Harun Çabuk
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| Harun Çabuk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1997 (age 27–28) Denizli, Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current team | Kawasaki Puccetti Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bike number | 54 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harun Çabuk (born 1997) is a Turkish motorcycle racer.[1] He competes for Kawasaki Puccetti Racing team on a Kawasaki Ninja 300.[2]
Harun Çabuk was born into a motorcycle-related family in Denizli, western Turkey in 1997.[3] His father Yaşar Çabuk is a motorcycle mechanic and her mother Gülay is a motorcycle racing referee.[1][4]
At the age of 2–3 years, he used to spend his time at his father's motorcycle repair shop. At the age of 5–6 years, he started to ride small motorcycles.[1]
Sports career
Çabuk began to race when he received his own motorcycle, and won many trophies and medals at local and nationwide events already at very young age.[1] He won four Turkish champion titles in motorcycle racing and motocross. Following his success, five-time world-champion retired Turkish motorcycle racer Kenan Sofuoğlu took him in his team.[4]
Çabuk debuted internationally in 2012 at the first round of the Supermoto Junior and S3 European Championships at Pleven, Bulgaria, and became champion.[4] He completed the 2015 European Junior Cup at tenth place.[5] He placed third at the 2016 European Junior Cup finishing three of the season's total eight rounds as winner.[6] The 2017 Supersport 300 World Championship ended for him at 22nd rank.
