Seb Morris | |
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Nationality | British |
Born |
Wrexham, Clwyd, Wales |
30 November 1995
British GT Championship career | |
Debut season | 2016 |
Current team | Team Parker Racing |
Car no. | 31 |
Starts | 9 |
Wins | 1 |
Poles | 4 |
Fastest laps | 1 |
Best finish | 3rd in 2016 |
Previous series | |
2015 2014 2013 2012 2012, 2014 2010-2011 |
GP3 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps BRDC Formula 4 Championship Formula Renault BARC Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Ginetta Junior Championship |
Championship titles | |
2012 2011 2010 |
Formula Renault BARC Winter Series Ginetta Junior Championship Ginetta Winter Series |
Awards | |
2017 2012 2011 |
BRDC Super Star BRDC Rising Star WRDA Welsh Young Driver of the Year. |
Sebastian "Seb" Morris (born 30 November 1995) is a professional racing driver from Marford, near Wrexham in Wales. He is best known for taking pole position at Brands Hatch in his first ever GT3 race in 2016 followed by further pole positions at Oulton Park (GT3 lap record), Silverstone and Spa-Francorchamps. Seb also won the 2016 Sunoco Challenge which gave him the prize drive in the Number 31 Whelan Engineering Racing Cadillac DPi at the Rolex 24 hours at Daytona. Earlier in his career Seb was a member of the Caterham F1 Academy and was selected by Jack Wills as a Young Brit for their 2013/14 Autumn / Winter campaign.
Morris began his motorsport career in 2007 when he competitively raced karts. He progressed to Ginetta Juniors in 2010 where he raced for Hillspeed and became the youngest ever podium finisher. Morris then followed this by competing in and winning the winter series at 14 years old. In the following season, 2011, Morris again raced for Hillspeed and won the Ginetta Junior Championship by winning eleven races out of the twenty rounds. In this year he was also awarded the Welsh Young Driver of the Year accolade.
In 2012 Morris moved into single seater racing in the British Formula Renault Championship driving for the Fortec Motorsport team where he finished the season as the highest placed rookie and third overall. Morris then followed this with racing in and becoming the 2012 Winter Series Champion. Also during 2012 Morris was selected as a member of the Motor Sports Association Academy and also named a British Racing Drivers' Club Rising Star.
In addition Sky Sports F1 invited Morris to take part in a dedicated documentary called Britain's Next F1 Star which gave a behind the scenes look at his life as a teenager, a student and a racing driver.
For the 2013 season Morris raced in the inaugural BRDC Formula 4 Championship for the Hillspeed team where he continued to demonstrate his race craft and speed to finish the season as Vice Champion with 1 race win and 9 podiums. As a result Morris was selected as a finalist in the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award. Morris's talent was further recognised as he was featured in the Prodigies section of the first edition of the Formula magazine.