WRDA member Seb Morris received a timely boost to his 2014
season by being accepted into the Sports Council of Wales' Elite
Cmyru progarmme, following the trail blazed earlier by Hywel
Lloyd & Alex Jones after the WRDA worked with the Welsh
Association of Motor Clubs to set the up the criteron for access
to Sports Council of Wales lottery funding for non-olympic
sports.
Seb joins Matt Parry in the Elite Cmryu programme, which means
that both our most recent WRDA Welsh Young Drivers of theYear,
are getting such a timely boost at a vital stage of their
careers, and both now in the Caterham F1 Young Racing Drivers
Academy.
It really is a fantastic honour to have been invited onto
the Elite Cymru scheme and I will do my utmost to justify
the support of everyone at Sport Wales”, commented Seb,
“This season is going to be the most important of my career
by far and with the backing of Sport Wales and the Caterham
Racing Academy, I’m in a very privileged position.”
Inaugurated in 1997, the Elite Cymru scheme has solely
covered non-Olympic sports such as motor racing since 2006.
Receiving National Lottery funding, and supported by the
Welsh Assembly Government, Sport Wales works tirelessly to
champion all sports while nurturing and helping to develop
the best young talent the country has to offer.
Seb’s first races in the 2014 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern
European Cup will come at Monza in Italy over the weekend
12th/13th April. Before then, officially timed pre-season
testing will take place at Hockenheim in Germany and Assen
in The Netherlands at the end of March
Another young Welsh driver who is looking to step up from
Karting to make his mark in single seater is
Ben Hingeley
from
Abergele in Noth Wales. North
Wales is a hotspot of talent with both former Formula Renault
champions
Hywel Lloyd (Corwen) &
Richard Singleton ( Llanfairfechan) in the same area, making
it a triangle of young talent, based in the same area as the
legendary
Tom Pryce whose memorial is siuated in Ruthin.
Ben has his own webpagehttp://www.benhingeley.com
and has been Karting since age 12 from 2009 to 2013 with an
impressive list of high profile success winning the
2013 British Junior Rotaxmax
Open Championship. Recently Ben has tested with Ginetta
and late last year also tried F4 at Silverstone with
Motionsport. Ben has since been invited by Santander to the
(FDA) Ferrari Drivers Academy. Maranello home of Ferrari. Ben
represented Great Britain and flew to Italy to participate in a
three day academy training campus. He has also been picked up on
the Arden International Motosport Young Racing Drivers Academy
(i.e the team set up by Red Bull boss Christian Horner) which is
also supporting Cardiff gamer turned racer, Jann Mardenborough,
in GP3
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