Beechdean AMR will go ‘back to the future’ with a retro livery on their Aston Martin Vantage GT3 as the 2025 Silver-Am title-winning team announce their return to the British GT Championship’s GT3 Pro-Am category this year.
Team Principal and two-time overall series champion Andrew Howard will link up with former team-mate and Aston Martin works driver Ross Gunn for the six-round campaign.
Turning the clocks back a decade, the High Wycombe team will run a livery reminiscent of the colour scheme of 2016; a design that followed on from a dominant British GT title-winning season and that ended with a European Le Mans Series GTE crown.
Andrew begins his 16th season of full-time British GT competition after last year teaming-up with Tom Wood to secure the GT3 Silver-Am title.
That success, added to his pair of overall titles, made him the first driver in British GT history to claim championships in both categories. He is now aiming to secure a 10th series title for Beechdean, which has achieved glory in both GT3 and GT4 categories with Aston Martin machinery in the series.
Team-mate Ross Gunn has been a frequent presence in the Beechdean garage ever since his father, Ian, competed for the outfit in Mini Se7ens over 20 years ago. Ross joined the driver line-up in 2015 and remarkably won the GT4 crown alongside Jamie Chadwick in his debut season.
His career went from strength to strength after that as he contested the GT3 division with the team in 2016, finished third in the Le Mans Cup in 2019 and came close to victory on several occasions in his most recent British GT campaign in 2023.
During that time, he achieved works driver status with Aston Martin, became a regular class winner in GT machinery in North America’s IMSA series and, last October at Petit Le Mans, claimed the first podium finish for the manufacturer’s Valkyrie hypercar.
The season-opening ‘Silverstone 500’, on April 25-26 will be Ross’s first race with Beechdean since he joined Andrew, Valentin Hasse Clot and Anthony McIntosh at the 24 Hours of Spa last year; the quartet finishing second in the Pro-Am class.
Five further events will follow, featuring a mix of hour-long sprint races as well as endurance races of two or three-hour duration. The season concludes at Brands Hatch on September 26-27.
Andrew Howard, Team Principal, said: “It was brilliant to get back to championship-winning ways in 2025 and to finish on the podium at the 24 Hours of Spa. For 2026 we’re aiming even higher as we return to the Pro-Am class with a livery that might remind a few people of some fantastic past times, and target the overall podium from the get-go. Having Ross back is brilliant. He’s been a regular in the garage since he was a child and it’s been awesome to watch his career go from strength to strength since he first raced with Beechdean AMR in 2015. I’m looking forward to the coming season more than I have done for a long time.”
Ross Gunn said: “I’m so excited to be back in the British GT Championship for 2026 and to have the opportunity, as part of the Aston Martin Racing family, to race again with Beechdean AMR and with Andrew. From watching my dad race Beechdean Minis when I was little, to the support Andrew’s given me through my career, there’s always been a strong link between myself and the team and it’s brilliant to be back. Andrew’s coming into the season as the reigning Silver-Am champion and finished 2025 on such strong form, so my target is to pick up where we left off and be fighting to finish at the sharp end.”
