MORGAN LEWIS

A 16-year-old with next-to-no experience of any driving making their racing debut in an ultra-competitive series, while juggling GSCE studies, would have already been an achievement.

Yet Morgan Lewis did all this with the added challenge of having talipes – more commonly known as club foot – for which she’s had five operations in her lifetime. Following in the footsteps of father Jonathan, who has extensive racing involvement, Morgan’s racing ambitions were undimmed and last year she took part in two Mini Se7en rounds in a car with specially-adapted pedals, seat, steering column, rollcage and gearstick for the 4ft 7in driver. “I can’t heel and toe like everyone can,” she explained. “I call it a Riverdance [on the pedals].”

She twice brought the car home safely on her Snetterton debut, even though in race one she faced a new challenge of wet conditions, and repeated the performance at Thruxton, taking a best result of 16th.