The Segrave Trophy is awarded to the British

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 national

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 who accomplishes the most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by land, sea, air, or water. The trophy is named in honour of Sir Henry Segrave

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, and has been awarded in most years since 1930.

A subsidiary award, the Segrave Medal, may also be given. Additionally, the Segrave Certificate of Achievement may be awarded to a person who is not a British national, but would otherwise qualify for recognition.

The trophy is awarded by the Royal Automobile Club

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. Past sponsors include Aston Martin

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List of recipients

• 1930 Charles Kingsford Smith
  Charles Kingsford Smith
  Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith MC, AFC , often called by his nickname Smithy, was an early Australian aviator. In 1928, he earned global fame when he made the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia...
  
  
• 1931 Bert Hinkler
  Bert Hinkler
  Herbert John Louis Hinkler AFC DSM , better known as Bert Hinkler, was a pioneer Australian aviator and inventor. He designed and built early aircraft before being the first person to fly solo from England to Australia, and the first person to fly solo across the Southern Atlantic Ocean...
  
  
• 1932 Amy Johnson
  Amy Johnson
  Amy Johnson CBE, was a pioneering English aviator. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, Johnson set numerous long-distance records during the 1930s...
  
  
• 1933 Malcolm Campbell
• 1934 Ken Waller
  Ken Waller
  Ken Waller is an American former bodybuilder featured in the 1977 movie Pumping Iron, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. Waller also won the 1975 International Federation of Bodybuilders Mr. Universe contest in Pretoria, South Africa...
  
  
• 1935 George Eyston
  George Eyston
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• 1936 Jean Batten
  Jean Batten
  Jean Gardner Batten CBE OSC was a New Zealand aviatrix. Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by taking a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world....
  
  
• 1937 A.E. Clouston
• 1938 A.T. Goldie Gardner
  A.T. Goldie Gardner
  Alfred Thomas Goldie Gardner was an English racing car driver. He was holder of the O.B.E. and the M.C. He was also awarded the BRDC Gold Star three times....
  
  
• 1939 Sir Malcolm Donald Campbell (Segrave Medal: Peter Du Cane)
• 1940 - 1945. No awards due to World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
  
• 1946 Geoffrey Raoul de Havilland (posthumous)
• 1947 John Rhodes Cobb
  John Cobb (motorist)
  John Rhodes Cobb was a British racing motorist. He made money as a director of fur brokers Anning, Chadwick and Kiver and could afford to specialise in large capacity motor-racing...
  
  
• 1948 John Douglas Derry
  John Derry
  John Douglas Derry DFC was a British test pilot, and was the first Briton to exceed the speed of sound...
  
  
• 1949 No award
• 1950 No award
• 1951 Geoffrey Duke
  Geoff Duke
  Geoffrey Ernest Duke OBE is a British multi-time motorcycle Grand Prix road racing world champion.Geoff Duke dominated motorcycle racing in the 1950s, winning six world championships and six Isle of Man TT races...
  
  
• 1952 No award
• 1953 Neville Duke
  Neville Duke
  Squadron Leader Neville Frederick Duke DSO, OBE, DFC & Two Bars, AFC, FRAeS,Czech War Cross was a British Second World War fighter pilot. He was the top Allied flying ace in the Mediterranean Theatre, having shot down at least 27 enemy aircraft, and was acknowledged as one of the world's foremost...
  
  
• 1954 No award
• 1955 Donald Malcolm Campbell
• 1956 Peter Twiss
  Peter Twiss
  Lionel Peter Twiss, OBE, DSC and Bar was a British test pilot who held the World Air Speed Record as the first man to fly at a speed greater than 1,000 mph.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1957 Stirling Moss
  Stirling Moss
  Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE FIE is a former racing driver from England...
  
  
• 1958 Donald Malcolm Campbell
• 1959 No award
• 1960 Tom Brooke-Smith
• 1961 No award
• 1962 A. W. Bedford
  Bill Bedford
  Alfred William "Bill" Bedford OBE AFC FRAeS was a British test pilot and pioneered the development of V/STOL aircraft.Bedford was born on the 18 November 1920 at Loughborough and was educated at Loughborough College...
  
  
• 1963 No award
• 1964 Donald Malcolm Campbell
• 1965 No award
• 1966 Donald Malcolm Campbell (posthumous)
• 1967 No award
• 1968 Ken Wallis
  Ken Wallis
  Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis MBE, DEng , CEng, FRAeS, FSETP, PhD , RAF , is one of the leading exponents of autogyros. He has held 34 records relating to them.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1969 Bruce McLaren
  Bruce McLaren
  Bruce Leslie McLaren , born in Auckland, New Zealand, was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor....
  
