GP2: Riding Shotgun with the Champ
Giorgio Pantano had a new bloke on his team's 'prat perch' for the GP2 finale - our own Charles Bradley
The Monza paddock is cold this Sunday morning, much chillier than in the days before - even Friday, when a biblical storm hit and flooded the place out.
Today's sprint is the last GP2 race of the race of the year, and we're going behind the scenes at Racing Engineering for a privileged view of Giorgio Pantano's last-ever start (hopefully!) in the category.
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Charles Bradley is Chief Editor of Autosport US. After spending five years in the aerospace industry in his native North Wales, while working weekends as a freelance writer at racetracks around the UK, Charles joined the staff of Motoring News in the heart of London. He transferred to the nascent Autosport.com team in 2000 before transitioning to the magazine, becoming its Editor between 2011 and 2014. Charles then upped sticks to work in America, as Motorsport.com’s Editor in Chief, where he created the multi-national and multi-lingual editorial team that quickly became the world’s most-read motorsport website. He was instrumental in delivering three of the biggest Global F1 Fan Surveys in sports history and is also a multiple award-winning scriptwriter. Charles is an overseas member of the Guild of Motoring Writers and lives in Miami Beach with his wife Helen – and a cat that’s named after Serbia’s top football club.
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