WITH the 2022 Repco Supercars Championship run and done, the time has come for an annual industry favourite: ranking the season’s best performers.

A total of 57 drivers featured in the main game this season, 29 of which in a solo capacity.

Of course, when it comes to motorsport, there are many factors involved in attaining a result and indeed an objective assessment of a driver’s efforts.

How did their results correlate with the level of their team? Did they stack up well against their teammate(s)? Is their championship position representative of the season they had?

To cut through all that, V8 Sleuth’s head of publications Stefan Bartholomaeus and website editor Connor O’Brien joined forces to debate and eventually determine our top 10 Supercars drivers of the year.

We start with an honourable mention to James Courtney, who only narrowly missed out on making the list after a campaign in which he scored three podiums and proved second-best of the Tickford Racing drivers.

10) James Golding

SB: James Golding was just what PremiAir Racing needed when it split with Garry Jacobson six events into the season.

Golding made the most of his first solo Supercars starts since 2019 and ticked off a series of milestones for the first-year squad.

They included PremiAir’s first top 10…