BTCC: Hill takes second win of the day in an excellent drive

The final race of the day saw Jake Hill take his second race victory of the day in an excellent drive from the BMW driver.

With the top 6 reversed after the reverse grid draw for race 3, Daryl DeLeon starts from pole with Jake Hill and Senna Proctor starting behind him. Dan Cammish would start ahead of Ash Sutton and Tom Ingram as the title rivals look to take more points away from one another in the final race of the weekend.

The BMW's got an even start as DeLeon manages to defend from Hill despite being on the mediums. Meanwhile, Proctor would defend from Sutton to help Ingram try and get by but Sutton covers him off. Soon though, Aiden Moffat would apply pressure to Ingram making a challenge before Ingram managed to keep ahead.

Hill would make a move up the inside of DeLeon as they continue to go side by side down the main straight before Hill completed the move. Cammish would take advantage of the BMW battle as he also follows Hill through to get by into second place. Tom Chilton would make his way past Moffat to get into seventh and now relives pressure off of Ingram.

The championship rivals continue to fight hard as Ingram would try for another dive into the Clarks but Sutton would use that to keep ahead of the Hyundai on lap 3. Proctor would make his way into the podium places passing DeLeon as the BMW now starts to fall into the clutches of Sutton and Ingram.

Ingram would try at every opportunity to make a move on Sutton but the NAPA car defends extremely well and gets the exits off of the corners that matter the most. Ingram would look to go for another move into the hairpin on lap 8 as he goes to the outside while Sutton defends again heading into lap 9.

Further back, Adam Morgan would try and make a couple of overtakes on Moffat and Dan Rowbottom, passing Moffat into the hairpin before the BMW fought back into the first chicane. The championship leaders get more aggressive with their moves as Ingram tried a dive up the inside into the hairpin on lap 11 as Sutton turns in enough and tightens the line to cover him off.

Despite fighting heavily, the championship leaders catch back up to the medium running Proctor and DeLeon meaning that Sutton could potentially put a car between him and Ingram. News for Ingram would go from bad to worse as Rowbottom would make a move by Chilton and starts applying pressure to Ingram. The attack from Rowbottom would be enough to pull the pressure off of Sutton as the Hyundai's fought Rowbottom to keep him behind Ingram.

Sutton would take advantage of a bit of breathing space to get passed DeLeon and quickly make another move on Proctor. Ingram in the meantime would use his pace to pass DeLeon and his Hyundai teammate allowed him by shortly after putting cars between Ingram and Rowbottom.

Chilton and Rowbottom would fight ever more fiercely than their teammates as Chilton would make his way passed Rowbottom despite hard defending from Rowbottom. Rowbottom would try to fight back in the last few laps of the race as the two look very evenly matched.

Morgan would jump ahead of Moffat to find his way into eighth place as Moffat started to drop a few positions in the final few laps, trying to get to the end without any boost. He would lose out another position to his teammate of Rainford and would come under pressure from Shedden in the final lap.

Out front, Hill would come home clear of the field with a controlled drive to take his second win of the day. Cammish would once again make the switch to allow Sutton by to finish second and hand an extra few points to help him in the championship. However, with DeLeon's car being parked before the start/finish line, it may be looked at by the stewards. Ingram would finish in fourth just behind Cammish while Chilton would round out the top 5. Rowbottom finished in sixth behind Chilton while Morgan, Rainford, Moffat and Shedden round out the top 10.

Leaving the Knockhill weekend, Ingram leads the standings by 15 points over Sutton as they go into the final 3 weekends as the championship battle continues to heat up after an epic battle in the final race.