Le Mans – Anthony Davidson: “Next year, one more walk! »

He finished the 2012 edition with two broken vertebrae after a terrible accident. For his second participation in the 24 Hours of Le Mans aboard a Toyota TS030, Anthony Davidson this time got on the podium. A first, which comes during his sixth participation in the Sarthois double clock tour. “I've always dreamed of it and it's a fantastic feeling,” describes the former pilot of F1, which until now had a fourth place as its best result at Le Mans, was in 2011 with Peugeot .

“The conditions were very complicated but the team and the car had no setbacks”, continues the Briton. “Everyone pushed in the same direction, Toyota Racing did a good job. I had always said it, if everyone did their job properly, then we would at least get a podium. » The 81st edition of the Sarthe double clock tour proved him right, since he and his teammates Stéphane Sarrazin and Sébastien Buemi clinched second place overall, one lap behind the victorious No. 2 Audi. ?We didn?t have enough top speed to win, that was obvious from the moment we arrived here. But we didn't give up, we continued our efforts, as we do in every race and we knew that anything could happen here. » Invigorated by this result, the driver of the Japanese firm is already thinking about the next edition. And wants more than ever to climb the last rung that separates him from victory.

Anthony Davidson, who explained on several occasions that he thought he would lose his life when his Toyota flew away last year, of course had a particularly emotional thought about Allan Simonsen, who? is killed at the very beginning of the ordeal aboard the?Aston Martin n ° 95: “It was particularly poignant for me after what happened last year.”