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Hill as the new British Superbike Champion for 2011
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Nationality | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Beckenham, Kent |
9 February 1985 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | as Manager, ePayMe THM Yamaha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | tommyracer.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tommy Hill is a former British motorcycle road racer, born 9 February 1985 in Beckenham, Kent. His greatest success was becoming the British Superbike Champion for 2011. He also competed in the World Superbike and World Supersport championships.
Hill quit motorcycle racing at the end of 2012, instead working as a self-employed graphic designer, but announced in late 2014 that he would be running a British Superbike team during 2015.
After several months of his first season as a team manager with Be Wiser Kawasaki, Hill left in August 2015, and the team folded in September. Hill announced in October 2015 that he would be running his own team named THM – Tommy Hill Motorsport – for 2016 with Yamaha R1 machines, backed by ePayMe, with riders John Hopkins and Stuart Easton.
Hill's early racing life included a near-fatal accident in which he lost a kidney and his spleen. As a result, medical problems including a bout of food poisoning in 2006 have dogged his career, and require him to take Penicillin every day. His brother Jimmy also raced.
He switched to road racing in 2001, and first earned his BSB ride by winning the Virgin Mobile Yamaha R6 Cup in 2003, finishing every race in the process.
In his first BSB season he became the youngest rider ever to start a race on the front row of the grid, and he was the only one of the team's four 2004 riders to be retained for 2005 – team boss Rob McElnea commenting that "He really did prove himself beyond everyone’s expectations this year".