Dušan Borkovič heads the times in second Hungaroring practice

Target Competition’s Dušan Borkovič was the fastest driver in second practice for the TCR Europe series at the Hungaroring, with the Serbian racer leading a Hyundai 1-2-3 ahead of team-mate Kris Richard and M1RA’s Francisco Mora.

Borkovič went to the top of the times just past the halfway stage of the session, with a time that was significantly better than the quickest lap posted earlier in the morning by Dániel Nagy.

Swiss racer Richard was a significant seven tenths further back in second, whilst Portuguese Mora was the only other driver to be within a second of the pace in third, such was Borkovič’s speed.

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Comtoyou Racing’s Maxime Potty was fourth fastest, having dropped back in the session as Richard improved late on, ahead of FP1 pace-setter Nagy in fifth.

WRT’s Jean-Karl Vernay was sixth in his Audi, ahead of the Honda pair of KCMG’s Attila Tassi and Josh Files in seventh and eighth respectively, the duo having been amongst the first to put in quick laps during the half-hour session.

Autodis Racing by THX team-mates Loris Cencetti, racing this weekend for the first time in a Civic after swapping cars with his team-mate, and Stefano Comini completed the top ten, making it four Hondas in the top ten.

Points leader Mikel Azcona struggled for pace once again in his PCR Sport CUPRA, languishing down in 15^th position, 2.702 seconds off the pace on his first outing at the Budapest circuit.

Several drivers were called up for repeatedly exceeding track limits, including Files, Comini, Danny Kroes and Cedric Piro.

Target Competition’s Reece Barr had earlier crashed out in first practice at Turn 5, but his team managed to repair his Hyundai and he entered the session, only to stop after two laps with a technical issue.

Saturday’s qualifying session takes place at 09:55 CEST (08:55 BST).

More to follow…

Session results

POS	NO	DRIVER	NAT	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	62	Dušan BORKOVIĆ		Target Competition	Hyundai i30 N TCR	12	1:52.291	0.000
2	94	Kris RICHARD		Target Competition	Hyundai i30 N TCR	12	1:53.011	0.720
3	26	Francisco MORA		M1RA	Hyundai i30 N TCR	11	1:53.166	0.875
4	88	Maxime POTTY		Comtoyou Racing	Volkswagen Golf GTi TCR	12	1:53.545	1.254
5	999	Dániel NAGY		M1RA	Hyundai i30 N TCR	12	1:53.568	1.277
6	69	Jean-Karl VERNAY		Leopard Lukoil Team	Audi RS3 LMS TCR	10	1:53.611	1.320
7	9	Attila TASSI		Hell Energy Racing with KCMG	Honda Civic Type R FK7 TCR	11	1:53.626	1.335
8	99	Josh FILES		Hell Energy Racing with KCMG	Honda Civic Type R FK7 TCR	11	1:53.644	1.353
9	14	Loris CENCETTI		Autodis Racing by THX	Honda Civic Type R FK7 TCR	12	1:53.920	1.629
10	42	Stefano COMINI		Autodis Racing by THX	Honda Civic Type R FK7 TCR	12	1:53.945	1.654
11	7	Igor STEFANOVSKI		Stefanovski Racing Team	Hyundai i30 N TCR	10	1:54.055	1.764
12	23	Francisco ABREU		Sports & You	Peugeot 308 TCR	15	1:54.775	2.484
13	13	Cedric PIRO		Autodis Racing by Piro Sports	Hyundai i30 N TCR	10	1:54.845	2.554
14	10	Viktor DAVIDOVSKY		PSS Racing Team	Honda Civic Type R FK7 TCR	14	1:54.869	2.578
15	25	Mikel AZCONA		PCR Sport	CUPRA TCR	12	1:54.993	2.702
16	4	Julien BRICHÉ		JSB Compétition	Peugeot 308 TCR	12	1:55.105	2.814
17	20	Márk JEDLÓCZKY		JLG Sport	CUPRA TCR	10	1:55.242	2.951
18	34	Stian PAULSEN		Stian Paulsen Racing	CUPRA TCR	10	1:55.536	3.245
19	38	Danny KROES		PCR Sport	CUPRA TCR	13	1:55.552	3.261
20	55	Ferenc FICZA		Zengő Motorsport	CUPRA TCR DSG	12	1:55.705	3.414
21	17	Martin RYBA		Brutal Fish Racing Team	Volkswagen Golf GTi TCR	12	1:56.708	4.417
22	21	Marie BAUS-COPPENS		JSB Compétition	CUPRA TCR DSG	14	1:57.993	5.702
23	8	Reece BARR		Target Competition	Hyundai i30 N TCR	2	2:07.095	14.804
24	11	Jens Reno MØLLER		Reno Racing	Honda Civic Type R FK7 TCR	9	2:12.636	20.345