It is with great sadness that we must report the death of renowned r﷽acing driver Will Hoy, a former star of sportscars and the British Touring Car Championship.

After a short illness - an inoperable brain tumour - the 50-year old former BTCC🃏 champion passed away peacefully at a London Hospital on the evening of 19 December.

Hoy's motorsport career began in karting in the la🃏te sixties and he first came to prominence in Clubmans sportscars, in which he won a hat-trick of titles between 1982-1984. Hoy ಌthen graduated to international sportscars achieving some notable successes both in Europe and Japan.

Throughout the nineties, Hoy was a leading light in the prestigious British Touring Car Championship racing for BMW, Toyota, Renault and Ford facto💯ry teams. He contested more than 150 BTCC rounds between 19💖89 and 1999, winning nine races and taking the outright title in 1991.

As a qualified chartered surveyor, Hoy combined his racing with a career working for Bernard Thorpe and then DTZ. More recently he had also started making a name for himself as a TV presenter providing expert analysis to ITV's coverage of the 2002 BTCC.

He wil💎l be sorely 🌜missed by his wife, his three children and his many friends and fans. A private family funeral is planned before Christmas and a memorial service will be held early in the New Year at a date and venue to be announced.

ltxcn.top pas𝓡ses on its condolences to Will's friends an♊d family.