Born on Christmas Day 1979 in Cambridge, Huff had a long junior career in karting. He attended St Faith's School and The Leys School, Cambridge, from 1993 to 1996. He won the 2000 Formula Vauxhall championship, and class B of the 2001 Ethyl MG Championship, also finishing as runner-up in the series in 2000. His father's Chartered Surveying firm was one of his main sponsors.
Huff won the inaugural SEAT Cupra Challenge in 2003, earning a paid drive in the British Touring Car Championship for the 2004 season alongside former champion Jason Plato. At Thruxton he retired from the second race after losing his front splitter, and again from the third race. He achieved his first BTCC podium at Brands Hatch, finishing second after being demoted by Matt Neal on the lap following a restart. He claimed his first BTCC race win in round 24 at Brands Hatch, repeated the success a fortnight later at Snetterton, and finished seventh overall in the championship.
The SEAT BTCC team was run by Ray Mallock in 2004, and when his company took on the Chevrolet WTCC project, they retained Huff. At the 2005 season-opening Race of Italy he finished ahead of teammates Alain Menu and Nicola Larini in race one. His best result of 2005 was a sixth place in Mexico, taking the first points for the Lacetti in the WTCC; he finished the year joint 20th.
In 2006, Huff secured his first WTCC win at Brno after starting 24th due to two ten-place grid penalties, fighting through to eighth in race one to earn pole for race two, then leading from the front to the flag — also the first Chevrolet win in the dry. He finished 16th in the final standings. In 2007, he took a further win at the Scandinavian Raceway in Sweden plus three more podiums, including a Chevrolet 1–2–3 at Porto, finishing ninth overall.
In 2008, Huff won both races at Valencia. He was disqualified from the second race of the FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic due to an illegal anti-roll bar linkage. At Brands Hatch, during his 100th WTCC start, he took the lead after a lap one collision between Menu and pole sitter Augusto Farfus, but a puncture three laps from the end ended his challenge. He finished the season third, behind SEAT drivers Yvan Muller and Gabriele Tarquini.
For 2009, Chevrolet switched to the Cruze chassis. Huff took pole and won the first race at the Race of Morocco, scoring the first win for the Chevrolet Cruze. He also won at the Race of France, passing Andy Priaulx and Farfus to take the lead. He finished fifth in the championship, ahead of teammates Menu and Larini. In 2010, he finished third behind new teammate Muller and Tarquini.
The Chevrolet Cruze dominated the 2011 season, winning all but three races. Huff led the championship early before Muller took over, with the battle going to the final event at Macau; Huff won both races there but could not stop Muller from taking the title.
In 2012, Chevrolet announced it would be their last WTCC season. Huff, Muller, and Menu took 20 of 24 wins. The decisive moment came at the penultimate round in Shanghai, where Muller tagged Menu from the lead, allowing Huff to win the race and open a 37-point lead over Menu and 42 over Muller heading to the season finale at Macau. Menu was quoted: "Yvan ruined both of their championships."
In the first Macau race, Huff lost the lead to Muller on lap one, retook it on lap four, then made a driving error and touched the barrier twice, retiring with damage. Muller won ahead of Menu, reviving both their title bids. Huff's car was repaired with assistance from both Menu's and Muller's crews within Chevrolet. Starting eighth in race two, Huff needed to finish fifth to secure the championship. On lap four, Muller ran into the back of Alex MacDowall's Chevrolet at Mandarin, the fastest corner in the WTCC calendar, spinning MacDowall into the wall. Two safety car periods effectively decided the race. Huff finished second behind Menu and ahead of Muller — more than sufficient to win the title, making him the first British WTCC champion since Priaulx in 2007. Chevrolet's campaign ended on a 1–2–3 for the team.
In 2013, Huff joined ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport, driving a SEAT León WTCC replacing Markus Winkelhock. At the Race of Italy he collided with the Wiechers-Sport car of Fredy Barth in Q1, breaking his suspension; he was allowed to start from the back and climbed to sixth in race one and tenth in race two.
At the 2013 FIA WTCC Race of China, it was announced Huff would join Lada Sport for 2014 on a two-year deal. In 2014 he was the non-Citroën driver to win the most races — two — in circumstances including the inverted grid and a 60 kg lower compensation weight. For 2015, Lada introduced the Lada Vesta, developed mainly by the French company Oreca.
In 2017, Huff made a one-off return with PMR at Silverstone, stepping in for Tom Chilton. He led for the majority of race 3 before dropping behind Matt Neal late on, finishing second and scoring the team's best result of the season. In 2023, he raced a Cupra Leon for Team HARD at Knockhill, replacing Nicolas Hamilton, scoring five points across the weekend.
Huff returned to the BTCC full-time in 2024, signing to drive a Toyota Corolla for Speedworks as part of an expanded four-car line-up, competing for Toyota Gazoo Racing UK. He scored his first win in the reverse-grid race at Snetterton, leading teammates Aiden Moffat and Josh Cook to a Toyota 1–2–3. In doing so, he set a new record for the longest period between race wins in the BTCC at nearly 20 years, beating the previous record holder Dennis Leech by two years. He also won the reverse-grid race at Knockhill.
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