GT return for Jordan Collard with Speedworks
British GT4 race winner Jordan Collard will complete the season with Speedworks Motorsport after a last-minute deal to replace Jack Mitchell at Silverstone last weekend.
Collard, who finished third in 2021 with Team Rocket RJN’S Mclaren and took a win at Snetterton, sat out the opening round of this season as 2018 GT4 champion Mitchell joined Ginetta Junior graduate Tom Edgar.
But following in the footsteps of his elder brother Ricky, who races a Speedworks-run Toyota Corolla in the British Touring Car Championship, a deal was agreed for Collard to race the team’s GR Supra GT4 and he got his first mileage in testing on Friday.
After starting ninth, 21-year-old Collard was running fourth when a puncture forced an extended spell in the garage with a brake line and a diff cooler also damaged.
Although the team only finished 13th, six laps down, team boss Christian Dick said
Collard had made a strong impression. “He gave lots of good feedback on the direction of the car and what he wants from it,” he said. “He’s going to be a real good asset.”
Porsche Carrera Cup GB race winner Matthew Graham also returned to British GT last weekend for the first time since 2017, replacing Valluga Racing team boss Benji Hetherington aboard the team’s Porsche Cayman. Together with
Ross Wylie, Graham finished third.