   (posthumous)
• 1970 Brian Trubshaw
  Brian Trubshaw
  Ernest Brian Trubshaw, CBE, MVO was a notable test pilot, and the first British pilot to fly Concorde, in April 1969....
  
  
• 1971 No award
• 1972 No award
• 1973 Jackie Stewart
  Jackie Stewart
  Sir John Young Stewart, OBE , better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scotsman, is a Scottish former racing driver and team owner. He competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three World Drivers' Championships. He also competed in Can-Am...
  
  
• 1974 John Blashford-Snell
  John Blashford-Snell
  Colonel John Nicholas Blashford-Snell OBE is a former British Army officer, explorer and author.John Blashford-Snell was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, then commissioned into the Royal Engineers.Amongst his expeditions have been the first descent...
  
  
• 1975 Roger Clark
  Roger Clark
  Roger Albert Clark, MBE, was a British rally driver during the 1960s and '70s, and the first competitor from his country to win a World Rally Championship event when he triumphed at the 1976 RAC Rally.-Biography:...
  
   and Jim Porter
  Jim Porter
  Jim Porter is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s. He played club football in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership with the Eastern Suburbs Roosters and the Parramatta Eels, as well as representative football for the Australian national team...
  
  
• 1976 Peter Collins
  Peter Collins (speedway rider)
  Peter Spencer Collins MBE is a former Speedway rider who spent his whole career with the Belle Vue Aces, the team he supported as a child...
  
  
• 1977 Barry Sheene
  Barry Sheene
  Barry Stephen Frank Sheene MBE was a British World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1978 John Cunningham
  John Cunningham (RAF officer)
  Group Captain John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, , was a British Royal Air Force night fighter ace during World War II and a test pilot, both before and after the war...
  
  
• 1979 Mike Hailwood
  Mike Hailwood
  Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood, MBE, GM was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer regarded by many as one of the greatest racers of all time. He was known as "Mike The Bike" because of his natural riding ability...
  
  
• 1980 Fiona Gore, Countess of Arran
• 1981 No award
• 1982 Sandy Woodward
  Sandy Woodward
  Admiral Sir John Forster "Sandy" Woodward GBE, KCB is a British Admiral who commanded the British Naval Force in the South Atlantic during the Falklands War.-Naval career:...
  
  
• 1983 Richard Noble
  Richard Noble
  Richard Noble, OBE was the holder of the land speed record between 1983 and 1997, and was the project director of ThrustSSC, the vehicle which holds the current land speed record, set at Black Rock Desert, Nevada in 1997....
  
  
• 1984 Barry Sheene
• 1985 Ken Wallis
  Ken Wallis
  Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis MBE, DEng , CEng, FRAeS, FSETP, PhD , RAF , is one of the leading exponents of autogyros. He has held 34 records relating to them.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1986 Richard Branson
  Richard Branson
  Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies....
  
  
• 1987 Eve Jackson
• 1988 Martin Brundle
  Martin Brundle
  Martin John Brundle is a British racing driver from England, known as a Formula One driver and as an F1 commentator for ITV Sport from 1997 to 2008, the BBC from 2009 to 2011 and Sky Sports from 2012....
  
  
• 1989 Bob Ives and Joe Ives
• 1990 Louise Aitken-Walker
  Louise Aitken-Walker
  Louise Aitken-Walker MBE is a British rally and saloon car racing driver. Aitken-Walker entered competition in 1979 and finished 19th in her first Rally GB two years later...
  
  
• 1991 Steve Webster
  Steve Webster (sidecar racer)
  Steve Webster MBE , is an English sidecar racer who has won a record ten FIM Sidecar World Championships, making him the most successful sidecar racer ever...
  
  
• 1992 Frank Williams and Nigel Mansell
  Nigel Mansell
  Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE is a British racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship and the CART Indy Car World Series...
  
  
• 1993 Nigel Mansell
  Nigel Mansell
  Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE is a British racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship and the CART Indy Car World Series...
  
   and (Segrave Medal: Eric Broadley
  Eric Broadley
  Eric Broadley MBE is a British entrepreneur, engineer, and founder and former chief designer of Lola Cars, the motor racing manufacturer and engineering company. He is arguably one of the most influential automobile designers of the post-war period, and over the years Lola has had a hand in many...
  
