The battle for the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship goes down to the wire at Brands Hatch this weekend with WSR and BMW determined to win both the Drivers’ and Manufacturers’ titles.

Two WSR drivers are among the six drivers in contention for the title with Jake Hill tied at the top of the points table and Colin Turkington 64 points behind with 67 available.

With BMW within four points of the lead of the Manufacturers’ Championship – which they are aiming to win for a record tenth time – there’s everything to play for on the legendary 2.6-mile Kent circuit.

Hill sits at the top of the standings, level on points with his closest rival but ahead on countback as he has won more races – seven – than anybody else this year aboard his BMW 330e M Sport.

The Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport driver, who lives near Brands Hatch, scored one of the most impressive of his 19 career wins last year in the season-ending event on the GP loop and was a double podium-finisher in 2022.

He is sure to have superb local support willing him on from the grandstands as he seeks to win WSR’s fifth BTCC Drivers’ crown and his first.

Nobody has won the BTCC title more often than Colin Turkington and the four-time champion has come to the season finale in contention for honours in seven of the eight seasons since he returned to the series with Team BMW in 2017.

The Northern Irishman has won five times this year – a total he has beaten only twice in his BTCC career – and has been one of the series’ star performers since the summer break with two pole positions, two further front-row starts, three wins and six podiums.

Colin’s Team BMW team-mate Adam Morgan has happy memories of the GP loop as it was the scene of his first BTCC race win in 2015.

Jake Hill, Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport, said: “This is it. Everything we’ve been working towards all season boils down to one weekend at my home circuit. Last year I came in behind in the points with nothing to lose by attacking. This time we’re tied on points at the top, so there’s more to lose with that tactic, but we’ll just have to see how the races pan out. I’m confident that the BMW is the right car to get the job done and I know that WSR will leave no stone unturned to try and win the Drivers’ and Manufacturers’ titles. We’ll give it our all and what will be, will be.”