Stefano Comini: “I haven’t had so much fun in ages”

Stefano Comini picked up two fourth place finishes in Thailand to keep his title aspirations on track in a fully-ballasted Leopard Racing Volkswagen Golf, and after finding himself in the thick of the action in Race 2, says it was great to be racing.

The Swiss was involved in a hard fight for the final podium position between team-mate Jean-Karl Vernay, B3 Racing’s Dusan Borkovic and Eakie BBR’s Kantadhee Kusiri during the last half of the race, eventually coming out of it in fourth position, scoring another 12 points in the title race to keep him ten behind new leader James Nash.

“There were a lot of races where I personally haven’t had so much fun to race with the others,” said Comini to TouringCarTimes. “The battles were hard but fair, and I think we did a great job for the public.”

Comini was carrying 30kg of success ballast after a strong weekend in Sochi, and now that weight will drop to 10kg for the next round in Singapore after the Swiss took the third highest points haul from the weekend.

“It’s never easy for a race driver to take good things from a race finishing off the podium, but objectively it was a great weekend. In the second race I could have been on the podium, but I didn’t want to battle too much with (Dusan) Borkovic. I had great races and good qualifying with 30kg.

“My engineer Charles (Hodge) did a perfect job and understood the 30kg weight for the set-up of the car, and the car was just like in Sochi to drive, slightly more difficult, but still good.”