When Autosport speaks to Gary Davies, the chief engineer of fast-growing sportscar outfit Greystone GT, he has just finished painting his office in the team’s new workshop. Given he’s race engineering cars in GT Cup and European GT4, overseeing its maiden assault on British GT, and building the technical structure of an outfit that started life as a trackday organiser before creating a customer racing arm in 2021, he’s not wrong when he jokes: “I’m kind of doing it all at the moment!”
Davies’s current role is a marked contrast from race engineering in Porsche’s factory IMSA programme – winning the 2015 GTLM title with Patrick Pilet and famously taking outright honours in that year’s Petit Le Mans – and to his previous post in Formula E as chief engineer at the Dragon Penske squad. But he has absolute conviction that Mark McLoughlin’s plans for the squad will be realised and is enjoying putting into place the structures that made the Core Autosport-run Porsche project a winner on its debut with the 911 RSR at the 2014 Daytona 24 Hours.
