Will Hoy (b April 2, 1953 in Royston, Hertfordshire). Is a former British racecar driver. He was the 1991 British Touring Car Championship winner, the highlight of a 20-year career in motor racing. Born in Royston, Hertfordshire in 1952, he did not begin racing until his late 20s. He first raced at international level in 1985, taking on the full World Sportscar Championship including Le Mans. Over the next few years, he raced in an assortment of championships and one-off races, the hightlight undoubtedly being second overall in the 1988 All Japan Touring Car Championship. April 2 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... Location within the British Isles Royston is the most northern town in Hertfordshire. ... Hertfordshire, pronounced Hartfordshire, abbreviated as Herts, is an inland county in the United Kingdom and part of the East of England Government Office region. ... The current BTCC logo The British Touring Car Championship is a series of races for saloon cars which is held each year in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ... Auto racing (also known as automobile racing or autosport) is a sport involving racing automobiles. ... Location within the British Isles Royston is the most northern town in Hertfordshire. ... Hertfordshire, pronounced Hartfordshire, abbreviated as Herts, is an inland county in the United Kingdom and part of the East of England Government Office region. ... The World Sportscar Championship was a series run by the FIA from 1953 to 1992. ... Le Mans is a city in France, located at the Sarthe River. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Japanese Touring Car Championship (abbr: JTCC, officially known as All Japan Touring Car Championship, Japanese name: 全日本ツーリングカー選手権), was a series of championship for touring cars held in Japan. ...

For 1991 he concentrated on the BTCC, in the first season of Super Touring regulations. Although manufacturers including Vauxhall and Toyota had factory entries, the established BMWs were the car to have initially. Will made full use of his opportunity in a car entered by Vic Lee, building a championship lead nobody was able to overhaul. For 1992 he was signed by the Toyota team, and an engine failure in the final round denied him a successful title defence. However, the car was not competitive in subsequent seasons, Toyota never winning another BTCC race. The closest Will came was at Silverstone in 1993, when he was punted off onto his roof by team-mate Julian Bailey, an incident remembered for Murray Walker's commentary line "the car upside down is a Toyota", a play on the company's advertising slogan of the time. The British Touring Car Championship is a series of races for saloon cars which is held each year in the United Kingdom. ... Supertouring or Class II Touring Cars were the rules laid out by the FIA for national touring car racing in 1994, based on the 2. ... Vauxhall Motors is a UK car company. ... Toyota redirects here. ... BMW AG (an acronym for Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, or in English, Bavarian Motor Works), is a German company and manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. ... Toyota redirects here. ... Julian Bailey (born 9 October 1961 in Woolwich, England) was a Formula One driver who raced for the Tyrrell and Lotus teams. ... Murray Walker. ...

Despite 2 largely result-free seasons, Will was still an established star, and Renault hired him alongside Alain Menu for 1995. The early part of the season was a disaster, with many mechanical failures and crashes, although in the latter part of the season Will moved up to 4th with 3 race wins, in what was now the fastest car. Hopes of a title push for 1996 was erased by the entry of the 4-wheel drive Audi of Frank Biela. Although Menu was again championship runner-up, Will slipped back to 9th. Renault S.A. is a French vehicle manufacturer producing small to upper-mid-size cars, vans, buses, tractors and trucks. ... Switzerlands Alain Menu was one of the most successful Touring Car drivers of the 90s, and has continued to race well into the 2000s. ... Audi is a German automobile maker with headquarters in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. ... Frank Biela is an auto racing driver from Neuss in Germany, born in 1964. ...

The BTCC of this era was dominated by high-investment manufacturer teams, largely made up of overseas former single-seater drivers. Like Tim Harvey and Robb Gravett, Will was struggling to remain in a competitive car or make use of it. He went to a fading Ford team for 1997 and 1998, and raced independently for part of 1999, before entering semi-retirement. In 2002 he suffered a brain tumour, and died shortly afterwards. Tim Harvey Tim Harvey Tim Harvey Tim Harvey Tim Harvey, born 20th November 1961, is a racing-driver from England. ... Robb Gravett is a British racing driver who won the 1990 British Touring Car Championship and finished 2nd in his class in 1988 and 1989, in a Ford Sierra, the most powerful car of the era. ... The Ford Motor Company (usually called Ford; sometimes called FoMoCo), (NYSE: F) is a multinational corporation that manufactures automobiles. ...