A holiday worth £1,000 and a ride in an Aston Martin are two of the prizes on offer for a budding motoring writer in the Midland Group of Writers annual award.

It honours one of Britain’s most respected motoring writers, the late Phil Llewellin. He was counted among Britain’s best motoring and travel writers with a sense of adventure that led him to drive more than two million miles in every conceivable type of vehicle.

Phil, who lived in Shropshire with his wife Beth, was famously good at welcoming young writing talent to his circle and was a member for many years of the Midland Group of Motoring Writers.

Now the group is sponsoring, along with a number of major motor manufacturers, the Phil Llewellin Trophy, which is aimed at budding motoring writers, aged from 10 to 16.

They are being asked to write a 500-word story on their ideal car and the first trip they would like to make in it.

The winner will receive £1,000 worth of travel vouchers. In addition Audi will lend the winner and his/her family a top of the range model for a week’s free use.

Aston Martin will also give the winner and their family a trip round the Aston Martin factory at Gaydon in Warwickshire followed by a ride in one of the newest models for the winner.

And new for this year’s award is a one hour Driving Academy experience in a new Mercedes at the fabulous Mercedes-Benz World facility at Brooklands in Surrey, with a first class lunch for winner and family in the Gullwing restaurant on site.

It couldn’t be easier to enter. Simply email your 500 word story to brian_vertigen@tiscali.co.uk by the end of November 30, 2010, and keep your fingers crossed!

Ian Donaldson, chairman of the Midland Group of Motoring Writers and Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph motoring correspondent, said: “What a fantastic prize! It will be a dream come true for any car-mad youngster.”

THE DETAILS

• Entrants must be aged at least 10 and no more than 16 at the close of entries on November 30, 2010.

• The judges are looking for a story of around 500 words describing your ideal car and the journey you would like to make in it.

• A panel of judges will be appointed by MGMW and its decision is final.

• There is one prize which will take the form of the £1,000 in travel vouchers, a week’s use of an Audi car for the winner’s parents or guardians (provided driving licences are acceptable), a one hour Mercedes Driving Acadamy experience (participants must be at least 1.50m, or 4ft 11ins tall) a tour of the Aston Martin factory and a ride in one of the latest models.

• The winner is expected to write short accounts and supply photographs of their winning experiences for publication in the newsletter sent to members of the Midland Group of Motoring Writers and press officers in the motor industry.