Torrens Trophy

The Torrens Trophy is awarded by the Royal Automobile Club to an individual or organisation considered to have made an outstanding contribution to the cause of safe and skillful motorcycling in the United Kingdom or to have made an outstanding contribution of technical excellence to further the cause of motor cycling, or to have shown outstanding skill in international motor cycling sporting events in the United Kingdom.

The trophy is named in honour of the respected motorcycling journalist, the late Arthur Bourne, an editor of UK magazine The Motor Cycle, who wrote a column under the pen name Torrens. He was also Vice Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club (RAC).

The trophy was first awarded in 1978, the first winner being Lieutenant-Colonel Fredrick Lovegrove OBE. The trophy is only awarded when the nomination committee deem it necessary, and as of 2017 there have only been a total of ten recipients. The current holder of the award is MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow.

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