At last Sunday’s meeting – the final triple header before the tꦆin top series catches its breath with a 5-week summer break – Hill raced to dominant victories in the first two races from title rival Ash Su💙tton.

The highlight of a hi🎃st𒉰oric day for the Sunbury-on-Thames-based squad came in the concluding reversed-grid contest as four-time champion Colin Turkington led home Hill and fellow team-mate Adam Morgan for a in a 1-2-3.

Prior to Oulton Park, the BMW had only one win to its name as every other race h🧔ad been dominated by front-wheel-drive machinery from either NAPA Racing UK or Bristol Street Motors with 🌄EXCELR8.

While conceding 💝the balance of power is likely to remain with Sutton’s Ford Focus ST and the Hyundai i30 Fastback N of current title holder Tom Ingram, Hill feels there are reasons to be optimistic moving forward.

“It has been a blinder of a race weekend,” he said. “For me to take two wins, three podiums and three fastest laps is brilliant and I cannot say much more than that. This car and the team are true heroes and we have really tu🧸rned it around this weekend.

“The car was monstrous – I am not saying that it is going to be rapid everywhere we go💦 this season, but it is currently a lovely place to be.

“I am not quite sure I have got the wℱords to sum up that race weekend. It has been phenomenal. I am over the moon but I am also so happy for everyone involved. My engineer Craig Porley and all the team at WSR have given me a fantastic BMW and it was on-song all weekend,” he continued.

“Although we have been up the front most of the year, we have been searching for that little bit of an edge and 𝓡I felt like we were properly on top form.

“To claim two victories, a second and t💛hree fastest laps is something I am really proud of and I am so happy to deliver that for everyone who 🦩works so hard to support our programme.”

West Surrey Racing’s Team Pri💎ncipal Dick Bennetts was just as pleased with the success, the manner in which it was ach🎃ieved and the fact it keeps both Hill and Turkington very much in the title fight when the competition resumes at Knock Hill on the weekend of July 22/23.

ꦜ“Two wins, 62 points and three fastest laps is a truly magnificent achievement,” said the New Zealander. “It has been eight years since we won all three races in a day and five years since our last one-two-three.

“It happens so rarely to anybody that it’s important that yᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚou celebrate these results properly when they come.”