23 Facts About Jake Hill

Jake Hill was born on 22 February 1994 and is a British racing driver, who is currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport.

Jake Hill has driven for Motorbase Performance, Rob Austin Racing, AmD Tuning and Team HARD.

In 2011, Jake Hill made the step up into a Ginetta G50, racing in the Michelin Ginetta GT Supercup.

Jake Hill secured four class wins during this season, and 17 Podiums in 27 races.

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

Finally in 2021 as mentioned previously, Jake Hill raced Ric Wood's 1980 Ford Capri in the Gerry Marshall Trophy at the Goodwood Member's Meeting, taking Pole Position in the wet in his first ever drive in the car, then taking a battling Victory in the final to earn 'Driver of the Day' from AUTOSPORT's expert Marcus Pye.

Jake Hill took a Jack Sears Trophy class win in the first round of the meeting.

Jake Hill joined Rob Austin Racing prior to the final round of the 2013 season at Brands Hatch, replacing Will Bratt and qualifying 10th, scoring points in all three races and outscoring and out qualifying his race-winning teammate Rob Austin all weekend.

Jake Hill was a BRDC Rising Star from 2010 to 2018, having started racing in 2002 in Cadet Karting, before racing in Ginetta Juniors then rising up to Ginetta GT Supercup.

Jake Hill finished 5th at Silverstone and in 'Motorsport News' review of the season was voted 6th by the BTCC Team Managers, based on his performances on a limited budget with an older chassis.

Jake Hill was voted 'HiQ Driver of the Day' at Silverstone by the BTCC fans.

In 2018 Team HARD expanded to four cars, with Jake 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 running as stablemates.

Jake Hill made a superb start, managed two safety car re-starts calmly, and despite a scary moment on the final lap, came home to win first BTCC race for AmD Tuning and Trade Price Cars Racing.

Jake Hill took a dominant win in race two at Croft - the largest winning margin of the year - and repeated this a week later in race three at Silverstone, taking the lead mid-race from Dan Lloyd and winning with fastest lap.

Jake Hill's peers voted him 4th overall in the MOTORSPORT NEWS season review - and he was again selected as one of only a dozen Elite young drivers for the British Racing Driver's Club's 'Superstars' programme.

On New Year's Eve 2021 it was announced Jake 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.

Jake Hill immediately made an impact, taking his maiden BTCC Pole Position in the opening event of 2022 at Donington Park, finishing 3rd before disqualification for failing the ride-height test after sustaining damage.

However Jake Hill made up for this disappointment by taking victory and a new Lap Record in the final race of the day.

Jake Hill would go on to take two further victories at Knockhill and Silverstone, another Pole Position at Knockhill plus five fastest laps and thirteen podiums, the highest of any driver that season, winning the Goodyear 'Wingfoot' award as Fastest Qualifier for the season.

Jake Hill went into the final round of the year just 5 points of the Championship lead, ending up 3rd overall just one point behind Ash Sutton and thirteen behind Tom Ingram.

Jake Hill scored 12 Podiums and 5 Fastest Laps and finished 3rd in points.

Jake Hill remained with WSR BMW and Laser Tools MB Motorsport for 2024.

Jake Hill won the BTCC championship after finishing in 2nd place, with Ingram in 6th.