashville.

Trivia

 * Skilled guitar player.
 * Savin's off-track guitar ability was inspired by former IndyCar/Champ Car/Chuck Norris of Open Wheel Racing Kenny Bräck.
 * Savin drove car #91 every time he ran the full season in the TM Master Cup Series.
 * Danny Savin was one of the fictional names Cynon added to his old N1 carset he used to race against. Savin would win the road courses most of the time but would suck everywhere else.