Bahattin Sofuoğlu (1 January 1978 - 25 October 2002) born in

Adapazarı Adapazarı () is a municipality and the capital Districts of Turkey, district of Sakarya Province, Turkey. Its area is 324 km2, and its population 281,489 (2022). It covers the central and northern part of the agglomeration of Adapazarı and t ...

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was a successful

motorcycle racer The motorcycle sport of racing (also called moto racing and motorbike racing) includes motorcycle road racing and off-road racing, both either on circuits or open courses, and track racing. Other categories include hill climbs, drag racing and ...

for the Turkish Honda team. As the son of a motorcycle repairman, he started racing in 1997 at the age of nineteen. His two brothers Sinan and

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were also motorcycle racers. Sinan Sofuoğlu died on May 9, 2008, at the age of 25 in the intensive care unit of Kocaeli University Hospital following a motorcycle crash. He was training for the Turkey Motorcycle Championship at İzmit Körfez Circuit in Körfez, Kocaeli, where he fell-off his motorcycle and suffered a broken neck, trauma at the base of his skull, and

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was named after him.

Achievements

* 1999 Turkish Motorcycle Circuit Championship Supersport Class A champion * 2000 Turkish Motorcycle Circuit Championship Supersport Class A champion * 2001 Turkish Motorcycle Circuit Championship Supersport Class A champion

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1978 births 2002 deaths Sportspeople from Adapazarı Turkish motorcycle racers Road incident deaths in Turkey Pedestrian road incident deaths Bahattin {{Turkey-sport-bio-stub

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