Burns to defend GT4 crown with Century alongside Brown
Will Burns will defend his GT4 title in the British GT Championship this season alongside race winner Jack Brown aboard a Century Motorsport BMW M4 GT4.
Burns, the 2020 Ginetta GT4 Supercup champion, took three wins in 2021 with team-mate Gus Burton, and the pair sealed the crown in their Century BMW with a race to spare. He will now seek to become the first two-time champion in the GT4 division.
Brown, a former Ferrari Challenge racer, took a win at Spa last year in his rookie GT4 campaign with Balfe Motorsport’s Mclaren.
Burns conceded that “it will be hard to top last year’s success”, but stressed that “I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t think we had a good chance. Equally, I wasn’t prepared to make up the numbers for the sake of it, which speaks volumes for my faith in Century and Jack.”
After taking three second places last season with Andrew Gordon-colebrooke, Chris Salkeld will also stay with Century in a second M4 GT4, although his co-driver is yet to be announced.
The Nathan Freke-run team has also set its sights on a return to GT3 with the new M4 GT3, and Autosport understands that it is speaking with interested parties.
Meanwhile, former Ginetta and Carrera Cup racer Jamie Orton has joined Team Parker Racing to partner Ginetta Junior graduate Seb Hopkins in its new
Porsche 718 Cayman GT4.