Jake Hill (racing driver)

Jake Hill (born 22 February 1994) is a British racing driver, who most recently competed in the British Touring Car Championship for Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport. He is the 2024 British Touring Car champion. He has also driven for Motorbase Performance, Rob Austin Racing, AmD Tuning and Team HARD.

Hill was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. After a short karting career, he began car racing in 2008, having signed with Tollbar Racing to tackle the Ginetta Junior Championship Winter Series. Hill finished the series as the top rookie and fourth overall.^[1] This led to Hill joining the main championship in 2009. Despite not racing the full season, Hill took three wins, five Pole Positions, five fastest laps and five podiums and led every race he competed in.

The following season saw the début of the Ginetta G40 in the championship, replacing the previous Ginetta G20. 2010 was just as successful for Hill, which saw him take a further ten wins, 13 podiums, eight pole positions and nine fastest laps on his way to finishing second in the championship to Tom Ingram, after being docked points early in the season.

In 2011, Hill made the step up into a Ginetta G50, racing in the Michelin Ginetta GT Supercup. Hill secured four class wins during this season, and 17 podiums in 27 races.

Hill had a partial campaign in 2012, but took a single overall win in the championship and six podiums.

2013 saw Hill make his début in the BTCC whilst substituting for absent Addison Lee Motorbase driver Liam Griffin at the Croft round of the championship. Hill took a Jack Sears Trophy class win in the first round of the meeting.

Hill joined Rob Austin Racing prior to the final round of the 2013 season at Brands Hatch, replacing Will Bratt and qualifying tenth, scoring points in all three races and outscoring and out qualifying his race-winning teammate Rob Austin all weekend.^[2]

Hill was a BRDC Rising Star from 2010 to 2018.

In 2016, in Team HARD's Toyota Avensis, Hill scored points on 17 occasions, qualified tenth at Donington Park, 11th at Croft and Silverstone, Won the Dunlop #ForeverForward award for most places gained at Oulton Park, finished in the top-ten on six occasions and finished sixth overall at Croft. Hill finished fifth at Silverstone.

In 2017, Hill remained with Team Hard, now in a Volkswagen CC, and achieved five top-ten qualifying results.

In 2018, Team HARD expanded to four cars, with Hill now joined by Renault Clio Cup Champion Mike Bushell at Trade Price Cars Brisky Racing racing a heavily revised VW CC, with VW Cup Champion Bobby Thompson and former British GT Champion Michael Caine also running as stablemates. At the opening meeting at Brands Hatch, a charging drive in race two saw Hill score his maiden Dunlop BTCC Podium, finishing second.

2019 started with Hill finishing second in the first race of the year. On 30 June, Hill finished first on the road during the reverse grid race at Oulton Park, but was awarded a 20-second penalty post-race for an incident with Matt Neal on the third lap. After taking points in the first two races at Knockhill, former BTCC champion Alain Menu drew Hill on pole position for race three. Hill won the first BTCC race for AmD Tuning and Trade Price Cars Racing.

For the 2020 season, Hill switched over to MB Motorsport - formed over the winter by AmD Essex joining forces with ex-F1 driver Mark Blundell - to drive a Honda Civic Type R. Hill achieved six podium finishes through the campaign as he took 20 points scoring finishes in the last 21 races, recovering to finish seventh overall in points despite five technical failures in the first six races.

Into 2021, MB Motorsport joined forces with Motorbase Performance, and Hill on board the new-for-2020 Ford Focus ST With Mountune Power. He achieved three third place finishes in the opening event at Thruxton, and left the competition as the BTCC Championship points leader. This ended as his best season fifth in points on 295 - just 11 points from Turkington in second.

On New Year's Eve 2021, it was announced Hill would join West Surrey Racing as part of MB Motorsport's new venture with Rokit, driving a Hybrid BMW 330e M Sport for the 2022 season.

Hill took his maiden BTCC Pole Position in the opening event of 2022 at Donington Park, finishing third before facing disqualification for failing the ride-height test after sustaining damage. Despite this, Hill won and set a new Lap Record in the final race of the day.

Hill took two further victories at Knockhill and Silverstone. He went into the final round of the year just five points of the Championship lead, ending up third overall just one point behind Ashley Sutton and thirteen behind Tom Ingram.

Staying with WSR and MB Motorsport in 2023, renamed Laser Tools MB Motorsport, Hill was in the Championship fight until Silverstone, taking six wins including a double win, second place and all three fastest laps at Oulton Park to score 62 points in a day, also winning twice at Knockhill, and also Silverstone and in the final race on the Brands Hatch GP circuit after a pass on Josh Cook to take the lead. Hill scored 12 podiums and five fastest laps and finished third in points.

Hill remained with WSR BMW and Laser Tools MB Motorsport for 2024. Hill won the BTCC championship after finishing the final race in second place.^[3]

Hill was awarded Autosport's 2025 National Driver of the Year, presented to him on 29th January at the Roundhouse in London by Mercedes Formula 1 driver Kimi Antonelli.^[4]

^† As Hill was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded just in first race) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded all races) (* signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap – 1 point given all races)

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

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