Jake Hill doubles up with race two win
Jake Hill saw off the challenge of a charging Ash Sutton to score his second win of the weekend at Knockhill.
Hill had picked up a double victory in the same meeting last year and having inherited victory in race one following Tom Ingram’s exclusion, the WSR man would lead from start-to-finish to add to his win tally and strengthen his championship position.
From pole, Hill made the best start to lead team-mate Stephen Jelley into turn one, with Ricky Collard slotting into third ahead of a slow-starting Andrew Watson.
However, into turn three, Collard ran wide which delayed Watson and have Sutton the chance to dive down the inside of the pair to jump into third spot.
After a brief caution following an off for Jade Edwards, Hill caught Jelley napping on the restart to rocket away at the front, with Sutton wasting little time in clearing the second placed car before he set off after Hill for the lead.
Although he would close onto the rear of the WSR-run car, there was no chance to get ahead despite Sutton trying more than once at the hairpin – with both drivers also suffering moments at the chicane as they pushed hard in the closing stages.
They would take the flag split by just three-tenths of a second, with Jelley more than eleven seconds behind in a lonely third place for his second podium of the weekend.
Aron Taylor-Smith continued a solid weekend for PMR as he took his Vauxhall Astra through to fourth place, fighting his way ahead of Ronan Pearson and team-mate Andrew Watson early on, with Dan Lloyd showing his strongest form of the campaign to date in his Team HARD Cupra to score fifth having also cleared both Pearson and Watson.
Lloyd would beat Ricky Collard to the line as the Toyota man had to settle for sixth, with Pearson crossing the line in seventh spot – before being drawn on pole for the final race of the weekend.
Josh Cook produced a stunning drive despite being one of a handful of drivers to run the medium tyre as opposed to the soft as he came from the back of the field to take eighth in his Honda ahead of Watson and Ingram – who also stormed through the pack to make it into the top ten.
It would prove to be another tough race for both Colin Turkington and Dan Cammish however, who clashed late on exiting turn three and were forced to retire.
