Waters forced to pull out from series

Waters, who has battled cancer himself for the past three years, has been told to rest for six weeks after picking up a virus infection. It means he will not be able to return to action before the end of the British F3 season.

He said: "A very disappointing end to what has been my first season contesting the F3 championship. But looking back on the year as a whole, I couldn't really have asked for more given that a year ago I was fighting cancer.

"With the battle against cancer won, I am spending most of my time focused very hard on raising funding for the future. F1 is where I have my sights firmly set but along the way, I want to help other cancer-affected youngsters.

"For now, however, I have no choice but to obey doctor's orders and rest for a few weeks while I shake off a nasty virus. While I would prefer to do it from the cockpit, I will nonetheless be using this downtime to look through all my telemetry data while taking full advantage of Playstation's race tracks!"

Waters has raised more than £230,000 for CLIC Sargent this year, having donated half of all the sponsorship money he has raised to the charity.