Successful TCR touringcar-debut for Croatian racedriver Ivan Sentic

Dubrovnik. The 29-years old Croatian racedriver Ivan Sentic from Dubrovnik took his next steps in his racing career and was able to settle an successful touringcar-debut with 350 HP TCR CUPRA Leon racecar.

His first raceweekend in such a professional and fast touringcar, was from 27.-29.08.2021 at modern racetrack at Slovakiaring (SK). Ivan Sentic was competing in championships of FIA CEZ (Central-Europe-Zone) and Croatian Championship. His aim at his first raceweekend at this 5,9 km long and amazing racetrack was to collect as much experience as possible.

"We are very proud of Ivan, who managed to took a great debut in fast TCR-racecar. The whole weekend he was able to optimize his laptimes and scored out good points in both championships” said organizer and team prinzipal Andreas Pfister after the first raceweekend.

Ivan Sentic (CRO) in his 350 HP CUPRA Leon TCR racecar

"At the first raceweekend I took the focus to get fimilar with this fast racecar, also with the braking and using the best exits of the corners. It was also important to took an eye at our tyres, which are very heavy in work here at Slovakiaring. Altogether I´m happy with my results and I´m sure these race-kilometres will help me for the future” said driver Ivan Sentic after the weekend.

After the raceweekend at Slovakiaring, the second was settled for 03.-05^th of September at Automotodrom Brno (CZ).

More trophies for Sentic despite hitting racetrack Brno for the first time

After Slovakiaring, the racetrack at Automotodrom Brno was for Ivan Sentic the first time to hit this track. After the first laps in the qualifying session, the mechanics had to change a sparepart in the braking-circle to ensure brakes will work well at this racetrack.

"Ivan had some small problems with brakes in qualifying sessions and also had to learn the track, cause it was totally new for him. After changing a sparepart from our mechanics, the car was running well and Ivan was able to show an amazing speed, especially in race two, where he overtook Porsche GT4 car.” said organizer and team prinzipal Andreas Pfister after the first qualifying session.

In second race, Ivan was taking a good speed and a cool fight with faster cars: "I´m happy with this second raceweekend, especially cause I was able to learn the track fast. In second race I had a hard fight with faster cars, but I was able to overtook and again scored good points in championship.” Ivan Sentic after second race.