Dusan Borkovic celebrates fourth podium but worried about car speed

B3 Racing’s Dusan Borkovic scored a hard-fought podium in Thailand in a hectic race where the Serbian found himself in the middle of the action, but the reigning ETCC champion fears there’s a technical problem holding back his SEAT León TCR.

“We didn’t have the pace for the first time since the beginning of the season and think about why this is,” said Borkovic. “In the first race I was hit on the first lap and the toe was completely destroyed, so I was really struggling, and I saw that Nash and the other drivers were faster than me.

“For the second race, we could do something with the suspension, but from the first lap I felt it would be a really difficult race. The others were a little bit faster than me, but when everyone’s tyres started to fade I still had good pace as I was driving really slow and careful.

“In the future, for the next races, we need to find some solution to be a little bit faster so we can fight again at the top.”

Borkovic’s third came after contact with Jean-Karl Vernay at the exit of Turn 5, but in a race fraught with contact, the number of light touches went unchallenged by the stewards after the race.

“They made some mistake in some corner and I was later on braking,” said Borkovic to TouringCarTimes. “(But) at the beginning of the race they’d also hit me, OK it was a racing incident, so after when I touched them a bit I think it was equal.”