WTCR Trophy the focus but high-flying Huff thinking even bigger

Rob Huff won’t be limiting his ambitions to extending his advantage in the WTCR Trophy when he attempts to tame the Nürburgring Nordschleife from tomorrow (Thursday). CUPRA-powered Huff, the winner of the 2012 FIA World Touring Car Championship, heads the provisional WTCR Trophy standings after two rounds for Zengő Motorsport. Ad/> The WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup’s category for independent racers with no financial backing from a manufacturer’s customer racing department, was introduced in 2020 and lists Jean-Karl Vernay and Gilles Magnus as its title winners.

WTCRWTCR Race of Germany format explained21 MINUTES AGO Huff won the WTCR Trophy in Race 2 at WTCR Clean Fuels for All Race of France after Mehdi Bennani had triumphed in the opening counter for Comtoyou Team Audi Sport. While achieving more WTCR Trophy success is a firm target, Briton Huff believes his knowledge of the 25.378-kilometre Nordschleife justifies him aiming higher. “I’ve done quite a lot around the Nordschleife, [including] four 24 hours,” said Huff.

“It’s one of my favourite circuits. I love that style of track [but] it’s just the most ridiculous thing to have a touring car race around there. We make the cars set-up wise as positive and reactive as possible.

And of course at the Nürburgring you don’t need a reactive car because half the time you’re in the air! ‘It’s a very, very challenging circuit, not only mentally but physically as well because you are fighting the car so much around there. Every time you go airborne and you land you want to go one way and the car wants to go the other so there is a lot of wrestling in the car and three laps around there in a touring car is harder than a GT car believe it or not. It is massively, massively