Drivers From Drifting Take On the Hill Climb for the First Time

The final round of the 2016 Turkish Hill Climb Championship takes place in Kocaeli on Sunday 6 November. The event, which will run on the Kartepe Derbent road, is notable above all for hosting drifting drivers for the first time...

JDM Works D’Team drivers Kemal Özhaseki and Mert Bilaloğlu, who scored the best points in the Apex Masters Turkish Drift Championship to become the 2016 Turkish Drift Team Champions, will start first for demonstration purposes ahead of each of the three runs, together with individual competitor Burak Ünal. Meanwhile, TeamArt driver Özer Mollamehmetoğlu will also contest Category 4 in a BMW E36 M3 in a hill climb for the first time.

The event, which promises to give spectators a genuine visual spectacle, will conclude with a prize-giving ceremony at the Çamçeşme Restaurant facilities at 18:30.