Henry’s third Freshman Trophy success of 2025 came in Saturday’s opening race at the North Yorkshire venue and also came as part of his first top-10 result in the series’ Rookie category.
The win completed a century of victories for the team from Maldon, Essex, whose run of success began with a debut win for Team Principal Paul McNeilly, BJ Chong and touring car star Paul O’Neill in the Lotus 1000km at Brands Hatch in 2010.
The team’s reputation was forged with several wins in the Lotus UK Cup and grew as McNeilly, Jamie Stanley and Fulvio Mussi achieved class successes in the British GT Championship with Ferrari and Ginetta machinery.
International GT Open and 24H Series victories marked significant achievements on the continent while in the UK Ginetta single-mate competition has provided 71 victories as well as four championship crowns.
The 2024 season was the team’s most successful with 21 victories; the majority coming in the Ginetta GT Championship as Mckenzie Douglass – the team’s most winning driver with 14 successes – stormed to the title.
Three more have followed in 2025, all coming through Henry, who is also one of the team’s youngest winners and fully deserved his opening-race success on Saturday at Croft.
Sunday’s pair of races were more eventful for Henry, the Wilmslow-based 15-year-old enjoying an entertaining battle for Freshman Trophy success and finishing third in class, less than 1.5 seconds from victory.
Rain at the start of Race Three made track conditions far more challenging. Henry suffered side-to-side contact with a rival and was forced to make an unscheduled pitstop to have a flapping bonnet – which left him unable to see – re-attached.
Despite this, a superb recovery brought him back to third in the Freshman Trophy – his 14th class podium from the 21 races held this season.
Just one more event remains at Donington Park on October 4-5.
Paul McNeilly, Team Principal, said: “One hundred race wins… Wow! To reach such a landmark result is an incredible achievement for Fox Motorsport and I’d like to thank everybody that’s been involved in each and every one of those victories – a number of whom have been with us since our earliest days in late 2010. Henry’s played an important role in reaching this milestone and it was great to see him get back to the top of the Freshman Trophy class at Croft. To do so with his best Rookie result of the year and to equal his best qualifying performance of 2025 at a track he’s never raced on before is yet more validation of the progress he’s made this year without an experienced driver to benchmark himself against. We’re aiming to finish the year on a high at Donington.”
