Ford Team Türkiye has completed the most important and challenging race of the World Junior Rally Championship (Junior WRC) season with great success! Ali Türkkan and Co-Piloti Burak Erdener, who represented Türkiye, finished the season as the third in the world despite the setbacks they experienced during the race.

The Acropolis Rally, held in Greece between 5-8 September 2024, was the fifth and last leg of the World Youth Rally Championship. After the races in Sweden, Croatia, Italy and Finland, it was completed with the acropolis rally known as the most challenging stage. In this struggle, which was stamped by challenging conditions and crusher stages, Castrol Ford Team Türkiye team showed a strong performance with Ford Fiesta Rally3 vehicles and achieved the third place with the valuable points they received from this rally.

With this result, the team consisting of Ali Türkkan and Burak Erdener has achieved a success that no Turkish pilot or team had failed in the rally history of Türkiye. In addition, Ali Türkkan and Burak Erdener, who won 7 stages in his Acropolis Ralli, which consists of 15 stages, showed a very high performance. At the beginning of the season, Castrol Ford Team Türkiye stated that the young pilot has the potential to enter the top three and emphasized that this success would be a turning point for Turkish automobile sports.

Next season target: Türkiye’s first championship!

Castrol Ford Team Türkiye is not satisfied with this success and aims to win its first championship in Türkiye in the World Junior Rally Championship with Ali Türkkan in the next season. Castrol Ford Team Türkiye Team Coach Murat Bostancı said in a statement before the Acropolis Stage; “To take part in the championship struggle in the World Junior Rally Championship class, which we attended for the first time this year, gives great hope for the future. As a Turkish team, even approaching this success is a great source of pride for us. He used his statements.

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