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Batuhan Ünlü
4× Türkiye Karting Şampiyonu · BOM Motorsport E-Sport · Mental Skills Certified
4×
Türkiye Şampiyonu
5
National Podiums
2007
Career Start
BOM
Sim Team 2019-21
The Driver · The Coach
From the seat
to the stopwatch.
I won the Türkiye Şampiyonası four times. It started in 2007 with Petrol Ofisi's PO 25 Küçük Adam Projesi — the national junior championship I finished in 1st. Over the next five years three more titles followed across three age categories: Mini in 2009, KF3 in 2011, and Rotax Max Senior in 2012. A 2.'si finish in KF3 in 2010 sits alongside those wins on a career that defined how I read a circuit.
From 2019 to 2021 I raced for Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport's E-Sport team, reaching the PRO Final of the SRO GT E-Sport Series at Monza in 2019. The discipline of sim racing — repetition, data, mental focus under pressure — became a parallel craft that informs everything I now teach.
In 2025 I completed Applied Sport Psychology · Mental Skills Training under Keith Begley. The work I absorbed as a competitor I now structure as a coach. Two drivers are in active development under me: Oğuz Marangoz in national karting and Kaan Marangoz in AVIS TPS circuit racing.
The coaching method is sim-first, data-driven, human-centred. Simulator builds the mental map; data validates the lap; mental reset protocols protect the human under pressure. The pattern that produced 4 Turkish titles is now structured as a programme. The principle remains the same: there is no shortcut to repeatability — only the work that compounds, lap after lap, session after session.
PO 25 Küçük Adam Projesi · Türkiye Şampiyonu
1st PlaceTOSFED & Petrol Ofisi · Türkiye çapında düzenlenen genç sürücü keşif şampiyonasında 1.lik.
Türkiye Karting Şampiyonu · Mini (7-12)
1st PlaceTOSFED · Sezon birinciliği.
Türkiye 2.'si · KF3 (13-16)
2nd PlaceTOSFED · Sezon ikinciliği.
Türkiye Karting Şampiyonu · KF3 (13-16)
1st PlaceTOSFED · Sezon birinciliği.
Türkiye Karting Şampiyonu · Rotax Max Senior (16+)
1st PlaceTOSFED · Sezon birinciliği.
SRO GT E-Sport · PRO · Monza
FinalistBorusan Otomotiv ile ilişkili. PRO kategorisi finalisti · Monza.
Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport · E-Sport Team
BOM Motorsport E-Sport Takımı 2019, 2020 ve 2021 sezonu simülasyon sürücüsü.
Applied Sport Psychology · Mental Skills Training
GraduateKeith Begley · Performance Psychology Consultant · Training Graduate.
Formula 3 · Test Session
TestSingle-seater test — simulator preparation, onboard telemetry, post-session data review. Fail-and-learn moments kept on tape for the lesson they carry.
2007 · Türkiye 1.
The Beginning
PO 25 Küçük Adam Projesi was Petrol Ofisi's national junior discovery championship — a search for the next generation of Turkish racing talent. I entered as an 11-year-old, raced 7 rounds, and finished the season as Türkiye 1. with 268 points. The win opened doors I had no idea existed: TV cameras, full-page press coverage, the conviction that this was a craft worth dedicating a childhood to.
2009 · Mini (7-12) · Türkiye 1.
First National Title
Two years after PO25, the Türkiye Karting Şampiyonası · Mini kategorisi. A season-long championship in the 7-12 age group with 6-8 drivers per race weekend, fought across the country's best circuits. Winning here meant translating the raw speed of the discovery project into something repeatable — qualifying consistency, race craft, the discipline to bring the kart home in races where the obvious move was a risk.
2010 → 2011 · KF3 (13-16)
Setback. Comeback.
Moving up to KF3 — a faster category, bigger karts, older drivers. The first season ended Türkiye 2. — a vice-championship that taught me how thin the margin is between 1st and 2nd. The next year I came back, applied every lesson the setback delivered, and won Türkiye 1. in KF3.
That two-year arc is the one I lean on most as a coach today. Wins teach you what works. Second place teaches you everything else.
2012 · Rotax Max Senior (16+) · Türkiye 1.
The Apex
Rotax Max Senior — Turkey's premier karting class for adults. The end of five years climbing through age categories and the start of a different kind of competition: against drivers who had been racing in the senior class for years. Winning the Türkiye Karting Şampiyonası here completed the trilogy across Mini, KF3, and Senior — three age groups, three national titles.
Five years on Turkish karting circuits — TOSFED championships across Mini, KF3, and Rotax Max Senior categories. Numbered #6, batuhanunlu.com on the bumper, learning every kerb on every track in the country.
Hürriyet · Milliyet · Sabah · FotoMaç · Mynet Spor. TV appearances on TRT · ATV · CNN Türk · S Spor · Türkmax. Turkish karting press coverage from 2007 onwards — full-page features, prime-time interviews.
