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Dusan Borkovic (born in Pancevo on 16th of September 1984) is a Serbian car racer. He is the tallest professional car racer in the world with his height of 207 cm. Dusan’s father, Jovan, was the double champion of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in motor racing, as well as the champion of truck races in former Yugoslavia during the 70’s and the 90’s of the past century. Dušan has been participating in car racing since 1994. He is the first Serb to be the champion of FIA European Hill Climbing Races in 2012, and he won the third place in the European Touring Car Cup 2013 and the title in that championship in 2015. Furthermore, he is the first Serb to be competing in the prestigious world competition in circuit tracks – World Touring Race Championship (WTCC) class TC1 in the car model Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T, with the latest specifications. Along with the previously mentioned titles he won twelve national champion titles, three golden and one diamond helmet. He is the youngest winner of this award in the history of car racing. He has been married to Andrijana Borkovic since 2012.

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
From 1994 to 2000 Dusan was kart racing. He was the champion of Yugoslavia six years in a row. Even though he had both of his arms broken, when he rolled over in his kart accident, it didn’t discourage him to continue competing and achieving outstanding results. In 1999 he was close to losing his right arm when it got under the wheel during the race in Hungary, nevertheless he managed to recover and continue his professional career. In 2001 he shifted into the “little N” in which Yugo was driven. The following year he was the runner-up of that competition along with winning the first place at the „Usce“ track in Belgrade. In 2003 he passed over to the most popular class of national championship – “The National Class – hybrids”. He finished the season at the third place of the overall rankings, but he was the runner-up the year to follow. In the period from 2004 to 2008 he had the most victories in the history of “National Class”. In 2007 he competed in Hill Climbing races and set the records for all eight of them. In 2010 he was the champion of Hill Climbing races in Serbia (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9). He participated in Serbia rally and Istra rally.

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
In 2011 Dusan competed for the first time in Europe. He chose FIA European Hill Climb Championship, and was the first Serbian contestant to venture into this championship. No sooner than the first race in Rechberg Austria, did he win the first place and set the track record. Out of total twelve races, he participated in nine of them. He set the track record on four of the tracks in the N group and achieved the third place at the championship. The year 2012 was of significant importance to his career for he became the European champion of FIA European Hill Climb Championship. He took the victory and set the track records on eight out of ten races in which he drove, and he managed to gain unbeatable advantage in the Switzerland race. He celebrated the title in Buzet, Croatia in front of fifteen thousand viewers. In 2013 he had a decisive debutant season in European Touring Car Cup, which he finished placed as third in the strongest S2000 class in cooperation with Campos Racing Team under the name of NIS Petrol racing team. The best results he achieved in Salzburg, where he won one of the races behind the wheel of Seat Leon TFSI S2000. Whereas he drove Chevrolet Cruze S2000 in the last two races of the season.

WTCC
2014. Dusan will be driving in FIA WTCC for the first time in TC1 class in RML Chevrolet Cruze with the Campos Racing Team under the name of NIS Petrol racing team named after the general sponsor NIS Gazprom Neft.

AWARDS
-FIA European Hill Climbing Championship- 3rd place (2011)

-winner of European Hill Climb Championship (2012)

- third place in European Touring Car Cup (ETCC) (2013)

-Best World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) result- 2nd place Suzuka, Japan 2014 Dborkovic1 (talk) 13:21, 10 September 2020 (UTC)https://dusanborkovic.com/en/dušan

-Chamiopn of FIA European Touring Car Cup (ETCC) (2015)

- twelve national champion titles;

- three golden helmets;

- diamond helmet (the youngest to win this award in the history of car racing )

- the winner of over two hundred trophies;

- winner of 52nd Serbia rally (2019)