Hill’s racecraft salvages points at Donington GP
Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport collected another valuable haul of points at Donington Park, as Jake Hill battled hard around the GP circuit to record sixth, ninth and fifth-place finishes in the eighth meet of the 2025 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship.
Jake opened proceedings with P15 and P13 in the two free practice sessions before heading into the qualifying sessions. Behind the wheel of the #1 WSR-run BMW 330i M Sport, he cruised into the top-12 shootout. His opening Q2 flyer was good enough for the top six — until a track-limits deletion wiped it. With rain closing in and the clock expiring, there was no time to respond, and he ended up P11 for Sunday’s opener.
On Sunday he did what champions do. Race 1 was controlled aggression — a string of decisive, clean overtakes to P6. Race 2 promised more until a sudden downpour at McLeans corner flipped the script; an off into gravel dropped him back, but he fought to salvage P9 as the race finished under the safety car.
Race 3: the reverse-grid decider saw Hill on the hard tyre from P9; smart passing and tyre management pulled him up to P5, narrowly missing a podium.
Bottom line: the BMW has pace and Hill has racecraft. Qualifying consistency and cleaner weather luck would turn these solid results into wins — for now, the team banked respectable points and kept momentum heading into Silverstone.
"It’s great to be leaving Donington with more strong points, but it does feel like a case of what might have been, given the pace we had,” commented Jake.
“The qualifying infringement left us on the back foot, but the car felt fantastic on Sunday, and we came close to the podium more than once. We were unlucky at times, but that’s racing, and I’m excited to head to Silverstone, where hopefully we can turn our pace into even stronger results. A huge thanks to everyone at Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport and WSR – Silverstone can’t come soon enough!"
