Greystone GT made it two British GT Championship podium finishes in as many events with a deserved third-place finish in the Silver-Am class at the series’ showpiece race, the Silverstone 500, on Sunday.
Aberdeen-based duo Lewis and Stewart Proctor achieved the result with a mistake-free performance aboard the team’s McLaren 720S GT3 to finish eighth overall and record Greystone GT’s maiden outright top-10 finish in the series at the team's home circuit.
Starting sixth in Silver-Am and 15th overall, Stewart made instant early progress and reached the first of three mandatory driver changes fifth in class.
Son Lewis took over for his first stint at the 40-minute mark, but following a supremely quick opening set of laps, was a victim of contact as a slower GT4-class car turned in on him while being lapped.
Resultant splitter damage led to a handling imbalance that could not be rectified during the remainder of the race and affected the ultimate pace of the McLaren.
Despite this, the pair continued their relentless charge and reached the chequered flag fourth in class - a result that later became third (and a best-ever overall result of eighth for Greystone GT) when a rival team was penalised post-race.
The reigning Silver-Am Champions are provisionally third in the standings with two rounds of seven completed. The next round takes place at Donington Park on May 28-29.
Lewis Proctor said: “I’m happy with the race result given where we were after qualifying. I probably lost two tenths on what I could have done on my best lap on Saturday, but I was pretty pleased with my peak pace in race conditions. I had some contact lapping a GT4 car in my first stint and that caused a bit of damage to the splitter and left the handling a bit off. But to be third in Silver-Am and coming through from 15th to eighth overall in a pretty gruelling race gives me a lot of confidence that we can be even stronger at Donington next time out.”
Stewart Proctor said: “It was a clean race with no mistakes and we got the result that we deserved. The first lap was very crowded and I had to go off the track at Stowe to avoid a collision. I probably lost three or four places doing that. The car was a bit unstable in the second stint because of the damage we’d picked up at the front end, and I was a bit unlucky to keep catching GT4 traffic at the worst points on the track, but the Greystone GT team made up for some of that with three good pitstops and we’ve come home with a top-10 overall finish on the Silver-Am podium.”
Mark McLoughlin, Team Principal, said: “Both Lewis and Stewart have built on the promise of Oulton Park and delivered a strong podium finish in an incredibly high-quality Silver-Am field at Silverstone, and just as importantly, our first overall top-10 finish as a team in British GT. While it would have been nice to see Lewis and Stewart get their trophies on the podium for real, the result feels no less deserved. We run race programmes in several series and everybody’s been working extremely hard to make sure we keep up our momentum across all of them. This top-three result in Silver-Am is a great reward for every member of our British GT programme and a signal of what we should be targeting at most races going forwards.”
