Milltek Sport Volkswagen Racing Cup front-runner Josh Caygill emerged from a chaotic first event of the 2014 season at Oulton Park today, Monday, 21st April, with a competitive ninth place finish from a re-started opening round – race two having to be canned due to timetable constraints.Producing good pace from the outset, the Netherton driver had high hopes of putting together two consistently strong races to get the season off to a suitably impressive start. With red flag stoppages curtailing both of the scheduled Oulton Park contests, though, the VW Scirocco racer departed the picturesque Cheshire venue with a strong sense of anti-climax.Qualifying 11th fastest for round one, just 0.4 seconds shy of the top six, Caygill made a sensational getaway and carved his way through into eighth position on the opening lap. Further behind, though, a multi-car accident just off the start gave officials no option but to red flag the encounter.With the clear-up operation proving lengthy, round one was re-scheduled for later in the afternoon and the planned second race was cancelled. Once more making an excellent launch, the AWM driver again ended the opening lap inside the top eight and ran in a tightly packed train of half a dozen cars all dicing from fourth down to ninth place.Slipping to the tail of the group but then quickly moving back into eighth, Caygill managed to work his way into seventh position just as the red flags were shown prior to the start of lap six due to a car off the circuit at Shell Oils Hairpin. Due to the race stoppage officials took the result back to the end of lap four, meaning Caygill was classified ninth rather than seventh.“It’s been a real anti-climax this weekend, definitely not the sort of race weekend you normally have”, said the 24-year-old, “In my years racing bikes and now cars, I’ve never known a whole race to be cancelled. We weren’t involved in the melee, it all happened behind.“In qualifying I didn’t pull my finger out, we ended up 11th fastest but I should have been seventh or eighth if I’d put my best sectors together. The first lap of the original race was great but then the Safety Car came out and then the reds.”He added: “There was a big battle from fourth to ninth in the re-started race, we were having a right good go at each other bumper-to-bumper. Taking the result back to the end of lap four was a bit frustrating, especially as I’d just passed someone for seventh before the red flag!”Rockingham in Northamptonshire will host the third and fourth rounds of the Milltek Sport VW Racing Cup two weeks from now on Bank Holiday Monday, 5th May. Marking an unbelievably busy and intense weekend for Josh, on 3rd/4th May he will be getting his 2014 Volkswagen Scirocco R Cup season underway at Hockenheim in Germany.“This is still a big learning year for us, we’re in a new car but we’re making good progress and we’ll keep pushing hard to get to the sharp end”, said Caygill, “Huge thanks, as always, to my sponsors for making this possible and to all of my friends for their support at Oulton this weekend – it was great to see everyone there!”