JEWISS IS KING OF THE PORSCHE CASTLE
Porsche Carrera Cup GB
Two points was all that separated Porsche Carrera Cup GB title rivals Kiern Jewiss and Will Martin with two rounds of the season remaining. And yet the pair’s wildly contrasting fortunes over those final two weekends ended with Jewiss following the 2022 narrative of securing the crown early, while
Martin fell to third in the standings, 44 points adrift.
Those two events could not really have gone much better for Team Parker racer Jewiss as he won the Pro class in all four races (although missed out on the overall win in the Brands Hatch finale to impressive Pro-Am champion Charles Rainford). The victories were even more notable given they followed a Thruxton event where Jewiss only mustered two fifth places and realised he needed to up his game to avoid defeat. “Thruxton was a very disappointing weekend and I think that’s what called for the big change in approach and it really helped,” says Jewiss, who is keeping his cards close to his chest and not revealing exactly what was tweaked. “We tried a different approach for the last two rounds and it seemed to work.”
A focus on improving his qualifying pace and maximising point-scoring opportunities by setting seven fastest laps (compared to zero last year), helped catapult 2018 British Formula 4 champion Jewiss back into contention after the first race of the season featured him being sent into the gravel when battling Gus Burton.
In contrast to Jewiss’s brilliance, Martin’s last two events were ones to forget. The Richardson Racing driver launched a title bid this year after two seasons where both he and the team learned the Porsche ropes, but he was the innocent victim of contact from Theo Edgerton at both Silverstone and Brands, the latter sending him spearing into and over the barriers exiting Paddock Hill Bend.
Those incidents contributed to him dropping behind Redline driver Adam
Smalley in the final classification. The Porsche GB Junior was right in the mix in the early part of the season but could not quite match the speed of Jewiss and Martin later on. Matty Graham was the fourth key contender in the opening events before a startline shunt at Knockhill abruptly ruined his campaign.