The second event of the ESET Cup with sports and touring cars continues at the Hungaroring race track, which will significantly enrich the starting grid this time. In Hungary, more than thirty cars will gather for both sprints.
The Czech team I.S.R. Racing, led by Filip Salaquarda with an Audi R8 LMS GT3, is a hot favorite for the Hungarian victories. The experienced team with a fast driver holds all the trump cards. In the opening event, they were only beaten by Racing Trevor in one of the two sprints, where the junior factory driver BMW Neil Verhagen from the USA started for the Slovak team. If Verhagen appears behind the wheel of the BMW M4 GT3 again, Salaquarda will have a very demanding opponent. Of course, last year’s champion Libor Milota, Piotr Wira, Petr Kacirek or Gregor Zsiga, who should replace Verhagen in the second sprint, could also have a say in the GT3 category results. The field will also include the Aston Martin Vantage of Hungarian racer Janos Santi.
There will, of course, also be a fight in the other categories. Especially in GTC, where the young duo of Jáchym Galáš and Matěj Pavlíček from the Mičánek Motorsport team will start again. With the new generation of Lamborghini Super Tropheo, they will be very fast, but the reigning GTC champion Dennis Waszek, who starts with an older generation of Lamborghini, could cause them some trouble. Kurt Wagner, the third man from Mičánek Motorsport, will also appear behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. The field will also include Porsche cars. Petr Brecka from the GT Sports Technology team, who will field a second car for Patrik Simka, will not be missing. The Austrian team Kogelbauer Motorsport will arrive with three 911 models for Richard Woschitz, Franz Lahmer, and Bob Bau.
In the GT4 category, the Racing Trevor team will field a pair of BMW M4 GT4 cars for Zén Kovács, who won a race at Oschersleben, and Antal Zsiga. Their opponent will be Matej Kosič with a Porsche Cayman GT4 from the Lema Racing team.
The GTX category will offer a battle of several different cars, from the Porsche 911 of local racer Kálmán Bódis to the Lamborghini Huracan of Alexander Ober or the Bulgarian racing special Sin Car R1 of Ivan Vlachkov. The KTM brand will be represented by the Czech teams RTR Project and Janík Motorsport, with Pavel Sovička and Tomáš Konvička starting in their colors, respectively. Klaus Binder from the MZR team will also line up with a third KTM GTX.
The TCX category will have a relatively large representation of touring cars from Cupra, Chevrolet, VW, Audi, or Hyundai.