Ilkley’s Josh White has scooped a subsidised prize drive in the 2013 Ginetta Junior Championship with multiple title-winning team Hillspeed after emerging as the successful candidate from a scholarship ‘shoot-out’ featuring 12 of the best young competitors from the ranks of Formula Kart Stars.

Run as a joint venture between Hillspeed, Formula Kart Stars and Ginetta Cars, the assessment put each of the shortlisted racers through their paces at the wheel of a Ginetta G40 ‘Junior’ car at Anglesey Circuit in North Wales – with 16-year-old White coming out on top.

Impressing a judging panel comprising 2010 Ginetta junior champion and former FKS old boy Tom Ingram, 2011 Ginetta junior title winner Seb Morris, Ginetta Cars’ Mike Simpson and Hillspeed driver-coach Matt Shawyer, White is now busy preparing for his graduation to car racing.

White, who has been racing in the Junior Max class of the FKS series this year, has an impressive CV with the highlight being championship victory in Mini Max in 2011.

In the same season, he was also third in the ABkC ‘O’ Plate and fourth in the Kartmasters British Grand Prix.

Brands Hatch Indy Circuit will host the opening weekend of the 2013 Ginetta Junior Championship on March 30 and 31.