Jake Hill, 2024 British Touring Car Champion

Mar 2

the British Touring Car Campion of 2024, Jake Hill, made his first appearance at a race track when he was just 12 days old. Unsurprisingly, his favourite detour is To road trip to the greatest circuitS of them all.

“It is always such a joyful experience, not only to go to the Nürburgring itself and have a laugh, but also the road trip there and back.”

— Jake Hill

“I have good friends that live in Kent who also do some racing themselves, and we always try and do a trip to the Nürburgring every year in our track cars, or road cars. It is always such a joyful experience, not only to go to the Nürburgring itself and have a laugh, but also the road trip there and back. It's so nice driving out with a group of friends and that’s a big part of what makes the trip. So that's always, that's always a good one.

There's one coming up that is going to be special for me. I've planned the stag do for one of my really good friends, who I'm the best man for, and we're doing a Le Mans road trip. We’re all going to going to take a trip down to watch the 24 hours Le Mans, and that, I'm sure, will be one to one to remember, as well.

I've always wanted to go Alps driving tour with friends, but I haven't had the chance to go and do that really, so maybe this year, but we'll see. But either way, I'm really looking forward to Le Mans. That's going to be that's going to be fantastic.”

Words Nik Berg

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