25 best Super2 drivers in 25 years: #10 to #4

The first drivers to break into the top 10 of Supercars.com's countdown of the 25 best Super2 drivers in 25 years have been revealed.

As part of a countdown celebrating the Dunlop Super2 Series' 25th anniversary in 2025, a countdown of the 25 best Super2 drivers in the category's history has been run on Dunlop Series social channels in the past few weeks.

The calibre of drivers revealed has increased as the countdown has progressed, with some of the most iconic names in the from the history of the development series set to feature in the top 10.

The seven drivers occupying positions 10 to four are some of the most successful to have ever competed in Super2, with a combined total of 72 race wins, 33 round wins, and seven championships between them.

The three best drivers in the history of the Dunlop Super2 Series will be revealed on Monday next week (April 21).

10) Jonathon Webb

8 race wins, 4 round wins, 2009 champion

With new support categories gracing the Supercars undercard throughout the 2000s, there were different pathways drivers could take to the development series, as Jonathon Webb proved.

Graduating from four seasons in the newly-formed Carrera Cup series, Webb was picked up by Stone Brothers Racing for the 2007 season, finishing fourth and third in his two seasons with the outfit.

A move to MW Motorsport in 2009 saw the Sydneysider play an accumulating role at the start of the year, before striking a rich vein of form in the final three rounds to march to an emphatic title win.

9) Kai Allen

6 race wins, 3 round wins, 2023 champion

He may've only been in the category for two years, but Kai Allen built a Super2 CV that defied both his young age and even younger racing career.

Graduating to Super2 as a 17-year-old after starring in Toyota 86 and Super3, Allen immediately emerged as a front-runner with Eggleston Motorsport in 2023.

Allen ran down Zak Best at the final round of the year to become the youngest Super2 champion in history at just 18 years and 153 days old, and won the first three races last year to firmly establish his Super2 legacy, even if he fell short of back-to-back titles.

8) Mark Winterbottom

8 race wins, 4 round wins, 2003 champion

A one-season wonder in the Super2 Series, Mark Winterbottom's 2003 campaign for Stone Brothers Racing remains one of the most impressive rookie years in the development series.

Off the back of finishing runner-up in Formula Ford to Jamie Whincup in 2002, Winterbottom was chosen to spearhead SBR's maiden full-time Super2 tilt in 2003, having campaigned David Besnard at the backend of the inaugural 2000 season.

Armed with an AU Falcon that only ran three main game rounds in 2002, Winterbottom was in a league of his own, winning eight of 16 races and four of five rounds to comprehensively seal the title.

7) Simon Wills

10 race wins, 2 round wins, 2001 champion

Another open-wheel convert who dominated in their rookie Super2 season, Kiwi Simon Wills struggled to adapt to Supercars in enduro drives from 1998 to 2000.

The two-time Formula Holden champion entered the development series in 2001 with Team Dynamik, owned by his father Kieran, and duly romped to the title by winning 10 of the 17 races he started, depsite missing one race at Winton due to accident damage.

Wills ended up replacing John Bowe at Briggs Motorsport after Bathurst and for the beginning of the 2002 season, whilst Team Dynamik joined Supercars in 2003 with Wills and the late Jason Richards driving.

6) Adam Macrow

12 race wins, 7 round wins, 2006 champion

Having become a regular face at enduro season, 1998 Formula Ford champion Adam Macrow first appeared in Super2 in 2005 with Howard Racing.

Running ex-Triple Eight Falcons, the Victorian won his second round at Wakefield Park, and swept the final round at Phillip Island, however inconsistency saw him finish fourth in the standings.

2006 was a year of redemption, Macrow going on a tear and winning the first five rounds on the bounce, including eight race wins, building up a big enough advantage to fend off an in-form Shane Price for the title.

5) Cam Waters

12 race wins, 5 round wins, 2015 champion

The current spearhead for Tickford and arguably Ford in the Repco Supercars Championship, Cam Waters started his Super2 career as a reality TV star and ended it as a dominant champion.

Waters was the winner of the Shannons Supercar Showdown TV show in 2011, and drove Kelly Racing-supported Commodores in a 2011 cameo at Sandown, and in 2012 and 2013.

Waters joined Tickford (then Ford Performance Racing) in 2014, claiming five pole positions on route to second in his first year with FPR, before winning 10 races (including a streak of seven in a row) to claim a convincing title win in 2015.

4) Andrew Thompson

16 race wins, 8 round wins, 2011 champion

Across two stints in Super2, Andrew Thompson proved that he had talent aplenty behind the wheel of a Supercar, although it never translated to main game results.

His rookie year in 2006 came with Dick Johnson Racing, and an 18-year-old Thompson starred at the backend of the season, stopping a rampant Adam Macrow by claiming the final two round wins at Bathurst and Phillip Island.

After a 2007 campaign that came to an abrupt halt mid-season, Thompson returned to Super2 in 2011 after an ill-fated main game stint, and became Triple Eight's first development series champion after winning 11 races and all bar one round.