David Addison went to his first motor race as a five-year-old and was hooked straight away! After a childhood spent watching motor racing, largely at Oulton Park, he began commentating in 1991 and has covered a wide variety of events ever since.From Formula 1 to oval racing, television and track commentaries, awards dinners and press conferences,...
Read MoreDavid Addison went to his first motor race as a five-year-old and was hooked straight away! After a childhood spent watching motor racing, largely at Oulton Park, he began commentating in 1991 and has covered a wide variety of events ever since.From Formula 1 to oval racing, television and track commentaries, awards dinners and press conferences, David has an enviable CV built up over 25 years of commentating.He attended his first motor race as a five-year-old in 1977 and began commentating in 1991 as part of the public address commentary teams at Donington, Silverstone and Brands Hatch.At the end of that year he did his first television commentary, for Eurosport's live daily coverage of the RAC Rally. In 1992 worked for Screensport on selected DTM (German Touring Car Championship) rounds.He has worked on Sky Sports's World Motorsports programme, commentating on everything from International racing to stock cars, and has been part of the official English language commentary team for the DTM.He has worked on radio, covering the Le Mans 24 Hours, and moved to television coverage of the event in 2004 as part of the official TWI English language commentary team for the world feed for the event. He has worked for Channel 4 on its Rallysprint coverage and for the BBC's Top Gear Motorsport show in the 1990s covering Rallycross.For 2008, David covered Formula 1 live for the short-lived F1 in Cinema project.More recently, David has been part of the V8 Supercars Television crew covering the Bathurst 1000, Gold Coast 600 and Sydney 500 events, as well as the Bahrain round live for Channel 7. David has been the television voice of the Spa 24 Hours since 2010 and of the Blancpain Endurance Series since it began in 2011. When Motors TV launched its coverage of live racedays in 2010, David was behind the microphone, covering every race at a variety of club meetings.In 2012, David was part of the television commentary team for he first ever motor races in Azerbaijan, for the GT City Challenge. He has now commentated at 43 different circuits across 17 different countries.From 2013, David will took over the lead commentary role for the ITV4 coverage of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship alongside 1992 champion Tim Harvey, as well as covering the Blancpain Endurance Series and Motors TV Live Racedays.With knowledge, enthusiasm and professionalism, David can turn his throat to any category, any time, anywhere.
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