Points and Pain for Hill in chaotic Croft BTCC battle

​"Frustrating!" Was how Jake Hill summed up his weekend in the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship at Croft, after taking a season's-best qualifying of 9th, and hard-fought points in race one, engine issues forced retirement from race two, with this also resulting in Hill not being able to start the final race of the day.

A manic qualifying session which saw the session stopped on five occasions, saw Hill put in a strong performance to qualify 9th overall "The car was really good, as always we felt there was a little more to come - 0.1 second would have put me in the top-six - but we really are making great progress with the car."

Season best qualifying for Hill at Croft

In a frantic qualifying session for Round 10 of the 2019 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship at Croft in North Yorkshire today, Trade Price Cars Racing's Jake Hill steered through the dramas and put in a strong performance to qualify 9th overall, and  4th in the Independent Driver's Category, his best so far this season.

"It was such a crazy session" said Hill. "To have one or two Red Flags is rare, but FIVE - I really didn't think we'd ever see that! 

After putting in a solid lap to go 10th early on,the Red Flags that stopped the session were caused  mainly by drivers hitting the tyre stacks, these put in place to prevent drivers corner cutting.

Hill heading to Yorkshire for more BTCC action

Croft in North Yorkshire holds special memories for Jake Hill, having not only made his BTCC debut there as a 19 year-old in 2013, but also previously Won his first-ever car race there, in Ginetta Junior back in 2009.

"It's a track I always have loved. Great mixture of corners, really challenging, and this year will have another challenge as the track has been re-surfaced, so will be different for all of us"

"I made my debut in the S2000 category - and Won my class first time out! I was on the podium with Turkington, Neal and Shedden, (see photo below) and it was incredible, but I felt very much at home. Now I feel ready to regularly challenge at the front every weekend"​