The TransAnatolia Rally Raid, which was organized with the support of the Turkish Automobile Sports Federation TOSFED and the Turkish Tourism Promotion and Development Agency TGA and started from Hatay on 20 August, ended in Eskişehir.
This year, a total of 56 vehicles and 28 athletes participated in the TransAnatolia Rally Raid adventure, starting from Hatay and extending to Eskişehir, 84 rally, 115 raids in motorcycle, quad, SSV, automobile and truck categories. In TransAnatolia, which consists of eight legs in total, the teams covered a total of 2.800 km on the stages of Hatay, Osmaniye, Feke, Bakırdağ, Melikgazi, Felahiye, Sivrialan, Kayseri, Develi, Aladağ, Çelikhan, Bolkar, Taşkale, Obruk, Tuz Gölü, Mihalıççık and Eskişehir. .
On Saturday, August 27th, the racers started from Haymana in the 8th and last leg of the race, on the Mihalıççık and Eskişehir stages, 218 km, 313 km of which is the special stage. It was completed in Eskişehir by traveling a long way. The challenging TransAnatolia adventure, organized for the 12th time this year, came to an end with the award ceremony held in Eskişehir City Forest Ecotourism Area.
At the end of the tough race, Ahmet Bağce-Uğur Tepe duo won the first place with 38 hours 41 minutes 56 seconds, Hüseyin Kurt-Özaydın Dölek duo came second with 38 hours 59 minutes 27 seconds, and Mithat Diker-Erdal Oral duo in 58 hours 25 minutes 18 seconds. finished third.
In the SSV category; İsrafil Akyüz-Timur Sancak finished first with 34 hours 24 minutes 2 seconds, Barbaros Ateş-Ali Osman Kutanoğlu finished second with 37 hours 41 minutes 7 seconds, and the Italian Federico Bhutto-Martino Albertini duo finished the race third with 46 hours 15 minutes 36 seconds.
The Italian duo of Marino Mutti and Andrea Mazzoleni, competing in the truck category, finished the race with a total time of 71 hours 54 minutes 58 seconds. Turgay Düzcü-Anıl Gençtürk won the Raid category this year, while Jale Özel-Ayşegül Telli took the second place, and Ahmet Terece and Ulaş Germen took the third place.
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