Honda recruit Huff eyes WTCC title two

The FIA World Touring Car Championship’s most experienced driver will push to win the coveted WTCC title for a second time in 2016.

Rob Huff has joined Honda Racing’s new-look WTCC line-up after spending two seasons with the works LADA squad.

After confirming the switch, the 36-year-old Briton said: “Over the past couple of seasons, I’ve become very used to seeing the Civic WTCCs in front of me, so it’s terrific to have the chance to race one this year. I won’t be happy to finish my career as only a one-time world champion, and there’s a tremendous opportunity with Honda and JAS to correct that statistic. I raced a JAS-built Civic at Macau last year and it was a very well built and fast machine, so that gives me plenty of confidence that we’ll have a strong season. I can’t wait to start testing.”

Huff will partner Tiago Monteiro and Norbert Michelisz at Honda in 2016 when he will make start number 250 in the opening race of the season. A winner of 27 WTCC races, Huff took the drivers’ crown in 2012. He claimed two podium finishes with LADA in 2015 having won two races for the Russian squad the previous season.