• Fastest lap keeps Rob at the head of the points table

Top British racing driver Robert Huff maintains his championship lead in the Holiday Inn SEAT Cupra Championship with two well-deserved second places at Silverstone today. The 23 year-old from Newmarket, admitted that Silverstone is not one of his favourite circuits and so was delighted to have taken two high scoring points finishes to maintain the series lead.

"Good weekend, I'm still in the lead by a point and both my worst circuits as it were are now out of the way, and with two seconds, a first and a fourth, I can't complain. I think I did well to keep up with Stefan (Hodgetts) this weekend, because on Friday everyone was at least a second if not a second and a half off him, so I think I'm the only one who closed the gap up to him."

The day's opening race had Robert on the third row in fifth place and after another superb lightening first lap, was up into second, behind eventual winner Hodgetts as the cars crossed the line at the end of the first lap. Lap after lap the pair ran nose to tail, with Robert right on the leader's back bumper as the cars entered the complex, but his efforts were all in vain as his tyres went off, leaving him take second at the flag, less than half a second adrift, but with another valuable point for fastest lap.

"Great result, started fifth and finished second," said Robert after the day's first race. "I had a good start, but Julian (Westwood) made a great getaway and I had to lift off as I thought I was going to get boxed in. There was a bit of a coming together at the first corner between Stephen (Colbert) and Gavin (Smith) and when Colbert rejoined he tried to take me off too. I managed to blow him away though and it was a case of catching James (Pickford) and Hodgetts up. I could see Hodgetts had a good lead so I knew I had settle down and get on with things."

"I got up with James, and us three were quite a bit quicker than everyone else, and managed to pull away a bit. James pretty much waved me through, I think he was trying to preserve his tyres or something. Stefan had about a four second lead by this time but within two laps I'd cut that right down and had a blinding third and fourth lap, where the tyres were working really well, but as soon as I caught him the tyres blew up like balloons, I think I probably pushed a bit too hard on that lap. Two or three times I went to overtake him round the outside and both times he tried to plant the car into the side of me."

For the second 10 lapper around the Northamptonshire Grand Prix circuit, Robert lined up on the front row alongside Hodgetts and instantly slotted into second place as the cars entered Copse for the first time. Lap after lap, Robert looked as though he were going to make a move, again the pair running nose-to-tail through the Becketts complex, until the seventh lap, when he understeered off at Copse, enabling Hodgetts to pull away to take his second win.

Despite the problems though, Robert was pleased with the results of the day's racing, "Another second place, I can't complain. A CV joint went about 3 laps to go which is why I kept going off at Copse, the car just wasn't going round right-hand corners. It spilt oil and grease over the front left tyre just as I was going into Copse and it just understeered off the track twice and lost me a second both times I did it. I knew the driveshaft was beginning to grind a bit so I had to ease off. Hopefully at Oulton I'll pick up a couple of wins although Thruxton's my circuit and Rockingham is a track I've done a fair bit of work at, so all in all I'm happy with the results so far and feel confident for those races coming up"

Round 3 results:

1.	Stefan Hodgetts	21:21.738
2.	ROBERT HUFF	21:22.197
3.	James Pickford	21:23.876
4.	Stephen Colbert	21:25.547
5.	Gavin Smith	21:29.480
6.	Gordon Shedden	21:34.256

Fastest lap: ROBERT HUFF 91.01mph

Round 4 results:

1.	Stefan Hodgetts	21:21.870
2.	ROBERT HUFF	21:23.932
3.	Gavin Smith	21:28.005
4.	Gordon Shedden	21:28.301
5.	James Pickford	21:32.337
6.	Craig Murray	21:34.629

Fastest Lap: Stefan Hodgetts 90.68mph

Holiday Inn SEAT Cupra Championship points after 4 rounds

1.	Robert Huff	59
2.	Stefan Hodgetts	58
3.	Gavin Smith	44
4.	Gordon Shedden	43
5.	James Pickford	38
6.	Julian Westwood	21

The series next rounds are at Oulton Park, Cheshire on July 12th/13th.