Thrilling Battles at Turkish Circuit Racing Championship Round Three

The Victory Cup Races, the third round of the AVIS 2026 Turkish Circuit Racing Championship, were held at TOSFED Istanbul Park on 29-30 August.

The races, which produced thrilling battles in front of some 12,000 ticketed spectators, were accompanied by TOSFED Track Faest, in which drivers took to the circuit in their own cars.

With 22 drivers taking part across the Maxi and Super classes over the weekend, Orçun İnce won both races in the Super class. Recep Çelikkanat finished second in the first race and third in the second, while Sadi Angılcı took third in the first race and second in the second to reach the podium.

In the Maxi class, where the fight was close from start to finish, the first-race podium was made up of Berk Kalpaklıoğlu in first, Oğuz Marangoz in second and Sevde Zehra Yıldırım in third. In the second race, Seda Kaçan Bakan took the win, Galip Atar was second, and 16-year-old Oğuz Marangoz, who ended his first circuit experience with a double podium, finished third.

Texaco Team AMS won the teams' title in both races, while in the women's category Sevde Zehra Yıldırım took victory in the first race and Seda Kaçan Bakan in the second. Orçun İnce in the Super class, and Berk Kalpaklıoğlu and Seda Kaçan Bakan in the Maxi class, set the fastest laps of the races and received the special awards on 30 August.

At the ceremony held at the end of the day, the awards were presented to the leading drivers and teams by Mücahit Arslan, Ankara MP in the 25th, 26th and 27th terms of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye, and TOSFED President Eren Üçlertoprağı.