- Will Davison
V8 Supercar Driver
Caption =
Name = Will Davison
Nationality = flagicon|Australia Australian
Car number = 18
Team =Dick Johnson Racing
Championships = 0
Races = 41
Wins = 1
Podiums = 3
Poles = 0
2007 Championship position = 10th (343 pts)Will Davison (born
August 30 ,1982 inMelbourne ) is anAustralia nracing driver . He won the 2001 AustralianFormula Ford Championship while competing against Champ Car racerWill Power and Leanne Ferrier.Davison dynasty
His grandfather
Lex Davison won theAustralian Grand Prix four times. His brotherAlex Davison is also a racing driver and has won numerous National titles including The Porsche Cup. Continuing the family tradition, cousinJames Davison is currently racing in a Team Australia Jnr position after competing the 2005 Victorian Formula Ford series.Racing in Europe
Taking a common route to
Formula One , Davison picked up and moved toBuckinghamshire inEngland where he competed in the 2002British Formula Renault Championship finishing fourth at seasons end. For 2003 he moved up to theBritish Formula 3 Championship withAlan Docking Racing but an enforced mid-year change of teams to Menu F3 did not help his campaign. Davison continued with Menu F3 into 2004 but it was cut short for financial reasons.V8Supercar
In 2005 he raced in several
V8 Supercar races back in Australia after signing withTeam Dynamik as a full time driver. A change of ownership after the season opening Formula 1 support race at Albert Park left him without a seat until the endurance events, theSandown 500 andBathurst 1000 , where he was picked up byDick Johnson Racing , co-driving with Steven Johnson in the #17 Westpoint Falcon.During his time between Formula 3 and V8 supercar seats, Davison drove for
A1 Team Australia in the inaugural season of theA1 Grand Prix where he was again under Alan Docking Racing. This time he experienced many ups and downs with many instances where he was taken out of a race due to no fault of his own. On the ups his highest finishing position was sixth at both the Portuguese and Australian rounds, where despite a rocky start in Portugal, proved vital in scoring points for the team.By mid-November, 2005 Davison was issued a full-time seat in the 2006 V8 Supercar Championship, driving the number 18 Ford with Dick Johnson Racing. In 2006 Davison was plagued by technical difficulties, resulting in a 19th position finish in the championship.
In 2007 Davison demonstrated he has the talent and speed to be a V8 Supercar champion which culminated in his first win in race 2 at
Eastern Creek Raceway in Round 2, 2008. This was the middle of a dream run which saw him claim his first V8 supercar round win along with givingDJR their first round victory in 7 seven years.Career results
External links
* [http://www.v8supercar.com.au/drivers/DriverDetails.asp?ind=M&DID=254 Will Davison's Profile on V8 Supercar website]
* [http://www.djr.com.au Dick Johnson Racing Website]
* [http://www.djr.com.au/Forum/ Offical Fan Forum]
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