BEECHDEAN MAKES BRITISH GT RETURN FOR DONINGTON FINALE
Champion team returns from GTWCE with a view to stay in British GT
Multiple British GT champion team Beechdean AMR will return to the series for October’s Donington Park season finale with its Aston Martin Vantage GT3 and will possibly stay for 2023.
Beechdean has also withdrawn both its cars from 2022’s remaining GT World Challenge Europe rounds amid team principal and driver Andrew Howard’s clashing work commitments and a refocusing of the team’s race efforts for the end of this year and into next. Remaining in British GT for 2023 is a “serious” option for the squad.
Beechdean with Howard driving won outright British GT titles in 2013 and ’15, the latter shared with Jonny Adam. The team also won back-to-back GT4 crowns in ’14 and ’15 and the GT4
Pro-Am crown in ’19.
Beechdean’s driver line-up and class for its single-car Donington entry is to be finalised. It last competed in British GT last season, with Howard and Adam, and then switched to a two-car GTWCE effort for 2022.
Howard said: “Of course it’s disappointing to end our GT World Challenge Europe programme early, but ultimately the work commitments that kept me from driving at Spa are still in play.
“It didn’t seem prudent to continue as a one-car team for the final two races. We’re a team that’s always looking ahead and while we assess our options for 2023, it’s always good to get a head start on things.
“A return to British GT on a full-time basis is certainly one option we’re seriously looking at.”