Dušan Borković sends warning to Santiago Urrutia after being spun at Hungaroring

Dušan Borković has called out his TCR World Tour rivals, particularly Santiago Urrutia, after a collision in Race 2 at the Hungaroring.

Contact that was instigated by Urrutia on lap one exiting the first corner sent Borković into a spin, which then resulted in several other drivers either being eliminated – such as Viktor Davidovski whose totally wrecked car went no further – or picking up damage that meant they had to pit.

Of those impacted by the crash, Borković was the only one able to continue without needing to pit – albeit at the back of the pack having started from reversed-grid pole – but he was the most vocal about the chaotic start to the race.

“From the first race already it was a big disaster. I was hit by a couple of drivers quite hard. They ruined completely my race,” he said to TouringCarTimes.

“I didn’t want to be so aggressive on the first race, just to have a clean car. To not have something like Davidovski had now. So for the second race, I didn’t have a good start for two reasons.

“First reason I was not too concentrated because I’m too tall and the lights are too close, so I had to [duck down], and then in that moment I didn’t do a good pre-load [of the clutch] and I lost a little bit on the start. But anyways it was good for P3, I was behind [Thed] Björk, and outside was [Frédéric] Vervisch.

“And then suddenly I felt – I didn’t want to overdrive to hit, I didn’t want to hit Vervisch, so I was careful. But when somebody knows me and they attack me so hard, they have to know that they will have some consequences. Even if I’m not going to kick their asses after the race, but I will wait for sure one year, two years, whatever. I find them, I’m going to hit those cars really hard. Because I was fair, and I expect others to be fair to me.”

There were two nudges from Urrutia behind, the first putting Borković lightly into the rear of Vervisch and then the second into a spin.

“When you hit me once, then you release the throttle. You don’t stay on full throttle and hit me again. Because if I finished, so if I hadn’t spun, I would hit him in the wall 100% in the next corner. This is 100%. I don’t have to finish the race. Nobody will tell me anything if I don’t finish the race.

“I was completely at the back, and then I started again from behind. And when you’re behind, I don’t want to offend somebody, but it was with a slower group of drivers. And then you have to fight so much I destroyed the tyres, and then I caught [Kevin] Ceccon really hard, but after that we had the safety car, my car was already destroyed.

“So I can send the message to all the drivers who hit me. So I will give them back one, two, three, five years. If in five years I see Urrutia and I’m behind him, I’m going to push him in the wall with 250kph.

“Because I was really fair. I saw that they overtook me, I stopped, I chose to be a little bit more careful to not destroy my TCR Europe race. But if you hit me once, and then you hit me with the full throttle again and you are like spinning me, that means you are a moron and you didn’t respect me.”

Borković still found the race somewhat useful, recovering to 12th place and getting enough laps in clean air to get some useful data.

“Today was actually good because I was completely at the back, so I did overtake four cars. And still I caught Ceccon, he’s a good driver, so I catch him really easy. But when you’re stuck with a similar pace driver, same on the braking, same everywhere, it’s so difficult [to pass]. I didn’t want to hit him or destroy both of us our races.”