Stefano Comini wants stewards to take action against Dusan Borkovic for qualifying incident

Two-time champion Stefano Comini was disappointed after qualifying eighth at the Salzburgring, and has called on the stewards to penalise Dusan Borkovic for an incident late in Qualifying 2, when the Swiss driver nearly ran into the back of the wading Alfa driver at Turn 9.

The Comtoyou Racing Audi driver nearly crashed out at the end of qualifying when he came across Borkovic’s Alfa Romeo Giulietta, which was moving slowly down the middle of the circuit.

“I’m really disappointed about Dusan,” said Comini to TouringCarTimes. “It was so dangerous to do what he did like this. I was on my fastest lap, I’d done two good sectors, and then after, Dusan. I was about 10cm from his car and 10cm from the gravel – I hope the stewards will do something. We are friends, but this was really dangerous.

“He says it wasn’t his fault, the team had told him the session was finished, but I don’t care, he was in the car.”

Borkovic apologised to Comini, explaining that he misunderstood the message from the team at the end of his last run.

“I’m really sorry to Stefano, as I didn’t understand he was coming. My engineer said it was finished, but I understood it as though the session was finished, and that’s why I was driving so slow. When I saw everyone was still on a lap, I drove immediately on the grass – what happened was not my intention, I just thought the session was over.”

There’s no stewards’ investigation outstanding for qualifying, with the results not expected to change.