Erkut Kızılırmak

BTCC driver
Name = Erkut Kızılırmak


Nationality = flagicon|TUR
Nickname =
Car number = 90
Team = Arkas Racing
Car = Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch
Championships = 0
Wins = 0
Podiums = 0
Poles = 0
Fastest laps = 0
First year = 2006
First win = -
Best position = 22nd in 2008
Last season = 2008
Last position = 22nd (1 point)

Erkut Kızılırmak (born September 14, 1969) is an auto racing driver from Turkey. He started racing in rallying in 1992 and switched to touring cars in 2002, at the age of 32. In 2005 he won the Turkish Touring Car Championship, in a Vauxhall Astra Coupé formerly raced by Yvan Muller in the BTCC.He also made an appearance in the Turkish round of the World Touring Car Championship in 2005.

His connections with the series and the Triple 8 Race Engineering company, increased in 2006, with Erkut becoming the first Turkish driver to compete in the BTCC when he raced at Croft in a Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch (converted from one of the team's show cars). He also competed at Snetterton, where he achieved his best result - 13th.

On February 9 2007, Erkut announced that he would be competing in the full BTCC championship in 2007, in an ex VX Racing Astra Sport Hatch. His Arkas team unites with Tech-Speed to run the car. Despite previous expectations, it is a one-car team, with no place for previous Tech-Speed driver Paul O'Neill.

Two tenth-places in the high-atrition round 8 at Brands Hatch gave him his only 2 overall points of the season, while he finished 9th in the Independents' Cup, showing some speed and gusto in a 2006-spec car. He continues for 2008 with the team.

Erkut also won the first two races of the 2007 Turkish Touring Car Championship.

External links

* [http://www.btcc.net/html/driver_detail.php?id=96 Profile on btcc.net]
* [http://www.btccaction.co.uk/drivers/kizilirmak.php btcc:action Profile]