Victory in the 24th and final FIA World Touring Car Championship race of 2008 in Macau ensured Rob Huff finished 3rd in the Drivers' standings – just one point behind 2nd placed Gabriele Tarquini.

Rob's fourth WTCC season turned out to be his best yet, with two race wins, six podiums and 15 points scoring finishes. Third place in the WTCC Drivers' standings not only eclipsed his previous finishing positions (20th in his debut season in 2005, 16th in 2006 and 9th in 2007), but the 28-year old driver from Cambridgeshire ended the 2008 season as Britain's top placed WTCC driver. It's also the highest position a Chevrolet driver has ever finished.

The on-track action began well for Rob in Macau (a special administrative region of China located 45 miles west of Hong Kong) when he qualified his Chevrolet Lacetti race car 4th in a field of 28 cars. He was also one of only four drivers to break the 2min 31sec barrier around the 3.8 mile Guia street circuit.

In the first of two races, Rob moved up to 3rd and was challenging Andy Priaulx (BMW) for 2nd position. At the beginning of the second lap he tried to overtake the out-going World Champion around the outside at the Lisboa corner, but Priaulx squeezed Rob into the wall with the result that he dropped down to fifth behind the SEAT Leon TDIs of Rickard Rydell and Yvan Muller.

Rydell later crashed out at Lisboa, while Rob just missed out on 4th place after he was overtaken on the last lap by Augusto Farfus (BMW). Rob's team-mate, Alain Menu, won the race, having started from pole.

But it was Rob who literally had the last laugh in the 2008 WTCC season when he survived the dramatic closing stages of Race 2 to win the race and claim third position in the championship.

Rob was initially embroiled in a five car fight for 4th position with Jordi Gené (SEAT), Muller, Priaulx and Menu, but events ahead were to change the outcome of the race completely. With only two laps remaining, Farfus tried to overtake James Thompson (Honda) for the lead. The two collided, Thompson hit a wall, Farfus lost a wheel and 3rd placed Tarquini was launched into the air after hitting the stray tyre. With the 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed drivers all crashing out, Rob moved from 4th to 1st and then held his nerve on an oil-covered track to score his second victory of 2008 and the fourth of his WTCC career.

"I am very pleased with this win, but I was also very lucky," admitted Rob. "In my mind I had just settled for fourth, when all of sudden everybody in front of me went off. I came through one of the corners and saw James Thompson in the wall. Then shortly after I saw Gabriele Tarquini get airborne over a wheel Augusto Farfus had just lost.

"Fortunately I managed to get through unscathed and make it to the finish, thanks to Duncan, my race engineer, who called me on the radio to warn me for all the oil on the track.

"This second win of the day is the perfect farewell for the Chevrolet Lacetti, which has been a fantastic car for us these past four years."

With the Lacetti now officially retired from active duty, the Wellingborough-based RML team, which runs the works Chevrolet WTCC squad, will focus its attention on further developing the Chevrolet Cruze for the 2009 WTCC season. After early tests at MIRA in the UK, Guadix in Spain and Estoril in Portugal, Rob will continue to play a key role in the new car's development, with winter tests planned at different tracks in southern Europe, as he and the team prepare for the start of the 2009 WTCC in Brazil in March.

Macau Race 1 Results

1.	A. Menu	(Chevrolet Lacetti)	9 laps in 23m10s203
2.	A. Priaulx	(BMW 320si)	+0s523
3.	Y. Muller	(SEAT Leon TDI)	+8s581
4.	A. Farfus	(BMW 320si)	+9s335
5.	R. Huff	(Chevrolet Lacetti)	+9s871
6.	J. Gené	(SEAT Leon TDI)	+10s692

Macau Race 2 Results

1.	R. Huff	(Chevrolet Lacetti)	9 laps in 23m23s216
2.	Y. Muller	(SEAT Leon TDI)	+7s253
3.	A. Priaulx	(BMW 320si)	+7s957
4.	R. Rydell	(SEAT Leon TDI)	+18s120
5.	A. Zanardi	(BMW 320si)	+51s727
6.	F. Engstler	(BMW 320si)	+52s963

Final Drivers' Points Standings (top six)
1. Y. Muller (SEAT), 114 points; 2. G. Tarquini (SEAT), 88; 3. R. Huff (Chevrolet), 87; 4. A. Priaulx (BMW), 81; 5. R. Rydell (SEAT), 77; 6. A. Farfus (BMW), 66.

Final Manufacturers' Points Standings
1. SEAT, 326 points; 2. BMW, 274; 3. Chevrolet, 238; 4. Honda, 60.