As the 2023 Eastern Centre season gets into full swing, we look back at the recent awards ceremony in Needham market and the decorated class and award winners from 2022.
Report and Images by Paula Day Photography
With a healthy turnout there was a great crowd to acknowledge the winners and runners up across the vast range of achievements our Eastern Centre members had notched up over the year. As a region we fielded representatives in national BEC events and internationally at Romanics and the ISDE, where Will Hughes, Luke Parker and Ben Clark picked up special awards in addition to other multiple trophies across the evening demonstrating their commitment and passion for the sport.
The event was made possible with the huge support of our sponsors Dave Barkshire of Dave Barkshire Motorcycles and Gavin Hockey of GH Motorcycles who were both on hand to present awards across the evening and huge thanks to Neil Sargent and Debra Harvey doing all the heavy lifting for the night with Jack & Vera Hearn and our new chairman Chris Keeble on hand to help the proceedings.
Dave Barkshire Motorcycles Two Man Championship
CLUBMAN
1st: Dale Brinkley/Oliver Brinkley
2nd: Lloyd Barker/Wayne Barker
3rd: Graham Mays */Nigel Ross
EXPERT
1st: Archie Gunton/Barnaby Knight*
2nd: Chris Ballard/Paul Spurgeon*
3rd: Ed Pooley*/Adam Saunders
CHAMPIONSHIP
1st: Toby Morley/Jack Sheppard
2nd: Joe Henthorn/Will Hughes
3rd: Adam Durkin/Tom Sargent
ISDE PRESENTATION
Braintree DMCC.
ISDE 8th Club Team. Best British Team.
Mark Hughes. Luke Parker. Ben Clark. Will Hughes
BRITISH ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTATION
BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP E2 1st – Adam Durkin
BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP EXPERT 1st – Ben Clark
GH Motorcycles Eastern ACU Enduro Championship
SUPERVET OVER 50
1st: John Hilton
2nd: Jeremy Moss
3rd: Graham Mays
CLUBMAN OVER 40
1st: Spencer Newland
2nd: Ray Otoka
3rd: Jason Green
CLUBMAN
1st: Robert Armitage
2nd: Jonathan Finch
3rd: Lloyd Barker
EXPERT OVER 40
1st: Phil Roper
2nd: Paul Spurgeon
3rd: Julian Harvey
EXPERT
1st: Joe Hall
2nd: Adam Durkin
3rd: James Yearley
CHAMPIONSHIP
1st: Luke Parker
2nd: Ben Cole
3rd: Jake Roper + 2022 Rookie Winner Award
