Jake Hill emerged because the 2024 British Touring Automobile champion after an exhilarating showdown on a moist Manufacturers Hatch Grand Prix Circuit.
Hill battled his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport by from sixth on the grid to defeat title rival and 2022 champion Tom Ingram, nevertheless it was Ash Sutton who took a surprising victory within the race by over 10 seconds.
The title was just about a case of who out of Hill and Ingram completed forward, and it seemed to be within the palms of the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback star within the early knockings.
After a frantic first couple of laps, Ingram was fourth whereas Hill was sixth, however then the Laser Instruments-liveried BMW lastly acquired the higher of its battle with the Alliance Racing Ford Focus ST of Dan Cammish to maneuver as much as fifth and into Ingram’s mirrors.
On the fifth lap, Hill went across the exterior of Ingram at Surtees and, as they each pressed the hybrid button on the lengthy again straight, he was in a position to declare the within line for Hawthorn’s and seize fourth place.
Ingram tried to battle again Westfield however needed to give finest to Hill.
Up entrance, Josh Cook had led from pole in his Speedworks Motorsport-run LKQ Toyota Corolla GR Sport, however Sutton was throwing strikes in his mirrors in his NAPA-liveried Alliance Ford.
Ashley Sutton, NAPA Racing UK Ford Focus ST
Picture by: JEP
On the sixth lap, Sutton threw the Ford down the within of the Toyota into Graham Hill Bend. Aron Taylor-Smith, mendacity third in his Energy Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra, then made contact with Cook dinner, and the Irishman’s misplaced momentum allowed Hill up one other spot into third.
Ingram was previous Taylor-Smith a lap later, however the hole to Hill was now three seconds, and he was unable to erode it.
Hill, certainly, wasn’t completed, and on the ninth lap of 15 he took benefit of a slide from Cook dinner at Graham Hill Bend to maneuver up into second.
Up entrance, Sutton took the flag by a monstrous 10.269 seconds from the delirious Hill, whereas Cook dinner accomplished the rostrum.
Ingram light to drop behind Cammish and Colin Turkington to sixth.
The highest 10 was rounded out by Sam Osborne, Andrew Watson, Aiden Moffat and Adam Morgan.