37 Facts About Ross Wylie

Ross Wylie was born on 15 September 1991 and is a Scottish racing driver.

Ross Wylie 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.

In 2017, Ross Wylie won the Britcar Endurance Championship in the MJC Furlonger-prepared Ferrari 458 GT, taking 10 overall podiums, including 4 wins.

Ross Wylie contested the 2018 Britcar series with FF Corse, co-driving a Ferrari 458 GT3 with David Mason.

Ross Wylie completed the year by winning the Sprint S1 category, claiming 13 class podiums, including 4 class wins.

Ross Wylie competed once in the GT Cup Championship and achieved a top-five finish in all four rounds of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB that he contested.

In 2020 Ross Wylie returned to the Porsche Carrera Cup GB with In2Racing, and competed in 16 races, finishing the season 7th overall.

Ross Wylie contested 6 Britcar Endurance Championship races with SB Race Engineering Ferrari 488 to secure the C2 Class title, second overall.

The 2021 season saw Wylie competing across four domestic championships.

Ross Wylie supported that with six appearances in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB for Valluga Racing, and a race apiece in the Britcar Endurance Championship and the British GT Championship, both with Simon Green Motorsport.

Ross Wylie started the 2022 season with a defence of his GT Cup GTO Championship title, co-driving with Paul Bailey.

Ross Wylie entered the British GT Championship, contesting the GT4 class.

Ross Wylie competed in three rounds of the Porsche Carrera Cup.

In 2023 Ross Wylie stepped down into the Pro-Am class as he contested the Porsche Carrera Cup GB with Redline Racing, finishing runner-up in the Pro-Am Championship, seven points behind the class winner.

Ross Wylie made a return to the GT Cup with SB Race Engineering, driving three different chassis to claim the overall GT Cup title.

In 2024 Ross Wylie returned to team Toro Verde GT to contest the 2024 Porsche Carrera Cup in the Pro-Am class, and competed in ten of the season's 16 races, finishing the year 8th in the championship's Pro-Am standings.

Ross Wylie shared a Bentley Continental with Witt Gamski for one round of the British Endurance Championship.

Ross Wylie was born in Thornhill, in the Dumfries and Galloway region of Scotland in 1991, and began his motor racing career aged 13 in karts.

In 2012 Ross Wylie made his circuit racing debut, contesting the Celtic Speed Mini Cooper Cup, and securing six podiums, two wins, two poles and four fastest laps.

Ross Wylie dovetailed that by claiming 6th in the Volkswagen UK Racing Cup for SlideSports.

Ross Wylie finished the season second in the Silver Cup with 6 top-ten finishes from nine races.

Ross Wylie was invited to participate in the coveted BRDC "SuperStar" scheme.

Ross Wylie returned to British GT in 2016, joining Motorbase Performance to partner fellow Scot Phil Dryburgh in the team's single Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3.

Ross Wylie then rounded off the year on a high, finishing the demanding Gulf 12 Hours in Abu Dhabi with 5th overall, sharing the SlideSports Porsche Cayman GT4 with co-drivers Wayne Marrs and David Fairbrother.

Concurrent with his Britcar campaign, Ross Wylie competed with SlideSports in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB, missing two Britcar rounds to focus on his Porsche programme.

At the beginning of 2019, Mason and Ross Wylie's season did not get off to a great start, despite qualifying first in Class 2 and third overall, the only managed to finish eleventh and fourth in class.

Ross Wylie completed a full season of motor racing in 2020, despite the pandemic.

Ross Wylie rounded off the year by finishing sixth and fifth respectively in the final two rounds of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Brands Hatch, thereby securing 7th overall in the championship.

Ross Wylie contested one race in the 2020 GT Cup Championship, claiming a class win and fastest lap, and entered a single round of the British GT Championship, crossing the line fourth in class.

Ross Wylie contested no less than four different British race series in 2021, his biggest success being in the GT Cup Championship, where he took the GTO class title alongside Paul Bailey.

Ross Wylie returned to the GT4 category of the British GT Championship eight years after he last claimed the title, sharing a Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport backed by AL-2 Teknik UK, prepared by Valluga Racing.

Ross Wylie's co-drivers were Valluga Concierge team-owner Benji Hetherington for the first two races at Oulton Park, including a third-placed podium in Race 1, and then Matthew Graham for the Silverstone, Donington Park and Snetterton events.

Ross Wylie contested three rounds of the Porsche Carrera Cup, with races at Oulton Park, Knockhill and Silverstone.

In 2023 Ross Wylie returned to the Porsche Carrera Cup Championship but stepped down into the Pro-Am category at the wheel of the Glenturret Porsche 911, prepared by Redline Racing.

Ross Wylie completed the season as runner-up in the Pro-Am Championship, seven-points behind the class winner.

Ross Wylie claimed overall GT Cup Championship honours for the first time.

The Porsches headed north for Rounds 7 and 8, at Croft, where Ross Wylie took 4th in Pro-Am for the weekend's first race, and 5th in the second.