Hill, who began from fourth on the grid in his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport, was operating in third place as polesitting team-mate Stephen Jelley and third-starting Josh Cook in his One Motorsport Honda Civic Kind R battled for the lead.
{Cook} and Jelley had already exchanged the lead on just a few events when Jelley tried to repass the Honda with a speculative transfer on the surface of the high-speed Westfield.
However Hill threw his BMW onto the grass to the within and handed each of them in a single transfer.
{Cook} then drew alongside Jelley over the start-finish straight to maneuver into second place into Graham Hill Bend.
Hill immediately constructed up a lead of over a second, however the second security automobile of the race eradicated his benefit.
George Gamble appeared to get caught out on the brakes into Druids, and his Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Corolla clattered into the One Honda of Jade Edwards, forcing them each out of the race.
Hill was undaunted, and set the quickest lap after the restart, thereafter protecting {Cook} at arm’s size to win by 1.278s.
Jelley stayed near {Cook} for the remainder of the race, and was shut behind on the end to finish the rostrum.
Behind the main trio, all of whom had been on comfortable tyres, there was absolute warfare because the Alliance Racing Ford Focus STs of Dan Rowbottom, Dan Cammish and champion Ash Sutton scrapped it out with Bobby Thompson’s Staff Exhausting Cupra Leon, Ricky Collard’s Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Corolla, and the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N of Tom Ingram.
Sutton’s possibilities had been kyboshed when he was edged onto the Cooper Straight grass as he ran aspect by aspect with Ingram. He was compelled to the pits and recovered to thirteenth after the protection automobile.
Thompson additionally fell out of this group with alternator failure on the Cupra.
Rowbottom held fourth for a lot of the race, however an attractive transfer by Ingram at Paddock with three laps remaining gave him the place from Rowbottom, Collard and Dan Lloyd’s Staff Exhausting Cupra.
Adam Morgan (WSR BMW), Cammish and Colin Turkington (WSR BMW) accomplished the highest 10.
The primary security automobile was attributable to Aiden Moffat parking his One Honda on Cooper Straight after contact at Druids with Mikey Doble.