BTCC Silverstone: Butcher holds off Hill for Race 1 win

Rory Butcher soaked up massive pressure from Jake Hill to take his first victory of the 2022 BTCC season in the opening race of the penultimate round at Silverstone. Full Race 1 report ⬇️

Butcher and his Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Corolla GR Sport led from start to finish, but Hill was breathing down his neck throughout the 10 laps of green-flag racing following a mid-race safety-car interlude.Adam Morgan

, second and third on the grid, toiled to warm up the tyres on their rear-wheel-drive BMW 330e M Sports. Butcher was over a second to the good by the end of the opening lap, and had extended that to 2.4s the following time around owing to a massive scrap behind.had squeezed his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N ahead of Ciceley Motorsport man Morgan on the opening lap, and then chiselled an opening on Hill on the inside of Luffield on the following tour.

But Hill just clung on to the position at Copse Corner, and this allowed Butcher to stretch his advantage to over 3s.on Ingram at Luffield that sent the Hyundai sideways and down to sixth position.

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