Celebrating advent with motorsport’s best names. Obviously.

So we come to the end. Christmas Eve. If you’ve stuck with me through this massive waste of Internet that was the Good Name Advent Calendar, then thank you. You must be keen to know who I’m declaring to have the best name in motorsport.

Well wonder no more: it’s BTCC driver Erkut Kizilirmak. He’s Turkish, he raced in a British championship, and pretty much no-one dared to use his surname. It was just Erkut on the side of his car, and the commentators almost never uttered the wonderful surname that is Kizilirmak.

More accurately, it’s K?z?l?rmak (K?z?l River, or Red River in English) using the proper alphabet. It’s the longest river in Turkey. And that’s a fact. Happy Christmas!

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