World Champion's son Josh Hill scored his maiden Formula Ford race victory Saturday  at Knockhill, the 19-year-old taking advantage of a rare error from championship leader Scott Malvern to snatch the lead mid-race and take a well deserved victory in the fourth round of the Dunlop MSA First

Under the watchful gaze of his proud father, Damon, Hill junior coped manfully with 12 laps of intense pressure from Malvern to cross the line two-tenths ahead. "It's a real relief to get that done, to win a race so early in the season," said Josh, "and it's a real pleasure to do it here at Knockhill. I was following Scott for the first part of the race, I lined him up, he locked up into the hairpin, and I thought 'I'll have some of that'."

Added Damon: "I'm very pleased. Josh drove a fantastic race and held off a lot of pressure."

Hill's win came partly thanks to his Jamun Racing team-mate Scott Pye, whose Mygale developed a gearbox problem on the green flag lap and expired on the opening lap of the race, coming to rest in an awkward and dangerous position. Malvern had meanwhile romped into a useful one-second lead from the pole, but saw his advantage wiped by the arrival on track of the safety car.

Malvern nailed the restart but Hill went with him and, when Scott locked up into the Hairpin next time around, Josh was not slow to spot his opportunity and dived past for the lead. "Josh drove a good race, good and clean," said Malvern, "I'm happy enough with second and the points."

Spectrum man Daniel Cammish held an increasingly lonely third place from start to finish, able to keeping a watching brief on the leaders but unable to get close enough to challenge. Enigma Racing's Antti Buri got the better of championship newcomer Dennis Lind in the Fluid Van Diemen to claim fourth; Getem man Jake Cook followed Buri's example soon after to push Lind back to sixth.

Danish driver Emil Bernstorff enjoyed his best outing of the season so far, his Jamun Mygale climbing from 11th on the opening lap to seventh by the flag, just ahead of the Juno of Scholarship Class victor Luke Williams.

Fluid Van Diemen drivers Jesse Anttila and James Tucker completed the top 10, with Jerseyman Dan de Zille 11th for Minister and Dutch driver Jeroen Slaghekke in 12th for Jamun.

Guest driver Garry Findlay (Spectrum) joined Pye in retirement with mechanical bother, while Max McGuire's Ray broke its suspension after riding up the back wheel of another car.