Will Hoy
William Ewing "Will" Hoy ( born April 2, 1953 in Royston, † December 19, 2002 in London ) is a British former racing driver.
Career in motorsports
British Touring Car Championship
The name Will Hoy is closely linked to the British Touring Car Championship, where the British from 1987 to 2000 was active. After unsuccessful first few years he secured in 1991 on a BMW M3 the championship title and a year later was only three points behind Tim Harvey championship runner-up. 1992 was a Toyota Carina his emergency vehicle.
After three years at Toyota, he wrote in autumn 1994 for the 1995 season, a contract with Williams. Engaged in the Formula 1 World Championship team of Frank Williams had the mid- 1990s, an engine contract with Renault. As with the boarding Renault Laguna in the British Touring Car Championship was the Williams race team and Hoy next to the second driver Alain Menu. The first half of the season was very successful for the British, and was associated with many failures. While menu already won the second round of the season opening weekend at Donington Park, Hoy had to wait until the 18th championship round at Brands Hatch in the late summer of 1995, before he could celebrate his first victory of the season. After further success at Snetterton and Silverstone he finished the championship as fourth overall. Menu was behind teammate John Cleland and Rickard Rydell before runner-up.
While team-mate Alain Menu again in 1996 was runner-up to Hoy had to be content in his second year at Williams with the ninth overall. The end of 1996, his contract was not renewed at the British tradition of racing and he had to make on cockpit search. Since all the works cars were forgiven, he signed with West Surrey Racing, where he drove a Ford Mondeo two years and in 1998 at Silverstone won his last championship run. After a year at Arena Motorsport he drove 2000 seriously ill only two races and then had to stop racing.
Sports car racing
In addition to his involvement in touring car racing and Hoy was also active as a sports car driver. In 1987 and 1988 he played almost the whole World Sportscar Championship in the team of Martin Schanche. Best results in this two years was the tenth overall in the 1000 km race at Brands Hatch in 1988 should also mention the second place overall at the 1000 km race at Fuji 1990 -. A race to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship - jointly with Stanley Dickens in a Porsche 962
Five times the Briton was the 24- hour race at Le Mans at the start; In 1988, he finished the race in a factory Mazda 767 as 19 of the final score.