Anthony Davidson

Anthony Davidson

Nation:	Great Britain
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	Hungarian Grand Prix 2002
Last start:	2008 Spanish Grand Prix
Constructors
2002  Minardi  • 2005  BAR  • 2007–2008  Super Aguri
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-22. ( 2008 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 24 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Anthony Davidson (born April 18, 1979 in Hemel Hempstead , England ) is a British automobile racing driver . He took part in the Formula 1 World Championship between 2002 and 2008 . After the withdrawal of his last team, Super Aguri F1, during the 2008 season , Davidson worked as a test driver at Brawn GP and as a commentator for the British radio station Radio 5 Live . In 2014 , he and Sébastien Buemi won the driver's title in the FIA World Endurance Championship .

Career

Beginnings

Davidson began in 1994 in the British Junior Kart Masters with motorsport . This was followed by several successes in national and international kart series in Europe and Asia until 1999. In the winter season of the same year he then successfully took part in the winter series of the British Formula Ford Championship . In order to switch to the British and European Formula 3 championships after another year in the junior formula . Although he was runner-up in his home country for the season and won the championship title in the European counterpart. At the end of 2000 he won the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award .

formula 1

Davidson in the B A R, 2005

At the same time, Davidson received a contract as a test driver for the then BAR-Honda team in 2001 , with whom he remained under contract until the takeover of Honda in the 2006 season . However, in 2002 there was already the opportunity to drive two Grand Prix races for the Minardi team . In the Italian team, he replaced Alex Yoong , who had been driving until then , but did not finish either of the two championship races. BAR team boss David Richards , who was also chairman of the Prodrive company , enabled Davidson to take part in the Le Mans 24-hour race in a Ferrari 550 Maranello GTS prepared by Prodrive in 2003, in addition to his job as a test driver . However, the car with Davidson, Darren Turner and Kelvin Burt failed prematurely with a technical defect. He was also registered in four championship races of the American Le Mans Series before and after the race at Le Mans . Davidson finished three of the races with alternating driver pairings on the podium in the GTS category . With the introduction of Friday drivers in Formula 1, whose role Davidson took over in the 2004 Formula 1 season , he was able to gain experience on various Formula 1 racetracks. At the Malaysian Grand Prix the following year, regular driver Takuma Satō fell ill , Davidson took over the vehicle, but had to end his third Formula 1 race prematurely due to a technical defect.

Davidson at Super Aguri, Silverstone 2007

Honda, which had now completely taken over the British racing team BAR, extended Davidson's contract in 2006. In addition to the role of test and Friday driver, Davidson took on the role of commentator on the radio station BBC Radio 5 Live. For 2007 Davidson got the second cockpit at Super Aguri next to his former BAR teammate Takuma Satō. In 2008 he started the season for the Japanese team, which however announced its withdrawal from Formula 1 after only four races. Davidson was subsequently taken over by Honda again as a test driver and was a replacement driver at Brawn GP in 2009 .

Sports car sport

Davidson in the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP at the Spa-Francorchamps 1000 km race in 2010

In 2009 he drove again for the Aston Martin works team, led by Prodrive, in the Le Mans 24-hour race. In the Lola-Aston Martin LMP1 with Jos Verstappen and Darren Turner, he finished 13th overall. A month later he also took part in the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race . There he drives a Nissan GT-R with Turner and Michael Krumm for the Nissan works team . Like Le Mans, he finished the championship run for the FIA GT Championship in 13th place overall. In February 2010 it was announced that Davidson had signed a contract with Peugeot . He then started the Sebring 12-hour race , which he won together with Marc Gené and Alexander Wurz on the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP diesel prototype . He is also scheduled for further use in the 1000 km race of Spa-Francorchamps of the Le Mans Series and at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

He has been contesting the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) for Toyota Racing since 2013 . He contested all races of the season together with Sébastien Buemi and Stéphane Sarrazin , the trio won the 6-hour race in Bahrain and finished the season in third place.

In 2014 he drove the first four races of the season with Buemi and Nicolas Lapierre , after which he only shared the car with Buemi. With four wins and three further podium finishes in eight races, Buemi and Davidson jointly secured the drivers' title.

In 2015 Kazuki replaced Nakajima Lapierre, but the Toyota TS040 Hybrid was technically inferior to the competing vehicles from Audi and Porsche, so that Buemi, Davidson and Nakajima only stood on the podium at the season opener, the 6-hour race at Silverstone . Buemi and Davidson finished fifth in the overall standings, while Nakajima had to skip one race and finished seventh.

The FIA World Endurance Championship in 2016 denied Buemi, Davidson and Nakajima again together with the newly developed Toyota TS050 Hybrid .

statistics

Career stations

1999: British Formula Ford , winter series (champions) 2000: Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup (29th place) 2000: British Formula Ford (3rd place) 2001: British Formula 3 Championship (2nd place) 2001 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2002 : Formula 1 2003 : ALMS , GTS (11th place) 2003 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2004 : Formula 1 (test driver)

2005 : Formula 1 2006 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2007 : Formula 1 (23rd place) 2008 : Formula 1 (22nd place) 2009 : FIA GT Championship , GT1 2009 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2010 : ALMS, LMP1 2010 : ELMS , LMP1 (15th place) 2011 : ALMS, LMP1

2011 : ELMS, LMP1 2011 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2013 : WEC (3rd place) 2013 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2014 : WEC (World Champion) 2015 : WEC (5th place) 2016 : WEC

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Round	Points	WM-Pos.
2002	KL Minardi Asiatech	Minardi PS02	Asiatech 3.0 V10	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	23.
2005	Lucky Strike BA R Honda	BAR 007	Honda 3.0 V10	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	27.
2007	Super Aguri Formula 1	Super Aguri SA07	Honda 2.4 V8	17th	-	-	-	-	-	-	23.
2008	Super Aguri F1 team	Super Aguri SA08	Honda 2.4 V8	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-	22nd
total				24	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th
2002
													DNF	DNF
2005
		DNF
2007
	16	16	16	11	18th	11	11	DNF	DNF	12	DNF	14th	14th	16	DNF	DNF	14th
2008
	DNF	15th	16	DNF

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2003	Veloqx Prodrive Racing	Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello	Kelvin Burt	Darren Turner	failure	accident
2009	Aston Martin Racing	Lola-Aston Martin LMP1	Jos Verstappen	Darren Turner	Rank 13
2010	Peugeot Sport Total	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Alexander Wurz	Marc Gené	failure	Engine failure
2011	Peugeot Sport Total	Peugeot 908	Alexander Wurz	Marc Gené	Rank 4
2012	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS030	Stéphane Sarrazin	Sébastien Buemi	failure	accident
2013	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS030	Stéphane Sarrazin	Sébastien Buemi	Rank 2
2014	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	Nicolas Lapierre	Sébastien Buemi	Rank 3
2015	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	Kazuki Nakajima	Sébastien Buemi	Rank 8
2016	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	Kazuki Nakajima	Sébastien Buemi	not classified
2017	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	Kazuki Nakajima	Sébastien Buemi	Rank 8
2019	DragonSpeed	Oreca 07	Roberto González	Pastor Maldonado	failure	accident

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2003	Veloqx Prodrive Racing	Ferrari 550 Maranello	Darren Turner	Kelvin Burt	Rank 13
2010	Team Peugeot Total	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Marc Gené	Alexander Wurz	Overall victory
2011	Team Peugeot Total	Peugeot 908	Marc Gené	Alexander Wurz	Rank 8

Web links

Commons : Anthony Davidson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Official website of Anthony Davidson