In among the many insanity of a rally end, Türkkan and his navigator Oytun Albayrak had discovered some peace and quiet. Arriving lengthy after the excitement of the media zone had died out, his Ford Fiesta Rally3 was shuttled immediately into the queue for the end ramp. That meant loads of ready – and loads of time to mirror on a journey to win that look longer than it maybe ought to have.
Türkkan winds the clock again to that fateful Croatia Rally a yr earlier: “It was a silly mistake by my facet,” he informed DirtFish. “I wasn’t going too quick or one thing, I simply misunderstood a tempo word, crashed and broke the ribs of my ex-co-driver [Burak Erdener].”
What adopted was a collection of close to misses for victories that made it look as if he’d walked below too many ladders, or maybe damaged too many mirrors.
“OK, we go to Sardinia [after Croatia],” mentioned Türkkan. “We have been main once more and puncture. We didn’t change it and that puncture broke the automotive: brake disc, all the things. We have been late to time management and misplaced a win once more.
“In Finland, I used to be main, I used to be successful levels, however my ex-co-driver forgot his time card within the resort and on the Friday morning, we had a 10-second penalty. We misplaced the rally [win] by 2.1 seconds.
