A week ahead of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship heading to Snetterton there were two BTCC stars in action as they took to the track for the APR Volkswagen Racing Cup.

Tom Onslow-Cole in a Volkswagen Scirocco and Rob Austin in a VW Golf run by BTCC regular Tony Gilham who had technical problems as Tom Onslow-Cole claimed a front-row slot in the qualifying session that had been rescheduled from Saturday due to a deluge of rain.

Race one saw Onlsow-Cole leap away from the start brilliantly before the race was red-flagged with the field not even making it to the first corner as a startline accident saw broken barriers and cars strewn across the race track. On the restart pole-sitter Joe Fulbrook got the leap on Onslow-Cole but it didn't take long for him to forge in to the lead and take a win on his debut.

Asked if he thought he was going to win going in to the race Onslow-Cole told theCheckeredFlag.co.uk : “I guess you never know with these things, probably a lot of the people around me expected it and hoped as well but it's a front-wheel-drive touring car, something I'm fairly familiar with, so I was confident as long as the car was good, that I'd be able to do a good job, but I didn't expect to be able to come in and win straight away.”

The second race saw the top six positions reversed and Onslow-Cole and despite an early show of pace dropped back as his wet tyres lost grip on a drying track. A late push and minus a rear-bumper Onslow-Cole would take fifth place.