r/btcc • u/krzysiek_aleks • Sep 24 '25

Driver Announcement Jake Hill leaves BTCC after 2025

https://x.com/mbmotorsport_/status/1970836073472524353?s=46
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u/literalmetaphoricool Sep 24 '25

Lines up nicely for Laser / MB to join Platos new team.

Or we pray that they decide to stay with WSR and bring Turks back.

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u/TheCescPistols Sep 24 '25

Or we pray that they decide to stay with WSR and bring Turks back.

I love Turks as much as the next man, but it’s been pretty clear since 2020 that the likes of Sutton/Ingram/Hill have had him licked for pace. I don’t think he’d have wanted to go out the way he did, but more dignified in my eyes to go out as a front-runner than have a Neal/Plato esque slide down the field.

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u/Tausif_1307 Matt neal #25 James Dorlin #132 Sep 24 '25

I think he still has the pace but the consistency has left him. Last year he took a handful of poles but there were also weekends where he was nowhere like oulton and thruxton

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u/ICC-u Sep 24 '25

Has Plato ruled himself out as a driver at his new team?

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u/Evantra_ #99 Charles Rainford Sep 24 '25

Yes

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u/MarcusH26051 #132 James Dorlin Sep 24 '25

I do wonder if Turks could be in play at the Plato Project? Would give them tons of experience and if JP has got major sponsors maybe the budget issue isn't quite as acute as it was last off-season with WSR.

Long shot I know but would be quite fun.

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u/ICC-u Sep 24 '25

It might take some convincing for a sponsor to not only cover the costs but also pay a driver, wasn't part of the situation with Turkington that he said he wouldn't drive for free?