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British Touring Car Championship title within Jake Hill's grasp following ROKiT MB Motorsport BMW driver's strong showing in penultimate round at Silverstone

Platts Heath's Jake Hill will go into the final round of this season's British Touring Car Championship with a shot at the title after a win and a second place at Silverstone last weekend.

ROKiT MB Motorsport BMW racer Hill is just five points behind Wrotham-based Motorbase Performance's NAPA Racing pilot Ash Sutton after his two podium places - as well as a fourth - and can secure his first BTCC crown at his home circuit of Brands Hatch in two weeks' time.

Hill's victory in race two featured a spectacular outbreaking manoeuvre on Rory Butcher going into Copse Corner and, despite the introduction of the safety car, he quickly regained his rhythm after the field closed up to pull away from danger and win in style.

“What a weekend! To come away five points behind the championship lead is just incredible," Hill said.

"The ROKiT MB Motorsport and West Surrey Racing team have been outstanding yet again. The car was faultless, and to have my engineer Craig [Porley, who is recovering from pneumonia] still doing everything he could from his hospital bed was brilliant.

"I'm so excited to get to my home race at Brands Hatch where we will be giving it our all to get this title!"

The omens for the weekend looked good when Hill secured his sixth front-row start - just 0.037sec off Toyota's Butcher - to sit 15 points clear in the Goodyear Wingfoot Award standings for the fastest qualifier.

He kept his second place despite poor tyre temperature in the early laps and once optimal began reeling the leader in. He was fastest man on track until a safety car was deployed and crossed the finish line just two tenths behind winner Butcher.

Starting race two in second place, Hill found himself down in fourth but overtakes on Sutton, Honda's

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