Howard to race Mclaren in place of Fletcher
Double British GT champion Andrew Howard will replace Kelvin Fletcher in Paddock Motorsport’s Mclaren 720S GT3 alongside Martin Plowman for this weekend’s Silverstone 500 round of the championship.
The 2013 and 2015 title winner has switched to the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup this year with his own Prodrive-operated Beechdean AMR Aston Martin team, but will make a British GT comeback for the three-hour race with Fletcher unavailable due to the imminent arrival of twins.
Howard said that the guest outing with Paddock would be “a great way of keeping myself race-sharp” before his next GTWCE outing, and “couldn’t say no” when the opportunity arose to reunite with ex-indycar racer Plowman. He previously ran Paddock co-owners Fletcher and Plowman when they won the 2019 British GT4 Pro-am title in a Beechdean Aston.
“Because of what Kelvin and Martin achieved with Beechdean AMR in 2019,
Paddock Motorsport are a team I always keep an eye on when they’re racing,” said Howard. “With Kelvin unavailable at Silverstone, it’s nice to be able to keep that association going.”
Having exclusively raced Aston Martins since 2008, Howard will have to learn an unfamiliar car, but Plowman is optimistic that he will be an “ideal deputy”. “He hasn’t driven the Mclaren yet but, with his experience, I’m sure he’ll be up to speed extremely quickly,” said Plowman.