Turkey, with this organization, will be the guest to 186 country’s television once again, while the best drivers and teams of the world will be our guest in Antalya and Kemer between 02-05 June, 2005. At the same time, as it was last season, it is expected that total of 70 million TV audience will be focusing on this event. At this Meditterranean Riviera, the ones who are already on holiday will have a different choice and a chance to watch this high-adrenaline sports organization.

The official Rally HQ of this season is The Grand Haber Hotel/Kemer. The brand new hotel, which started to be in service last year, will be the Rally HQ for the coming 3 years and will be the first time to wellcome the guests in a huge organization like this.

Rally Of Turkey will start at Thursdayi 02 June 2005 at 18:50. with the SSS in Akdeniz University, which was built last year. With a change, this year the SSS will meet with the rally fans during three days, (including Friday and Saturday). During the SSS, the most enjoyable part of the rally; cars will start side by side as pairs, while the spectators will have the chance to watch the race from different grandstands which they will get the highest pleasure. After the SSS on Thursday, the real challenge will start with the special stages on the mountain roads of Kemer and Kumluca at Friday, 03 June. The rally will last 3 full days and finish at Sunday, 05 June 2005 at 13:00 in Kemer Service Park.

This year, Rally Of Turkey will be run on 3 legs and 10 sections which consists of 885 kms normal and 350 kms special stages. 18 special stage will be held in the race, made up of 9 different stages. ( SSS, Phaselis, Arykanda, Perge, Myra, Kemer, Silyon, Chimera, Olympos)

PWRC at Turkey...

This season, instead of JWRC, another championship will be held in the Rally Of Turkey, as known PWRC, the advanced Group N cars mostly made by Subaru and Mitsubishi. The PWRC championship is totally made up of 8 legs which the drivers have a right to choose 6 of them to compete. This season, all of 21 PWRC drivers announced that they will at the start of Rally of Turkey. Also, even there is no chance to get any points for their target, the leader of JWRC championship, Suzuki Team is expected to compete in Turkey.

Service Park is in Kemer Again

The Service Park, which all the repairs of the rally cars carried out, will take place in Kemer again. This area is one of the perfect places for the spectators to feel the unique atmosphere of the rally sport. Also, with the stands, shops, promotions, hospitality services and various activities, Service Park, which turns Kemer into a rally town during the event, is the heart of the organization.

We inform you not to miss the event, 6 well known manufacturers teams to take part in Antalya (Peugeot, Ford, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Citroen and Skoda), each car of whom is worth approximately 400.000$. They will challenge among themselves with the accompaniment of historical and natural beauty of Kemer for 1/10 seconds.

In 2005 season, the interest shown by the spectators is very high. Except the reservations from the countries like Japan and Finland, there are associations which include Rally Of Turkey to their motivation programs and distributer meetings.

For the ones who would like to organize meetings for their distributers or show hospitality to their guests, we inform you to make contact with Yazıcı Tourism (+90 212 343 8500).

WRC and Rally Of Turkey, As a Summary

Turkey has become a candidate for WRC in 2000. After continuous success for three years, Turkey joined the WRC calendar in 2003. The first ever Rally Of Turkey of WRC, was held in Antalya between 27 February - 2 March 2003 helped the advertisement of our country with great success. In 2003, The Rally Of Turkey, which was won by Carlos Sainz-Marc Marti of Citroen, broadcasted 169 hours and reached 71 million spectators from 186 country.

Between 24-27 June 2004, Turkey hosted WRC for the second time. This time, the rally was
held in summer, contributed to tourism much more. Nearly 350 journalist observed the rally, which at the finish Sebastien Loeb-Daniel Elena (Citroen) were standing on the top of the podium and people all around the world witnessed the success of Turkey again.

For further information:
Ms. Sinem Erdogdu
Pres Officer

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