Greystone GT are pleased to announce their debut campaign in the British GT Championship this year with reigning GT3 Silver-Am Champions Stewart and Lewis Proctor behind the wheel of a McLaren 720S GT3.
For Silverstone-based Greystone GT this represents not only a first venture into the UK’s leading GT racing series, but also a maiden full season of competition with a GT3 racing car.
Both Stewart and Lewis, from Aberdeen, enter the year aiming to build on their forward momentum and success in 2021, where they scored five Silver-Am class wins and achieved an overall podium finish at Spa-Francorchamps on their way to seventh overall in the British GT3 standings.
Greystone GT, meanwhile, add the programme to campaigns in the GT4 European Series and the UK’s GT Cup Championship; the news coming at a time of significant personnel expansion for the organisation.
Stewart, who shared in the GT3 Silver-Am crown with son Lewis last year, began racing in 2015 in GT Cup and scored three podium finishes in his rookie season.
That was followed by second and third place championship finishes in the 2018 and 2019 Pure McLaren GT Series; entry in selected rounds of British GT in 2020 and a first full-season campaign in 2021, plus a GT Cup victory at Brands Hatch with son Lewis.
Lewis burst onto the GT racing scene in 2018 as one of the first intake of young drivers on the McLaren Driver Development Programme. Two podiums and a maiden GT4 victory at Snetterton was followed by a step up to the GT3 class in 2020, which resulted in two podium finishes, and then Silver-Am title success with Stewart in 2021.
Founded in 2017 to set new standards in both the Supercar Trackday and High-Performance Test Day organisation, Greystone GT established its race team in late 2020 and debuted in the GT Cup last April.
A victory in the intensely competitive GTH class for GT4 machinery was followed by a pair of successes in the Pure McLaren GT Series and, most significantly, a class win at the Gulf 12 Hours in Abu Dhabi in January this year.
The British GT season gets underway at Oulton Park, Cheshire, on Easter weekend (April 16-18) and features seven rounds, combining double-header ‘sprint’ races of one-hour duration and longer ‘endurance’ races of up to three hours during the year.
Lewis Proctor said: “As each year passes, the targets get higher and I’m aiming to win a race overall this year and be regularly contending for podiums. We have a good, strong testing programme in place with Greystone GT, which hopefully will mean we can hit the ground running when the season starts. Racing with Dad last year was my first time with an Am co-driver and was something new that I had to learn. The season helped me to understand the whole dynamic much better so now as we go into our second year together, we can use that foresight to really push on.”
Stewart Proctor said: “I’m looking forward to the season ahead with Greystone GT. They’re really focused on enhancing their standing in GT racing and that can only help Lewis and myself as we are too. Winning the Silver-Am title last year with Lewis was a very proud moment - every Dad’s dream - and we achieved our target of finishing every race. But I think we can continue to move forwards in the overall field this year; score more outright podiums and generally be closer to the front everywhere. That’s the target and something we’ll all be pushing for.”
Mark McLoughlin, Team Principal, said: “We’re extremely proud to be making our British GT Championship debut in only our second year of competition and to have a pair of reigning champions behind the wheel of the McLaren. Both Stewart and Lewis have made a big impression on the series in a very short space of time and together I’m sure we can score some strong results. We’ve recruited strongly in key areas over the winter and now have a team full of proven winners from national and international motorsport across the board. This gives us the ideal platform to continue our move forwards.”
