Seb Morris

Seb Morris
Nationality	British
Born	30 November 1995 Wrexham, Clwyd, Wales
GP3 Series career
Debut season	2015
Current team	Status Grand Prix
Car no.	7
Starts	18
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	18th in 2015
Previous series
2014 2013 2012 2012, 2014 2010-2011	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
2012 2011	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. Seb is best known for being a member of the Caterham F1 Academy and for being a Jack Wills Young Brit as part of their 2013/14 Autumn / Winter campaign.

Morris is currently racing for Fortec Motorsport in the 2014 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC season.

Career

Ginetta Juniors

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.

Formula Renault BARC

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.

Formula 4

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.

Morris was then signed by the Caterham F1 team as a member of their racing academy.

Formula Renault NEC

Morris has again teamed up with Fortec Motorsport to race in the 2014 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC season.

GP3 Series

On 9 March 2015, Morris was confirmed as a driver for Status Grand Prix and will make his debut in the 2015 season.

British GT

For 2016 it was decided that Seb Morris would move from single seaters to sportscars, with various opportunities available it was decided he would race a Bentley GT3 for Team Parker Racing in the 2016 British GT Championship series. Securing pole position at his first GT event at Brands Hatch followed by further pole positions at Oulton Park, Silverstone and Spa-Francorchamps and a fastest lap at Oulton Park which is also a GT3 lap record.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2010	Ginetta Junior Championship	Hillspeed	20	0	0	0	1	185	12th
	Ginetta Junior Winter Series		4	2	0	3	?	?	1st
2011	Ginetta Junior Championship	Hillspeed	20	11	6	6	16	562	1st
2012	Formula Renault BARC	Fortec Motorsports	14	5	7	4	6	274	3rd
	Formula Renault BARC Winter Series		4	2	2	1	2	113	1st
	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC		2	0	0	0	0	10	43rd
2013	BRDC Formula 4 Championship	Hillspeed	24	1	0	1	10	410	2nd
2014	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC	Fortec Motorsports	15	2	3	1	5	224	3rd
	Formula Renault 2.0 Alps		4	0	0	0	0	31	15th
2015	GP3 Series	Status Grand Prix	18	0	0	0	0	6	18th
2016	British GT Championship	Team Parker Racing	9	1	4	1	6	143	3rd

Complete GP3 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos	Points
2015	Status Grand Prix	CAT FEA Ret	CAT SPR 24	RBR FEA 19	RBR SPR 5	SIL FEA 12	SIL SPR 12	HUN FEA 12	HUN SPR 12	SPA FEA Ret	SPA SPR 14	MNZ FEA DSQ	MNZ SPR Ret	SOC FEA 14	SOC SPR 10	BHR FEA 16	BHR SPR Ret	YMC FEA 13	YMC SPR 15	18th	6

Complete British GT Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
2016	Team Parker Racing	Bentley Continental GT3	GT3	BRH 1 2	ROC 1 10	OUL 1 3	OUL 2 1	SIL 1 Ret	SPA 1 2	SNE 1 3	SNE 2 5	DON 1 3	3rd	143

References

3. http://www.driverdb.com/drivers/seb-morris/ 4. http://www.brdc.co.uk/Seb-Morris 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPli53S_A8g 6. Sky Sports F1 Britain's Next F1 Star - part 1 7. Sky Sports F1 Britain's Next F1 Star - part 2 8. Autosport Show Interview 9. BBC Radio Leicester Interview 10. Sky Sports F1 article - Caterham F1 sign Seb Morris 11. Formula 4 season 12. Interview for caledonista 13. Bella Howard images of Seb from Jack Wills photoshoot 14. Ginetta news article 16. Fortec Motorsports NEC page

External links

• Official website
• Seb Morris career summary at DriverDB.com