• Rob misses out on a pair of wins

Rob Huff is confident of being fit for the next round of the Clio RenaultSport UK Cup despite being injured in one of the most frightening crashes of his motor racing career.

He was slammed off the circuit at Britain's fastest track, Thruxton, by a car 'T-boning' into the side of his Clio at around 100 mph, while just a few laps away from victory.

I took rescuers 45 minutes to cut the Cambridge driver out of the wreckage of his car, but somehow he escaped with just a dislocated shoulder, which is healing well.

"I thought I had the race in the bag," he said, "I was two or three seconds ahead of the field with four laps to go, then there was this almighty bang, the loudest I've heard since I've been racing.

"I've been told that my car went into four 360 degree spins before coming to a halt, and I had this pain in my shoulder as though someone had stuck a screwdriver in and twisted it.

"I was taken to hospital in a neck and back brace, and I was very lucky it was a left-hand drive car which was hit from the other side.

"I've got my arm in a sling at the moment, and I can't do my instructing job at Silverstone, but I'm determined to drive in the next round at Brands Hatch.

"Apparently what happened was that Eoin Murray found himself going into a corner at around 130 mph virtually without any brakes.

"You get what's known as 'brake knockoff' in these cars if you go over something like a curb, and the driver has to pump them back up. Murray hadn't managed to do it and shot off the track, across the grass, hurtling out the other side and hitting me. He and his dad have been in touch to apologise to me."

It was a day of double frustration for 22-year-old Hff in the two race round, because he managed to take the chequered flag in the first event, yet still did not get the win.

"I was confident of doing well after getting second and fourth places on the grid after qualifying," he said, "I led the first race for a while before Martin Byford got past me, but I dropped back to get a run on him on the last lap, and got back at him.

"But just before the end he made contact with the back of my car and the touch was enough to send me straight over the chicane instead of through it. Unfortunately the steward in that area was just about the only person on the circuit not to see me get hit. I received a two seconds penalty and that dropped me to second.

"In the second race I regained the lead, after being cut up a first time by Murray, and lengthened it after a period when the safety car came out. I was hoping that they'd red flag the race after I'd been knocked out of it, but they re-ran for two laps and that meant I was classed as not finishing. It was tough, but that's motor racing.

"I would have been joint series leader with the two wins I was so close to, but I'm not far behind the leader in fourth, and it was very satisfying to know that I was driving well enough to have won both races."