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At the 1987 British Grand Prix weekend, future F1 World Champion Damon Hill took part in two support events, his usual British F3 Championship campaign (finished 5th) and a one-off outing in the MG Metro Turbo Challenge.
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At the 1987 British Grand Prix weekend, future F1 World Champion Damon Hill took part in two support events, his usual British F3 Championship campaign (finished 5th) and a one-off outing in the MG Metro Turbo Challenge.

The picture is from a test on Friday, 3rd July 1987, in preparation for the Esso MG Metro Challenge Race at Silverstone on 11th July.

A picture of Damon Hill testing the Metro is in the Autosport issue of 9th July which reported he would be racing the car at the British GP support race for Gray-Woolf Racing alongside teammates Michael Cullen, Barbara Cowell and Chris Taylor.

Hill is not mentioned in the report of the race in the Autosport issue dated 16th July, and the results only show the top ten finishers, so he would have had to have finished 11th at the highest, unless he retired. There were 38 starters, so he could have had an anonymous race in the midfield.

In this race, the celebrity cars were driven by David Sears and Mark Hales, though the Autosport 1987 British GP supplement suggested Johnny Dumfries was going to be driving one of the celebrity cars.

Damon's #16 car was usually driven by Featherweight boxer Barry McGuigan, which suggests he stood in for McGuigan, following the recent passing of McGuigan's father Patrick, though I have yet to find any sources to support this.

u/Brief-Poetry6434 — 5 days ago

Me predicting how TCR will die.

Let's face it: The TCR ruleset is in the toilet. Series are being cancelled left, right, and center, the models the ruleset is based on are being phased out by the market, the FIA scrapped the very idea of a TCR World Championship, and we're still waiting for that god-forsaken TCR World Ranking Final.

So, how will it die? There is a very likely way this could happen: the manufacturers. After Lynk & Co quit and Audi started focusing on Formula 1, Hyundai, Honda, and Cupra are the only manufacturers invested in the series.

My guess? Amidst the decline, two of the manufacturers will quit, possibly Cupra and Honda. At that point, it'll be the same thing that happened to DTM: the remaining manufacturer will be left on their own, turning TCR into a spec series.

This will lead the FIA to get rid of TCR and create a new ruleset as a replacement, much like they created the Le Mans Hypercar when Toyota became the only LMP1 factory team. This might possibly be an SUV-based ruleset.

What do you think?

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u/Beginning-Eagle-8932 — 10 days ago
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Touring Car aces Paul Radisich and Win Percy prepare for their guest appearance in the Ford Mondeo-based Eurocar V6 Series at Mallory Park in 1994.

u/Brief-Poetry6434 — 13 days ago