John Easson Award

The 2300 Club’s John Easson Award winner from 2013 has just won the ERC title in a very tense final round in Hungary. Again partnered with Ross Whittock in their Toksport Fabia R5 they endured a very slippery event and very poor conditions. The pair had a puncture and lost […]

The Club Champion It was late November 2018 when it was announced that Lincolnshire’s junior rally ace George Lepley had won the 2300 Club’s 2018 John Easson Award. After entering the competition for 4 years, his persistence had finally paid off. George had shown some serious promise, having won the […]

A young Chris Ingram applied for the 2013 John Easson Award “Rally is in my blood. I am driven by my ambition of becoming World Rally Champion and dedicate every day working towards achieving my goals so that not only myself, but my team and my partners will benefit.” MASTERPLAN […]

The 2300 Club’s 2018 John Easson Award winner, George Lepley, kicked off his season with a class win on the Cambrian earlier in the year. He’s since been carrying on the good form by winning the championship! Very well done to a very worthy winner. If you are a young […]

“We have won the BTRDA Silver Star in the mighty Avenger, beating all the Escort BDA’s, Millington’s, modern R2’s etc! It was great to win 4 from 4 events. Needing to finish 6th or higher on the Nicky Grist event, we finished 3rd.” “Tyre choice and being held up by […]

The 2300 Club’s 2018 John Easson Scholarship Winner reports on his progress George had another mega weekend. The Rallynuts stages, starting in Builth Wells for round 3 of the BTRDA Rally Championship. A new engine in for this event, a 2 litre 16 valve BRM.  “The first loop of stages […]

The 2300 Club’s 2018 John Easson Scholarship Winner reports on his progress Round 2 of the BTRDA was the Malcolm Wilson Rally, based at M-Sport, with Stages in and around the Lake District. They included a long 12.5 mile stage through the notoriously challenging Grizedale stage of which I was […]

“After my 2019 British Rally Championship plans fell through a month before the opening round, I was left without a seat. The opening round was the Cambrian Rally in Llandudno, North Wales, which was also the opening round of the BTRDA (British National Championship of which I competed in last […]

2300 Club are pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 John Easson Award. Lincolnshire driver George Lepley was chosen as the winner of this year’s prestigious award which is worth a total prize fund of £6,000. This year we had a total of 17 Candidates for the award consisting […]

2300 Club are pleased to announce the finalists of the 2018 John Easson Award. George Lepley Finley Retson Ewan Tindall The Award selection committee will meet the finalists later in November and following an informal interview the winner of the 2018 JEA will be decided. The standard of applicants was […]