The top 10 FIA GT1 drivers of 2012
It wasn't neccesarily the fastest driver who won what proved to be the final FIA GT1 world championship crown. After a tight season Gary Watkins chooses his top 10 performers
The top 10 FIA GT1 drivers of 2012
1. Frederic Makowiecki (F)
Team: Hexis Racing
Championship position: 2nd= (145 points)
Races: 9
Wins: 5
Poles: 2
Fastest laps: 4
The best driver in the championship, admittedly with the best car, never had an off-day. His only mistake, if it could be called that, was the tap on the back of a car competing in the concurrent FIA GT3 European Championship race at the Nurburgring.
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Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.
Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.
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