SHARP GROWTH IN BRITISH GT GRID FOR 2022
Seventeen GT3 and 15 GT4 full-season entries represent a one-third increase compared with last year
British GT has a 32-car provisional 2022 full-season entry that represents a 33% increase from last season as the championship celebrates its 30th anniversary.
For 2022’s nine-round campaign, starting at Oulton
Park over the mid-April Easter weekend, there are 17 GT3 and 15 GT4 entries, British GT’s largest permanent field since pre-pandemic 2019.
There is particular growth in GT3’s number that is up from 10 full-season entries in 2021, with Silver-Ams rising from two to six.
However the Barwell Lamborghini of reigning champions Leo Machitski and Dennis Lind has been removed from the full-season entry following Motorsport UK banning Russian-licensed drivers including Machitski. Barwell is evaluating race-byrace options for the slot.
The entry also reveals Taiwanese driver Betty Chen competing in Century’s GT3 BMW with her partner unconfirmed as Motorsport News went to press, while 20-year-old 2021 GT Cup runner-up Tom Rawlings joins Chris Salkeld in Century’s GT4 effort.
Last year’s GT4 runner-up Matt Cowley returns in his Academy Mustang, while 2014 champion Ross Wylie is also back, in a Valluga Racing Porsche 718 Cayman GT4. Both Cowley and Wylie are in Silver Cup entries with to-be-announced partners.
Last year’s GT3 runner-up Ian Loggie in his RAM Mercedes will rejoin with former driving partner Callum Macleod at this year’s Silverstone, Snetterton and May Donington Park rounds, where Loggie’s regular partner Jules Gounon has clashing commitments.
McLaren has also confirmed it will not run its Driver Development Programme in British GT this year. It entered two Team Rocket RJN McLaren 570Ss in 2021.