The top 10 Superleague drivers of 2009
AUTOSPORT's Charles Bradley lists his top 10 drivers of 2009's football-based championship
1. Craig Dolby
Tottenham Hotspur
Starts: 15
Poles: 0
Wins: 1
Deserves the number one spot for his swashbuckling, entertaining driving
style alone. His pass on Valles, around the outside of the first corner, was
the pass of the year - until he passed Buurman and Valles in one move at
Jarama! Wonder how he'd go in a GP2 car?
2. Adrian Valles
Liverpool
Starts: 15
Poles: 0
Wins: 2
Almost flawless performance from a deserving champion. Started the season
with the best car and made hay with it, Jenson Button-style. Definitely lost
some pace towards the end of the season, but switched into damage-limitation mode. Classy racer who you wouldn¹t bet against winning it again next year.
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Charles Bradley is Motorsport.com’s Global Editor in Chief. 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. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife Helen – and a cat that’s named after Serbia’s top football club.
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