Chevrolet continue Cruze development

The Chevrolet team undertook a second testing day in the summer break from racing in the World Touring Car Championship. Earlier in August, Nicola Larini tested at Zolder in Belgium, and this time it was Rob Huff’s chance to fine tune the car at Magny-Cours in France.

The team were able to carry out all their planned testing during the session, in which they ran some 600 kilometres.

Rob Huff was clearly pleased with the test, “We really made the best possible use of this 600-km test and I am very happy with the balance of the car. The Cruze was easy to drive and was very good exiting the corners.”, said the Briton.

The French circuit was seen as an ideal circuit to aid with finding base set-ups for both the Oschersleben and Imola rounds of the WTCC.

Huff added “Magny-Cours is quite a demanding circuit for front-wheel drive cars, a track where you brake very deep into the corners and where you have to use the kerbs almost systematically, so this will be very useful for Oschersleben and Imola, which have a similar configuration”.

Everyone at Chevrolet was pleased with the outcome of the test, and are now working towards the resumption of the season at Oschersleben during the first weekend of September.