Tommy Searle to recieve PINHARD TROPHY at Hawkstone
February 26, 2008
With the World Championship season yet to start, Hawkstone Park’s International meeting on 2nd March 2008 will see Britain’s best hope of a World Championship, Tommy Searle receive the Sunbeam Motorcycle Club’s Pinhard Prize, an award he won in December 2007.
Had Tommy not been testing in California at the time, the Prize would have been awarded at the ACU’s Presentation of Awards in January. Ian McGill, Pinhard Prize Officer for the Sunbeam MCC will now present the Award to Tommy at Hawkstone Park during the lunchtime interview session.
Every year since 1950 the Pinhard Trophy has been awarded to the best under 21 sporting motorcyclist in ACU jurisdiction. A £50 cheque accompanies the huge 2 gallon cup and a lifetime retention replica cup is awarded by Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club in memory of Frederick William Pinhard, who died in June 1948 while serving as secretary of the Club.
Previous winners include John Surtees, Mike Hailwood, Jeff Smith, Brian Martin, Roy Peplow, Dan Storey, Scott Ellis, Alexz Wigg and a host of others who have gone on to be National and International Champions in the myriad of disciplines which comprise motorcycle sport.
‘Pin’, as he was affectionately known, was an astonishing man of boundless energy and as founder of the Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club in 1924 he managed and directed its sport organising activities in trials, sprints, road racing and a myriad of social events that provided Sunbeam members with continuous pleasure and considerable motorcycling activity. He was a mainspring in the ACU centre, on ACU committees and how he fitted Sunbeam work into his private life as a stockbroker, rifle shooting champion and the Metropolitan Police Special Constabulary is evidence of his astonishing versatility.
Ian McGill said “Tommy’s superb achievements last season, 2nd in the MX2 World Championship, in only his second full season and Runner Up for a second time in the Maxxis ACU British Motocross Championship saw his name come to the top of a short list of riders that we will all enjoy watching succeed in their chosen disciplines over the coming years.
I would like to thank the Salop MCC for allowing me to present the Pinhard Prize at Hawkstone Park and must take the opportunity to remind all Clubs that the Sunbeam MCC only considers riders put forward to us by their respective Clubs. Any nominations should be forwarded to The Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club-Pinhard Prize, 13, Victoria Road, Horley, Surrey, RH6 9BN.
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