  )
• 1994 Carl Fogarty
  Carl Fogarty
  Carl 'Foggy' Fogarty is the most successful World Superbike racer of all time in terms of the number of championships and number of race wins...
  
  
• 1995 Colin McRae
  Colin McRae
  Colin Steele McRae, MBE was a Scottish rally driver born in Lanark.The son of five-time British Rally Champion Jimmy McRae and brother of rally driver Alister McRae, Colin McRae was the 1991 and 1992 British Rally Champion and, in 1995, became the first British person and the youngest to win the...
  
  
• 1996 Damon Hill
  Damon Hill
  Damon Graham Devereux Hill OBE is a retired British racing driver. In 1996 Hill won the Formula One World Championship. As the son of the late Graham Hill, he is the only son of a world champion to win the title...
  
  
• 1997 Andy Green
  Andy Green
  Wing Commander Andy D. Green OBE BA RAF is a British Royal Air Force pilot and World Land Speed Record holder.-RAF career:...
  
  
• 1998 Brian Milton
  Brian Milton
  Brian Milton is a journalist and adventurer form the United Kingdom. His first major expedition took place in 1968 when he drove an Austin 7 Ruby across the Sahara Desert to meet his fiancée....
  
   (Segrave Medal: Dr. William Brooks
  William Brooks
  William Brooks may refer to:* William Brooks of Blackburn , cotton supplier* Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Baronet , British lawyer and politician* William Edwin Brooks , Irish civil engineer and ornithologist...
  
  )
• 1999 Jackie Stewart
• 2000 Joey Dunlop
  Joey Dunlop
  William Joseph "Joey" Dunlop, OBE , was a world champion motorcyclist from Ballymoney in Northern Ireland, best known for road racing. Referred to throughout the sport as "Joey", in 2005 he was voted the fifth greatest motorcycling icon ever by Motorcycle News...
  
   (posthumous)
• 2001 Tim Ellison (Segrave Medal: Mark Wilkinson)
• 2002 Steve Curtis
  Steve Curtis
  Steve Curtis MBE is an English eight time offshore powerboat racing World Champion.Curtis's father Clive ran boat building business Cougar Marine, and also was a powerboat racer, making entry to the world championship for Steve easier after leaving school at 17...
  
   (Segrave Certificate of Achievement: Bjørn Rune Gjelsten
  Bjørn Rune Gjelsten
  Bjørn Rune Gjelsten is a Norwegian businessman and Offshore powerboat racing World Champion. He was also a joint owner of Wimbledon Football Club and involved in the controversial relocation of the team from London to Milton Keynes.Gjelsten made his powerboat racing debut in 1994 in the U.S.,...
  
  )
• 2003 Brian Lecomber
• 2004 No award
• 2005 Sir Stirling Moss (Segrave Medal: Lady Moss)
• 2007 Lewis Hamilton
  Lewis Hamilton
  Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, MBE is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the McLaren team. He was the Formula One World Champion.Hamilton was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire...
  
  
• 2008 Allan McNish
  Allan McNish
  Allan McNish is a Scottish racing driver. He is a two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, most recently in 2008, and two-time American Le Mans Series champion.- Early life :...
  
  
• 2009 Paul Bonhomme
  Paul Bonhomme
  Paul Bonhomme is an English aerobatics and commercial airliner pilot and owner / race pilot of TEAM BONHOMME, the current World Champions of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship.-Racing career:...
  
  
• 2011 Adrian Newey
  Adrian Newey
  Adrian Newey is a notable Formula One engineer and widely regarded one of the great engineers in the sport's history. He is the only designer to have won Constructors Championships with three different Formula One teams...
  
  

Further reading

• Phil Drackett - They Call It Courage: the Story of the Segrave Trophy (Robert Hale, London, 1990) ISBN 0709040288

External links

• http://www.royalautomobileclub.co.uk/archive/archive_navmain5.asp?previd=481&groupid=729&tabstyle=main&style=REDArchives of Segrave Trophy at Royal Automobile Club
  Royal Automobile Club
  The Royal Automobile Club is a private club and is not to be confused with RAC plc, a motorists' organisation, which it formerly owned.It has two club houses, one in London at 89-91 Pall Mall, and the other in the countryside at Woodcote Park, Surrey, next to the City of London Freemen's School...
  
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