Rob Huff once again underlined why he was chosen for the third RML-prepared Chevrolet Lacetti for its first assault on the FIA WTCC with a superb sixth place at the Puebla circuit in Mexico at the weekend. The 25 year-old from Cambridge, once again outqualifed his more experienced team-mates to post the ninth quickest time, which was later elevated to fifth when four cars were docked 10 places, to pick up the team's first drivers championship points.

"That was a good race," said Rob at the finish. "I just kept it tidy and clean and tried to finish as close to the front as I could. Driving in the points and really wanting to finish there I didn't push at all, because if you start pushing you lock up the front wheels and risk losing the car. Five or six laps from the end I started changing line and hooking the kerbs in the infield and the car just ran on rails. I managed to pass Terting for fifth, but then I ran wide in one corner and he passed me again."

The second race also looked like securing another top six finish, the former SEAT Cupra Champion and BTCC race winner, starting from third on the grid but being forced into retirement after six laps when a water line broke spewing water all over the rear brakes and sending him spinning off the track.

"The water temperature was running high the lap before, so I think a water line broke, spilling water on the rear tyres, causing the spin. I was driving cleanly on the line and all of a sudden someone pulled the handbrake, putting me into the gravel trap," he said.

Rob now enjoys a month off before the next double-header rounds, at the fabulous Spa-Francorchamps circuit high in the Ardennes region in Belgium on Mexico on July 30/31.