From real karts to virtual GT cars. Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport opened the next chapter in 2019 — a national driver selection programme, training events at the BOM HQ, and competition in the SRO GT E-Sport Series. Three seasons (2019, 2020, 2021) on the BOM sim team. Different surface, same craft: repetition, data, mental focus under pressure.
2019 · Phase 01
Driver Selection
A nationwide selection process to assemble BOM's first competitive sim roster. Qualifying laps, race simulations, and a final assessment day at the team HQ. The path back into competition started here — earned, not invited.
2019 · Phase 02
BOM Track · Team Day
Team training event with Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport — sim rigs, briefings, on-track sessions. The selected sim drivers, the engineers, the race coaches in one room. Calibration between virtual lap times and the real car's behaviour started here.
2019 · Phase 03 · Finalist
SRO GT E-Sport · Monza
The SRO GT E-Sport Series · PRO category — international competition, GT3 cars, full broadcast production. Qualified through to the PRO Final at Monza, racing against drivers from across Europe. Finalist of the inaugural season.
SRO PRO Final · Monza 2019 — cockpit setup between sessions.
Reviewing a session replay paddock-side.
Team garage walk-through ahead of the final.
Watching a competitor's lap on the back-of-grid monitor.
Pre-grid walk before lights-out.
A Formula 3 single-seater test — the largest single opportunity of the year. Open-wheel cars load differently than karts under brake, rotate harder on entry, reward precision the kart never demanded. Preparation built in the simulator, the test day itself a focused study of how the car teaches the driver. Onboard data recorded for post-session review.
Preparation · Simulator Work
Hours before the first real lap.
Brake references, corner sequences, gear-shift rhythm — all built in the simulator first. The first lap in the real car was meant as a confirmation, not a discovery. The preparation is the work that decides the test.
Onboard · Data Telemetry
Reading the Data
The onboard carries the full telemetry overlay — speed, throttle, brake, gear, steering trace. Watching this back is half the lesson: where the brake was lifted too soon, where throttle could have come on a metre earlier, where the corner geometry was misread. Data turns a single lap into a teacher.
Full telemetry overlay — speed, throttle, brake, gear, steering trace. The lap is half the lesson; the readout is the other half.
Fail, Learn
The mistake kept on tape.
One moment of misjudgement — the kind every driver collects. It stays here because the lesson from the error is what carries forward into the next session, and into the way I coach. Reviewing the failure on tape, calmly and in detail, is where the real work happens.
With Oğuz Marangoz · BOM Karting · session debrief.
Method
Sim-first, data-driven, human-centred.
Every driver I work with starts in simulation — Assetto Corsa Competizione, iRacing, real-car sim for circuit and drift. Sim is not a substitute for the real car; it is the fastest and safest way to build the mental map and the procedural habits that transfer directly to the track. From there: technique, tyre setup, data reading, mental reset protocols, race strategy. Sessions are logged and tracked across SA rating, lap-time progression, and qualitative session notes.
Sim-First Foundation
ACC, iRacing, real-car sim. Build the mental map before the first real lap. Track knowledge, racecraft, and procedural memory acquired in a no-cost-of-mistake environment.
Sim is not a substitute for the real car; it is the fastest and safest way to build the mental map and the procedural habits that transfer directly to the track.
Data-Driven Validation
Every session logged. Lap-time progression, SA rating, sector deltas, throttle/brake traces. Coaching decisions are anchored to data — not intuition alone.
Sessions are logged and tracked across SA rating, lap-time progression, and qualitative session notes.
Mental Skills
Reset protocols, focus rituals, pre-race routine. Trained under Keith Begley's Applied Sport Psychology programme. The fast lap is half mechanical, half mental.
Training covered attentional control, anxiety regulation under racing pressure, recovery routines after errors, and pre-race ritual design.
Tyre, Setup, Strategy
Compound choice, pressure windows, balance trade-offs. Race strategy under different rule sets — TPS, national karting, sim leagues. The work that decides Sundays.
From there: technique, tyre setup, data reading, mental reset protocols, race strategy.
Mental Skills Training graduate under Keith Begley — Performance Psychology Consultant. Training covered attentional control, anxiety regulation under racing pressure, recovery routines after errors, and pre-race ritual design. The mental side of racing was always present in the seat; now it is structured in the coaching.
Students · Active Development
Two drivers, two disciplines, one method.
Oğuz Marangoz races national karting in the BOM (Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport) team — three seasons of national championship competition. Kaan Marangoz races the AVIS Türkiye Pist Şampiyonası with MAK Motorsports in an Opel Corsa #45 — P2 podium at İstanbul Park in the 2025 season opener.
Both came in with raw speed. The work is structure: turning instinct into a process that survives qualifying pressure, race-start chaos, and the long Sunday.
Past Students · Programme Alumni
Drivers who completed the programme.
Demirhan Kemal Öke worked across drift, karting, and sim through 2023. Alihan Öke ran a Porsche 718 Boxster Spyder in track-day setup work through 2024. Both came in for a defined arc, both moved on once the programme objectives were met.
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