The Pinhard Prize was inaugurated by Fred Pinhard of the Sunbeam Club who considered it would be a good idea to have an award available to ANYONE from the world of motorcycle sport.

As I recall, the actual wording "For the most meritorious performance by a person under the age of 21" I think I'm right about it being 21, I just can't remember.

I was on the judging panel from around 1984 to when the new secretary kicked me off around 1999, since when publicity for the Pinhard has been virtually non-existant.

There are so many famous names on there that it would be a tragedy if it were to be lost to the sport due to poor promotion, however, that's no longer down to me so we can only hope it continues. Good to see the full list, but the spelling, oh goodness, why can't it be done correctly? Everybody in the world likes to have their name spelt correctly. I'm unsure of the first names of a few of the earlier winners, but below are now the correct spellings and correct first names in order:

??Milner, ?? Hodgson, Maureen Towler, Bill Martin, John Surtees, Jeff Smith, Roy Peplow, Mike Hailwood, Dan Shorey, Brian Hutchinson, Scott Ellis, Malcolm Davis, Mick Andrews, Derek Adsett, Dave Baybutt, Gordon Farley, Tommy Milton, Malcolm Rathmell, ?? Dawes, Chris Pusey, Martin Lampkin, Chris Baybutt, Rob Shepherd, Clive Smith, Graham Noyce, Neil Hudson, John Reynolds, Gordon Philip, Michael Lee, ?? Padgett, John Lampkin, Dave Thorpe, Steve Patrickson, Steve Saunders, Kurt Nicoll, Ian McConnachie, Paul Edmondson, Wayne Braybrook, Jason Lawer, Jamie Dobb, Steve Colley, Jason Higgs, Dougie Lampkin, Paul Hurry, Martin ?? Baybutt, Graham Jarvis, Sam Connor, Carl Nunn, Martin Crossthwaite, Jonny Walker, Ben Wilson, Tom Sagar, Jamie Clarke, Donna Fox, Paul Chatham, Alexz Wigg.

Not 100% sure of a few christian names, but we're getting there. Somebody keep this for posterity when it's accurate.

Ta.

cheers for that

some of the spelling may have been me typing it up off the trophy, but some of it was how it was engraved

i've got all the info as an excel file, along with several other awards that the Sidcup club have (and the Inter Centre MX trophy)

Respect Alexz.

Jamie, such modesty. Coyly mentioning that you copied the past winners off the trophy.

Interesting how accurately the Pinhard prize predicts great things for it's recipients (previous paragraph excepted of course )

Edited January 16, 200719 yr by TooFastTim

ROFLOL !!! - if you ever see me ride you'll soon realise i've no hope of ever getting anywhere in any motorcyclesport (well not the level of the rest of them!)