Davison Earns First Career TOTAL Pole Award

Subtitle:Drives TRG-AMR Entry To Top Spot In GTD Qualifying

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (Aug. 9, 2014) – James Davison earned his first career TUDOR United SportsCar Championship pole position Saturday in GT Daytona (GTD) TOTAL Pole Award qualifying for the Continental Tire Road Race Showcase. It took only two laps for Davison to set the fastest time in the 15-minute session with a lap of 2:09.079 (112.898 mph) in the No. 007 CarryOn.com/The B+ Foundation Aston Martin V12 Vantage for TRG-AMR. Dane Cameron made a run at the top spot with a few minutes remaining, but fell 0.214 seconds short in the No. 94 Turner Motorsport BMW Z4 co-driven by Markus Palttala, 2:09.293 (112.711 mph).

“We nailed the lap on lap one,” said Davison. “Strategy came into that a little bit. We sat in the pits and got a clear track. We built up the tire temperature to capitalize the peak of the tire on lap one. I just really hit my marks. No one else really had a chance to get us back there.”

Jeroen Bleekemolen rounded out the top three with a lap of 2:09.345 (112.666 mph) in the No. 33 ViperExchange.com SRT Viper GT3-R which won two races ago at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park with Bleekemolen and co-driver Ben Keating.