Greystone GT are excited to announce a full-time graduation to the GT Cup Championship’s premier GT3 category in 2022 supported by IBC Racing with drivers Iain Campbell and Oli Webb.
The Silverstone-based team were race winners in their maiden season of competition in the GT Cup in 2021 and started the new year with a sensational GT4 victory at the Gulf 12 Hours last month with both Iain and Oli as part of the driver line-up.
The duo, who raced a McLaren 570S GT4 in the GTH category last year, will now graduate to a faster, more powerful McLaren 720S GT3, moving them into contention for outright wins across the 26-race season.
A virtual newcomer at the time of his GT Cup debut at last year’s Donington opener, Iain developed an instant reputation for making up spots at the rolling starts and for his innate passing ability.
Despite his rookie status, Iain scored Greystone GT’s maiden podium finish with second place in Snetterton’s Endurance Race in June alongside Oli. He added three more across the season to end 2021 as the team’s best-placed driver in the standings.
The Sandhurst racer then scored a maiden race win on his debut weekend in the Pure McLaren GT Series at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, driving for McLaren Glasgow by Greystone GT, and played a key role in the team’s Gulf 12 Hours GT4 success in January.
His professional co-driver Oli was alongside Iain for the latter victory in Abu Dhabi, and for each of his podium finishes last year.
Prior to joining Greystone GT, the Knutsford racer was a front-runner and race winner in Formula Renault and Formula 3 in Britain and a podium finisher in the US-based Indy Lights series before switching to sportscar racing in 2013.
The 30-year-old has enjoyed a glittering career in sportscars, winning the 2014 European Le Mans Series, the 2015 Dubai 24 Hours and the recent Gulf 12 Hours in Greystone GT’s GT4 entry.
Oli has started the world’s most famous endurance race, the Le Mans 24 Hours, eight times and finished on the LMP2 podium in 2014.
Iain and Oli are the third pairing to be announced by Greystone GT for the 2022 GT Cup Series. Rich Mason and Jon Lancaster will contest the GTH class in a McLaren 570S GT4, as will Phillip Carter and Michael Broadhurst.
The team finished on the GT3 podium twice in 2021, having run Andrey Borodin and Ed Pead at the final two rounds of the season in a McLaren 720S GT3.
Iain Campbell said: “I can’t wait to get started. Ever since McLaren let me test a 720S GT3 at Snetterton last Autumn, I knew this was the right car for me at the right time, and the GT Cup is the perfect place to keep developing my skills while learning a new car. Driving the GT4 last year was about learning how to race other cars, rather than anything else. The GT3 is a lot less forgiving, but also a lot more rewarding when you coax the speed out of it. Plus, now I’m in the fastest class, I’ll have to learn some new skills, like lapping people instead of being lapped. Quite a few of our GT4 rivals from last year are stepping up, so I expect it to be tough. But with Oli alongside me, I think we can be competitive. That’s certainly the aim; compete, see where we are and use that to build for future seasons in which we can take this car to any major GT race across the world.”
Oli Webb said: “I’m very excited to move up to GT3, which will open up so many more doors for us in the coming seasons; most of the top sportscar races in the world have a GT3 class and that’s great news for us. Despite all my laps in McLarens, I’ve never driven a 720S GT3 so I’m really looking forward to my first test later this month. I’m not sure what to expect in terms of results. Based on last year’s GT3 field, I think we could be competing for podiums right away, but I’m hearing that we should expect the best field ever in GT Cup both in terms of quality and quantity, so perhaps we’ll just have to set our targets after the first round once we establish where we are in the pecking order. This is a first year in GT3 for Iain and it’s a big step up, but he’s made very strong progress to go from a rookie 12 months ago to now an international GT4 race winner, so I’m sure he’ll take it in his stride.”
Mark McLoughlin, Team Principal, said: “When we established the Greystone GT race team at the end of 2020, we set a target of being able to compete against the best GT teams in the world in time. It feels like we’re taking the next step towards that goal in 2022 with our Gulf 12 Hours win in GT4 and now our full-time step-up to GT3 in the GT Cup. Iain has been such an incredible supporter of Greystone GT ever since he decided that he wanted to move up from Track Days to racing and that he wanted to do it with us, so it’s a proud moment for everyone in the team to be able to help him take this next step into GT3 machinery. With a year’s experience of racing, of the team and of the series under his belt and with a strong pro like Oli in his corner, I’m confident we’ll see a very strong Iain Campbell this year.”
