The colleagues turned rivals with scores to settle at Le Mans

By:

James Newbold

Sep 17, 2020, 3:42 PM

They're team-mates in Sky Sports F1's coverage, and Anthony Davidson and Paul di Resta have plenty more in common when it comes to the Le Mans 24 Hours - a race where both have endured plenty of ill-fortune in the past

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For all the talk about LMP2 being one of the most closely fought classes in the World Endurance Championship, one team has been doing all the winning so far in 2020: United Autosports. But what about the European Le Mans Series? Erm, same there.

ORECAs fielded by the team co-owned by Zak Brown and Richard Dean have won all five races held under ACO-sanctioned rules this year across the two series, a run that goes back to the Bahrain WEC round in December last year at tracks including Austin, Paul Ricard (twice) and Spa (twice).

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James Newbold is Autosport's Plus Editor, responsible for coordinating website feature content.

In a sign of things to come, having completed his Politics and International Relations degree at the University of East Anglia in 2015, he left his graduation ceremony early to catch the last train to Brussels for the following day's Spa 24 Hours.

After a period as a freelancer, he joined the Autosport staff in 2018 and won the Motorsport UK young journalist of the year award. He initially edited Autosport magazine's Performance and Engineering supplements before joining the website team in his current role in 2020.

A keen enthusiast of anything that can be categorised unusual or niche, he enjoys unearthing little-known stories across all branches of motorsport, but has spent most of his career covering sportscars and is a regular part of the Le Mans 24 Hours reporting team.

He lives with his wife and children in Plymouth, England.