Willhire revisited

October 8, 2014

The famous Willhire 24 Hours of the 1980s and early 1990s will be recalled at Donington Park on October 18, with a two-hour race into the night for production sports and touring cars.

Britain’s first round-the-clock race ran at Snetterton from 1980-1994 and was a great success at the peak of its popularity. Support eventually dwindled, however, and the race petered out.

Now, 20 years on, historic race promoter Julius Thurgood is keen to revive the flavour of the race, albeit over a much shorter distance. He hopes to attract entries from the type of cars that contested the original race.

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Paul Lawrence

Here is a man who goes racing every weekend from March to October. Paul’s passion for the sport goes back to when he was a child of the 1960s. He has organised, competed in and marshalled on scores of events, and has written about the subject for 20 years. He is as at home in the paddock at Brands Hatch as in a Welsh forest or at Shelsley Walsh.

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