1st place in 2 Wheel Drive Category

Eskisehir Rally in 2011 was all new and had turned out to be great for us. This year, the stages were almost identical and we were very motivated following our second place finish in the first rally of the 2012 season.

We had a very unlucky start to the 2012 season as a team and we wanted to overcome that in this rally. We started the race with a sensible speed and increased it each loop. It was a goal we had set to ourselves prior to the rally and we are glad to have achieved it. We were also targeting to be in the top 10 with our front wheel drive Fiesta.

We had a very strong fight with my teammate Emre Yurdakul-Burak Erdener and we ended up winning the race in two wheel drive category and class 6 by barely over 1 second!

Now we have 4 gravel rallies and each one has a different character to it. We haven’t raced on gravel surface since Kocaeli Rally 2011 so we are super excited!

Best,
Orhan