Greystone GT will finish the British GT Championship season with a revised driver line-up at Donington Park next weekend as Le Mans 24 Hours winner Warren Hughes joins the team to partner Stewart Proctor.
The arrival of the 2012 British GT GT4 champion alongside last year’s GT3 Silver-Am title winner Stewart ensures that the Prosource-supported McLaren 720S GT3 will continue to run in the Silver-Am class in the two-hour race on October 15-16.
Warren steps in for the #5 McLaren’s regular Silver driver, Lewis Proctor, who he has coached for several years, and who has taken a new opportunity for the weekend.
The Newcastle-upon-Tyne racer brings vast experience to the Silverstone-based team. A UK champion and international race-winner in single-seaters, he claimed several victories in the British Touring Car Championship before switching full-time to sportscars in 2004.
Since then, he’s raced extensively in some of the most prestigious sportscar and GT series in the world and was the LMP2 winner at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2005 as well as the SPEED Euroseries champion in ’11 and British GT’s GT4 title winner the following year.
Donington will mark his first appearance in British GT since a one-off drive at the same circuit in 2020 in a GT4 McLaren.
Warren Hughes said: “I’m excited to be back racing in British GT, having spent the past few events with Greystone GT in a coaching capacity with both Stewart and Lewis [Proctor]. I’ve known Mark [McLoughlin, Team Principal] and Tim [Mullen, Sporting Manager] right back to when we were all involved with McLaren and there are plenty of other familiar familiar faces in the team too. 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 – through the McLaren Driver Development Programme - with Lewis over the past years. As Lewis moves on to another opportunity this weekend, I’m getting a fantastic opportunity. I haven’t driven the McLaren 720S GT3 since the tail end of 2017, just before the customer-car programme really kicked into gear, so it’ll be nice to get back behind the wheel and see what we can do.”
Mark McLoughlin, Team Principal, said: “I’m thrilled to welcome Warren to Greystone GT as the latest pro driver with a sparkling CV in motorsport. While we wish Lewis [Proctor] the very best of luck as he takes another opportunity at Donington, it was important to have a strong driver alongside Stewart. In Warren we have the best Silver option around; a Le Mans 24 Hours winner and British GT champion who’s already spent a few race events with us in a coaching capacity and who knows Stewart and the way he drives extremely well. We’d like to finish the season with a strong result to make sure Stewart finishes as high up the Silver-Am points table as possible and I’m sure Warren will be a great addition to help us do that.”
