Murat Bostancı

Murat Bostancı is a Turkish rally driver born in Istanbul on December 3, 1988. He became the pilots' champion three times in the Turkish Rally Championship and achieved international success by winning the European Rally Cup in 2015. He spent most of his career under the umbrella of Castrol Ford Team Türkiye.

Education and early years

His encounter with motor sports coincided with his teenage years; He started his racing career in the Turkish Rallycross Championship in 2005, when he was only 16 years old. After high school, he went to England and studied motor sports engineering at Oxford Brookes University and graduated from this department in 2011.

His engineering education provided him with a solid foundation in both his piloting and technical work within the team in the following years.

rally career

Bostancı, who joined Castrol Ford Team Türkiye in 2009, won the Turkish junior rally championship in the same year. He stood out among young pilots by achieving this title in 2011, 2012 and 2013. After moving to the general classification, he became the Turkish rally champion in 2014 and 2015 consecutively. Winning the European Rally Cup in the 2015 season was one of the remarkable results for Turkish rally sport.

He won his third Turkish championship in 2019, driving a four-wheel drive Ford Fiesta R5 with co-pilot Onur Vatansever; The title was finalized at the Yeşil Bursa Rally, the last leg of the season. Bostancı also competed in the WRC2 category at the Finland Rally, which is on the World Rally Championship calendar.

In addition to his piloting, he also worked as a coach at Castrol Ford Team Türkiye and was among those who contributed to the training of the team's young pilots.