Netherton racer Josh Caygill wrapped-up the second event of the Audi Sport TT Cup season just four points shy of the championship top six.
After a consistent, if less than straightforward, outing at the Nurburgring the 26-year-old finished ninth in both rounds three and four, which formed part of the support package to the prestigious ADAC Zurich 24 Hour race.
Caygill battled a slow puncture in the opening race and then a clutch issue in race two, but still ended the Meeting happy with his progress.
“Our results didn’t reflect the performance”, said Caygill.
“Race one was what it was, there wasn’t much in it at all, but in race two I was third quickest for most of the race – the ninth place finish didn’t show how competitive we were.
“This time last year we’d have taken these results, so going away disappointed shows how much we’ve come on. It just didn’t go in our favour this weekend.”
Qualifying didn’t go exactly to plan for Josh, the former motorcycle racer ending the run with the ninth fastest time.
As was the case during the first race meeting of the season, though, the gaps between the drivers were minimal to say the least – thousandths of a second the difference.
Making a great start to Friday morning’s race, Josh steered his No.14 Audi TT Cup car into seventh place and remained there beyond mid-distance running with the lead group.
He then started to struggle somewhat with tyre wear and on lap eight he was edged back to eighth by Sheldon van der Linde before falling into the clutches of Gosia Rdest.
In the second race Caygill had challenged the top five but slipped to ninth place and remained there to the chequered flag at the end of lap 12.
“Race two was a bit frustrating in the end as I’d had a really good race and was quite a lot faster than the two cars in front of me,” explained Caygill.
“I had a big gap behind too, so it was as good a situation as you could be in really until the clutch trouble struck.”
Next on the Audi Sport TT Cup schedule is a visit to the Norisring street circuit in Germany over the weekend of June 25-26.
