The increasingly varied CV behind a new BTCC title challenger
A driver with limited funds behind him, it’s been a tough road to the top of the British Touring Car Championship for Jake Hill. Now he’s a title contender, accomplished historic racer and in-demand coach. It’s a great life for this self-confessed motorsport junkie
“The brutal truth of it is that I just love race cars. I think that shows with all the historic stuff that I drive. I drive so many cars and I just bloody love them all. It’s great. It doesn’t matter what I get in, it always puts a massive smile on my face. At the end of every year, I look back at the cars that are new to me that I’ve driven, and I just think, ‘Wow – I grew up watching those cars’.”
That’s Jake Hill, the 27-year-old who’s very much in the thick of the British Touring Car Championship title fight with the Ford Focus fielded by the Motorbase Performance/MB Motorsport liaison. But as the bubbly Kentishman has just detailed, that’s far from the only string to his bow. To describe Hill merely as a BTCC frontrunner is to credit Paul McCartney with being a decent bass player.
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