James Davison
Davison at the2015 Indianapolis 500
Nationality	Australian
Born	James D. Davison (1986-08-28)28 August 1986 (age 39) Melbourne, Australia
Related to	Jon Davison (father) Lex Davison (grandfather) Diana Davison (grandmother) Richard Davison (uncle) Alex Davison (cousin) Will Davison (cousin) Tony Gaze (step-grandfather) Fisichella Davison (daughter)
Blancpain GT World Challenge America career
Debut season	2016
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Teams	AE Replay XD Nissan GT Academy
Starts	20
Wins	16
Poles	1
Fastest laps	1
Best finish	4th in2015
Previous series
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008-09 2010–12	Victorian Formula Ford Formula BMW USA Champ Car Atlantic Star Mazda Championship Firestone Indy Lights Grand-Am Series
IndyCar Series career
8 races run over 7 years
2020 position	34th
Best finish	28th (2019)
First race	2013Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio (Mid-Ohio)
Last race	2020Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis)
Wins Podiums Poles 0 0 0
NASCARCup Series career
35 races run over 2 years
2020 position	37th
Best finish	32nd (2021)
First race	2020Pocono Organics 325 (Pocono)
Last race	2021YellaWood 500 (Talladega)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career
6 races run over 5 years
2022 position	53rd
Best finish	47th (2017)
First race	2016Road America 180 (Road America)
Last race	2022Drive for the Cure 250 (Charlotte Roval)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 3 0
Statistics up to date as of 24 June 2023.

James D. Davison (born 28 August 1986) is an Australian professional racing driver who drives anAston Martin Vantage GT3 in theBlancpain GT World Challenge America. He has also competed in theNTT IndyCar Series,NASCAR Cup Series, andNASCAR Xfinity Series. He is sometimes also called JD (or J. D.) Davison.^[1][2]

His father Jon Davison was aFormula 5000 competitor and was the long-running promoter of racing events atSandown Raceway. Davison's grandfather,Lex Davison, was a four-time winner of theAustralian Grand Prix. He is a cousin ofV8 Supercar driversAlex andWill Davison. He also competed as acoxswain as part of Scotch College's championship-winning rowing crew in 2003.

In 2004, Davison joined the ranks ofFormula Ford in his native Australia, running in both the Victorian andNational Championships. At the end of 2004 he won a scholarship at the BMW Junior Scholarship Finals inValencia. For 2005, he competed in the Formula BMW USA Junior Series, qualifying on the front row at the Canadian Formula 1 Grand Prix in Montreal, won at the US 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. 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 BMW Final at Bahrain.

2006 saw Davison again compete in the United States in theFormula Atlantic series forTeam Australia. After the Denver round, he was dropped by the team for fellow AussieMichael Patrizi.^[3] 2007 saw Davison progress into the Star Mazda Championship where current IndyCar Series drivers Marco Andretti and Graham Rahal previously competed. Driving for Velocity Motorsports, Davison proved to be an outstanding competitor finishing second in the Championship; earning three pole positions and one win.

2008 found him in theFirestone Indy Lights series, racing forSam Schmidt Motorsports. He struggled throughout the first half of the season, but captured his first series pole atNashville Superspeedway, a concrete oval, in July. His first win came in bizarre circumstances in a wet race atMid-Ohio. While running second on the last lap, race leaderJonny Reid went into pit lane instead of the finish line, handing Davison the victory. Davison also received the Sunoco Most Improved Driver Award at the IRL Championship Celebration held in Las Vegas. Davison finished second in the 2009 Firestone Indy Lights Championship with a new teamVision 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.

In November 2011 he tested forAndretti Autosport atPalm Beach International Raceway, Florida.^[4] He shared the car with Indy Lights driverGustavo Yacaman.^[5][6]

In 2013 Davison tested a car forDale Coyne Racing at theMid-Ohio Sports Car Course. A few weeks later it was announced that he would drive the team's No. 18 car at the race there. It would be his firstopen wheel race appearance since 2009.^[7] Following the horrific accident bySebastian Bourdais during qualifying for the2017 Indianapolis 500, it was announced that James would be stepping into the number 18 Dale Coyne Racing Honda for the remainder of the season. In the later stages of the race, Davison matched a record set byTom Sneva in1980 and became the third driver in Indy history to start 33rd and lead laps in the race, having led two laps. He then got caught up in a late wreck with seventeen laps to go. A year later, Davison barely qualified for the2018 Indianapolis 500, bumping out longtime IndyCar rivalJames Hinchcliffe.^[8] He would finish in last place, after a crash on lap 47 caused by contact withTakuma Sato's car. Davison finished in last place again at the2020 Indianapolis 500 due to a mechanical failure only six laps into the race.

In 2011 he drove his Uncle Richard Davison'sLola T332Formula 5000 car atPhillip Island andAlbert Park. In 2012, he returned to drive it again at Phillip Island. In 2019 he drove a Lotus 18 at Goodwood and Lotus 81 at Silverstone.^[9] In 2022, he drove aHill GH1 at the 13th Historic Monaco. Then drove again at Spa in September.^[10]

2010 saw him make his sportscar debut in theGrand-Am Series for Starworks Motorsports Corsa Car Care Dinan-BMW Riley partnering Ryan Dalziel and Mike Forest in the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen^[11] finishing seventh.^[12] He was then drafted in to run at the6 Hours of Watkins Glen the Crown Royal 200 also at Watkins Glen. In 2011 he drove for Michael Shank Racing at Laguna Seca.

Driving withThe Racer's Group in an Aston Martin in 2014, he scored four consecutiveGTD class poles across the final races of the 2014 and first race of the 2015 season.^[13]

In 2015 he joinedNismo factory team to drive aNissan GT-R in thePirelli World Challenge. He continued with Always Evolving Racing in theGT-R in 2016 before moving toThe Racer's Group for the 2017 season.^[14]

Davison made his firstNASCAR start in 2016, driving the No. 90King Autosport car in theXfinity Series for theRoad America 180. He started eighteenth and went down one position after making contact withScott Heckert on the last lap.^[15][16]

In 2020, Davison raced in theCup Series for the first time in thePocono Organics 325 atPocono Raceway withSpire Motorsports.^[17] His Cup debut had been delayed on two occasions earlier in the season, with aDaytona 500 start forJonathan Byrd's Racing ultimately failing to materalise,^[18] while hisGEICO 500 entry atTalladega Superspeedway with Spire was disallowed due to his lack of experience on such tracks.^[19][17] He returned to the series atLoudon withRick Ware Racing.^[20]

Davison committed to an approximately 26-race schedule with RWR for the 2021 Cup season.^[21] In May, he dominated theeNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series race atCircuit of the Americas, leading 32 of 33 laps and finished twelve seconds ahead ofAnthony Alfredo.^[22] He continued his dominance in the series at the virtually-designed Chicago Street Course, capturing the pole, leading every lap, and winning by 56 seconds over his Rick Ware Racing teammateJosh Bilicki.^[23] He also raced at the2021 YellaWood 500 for the No. 66MBM Motorsports Ford with sponsorship from Rich Mar Florist.

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^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

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• James Davison career summary at DriverDB.com
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• 2007 Star Mazda reviewArchived 7 June 2011 at theWayback Machine
• Grand-Am Profile

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