1. Robb Holland is the first American ever to compete in the World Touring Car Championship when he drove for Bamboo Engineering in the 2012 FIA WTCC Race of the United States at Sonoma Raceway, California.
23 Facts About Robb Holland
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Robb Holland got his professional start in the Pirelli World Challenge series driving a Dodge SRT4 Touring Car for the factory supported 3R Racing team.
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Robb Holland was to get Dodge's first podium finish at Road America and finish runner up in the Rookie of the Year Competition.
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Robb Holland was to finish 3rd overall in the championships in 2011, driving for the factory Volvo team run by K-PAX Racing.
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In 2016, Robb Holland competing in his first Pikes Peak Hillclimb, smashed the existing Front Wheel Drive record by nearly a minute.
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Robb Holland was signed by K-PAX Racing to drive and develop the factory Volvo C30 touring car in the Pirelli World Challenge.
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Robb Holland made his British Touring Car Championship debut at the Snetterton round of the 2012 season driving in place of Tony Gilham in the Team HARD.
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Robb Holland was the first driver from the US to compete in the BTCC since Bill Gubelmann in 1975.
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Robb Holland failed to finish his first race when he collided with the Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Avensis of Adam Morgan, he went on to finish in the points in the second race with a fourteenth-place finish.
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Robb Holland competed in the following meeting at Knockhill scoring points in the second and third races.
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At the last minute, Robb Holland was called up by bamboo-engineering to drive their Chevrolet Cruze in the 2012 FIA WTCC Race of the United States in place of Pasquale di Sabatino.
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In July 2013, it was announced that Robb Holland had rejoined Tony Gilham Racing in the British Touring Car Championship, and would be driving an NGTC Vauxhall Insignia.
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Robb Holland went on to score points in two out of the three rounds.
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In October 2013, at the final round of the 2013 BTCC season, Robb Holland announced that he would be entering the BTCC full-time in an Audi S3 built and run by Rotek Racing.
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New to almost every circuit on the calendar Robb Holland stated moderate goals of finishing in the points by the second half of the season.
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The next round at Donington would prove to be a major set back for Robb Holland who was collected by James Cole in the Toyota Avensis, as Cole swerved to avoid a spinning Rob Austin This incident left the Audi badly damaged and unable to be repaired in time for the following round at Thruxton.
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Robb Holland was able to get into the points at Snetterton where he battled former champions Fabrizio Giovanardi and Andrew Jordan for the finial points-paying position.
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Robb Holland was able to follow that result up with finishes in the top 20 at Knockhill, and scored further points at Rockingham before another incident with James Cole and Martin Depper at Silverstone ended Robb Holland's season prematurely in 27th place overall.
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Late in the season Robb Holland was signed to fill in for Simon Belcher in the Toyota Avensis, after Belcher's Thruxton accident ruled him out of the next few races.
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Robb Holland was then to be a last minute call up by the Chinese FRD Racing team, to race the underdeveloped Ford Focus TCR car for the TRC International round in Buriram Thailand and then Road Star Racing's Seat Leon TCR car at Macau.
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Robb Holland went on to finish 6th overall in the prestigious Guia Race of Macau and 2nd in the TCR Asia division.
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Robb Holland came back to the US with the goal of breaking the Front Wheel Drive record at the Pikes Peak Hillclimb.
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Robb Holland was to be successful in his attempt by setting a time of 10:56.878, breaking the old record by over a minute.