Frigyes Turán (born January 10, 1974, in

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) is a Hungarian

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driver.

Career

A regular competitor in the Hungarian national championship, Turán made his

World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is the highest level of global competition in the motorsport discipline of rallying, owned and governed by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA. There are separate championships ...

debut at the

2010 Rally de Portugal The 2010 Rally de Portugal was the 44th Rally de Portugal and the sixth round of the 2010 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place over May 27–30, and was based in Faro, the capital city of the Algarve region. The rally was also ...

driving a

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, finishing 23rd overall. At the next event, Rally Bulgaria, he finished an impressive eighth, ahead of WRC regular

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. His next rally in WRC was Rally France, he retired at 9th Special Stage. At

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he raced with

Ford Focus RS WRC 08 The Ford Focus RS WRC is a car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford Europe and M-Sport and based on the Ford Focus Climate 2-litre production hatchback, developed to compete in the World Rally Championship. The RS stands for ''Rallye Sport ...

instead of his usual

. He had stronge results for privateer, finished 2nd day of rally at 7th place but had to retire after crash at first special stage of 3rd day (13th stage of whole rally).

Complete WRC results

SWRC results

† Excluded from Championship.

References

External links

Synergon Turán Motorsport

Profile at eWRC-results.com
1974 births Hungarian rally drivers Living people World Rally Championship drivers {{Hungary-sport-bio-stub Sportspeople from Budapest