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Lee Davidson

Formula Challenge Career
Nationality	British
Active Years	2012
Team(s)	Midnight Motorsports
Grand Prix	2
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First Grand Prix	2012 Formula Challenge British Grand Prix

Lee Davidson (Born 06/07/1989) is an English driver in the GPVWC and currently drives the number 24 entry for Midnight Motorsports in Formula Challenge. Lee began his Sim Racing career with the racing simulator Live for Speed in 2006 where he competed in a summer open wheel series. He has since enjoyed a number of outings as a driver in various series on LFS, both with tin-top and single seater machines.

However, Lee is more renown for his team management, having worked in the past with the likes of Dave Carr-Smith, David Jundt, Tom Parker, James Charman, Scotty Moore and current team mate Jack Mace, Lee enjoyed a spell of managing his own team, Epic Racing. Whilst the team ultimately failed to capture any championships on LFS, it was a very welcoming and enjoyable team to drive for and has since shown up again on the browser-based game, BATracer.

After Epic Racing, Lee decided to take some time away from the simracing scene, focusing on events in his personal life. Eventually however, he was tempted back into racing after reading reports from both Jundt and Moore covering last season's Superleague and Masters championships respectively.

Formula Challenge

2012

Lee soon gave his interest to race in the brand new Formula Challenge Series towards the end of 2011 and was in deep negotiations to drive for Synergetic FC under Mal McKee's management. However a contract was still not signed on the eve of the first round at Brand Hatch and so Davidson had to begin looking elsewhere, eventually settling at Midnight Motorsports, teaming up with Jack Mace who was also lined up to be Lee's team mate at Synergetic.

The inaugural Formula Challenge round held at Brands Hatch was a debut to forget for Davidson. Having qualified a solid if unspectacular 14th for the feature race, Davidson would become involved in a second lap pile up which cost him an extra pit stop to repair damage. Having fought his way back up to fifteenth, which would result in pole position for the Sprint race, Davidson then unfortunately lost control of the car through Clark bend, leaving team mate Jack Mace with no where to go but into the side of Davidson, the resulting damage was enough to see Lee retire on the spot. Following the retirement, Davidson started 21st for the Sprint race which again saw an off within the opening handful of laps, once again causing a pit stop. However, this time Lee would see the finish of the race, driving back up to 16th place, one place shy of a point from his debut weekend. Davidson was quoted after the race, saying how he "must improve" in time for round two at Assen.

The Dutch Grand Prix, held at Assen was a slight improvement for Davidson, finally scoring his first point in an action packed Sprint race where Lee would only grab fifteenth at the final turn after a multi-car collision between Ari Nieminen, James Charman and Dale Stones. Lee's pass was controversial as the game declared it as an illegal overtake and demoted Davidson to 20th, however upon reviewing replay post-race, it was decided he was avoiding a collision that caused the off-track pass and so his 15th place finish was re-instated. This was his first ever points score in Formula Challenge and GPVWC as a whole, whilst also getting Midnight Motorsports' championship tally underway.

Personal Life

Lee currently lives in Banbury, Oxfordshire with his girlfriend of nearly three years. They wish to get a cat, very very much. He has a passion for Photography and is a regular at any Silverstone race meet, armed with his camera and a blocked nose. He is also an avid fan of Twitter, citing it as a "huge distraction from normal life".

He should also consider thanking James Charman for creating a decent layout to his wiki page for Lee to steal from, but he wont.

Racing Career Results

Formula Challenge

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

^† Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

External links

• http://www.twitter.com/_leedavidson (Lee's Twitter Profile)
• http://www.leedavidson.tumblr.com (Lee's Tumblr Profile)
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/leedavidson1/ (Lee's Flickr Profile)