The Royal Automobile Club in London’s Pall Mall hosted an Awards lunch for the 2023 Motor Racing Legends series winners. After dining in the recently refurbished ‘Terrace Room’ Duncan Wiltshire presented Motor Racing Legend’s prestigious trophy to drivers that performed with the most success on-track during the 2023 season.
Richard Hudson and co-driver Stuart Morley were able to tame their monstrous Lister Knobbly Chevrolet to win the Stirling Moss Trophy for outstanding consistent performance throughout the season. The trophy that they were presented with was Stirling Moss’s from the 1955 British Grand Prix at Aintree in 1955 – his first ever grand prix win.
Mike Whitaker and his co-driver Mike Jordan were awarded with the Tony Dron Trophy – an original Tricentrol Trophy of Tony’s from 1979. 2023 was a busy season for Mike in his 1979 Patrick Motorsport works Rover SD1 racing at Donington Historic Festival, Oulton Park Gold Cup and Silverstone Festival. Mike’s son, Michael Jnr also races a similar car.
Sue Darbyshire won the Pre-War Sports Car Trophy for her efforts in her plucky 1929 Morgan Super Aero that she also shared at some races with Duncan Wood. Sue was also awarded with the Traditional Oak and Timber Company Trophy for her heroic bounce back to fitness after badly injuring herself in a gardening accident at home last spring only to be back behind the wheel within weeks.
Other Award winners who unable to attend the presentation were Harry Barton and Oliver Rueben who won the Royal Automobile Pall Mall Cup in Harry’s TVR Griffith and father and son Rick and Joe Wilmott who won the Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy in their Jaguar XK140 Gomm Special.
