Greystone GT scored their best-ever British GT Championship Pro-Am finish as the Snetterton circuit in Norfolk staged an action-packed double-header meeting.
Mike Price and Callum Macleod finished fourth in class in the opening race on a weekend that also featured an all-time qualifying high and a pair of overall top-six results for their Mercedes-AMG GT3.
A good weekend appeared to be on the cards from Friday when pro racer Callum set the pace in pre-event testing, but overnight rain created mixed track conditions during Saturday practice; the team focusing on acclimatising Mike to the circuit in the damp.
Come qualifying Callum put the Forelle Estates-backed car sixth overall on the Race Two grid – equalling the team’s best-ever outright result and setting a new benchmark in the Pro-Am class. Mike’s 13th spot on the Race-One grid was also eighth in Pro-Am.
Mike charged through the opening phase of Sunday’s first race; the New Forest racer climbing to 11th overall (and seventh in Pro-Am) and allowing Callum to continue a rise that resulted in sixth overall and a best-ever fourth place in Pro-Am.
Callum ran inside the top five overall for the opening stint of Race Two despite suffering a broken splitter when he was hit at the start and Mike pushed hard to regain positions after a slow driver change during the mandatory pitstop cost two positions.
A late safety car removed the gap that Mike and Callum had built up over most of their class rivals but a solid final push – coming in just a five-minute period of green-flag action – resulted in fifth in Pro-Am and sixth overall.
Just two rounds remain in the British GT Championship; the next being a two-hour race at Donington Park on September 7-8.
Mark McLoughlin, Team Principal, said: “It feels like we’ve been knocking on the door of a weekend like this results-wise for a while so it’s very good to see all the hard work Mike, Callum and the rest of the team have put in being reflected in our best-ever Pro-Am finish. There was a lot going on in both races with experienced teams and drivers making mistakes, but Mike and Callum never put a wheel out of line really and they richly deserve this. In fact, if we hadn’t had the splitter damage at the start or the slow driver change, we could have made the Pro-Am podium. We have a good platform to push on and try and score our first podium before the end of the year.”
