British teen recounts 'disastrous' Le Mans.

British teenager and Le Mans rookie Ed Morris has spoken of a Le Mans 24 Hours that promised so much but delivered so little for him and his hard-trying G Force team.

Even though he missed out on becoming the youngest Le Mans driver ever by a matter of days, the young Englishman still established himself as the quickest of the G Force Courage C65-Judd drivers, setting times that belied his tender 18 years in a manner more associated with an experienced veteran.

Sharing the Belgian run Courage with Jean Francois Leroch and Frank Hahn Englishman Morris was charged with starting the #35 machine on his Le Mans debut but sadly, the teams problems began before the green flag waved and didn't let up until the car was retired shortly after night fell over La Sarthe.

"It was disastrous," a dejected Morris told Radio Le Mans. "It's a shame but we had problems from the start. I'm most gutted that I didn't cross the start/finish line."

As 49 other cars roared into life Morris was forced to bring the #35 machine onto pit road for the first of several long pitstops in the first hour that restricted him to just a handful of laps.

"The wheel speed sensor and the crank sensor were out of synchronisation," explained Morris. "That caused the car to keep cutting out and it took the tea, two hours to fix it."

Plum last and many laps behind the rest of the field before the race even got going, the team eventually managed to complete 47 laps before more problems intervened.

"The gearbox then developed a problem," Morris continued. "That put the car out."

In actuality the team were all set to fix the problems but the combination of a lengthy repair job and the fact that the team were already nearly 100 laps behind the leaders meant that there would be no way to complete enough laps to be classified as a finisher, leaving the Belgian team to pack up early after their second Le Mans nightmare in as many years.