Goodwood Revival to celebrate 100 years of Carroll Shelby in 2023
100 years after the birth of Carroll Shelby, the 2023 Goodwood Revival will celebrate the long and varied career of the racing great
All-round competitor Tony Lees is the winner of the Vintage Sports-Car Club’s inaugural Speed Championship after a tremendous campaign against the clock in the famous ex-Ron Footitt 1925 AC/GN Cognac Special.
Speed events, both sprints and hillclimbs, have long been an integral part of the VSCC competition year but there was a step change for 2016 when the season was formalised into a 10-round championship. The championship was designed to create a level playing field across the Club’s 16-class structure of pre-war racing and sports-cars.
By any measure it was a runaway success and competitor support ran at incredibly high levels at venues like Shelsley Walsh, Prescott, Curborough and Wiscombe Park. From humble Austin 7s to fire-breathing aero-engined monsters, there was sport for all fans of pre-war cars.
Leicestershire-based Lees was a model of consistency through the year in the celebrated Cognac, a GN chassis powered by a 2-litre AC engine, which he also races regularly with the Club. He scored several pre-1931 vintage wins and set a new class record at Shelsley Walsh, where he broke Freddie Giles’s 1993 time in Cognac, just a few days before Giles passed away.
VSCC Club Director Geoff Smith claimed runner-up spot, as top dog in the aero-engined Pre-1918 Edwardian class with the Piccard-Pictet Sturtevant Special, with Jo Blakeney-Edwards in third in her Frazer Nash Super Sports.
Special awards went to Guy Lachlan, the best placed newcomer in his first season with the 1914/18 Fafnir Hall-Scott Special, and to Andy Baker who led the under 30 standings in the family’s historic Riley Brooklands.
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