Raise a Glass of Cognac
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2016 4:54 pm
Congratulations to Tony Lees, winner of the Vintage Sports-Car Club’s inaugural MSA-registered Speed Championship in 2016, in his famed 1925 AC/GN ‘Cognac’ Special.
The Leicestershire-based Competitor proved a model of consistency throughout the year in the celebrated ex-Ron Footitt ‘Chain Gang’ Racing Special – a GN chassis, powered by a 2-litre AC engine – regularly placing amongst the front-runners at the Club’s Sprint and Hill Climb events.
Highlights included several Fastest Pre-1931 Vintage and Class accolades, as well as a particularly poignant new Class record at Shelsley Walsh in July, where he broke Freddie Giles’s 1993 time in ‘Cognac’, just days before Freddie sadly passed away.
The Leicestershire-based Competitor proved a model of consistency throughout the year in the celebrated ex-Ron Footitt ‘Chain Gang’ Racing Special – a GN chassis, powered by a 2-litre AC engine – regularly placing amongst the front-runners at the Club’s Sprint and Hill Climb events.
Highlights included several Fastest Pre-1931 Vintage and Class accolades, as well as a particularly poignant new Class record at Shelsley Walsh in July, where he broke Freddie Giles’s 1993 time in ‘Cognac’, just days before Freddie sadly passed away.
