A DOMINANT Dolgellau driver has picked up a prestigious motoring award, exactly two decades after his father won exactly the same accolade.

At a glittering awards do last weekend, the Tom Pryce Memorial Trophy was handed to British Rally Champion driver Elfyn Evans.

The Trophy, from 1996, commemorates Wales’ greatest racing driver.

In 1977 Tom Pryce, a Ruthin-born racer who rubbed shoulders with the likes of James Hunt & Niki Lauda, was killed when a fire marshal ran into the path of his speeding car at the South African Grand Prix.

The Tom Pryce Memorial Trophy is now awarded to a Welsh man or woman for an outstanding contribution in the world of transport, on land, sea or air.

This year it recognises the achievements of Rally Driver Elfyn Evans who won this year’s British Rally Championship title.

His father Gwyndaf was awarded WMW’s inaugural Tom Pryce Trophy in 1996 having won the BRC that year and now his son Elfyn, exactly two decades later, has replicated the feat.

The award was presented by H.M. Lord-Lieutenant for Gwynedd, Edmund S Bailey.

Read the full story in this week’s Meirionnydd edition of the Cambrian News, out Thursday