Ross Wylie | |
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Nationality | Scottish |
Born | Dumfries, Scotland | 15 September 1991
British GT, GT Cup and Britcar career | |
Debut season | 2004 (Karts) 2012 (Cars) |
Current team | SB Race Engineering / Redline Racing |
Car number | 28 |
Former teams | Valluga Racing Simon Green Motorsport In2Racing FF Corse MJC Furlonger Motorbase Performance Von Ryan Racing Beechdean Motorsport SlideSports |
Wins | 26 |
Podiums | 46 |
Poles | 8 |
Best finish | 1 in 2014, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023 |
Previous series | |
2023 2023 2022 2022 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2017 2016, 2015, 2014 2013 | GT Cup Porsche Carrera Cup GT Cup British GT Porsche Carrera Cup GT Cup Britcar (Endurance) Britcar (Endurance) Britcar (Sprint) Britcar Porsche Carrera Cup British GT Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup Volkswagen UK Racing Cup Celtic Speed Mini Cooper Cup |
Championship titles | |
2023 2021 2020 2018 2017 2014 | GT Cup GT Cup GTO Britcar Endurance C2 Britcar Sprint S1 Britcar British GT4 Championship |
Ross Wylie (born 15 September 1991) is a Scottish racing driver. He started his motor racing career contesting the 2004 Mini Max Kart Championship, becoming a multiple kart champion in his native Scotland over the next eight years, before moving up to car racing in 2012.
Having competed in the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup and Volkswagen UK Racing Cup in 2013, he won the British GT4 Championship the following year,[1] co-driving the Beechdean Motorsport Aston Martin Vantage with Jake Giddings.
Selected as a McLaren GT "Young Driver" in 2015,[2] Ross spent that year and the next competing in the British GT Championship, challenging for outright race wins with Von Ryan Racing, driving a McLaren 650S GT3[3] followed by a Motorbase Performance Aston Martin Vantage GT3 in 2016.[4]
In 2017, Ross won the Britcar Endurance Championship outright in the MJC Furlonger-prepared Ferrari 458 GT, taking 10 overall podiums, including 4 wins.[5]
Ross contested the 2018 Britcar series with FF Corse, co-driving a Ferrari 458 GT3 with David Mason.[6] He completed the year by winning the Sprint S1 category, claiming 13 class podiums, including 4 class wins.[7] Ross is also an ARDS-qualified (Association of Racing Driver Schools) instructor[8] and a freelance driving specialist. Having been nominated as a BRDC (British Racing Drivers’ Club) Rising Star in 2013,[9] he was selected as a BRDC "SuperStar" two years later.[10]
During 2019 Ross Wylie completed 7 rounds of the Britcar Endurance Championship, securing 3 class poles and 6 top-four placings. He also competed once in the GT Cup Championship (GTC class FF Corse Ferrari 488 Challenge, class podium) and achieved a top-five finish in all four rounds of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB that he contested.
In 2020 Ross returned to the Porsche Carrera Cup GB with In2Racing,[11] and competed in 16 races, finishing the season 7th overall.[12] Ross also contested 6 Britcar Endurance Championship races with SB Race Engineering Ferrari 488 to secure the C2 Class title, second overall.[13][14]
The 2021 season saw Ross competing across four domestic championships. At the wheel of three different cars prepared by SB Race Engineering (Ferrari 488, Brabham BT62 Competition and McLaren MP4-12C Can Am) he took the GTO title in the GT Cup, with nine podiums, six class wins, six fastest laps and one overall victory.[15] He supported that with six appearances in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB for Valluga Racing,[16] and a race apiece in the Britcar Endurance Championship (a C2 class win [17]) and the British GT Championship (3rd in GT3SA), both with Simon Green Motorsport.[18]
Ross started the 2022 season with a defence of his GT Cup GTO Championship title, co-driving with Paul Bailey.[19] Four class podiums in the first four races made for a promising start, but Bailey's withdrawal from the series before the next round at Snetterton prompted Ross to end his participation.[20] Instead, he transferred his challenge to the British GT Championship, contesting the GT4 class which he'd last won eight years previously.[21] Sharing a Valluga Racing Porsche 718 Cayman with Matthew Graham, he contested six races, finishing second in the prestigious Silverstone 500. Ross also competed in three rounds of the Porsche Carrera Cup.[22]
In 2023 Ross Wylie contested the Porsche Carrera Cup GB with Redline Racing, finishing runner-up in the Pro-Am Championship, just seven points behind the class winner.[23] He also made an impressive return to the GT Cup with SB Race Engineering, driving three different chassis ( Brabham BT62 Competition, Mercedes AMG GT3 and Lamborghini Huracán) to claim the overall GT Cup title.[24]
In April 2024, Ross announced his intention to return to Toro Verde GT for the 2024 Porsche Carrera Cup, two years after contesting part of the 2022 season with the team.[25]