James Davison

Background

His father Jon Davison was a Formula 5000 competitor and was the long-running promotor of racing events at Sandown Raceway.

Career

He also competed as a coxswain as part of Scotch College"s championship-winning rowing crew in 2003. Open-wheel

= Junior formula In 2004 he joined the ranks of Formula Ford in his native Australia, running in both the Victorian and National Championships. Based on these performances, Davison became part of the Confederation of Australian Motorsport Elite Driver program which included attendance at the Australian Institute of Sport and financial support from the Foundation.

At the end of the season he qualified and finished tenth at the Formula Bayerische Motoren Werke Final at Bahrain.

2006 saw him again compete in the United States in the Formula Atlantic series for Team Australia. After the Denver round he was dropped by the team for fellow Aussie Michael Patrizi.

2007 saw Davison progress into the Star Mazda Championship where current IndyCar Series drivers Marco Andretti and Graham Rahal previously competed. = Industry Lights 2008 found him in the Firestone Industry Lights series, racing for Sam Schmidt Motorsports.

He struggled throughout the first half of the season, but captured his first series pole at Nashville Superspeedway, a concrete oval, in July.

While running second on the last lap, race leader Jonny Reid went into pit lane instead the finish line, handing Davison the victory. Davison finished second in the 2009 Firestone Industry Lights Championship with new team Vision Racing, again winning at Mid-Ohio. Davison was running at the finish of all fifteen races and finished in the top ten in all but one.

= IndyCar In November 2011 he tested for Andretti Autosport at Palm Beach International Raceway, Florida.

He shared the car with Industry Lights driver Gustavo Yacaman. In 2013 Davison tested a car for Dale Coyne Racing at the Mid-Ohio Sports Carolina Course.

A few weeks later it was announced that he would drive the team"s #18 car at the race there. lieutenant will be his first open wheel race appearance since 2009.

Sports car racing

2010 saw him make his sports car debut in the Grand-Am Series for Starworks Motorsports Corsa Carolina Care Dinan-Bayerische Motoren Werke Riley partnering Ryan Dalziel and Mike Forest in the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen finishing a creditable seventh.

He was then drafted in to run at the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen the Crown Royal 200 also at Watkins Glen. In 2011 he drove for Michael Shank Racing at Laguna Seca. In 2015 he joined Nismo factory team to drive a Nissan GT-R at the Pirelli World Challenge.

Achievements

• Davison"s grandfather, Lex Davison, was a four-time winner of the Australian Grand Prix. At the end of 2004 he won a scholarship at the Bayerische Motoren Werke Junior Scholarship Finals in Valencia. Foreign 2005 Davison competed in the Formula Bayerische Motoren Werke United States of America Junior Series, qualifying on the front row at the Canadian Formula 1 Grand Prix in Montreal, won at the United States Grand Prix held at the world famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway, was second at the Denver street circuit and Mid-Ohio and third at Barber Motorsports Park and Road Atlanta. Driving for Velocity Motorsports, Davison proved to be an outstanding competitor finishing second in the Championship. Earning three pole positions and one win. His first win came in bizarre circumstances in a wet race at Mid-Ohio. Davison also received the Sunoco Most Improved Driver Award at the IRL Championship Celebration held in Las Vegas.

Connections

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