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{{short description|Polish-American racing driver}}
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| nationality       = Polish-American
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| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1964|7|7}}
| birth_place       = [[Słupsk]], [[Poland]]
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| related to        = [[Kaz Grala]] (son)
| last series       = [[Grand-Am]]
| years active      = 2002–2005
| teams             = [[Park Place Racing]], [[Morgan Dollar Motorsports]], [[Cegwa Sport]], [[Southard Motorsports]]
| starts            = 24
| wins              = 1
| poles             = 1
| best finish       = 11th
| year              = [[2003 Rolex Sports Car Series|2003]]
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'''Darius Grala''' (born July 7, 1964 in [[Słupsk]], [[Poland]]) is an [[Endurance racing (motorsport)|endurance]] [[sports car racing]] driver.  He is currently racing in [[North America]] and living in the [[United States]].  In 2007, Grala was one of the founding instructors for Supercar Life.  In 2006, Grala was one of the founding instructors of the Ferrari Driving Experience. He continued working with [[Ferrari]] in 2007.

In 2005, while driving for the [[BMW]] Southard Motorsports team, he won the [[Grand-Am]] Daytona Prototype Sportsman of the Year Award.  Grala has been a Daytona Prototype driver since the class debuted in the 2003 [[Rolex]] [[24 Hours of Daytona]]. In that first race he ran in the top five through most of the night until a mechanical failure in the fifteenth-hour took him out of the race while running in second place overall.

On June 22, 2003, Grala had his first podium finish in a Daytona Prototype at his home track in [[Watkins Glen International|Watkins Glen]], New York.

Prior to the introduction of the Daytona Prototype class, Grala competed in the [[Grand-Am]] GTS class. He got his first [[Grand-Am|Rolex Series]] win in the GTS Class, also at [[Watkins Glen International]].

Before racing in the [[Grand-Am|Rolex Series]], Grala competed in the [[Ferrari]] Challenge. The three-year effort netted multiple wins and [[pole position]]s, and culminated with Grala being crowned the 2002 North American [[Champion]].

He is the owner of [[NASCAR Xfinity Series]] team [[Fury Race Cars]]. His son, [[Kaz Grala]], races in the series.

==External links==
* {{Official|1=https://web.archive.org/web/20051214050149/http://www.grala.com/}}
* {{Racing-Reference driver|Darius_Grala}}

{{Fury Race Cars}}

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[[Category:1964 births]]
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[[Category:Polish racing drivers]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Słupsk]]

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