Jamie Davies

Matteo Malucelli's, Jamie Davies and Fabio Babini's Aston Martin DBR9 at the 2007 Le Mans 24-hour race

Jamie Davies (born February 16, 1974 in Yeovil ) is a British automobile racing driver .

Career

Jamie Davies started racing in 1988 at the age of 14. Like so many of his generation, he drove kart races as a teenager . After success in junior series, he won the British 100 Super Championship in 1991. In 1992, he rose in the Formula Vauxhall Junior Championship, a British single-seater -Nachwuchsformel, one. In the first year he was able to celebrate two race wins. In 1994 he finished second in the championship and received the Young Driver of the Year Award and the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award for his driving performance .

The logical ascent to Formula 3 followed , where he drove in the British Formula 3 Championship from 1995 to 1996 . With the entry into Formula 3000 Davies hoped to have found a springboard for his great goal, Formula 1 . In four years in this racing series, however, he could only win one race and a Formula 1 commitment remained unmatched. Davies therefore had to look for a new field of activity and found it in sports car racing.

In 1998 he made his debut in the major sports car races as a works driver for Panoz . At 24 Hours of Daytona it turned out at the 12 Hours of Sebring , he finished fourth at the 24-hour Le Mans race seventh in the standings. At Le Mans in 2004 he narrowly missed overall victory. After a driving time of 24 hours, the Davies / Herbert / Smith trio had to give in to the victorious Audi R8 , in which Tom Kristensen was one of the drivers , by just one minute . Davies drove the fastest race lap. Davies and Herbert were also active in the newly founded Le Mans Endurance Series . In the four-race championship, the duo finished two of the races as overall winners, thus winning the team and driving championships. After working for the Vitaphone Racing Team, he has been driving a Ferrari 430 GT from Ecurie Ecosse in the FIA GT Championship since 2008 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1998	Panoz Motorsports Inc.	Panoz Esperante GTR-1	David Brabham	Andy Wallace	Rank 7
2001	Panoz Motorsports Inc.	Panoz LMP07	Klaus Graf	Gary Formato	failure	Engine failure
2003	Veloqx Prodrive Racing	Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello	Tomáš Enge	Peter Kox	9th place and class win
2004	Audi Sport UK Team Veloqx	Audi R8	Johnny Herbert	Guy Smith	Rank 2
2007	Aston Martin Racing BMS	Aston Martin DBR9	Fabio Babini	Matteo Malucelli	Rank 11

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1998	Panoz Motorsport	Panoz Esperante GTR-1	Doc Bundy	Eric Bernard	Rank 4
2003	Veloqx Prodrive Racing	Ferrari 550 Maranello	Tomáš Enge	Peter Kox	failure	Clutch damage
2004	Audi Sport UK Team Veloqx	Audi R8	Johnny Herbert	Guy Smith	Rank 3
2006	Konrad Motorsports	Saleen S7-R	Fabio Babini	Paolo Ruberti	failure	Gearbox damage

Web links

• Jamie Davies at Racing Sports Cars