Newly crowned British Touring Car champion Jake Hill will remain at the West Surrey Racing BMW team for 2025, when the squad could expand to as many as five cars.
Hill, whose clinching of the BTCC crown at the Brands Hatch finale last month represented his first championship title of any form in car racing, is the first driver confirmed for the Sunbury team’s fleet of 3-Series BMWs, and he has elected to carry the reigning champion’s number 1 on his car next season.
As usual, the deal is with his commercial and management team under the banner of Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport, with MB boss Mark Blundell taking Hill under his wing since their season as BTCC team-mates in 2019.
WSR has housed an additional pair of BMWs since absorbing the equipment of Adam Morgan’s family team Ciceley Motorsport for 2023.
But for 2024 it could only field three cars on a full-time basis, with highly rated Bobby Thompson joining the team in a fourth BMW for round three at Snetterton only to fall foul of a commercial glitch that immediately halted his season.
Thompson and Morgan are known to be in the frame for a seat in 2025, with WSR’s four-time champion Colin Turkington an obvious target to remain on board.
Team boss Dick Bennetts conceded that talks with Scottish BTCC regular Aiden Moffat are also ongoing, while rumours that were rife last winter of WSR fielding a second MB car alongside Hill have also not gone away.
