Kaan Önder, (born 10 January 1997 in

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) is a former

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. He was mentored by triple world champion

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in 2014 and 2015. He holds titles of CIK SEEKZ (South East European Karting Zone) KF3 champion (2010), two times Turkish Karting Championship champion (KF3 in 2009 and ICA-J in 2008) and winner of the

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International Open Junior Category in 2011. He is the youngest

who attended the FIA ETCC in

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. As of the 2016 season he has been inactive, having retired from the motorsports to study mathematics and physics. As of 2019 he is studying at the

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. He is a

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candidate in the

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group at

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and is a member of

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. He is supervised by David Tong and his current research focus is on

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s on the lattice.

Racing career

Kaan's motorsports career started in 2007 with TOSFED's PO Cup project and he participated over 400 races and is the 1st Turkish driver to follow whole European

Championship season in 2010. Kaan also raced for British Super 1 Championship, Belgian Championship, BNL Series, SEEKZ (South East European Karting Championship), and many other international trophies and race events. He is the first Turkish kart driver who holds champion title at an international level and awarded as national sportsman in 2010. Borusan Otomotiv and

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Turkey started to support him during 2010. In 2013 he raced for the Formula BMW Talent Cup series which is organized by

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and in 2014 he joined

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ETCC team for the 2014 European Touring Car Cup season. During the season, he raced with team's’s

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car in the Super 2000 TC2 class.

Karting

Mini / Cadet

Kaan began karting in 2007 at the age of ten at

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and his first season raced for PO Cup, SEEKZ and Turkish mini Championships with Tony Rocky chassis and Parilla Swift engine. Also raced at Easykart Cadet class in N.Cyprus during the 2007 winter season.

Junior ( Rotax / ICA-J / KF3 )

From the Cadet ranks, he progressed through the Junior (ICA-J) in Turkey and Rotax Mini Max in the UK (2008). In his 1st year he became the Turkish ICA-J 2008 Champion with 355 points: He is also the 1st International KF3 Winner for Turkey in Karting. In 2009 he got the KF3 Turkish Champion title with 275 points. He won the 1st International Karting Championship for Turkey in 2010. SEEKZ (South East European Karting Zone) KF3 2010 Champion title came in

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Bulgaria. Kaan came to Haskovo as leader of the championship and also track record holder for KF3 after Greek and Romanian Rounds. His total 92 points brought him the S.E. European KF3 Champion title. In 2011 he won the Rotax Max International Open Junior race in

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on a

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Formula BMW Talent Cup

During 2011 and 2012 Kaan had his first Formula BMW tests in

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Spain and

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Germany. His team

and sponsor

Turkey supported him to race for the full

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season started with two test events in

and

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. Followed with test races in

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and

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before the grand finals in

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. Kaan won two test races in

and

and finished the last race of the season in

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on second place podium.

European Touring Car Cup (TC2)

Early 2014

announced that 17-year-old Önder will drive the team's BMW 320si car for the 2014 European Touring Car Cup season. This was Kaan's 1st year with the touring cars and he had very limited testing opportunity with the BMW 320 si. Kaan had his debut at

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and had to compete with very experienced drivers. Last race of the ETCC 2014 season was in

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in Italy and Onder managed to finish on the podium.

Audi Sport TT Cup

Önder raced in the

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which was the inaugural season of the

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. It began on 2 May 2015 at

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and finished on 18 October at

after six double-header meetings, all of which are support events for the

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References

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