Rally in Turkey April 2010

[Esther]

Hi you guys. I'm not very familiar with this forum process.
I am from New Zealand and want to watch Rally Turkey where my grandson will be racing.
I have a problem in that I am travelling solo and not sure how I will be able to get out to vantage points.
Is there someone who might be able to help me with the right contacts. I would like to try and organsie something before I leave New Zealand but I don't know the right way of finding a contact.
Hoping someone can help. Esther.

[Camelopard]

I too planed on going to Rally Turkey, hopefully on an organised tour, but Per Carlsson from Rally Travels (www.rallytravels.com) has decided not to run a tour.

The other well known travel site Rally Travel doesn't have a listing for Turkey either. (www.rallytravel.com)

It may be worth while sending an email to Greg Paul at Rally Tours NZ, he may be able to help more (greg.coaches@clear.net.nz)


I really don't want to go solo, these days I would rather pay the money and have some one else do the organising and worrying.

The home site of Rally Turkey points you to http://www.veritatravel.com/ however they don't seem to have any information at the moment apart from listing a few hotels.


Sorry I can't help any further.

We will be flying into Amman for Rally Jordan on the 30th March then making our own way up to Istanbul for that rally, flying out of Istanbul on the monday after the rally, if we can't go on an organised tour for Turkey, we'll probably spend longer in Syria as there is so much to see and it is a great country to travel in.

[J4MIE]

Enjoy your trip Camelopard, that sounds really great

[Francis44]

Sorry to ask but how do those rally travels work????

[Camelopard]

Sorry to ask but how do those rally travels work????

Apologies to Esther for possibly highjacking her thread.



The ones I have been on with Per (and highly recommend) involve turning up at the hotel booked by his company then being chaffuered around to the stages in a mini bus.

Realisticly Jordan could be done without a tour, in fact I met a Dutch couple 2 years ago who organised their own hotel and travelled around the rally by public transport. There were also 2 young girls from St Petersburg that had flown into Damascus and rented a car there, driven down to Jordan and drove themselves around.

Per normally checks out the route before the rally and picks what he thinks are some good spots. Last time there were about 20 of us including Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, French, American and us 2 (Australian/Canadian). Also with our group was PG's parents, though unfortunately he had major problems early on.

Normally also included is a visit to some of the teams servce areas, again highly recommended, spoke to most of the Ford guys, we also wen to Citroen but the atmosohere there was poisonous as it was after the debacle between Seb and Conrad, even the French guy with us was most unimpressed with their attitude!

I used to do things indepentently but I'm getting old I want some luxury and not have to worry about things!

If you go to Per's site (www.rallytravels.com), click on the English flag then click on photos, scroll down to rally Jordan 2008, I'm the fatty with my arm up next to the Swedish Flag.

Do it, honestly you will not be disappointed.

[cercle]

Any news yet about the entry list?

Citroen : Loeb, Sordo, Sordo, Raikkonen, Solberg P.
Ford : Hirvonen, Latvalla, Wilson, Solberg H., Block, Al Quassimi,
JWRC : Neuville, Abbring, Slavov, Mattei

5 Pirelli Lancers

Maybe
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Merksteyn (2) /Focus Wrc
Kuipers (2) /Focus Wrc - Subaru Wrc
Ten Brinke /Focus Wrc
Cetinkaya /S2000

[tolis]

+Fiesta Sport Trophy

[alexlake]

Sorry to ask but how do those rally travels work????

Could not recomend www.rallytravel.com more highly, have traveled with them to Spain twice, Sweden, Germany, and just booked Spain for this year. They are very very good

[bluuford]

The entries should be as following:

WRC:
1 Loeb Citroen
2 Sordo Citroen
3 Hirvonen Ford
4 Latvala Ford
5 Wilson Ford
6 Räikkönen Citroen
7 Ogier Citroen
8 Solberg P Citroen
9 Henning Ford
10 Block Ford
11 Merksteijn Ford
12 Merksteijn J Ford
13 Kuipers, R. Ford
14 Kuipers, D. Ford

JWRC:
1 Slavov, T Renault R3
2 Mattei
3 Broccoli, A. Renault R3
4 Neuville, T. Citroen
5 Abbring, K.

Pirelli:
1 Tänak Mitsu EvoX
2 Paddon Mitsu EvoX
3 Raschi Mitsu EvoX
4 Horsey Mitsu EvoX
5 Georgiou, N Mitsu EvoX

Possibly there:
1. Brinke Ford Focus WRC

Many Fiestas including beautiful Turkish girls :-)

[cercle]

And Al Quassimi?

Does this rally also count for the Turkish championship?
Ifso, witch participants can we expect?