Rob Huff emerged from the shadow of his Chevrolet teammates in 2008 to finish third in the World Touring Car Championship. He talked to Mark Glendenning about the best season of his life

Anyone old enough to remember The A-Team – undeniably the greatest of the many soldiers of fortune that populated 1980s television – will recall John 'Hannibal' Smith's catchphrase: 'I love it when a plan comes together'.

In Hannibal's case, the remark invariably followed the team overcoming huge odds to defeat the bad guys, generally via the deployment of a motorbike-mounted bazooka fashioned from cat food tins.

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