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Rob Huff targeting further improvements in Slovakia

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After scoring the new Lada Vesta WTCC’s first podium two weeks’ ago in Russia with second place behind Tiago Monteiro’s Honda, 2012 champion Rob Huff will hope to go one better this weekend at the Slovakiaring, as the Russian squad enters an unchanged line-up this weekend.

Huff will race alongside Dutch drivers Jaap van Lagen and Nicky Catsburg for the second consecutive race weekend as the Russian manufacturer works through a development year with the new Vesta, co-developed with French motorsport power house ORECA.

“Hopefully we can build on our Moscow performance, as it showed that the Lada Sport Rosneft Vesta TC1 is developing as we had hoped,” said Huff.

“The car felt great all weekend in Russia and was particularly good on the low-grip surface of the Moscow Raceway, which is also a characteristic of the Slovakiaring, so I expect to compete towards the sharp end once again. Along with my two Dutch teammates, Nick Catsburg and Jaap van Lagen, we are hoping to once again put on a good show.”