Hill weighs in on his Supercars future (2025)

CAMERON Hill has had quite the climb from scraping onto the Supercars grid to becoming the top free agent of the looming silly season.

With Tickford Racing duo Cam Waters and Thomas Randle officially off the market, Hill is now the one to watch in the driver market.

Indeed, the 28-year-old Canberran is the only member of the championship’s current top 10 without a contract in place for 2026.

To set the scene, it’s worth winding back the clock a few years.

After winning national titles in Formula Ford and Carrera Cup, Hill secured a spot on Triple Eight’s 2022 Super2 roster.

He leveraged that into an enduro co-drive with then-fledgling PremiAir Racing alongside Chris Pither, and graduated after a single year in the second tier by snapping up what appeared to be the final main game seat for 2023 (although Tickford would later swing a change).

“I feel like you have to fight pretty hard to get your foot in the door in this series,” Hill this week reflected to V8 Sleuth.

“There’s only 24 seats right now and it’s seriously, seriously competitive.

“I felt like I had to work really hard to get my foot in the door and that first year was definitely a big grind.”

On the whole, it has since been all upward for Hill and Matt Stone Racing alike.

“It was a good team to come into. They were on a similar journey to myself,” he said.

“They’re a young team, Matt (Stone) is probably the youngest team owner in Supercars, so we have definitely grown a lot. I have grown with them.”

Stone has signalled interest in retaining Hill, albeit being comfortable with the team’s position amid its rising reputation having won races with three different drivers in the Gen3 era (Hill, Nick Percat and Jack Le Brocq).

Likewise for Hill, there is sense in staying put, but stranger things have happened and there’s bound to be interest from elsewhere.

“I haven’t got anything locked in just yet, but I sort of feel good about the future,” said the #4 Camaro steerer.

“I think things are going well at MSR and the cars are speedy, so I’ll sit down with Matt and we’ll see where we’re at.

“But obviously we’re just going to take it race-by-race at the moment, I’m not getting too far ahead of myself.”

Hill admits that narrowing his focus this year – i.e. taking a break from running his CHE Racing team – has paid dividends.

“I was definitely a busy boy when we were running CHE and I just recognised that the level (in Supercars), it’s only getting higher and higher,” he said.

“So I guess while I have got this opportunity in the main game I really just wanted to say I didn’t leave anything to chance and I put my best foot forward.

“It was just about trying to focus everything to get the best performance out of myself.

“I’m sure one day… I do enjoy the management side of racing and the strategy and all the behind-the-scenes stuff, but I still have got a bit to do as a driver first and I’ll give it my best shot.”

Round 5 of the Repco Supercars Championship starts tomorrow at Wanneroo Raceway.