DAVISON IN LINE FOR 23RED SEAT

Will Davison is set to join 23Red in 2018

WILL DAVISON looks to have secured a full-time seat in the 2018 Supercars Championship and is set to join 23Red – the reformed LD Motorsport team.

The multiple Bathurst winner will drive in his final event with Tekno Autosports at Newcastle this weekend, and there have been suggestions – even from Davison himself – that his immediate future would be as an endurance co-driver next season.

But pitlane speculation has linked Davison with the vacant seat at a newly rebuilt single-car 23Red team, with a car supplied by Prodrive Racing Australia.

AA sources are firm that Davison, 35, will race the car that will be driven for the final time this weekend by Chaz Mostert. His move is expected to be confirmed by the team on Monday, after Davison completes his Tekno obligations.

AA approached Davison’s manager David Segal for a comment, but said only that “we have nothing to announce at the moment”.

Davison’s Supercars career started in 2004 with Team Dynamik, and the following season he raced in the Development Series with Dick Johnson Racing.

He stepped up to the V8 Supercars Championship in 2006, and finished fifth for DJR in 2008, before moving to the Holden Racing Team, where he scored a career-best second place finish in 2009.

He moved to Ford Performance Racing in 2011, finishing third in the 2013 title, before moving to Erebus Motorsport for two seasons, and then joining Tekno in 2016.

He has scored two Bathurst 1000 wins, with HRT in 2009 and Tekno in 2016, and has won 19 V8 Supercars/Supercars races.

23Red will run three cars next season. As well as the Davison Falcon, AA expects that there will be an entry in the Dunlop Super2 series in 2018, for a driver yet to be named, as well as a single entry in the Carrera Cup Australia series.

The team confirmed John Steffensen as its Carrera Cup driver in Newcastle on Thursday. The former Olympic silver medallist raced in the 2017 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge series with Zagame Motorsport, and backed by Repair Management Australia – owned by LDM co-owner Phil Munday.

By a complete coincidence, Steffensen and Davison were born on the same day in 1982…

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