From the Pulpit
With the entire British media rallied behind Anthony Davidson, and amid rumours that he could replace Takuma Sato at BAR in this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix, Matt Bishop asks just how good 'little Ant' is...
As the travel-weary Formula One circus rolls into the madding maelstrom of downtown Shanghai, there are still a few drivers who don't know what they'll be doing next year. Some are hopeful, some less so. Two such men are Takuma Sato and Anthony Davidson, chaps for whom the well-worn cliche 'friends and rivals' could almost have been invented, so apt is it.
They first crossed swords, albeit as (team)mates, when in 2001 they washed up together at Trevor Carlin's well-run British Formula Three outfit. Optimistic, confident, talented, intelligent and ambitious, they were jetsam all the same. They had been thrown together, by circumstance.
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