Editing Damon Hill (section)

====British F3====

For 1986, Hill planned to move up to the [[BRDC British Formula 3 Championship|British Formula Three Championship]] with title-winning team [[West Surrey Racing]]. The loss of sponsorship from Ricoh, and then the death of his proposed teammate Bertrand Fabi in a testing accident, ended Hill's proposed drive. Hill says "When Bert was killed, I took the conscious decision that I wasn't going to stop doing that sort of thing. It's not just competing, it's doing something more exciting. I'm at my fullest skiing, racing or whatever. And I'm more frightened of letting it all slip and reaching 60 and finding I've done nothing."{{sfnp|Henry|1994|pp=37–40}} Hill borrowed £100,000 to finance his racing thanks to a sponsorship deal with Cellnet, as he explained to the ''Fuelling Around'' podcast. The deal involved the sales expertise of David Hunt, brother of F1 driver [[James Hunt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/blog/2023/01/fuelling-around-podcast-damon-hill|title=Fuelling Around podcast: Damon Hill on Formula 1, sponsorship and his musical past|publisher=Adrian Flux|date=25 January 2023|access-date=25 June 2024|archive-date=25 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240625150618/https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/blog/2023/01/fuelling-around-podcast-damon-hill/|url-status=live}}</ref> He had a steady first season for Murray Taylor Racing in 1986 before taking a brace of wins in each of the following years for Intersport. He finished third in the 1988 British F3 championship.{{sfnp|Henry|1994|pp=41–46}}