Alex Davison

Alexander Davison (born 3 November 1979) is an Australian racing driver.

Starting in karts at a young age, he progressed to Formula Ford in 1998 racing a used 1995 Van Diemen RF95.

With sponsorship from Wynn's and OAMPS Insurance, Davison upgraded to a year old Van Diemen RF98 for 1999 and finished third in one of the most competitive Australian Formula Ford seasons behind champion Greg Ritter.

He had tied on points with Steve Owen in second, but on a countback of race wins, lost second place to Owen, who had five wins to Davison's four.

After two years of Formula Ford, Davison's eyes turned to Europe.

Unable to break into an open-wheel series, Davison found a role with German Sports Car team Manthey Racing.

After initially racing Porsche Carrera Cup in the German national series, Davison was promoted to the Porsche Supercup, a pan-European series supporting several legs of the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship and finished sixth, including one victory at Indianapolis.

Two more years with Manthey in the German series saw no significant improvement and Davison returned home to Australia during 2003.

Back in Australia, Davison made some appearances in the 2003 Australian Carrera Cup Championship.

After breaking through for a round win at the end of 2003, Davison dominated the 2004 Australian Carrera Cup Championship, taking his first and only major championship title to date.

He won the 2004 Australian Carrera Cup Championship.

As part of the Davison motorsport family, he is the older brother of Will Davison, grandson of Lex Davison and cousin of James Davison.

He currently co-drives for Dick Johnson Racing in the Supercars Championship with Will Davison in the No. 17 Ford Mustang GT

Despite having competed in selected V8 Supercars events in 2004 and 2005, Davison was unable to find a full-time role in V8 Supercars, and returned to the Australian Carrera Cup in 2006, joining Paul Cruickshank Racing.

Davison's Carrera Cup form led to him join the Perkins Motorsport V8 Supercars team for the 2004 endurance races, sharing Tony Longhurst's regular season car with Jamie Whincup.

The pair finished a creditable 9th at the 2004 running of the Bathurst 1000.

Davison later replaced Longhurst for the final two sprint events of the year when the veteran left the team.

This in turn led to a full-time seat with Perkins in 2005 but with results not forthcoming Davison too found himself replaced before season's end.

He took the seat of outgoing champion Fabian Coulthard and finished second to Craig Baird in the 2006 season.

In 2006, 2007 and 2012 he raced with Dick Johnson Racing while in 2008 he raced for Paul Cruickshank Racing.

On all four occasions, he achieved top ten results at the Bathurst 1000.

Into 2007, Davison took over the seat Jim Richards vacated from his own team, as Richards concentrated on other series.

Davison again finished runner-up this time to David Reynolds.

In 2008, an opportunity to return to Europe beckoned and Davison took up a drive with Team Felbermayr-Proton in the 2008 Le Mans Series season.

Despite not winning a single race, Davison and co-driver Marc Lieb finished runner-up in the GT2 class in their Porsche 997 GT3-RSR behind Ferrari F430 GT2 driver Rob Bell.

With the same team, Davison also contested the 2008 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, driving with Horst Felbermayr, Sr. and Wolf Henzler.

They finished fifth in class.

Some guest drives in the American Le Mans Series also cropped up, though to no significant success.

Having returned from his European racing exploits, Davison returned to a full-time V8 Supercar seat with Stone Brothers Racing in 2009.

2010 saw Davison fail to improve, with a ninth-place finish in the opening race of the season at the Clipsal 500 becoming one of only three top ten finishes for the year.

He did, however, achieve his maiden pole position on his return to Hidden Valley, but a potential podium finish was scuppered by an electrical failure.

Davison improved to finish 11th in the 2011 season, including his second career podium at the opening race of the year at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi.

In 2012, Davison drove the Simjen 'Silver Bullet' in a return to Australian Carrera Cup.

Davison won the first round of the season at the Adelaide Street Circuit before eventually finishing third in the championship.

Despite his better season, Davison was replaced by Lee Holdsworth for 2012.

After spending 2012 in Carrera Cup, Davison was recalled to V8 Supercars in 2013 to drive for Team 18, a newly formed satellite team operating with Ford Performance Racing equipment.

Davison had an above average season, finishing 13th overall, peaking with a third place at the Phillip Island event.

Davison has competed in V8 Supercars as an endurance co-driver on several occasions.

In 2016, Davison once again entered the Australian Carrera Cup Championship full-time, winning two of the first four rounds at Albert Park and Hidden Valley Raceway.

The year was largely disappointing, and he finished the year 17th in the standings, with the highlight being a second-place finish at Hidden Valley thanks to a favourable soft tyre strategy.