MARCUS SIMMONS
BTCC
One of the worst-kept secrets of the British Touring Car Championship off-season is finally out in the open: 2012 World Touring Car champion Rob Huff will contest his first full domestic campaign in 20 years with Toyota team Speedworks Motorsport.
It was announced today (Thursday) that 44-year-old Huff will partner Andrew Watson in the Toyota Gazoo Racing UK line-up, completing a four-strong entry of Corolla GR Sports from the Cheshire squad that also includes the LKQ pairing of Josh Cook and Aiden Moffat.
Since his rookie touring car season in the 2004 BTCC with SEAT, Huff has been ever-present at world level, his only break coming in 2020 when he competed in Sweden and won the Scandinavian title. In that period he has contested two rounds of the BTCC: in 2017 at Silverstone with a Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall; and last August at Knockhill with a Team Hard Cupra. His Scottish outing came shortly after Huff moved back to his native East Anglia from Dubai, and preceded a push to secure a BTCC deal for 2024.
“I’m absolutely thrilled to be back in the BTCC,” said Huff. “It’s where I was inspired by motorsport as a young lad and it was very much where I got my breakthrough at the beginning of my career. I’ve always kept an eye on BTCC obviously, just because I’m a huge fan of it and always have been.”
Huff did the deal with Speedworks bosses Christian and Amy Dick following a wet test last autumn at Croft. “I only wanted to come back to the BTCC in a top team and a car that I feel I can achieve great things in,” h
