PROCTOR AND HOWARD FORM BEECHDEAN BRITISH GT LINE-UP
Silver-Am champ joins Beechdean boss for team’s Donington return; Hughes fills vacancy
Lewis Proctor will join team principal Andrew Howard in multiple British GT champion Beechdean’s driver line-up for its return to the championship in this month’s Donington Park season finale.
The team confirmed in August it had withdrawn from GT World Challenge Europe and would return to British GT for Donington’s October 15-16 finale, with a view to a longer-term stay in the championship.
Howard will share an Aston Martin Vantage GT3 with Proctor in a SilverAm partnership. Beechdean with Howard driving won outright British GT titles in 2013 and ’15. The team also won back-toback GT4 drivers’crowns in 2014 and
’15 and 2019’s GT4 Pro-Am crown.
Proctor won 2021’s Silver-Am title alongside father Stewart in a Balfe McLaren, and the partnership has continued this season in a Greystone GT McLaren.
At Donington, Proctor Jr’s Greystone GT place will be taken by Warren Hughes. Hughes won a British GT race outright in 2004 and 2012’s GT4 crown. He last appeared in a 2020 one-off. He’s coached the Proctors recently having coached Lewis for several years.
Proctor Jr said: “This move is driven by my desire to gain more experience racing front-engined cars. I have ambitions to race GTs at the highest level and most of the manufacturers competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship and GT World Challenge Europe appear to be moving towards the front-engined layout.”
Hughes added: “It’s such a kind gesture from Stewart to ask me to drive in recognition of the work I’ve put in with both himself and Lewis.”