Greystone GT enjoyed its best ever British GT Championship points haul as the Silverstone-based team took a major step forwards at the Oulton Park season-opener over the Easter weekend.
Drivers Mike Price and Callum Macleod, who are campaigning the Forelle Estates-backed Mercedes-AMG GT3 in the series this year, performed impressively as they showed competitive speed in both wet and dry conditions at the Cheshire track.
Having been fourth-fastest in a dry final practice session on Saturday, Callum; a multiple British GT race winner, qualified the #3 Mercedes-AMG seventh on the grid (and sixth in Pro-Am) for Sunday’s second race.
Just minutes earlier Mike had enjoyed the best qualifying session of his career to put the car eighth overall (seventh in Pro-Am) for the season-opening race.
Monday dawned wet and by the time the lights went out for the first rolling start of 2024 the circuit was soaked. Despite this, Mike kept pace with the top-six spots in tricky conditions to reach the mid-race driver changes in fine form.
Callum continued the charge when he climbed aboard and soon passed reigning champion Dan Harper for an eventual sixth-place finish overall and fifth in Pro-Am; a result that equalled the team’s best finish in the series.
A repeat result looked likely in Race Two as Callum made an excellent start from the fourth row and ran fifth overall for the duration of his opening stint before handing driving duties over to Mike.
Light contact at Old Hall for New Forest-based Mike caused him to lose several spots and just moments later an incident that led to almost the entire second half of the race to be run under Full-Course Yellow conditions, with overtaking forbidden, was declared.
The result was ninth overall and seventh in Pro-Am to deliver a pair of top-10 finishes in the series for the first time since they arrived in British GT as a duo.
Mike and Callum’s 10-point total was just shy of their total end-of-season score from 2023 and provides an excellent platform on which to build when the series heads to Greystone GT’s home track, Silverstone, on April 27-28.
They hold seventh in the Drivers’ points and sixth in the Pro-Am standings. Greystone GT, meanwhile, is sixth in the Teams’ Championship, its highest-ever position.
Mark McLoughlin, Team Principal, said: “It’s been a positive start to the British GT season with Mike and Callum both showing speed throughout the weekend, which was something we expected after a strong preseason test programme. Although this has been the team’s most successful weekend since we joined British GT in 2022, Race Two didn’t go to plan and we believe there is potential for even better results in the coming events. We will be working hard to capitalise on the current strong form when we arrive at Round Two and our home race in the Silverstone 500 later this month.”
