Jason Tahincioğlu
Jason Tahincioğlu ; also called Jason Tahinci; born 29 October 1983 in Bristol, United Kingdom) is a Turkish auto racing driver born into a car racing family.
Career
Tahincioğlu started driving mini kart at the age of six. In 1990, he debuted in kart racing. From 1991 on, he became champion in mini kart racing for four successive years. Tahincioğlu moved up then in 1995 to Promo kart series and became second after his elder sister Raina Tahincioğlu. The next year, he went to the Netherlands to participate at the championships there and became 5th among 24 drivers. Returned to Turkey, Tahincioğlu became champion in Promo series in the years 1997 and 1998. During this time, he participated also at the European Junior championships. He moved to Super kart category and became champion in 1999 and 2000. Tahincioğlu ended his kart racing career with 8 Turkish champion titles.Tahincioğlu experienced the taste of driving a Formula Three racing car first time on his birthday in 1998 as a gift from his father Mümtaz Tahincioğlu, long-time president of Turkish Motorsports Federation and FIA Council Member. In 2000, he debuted in the Turkish Formula Three Championship and finished in second place. In 2001, he did not race to finish high school. Since 2002, he competed in the British Formula Renault championship finishing 20th in 2005. In August 2005, Jason Tahincioğlu became the first ever Turkish racer to drive a Formula One car when he completed test runs for Jordan Grand Prix on a Toyota TF105 at the Silverstone Circuit.
In 2006, Tahincioğlu became team-mate of Italian Luca Filippi in the GP2 team FMS International, which was formed in 2005 by the Formula One driver Giancarlo Fisichella, and is being sponsored by the Turkish gasoline company Petrol Ofisi. Despite scoring no points, he was retained for the second year of his contract in 2007.
In 2006 he also raced in the Turkish leg of the World Series by Renault. He competed in both races in the 3.5 class.
For the 2008 season, he competed for the BCN Competicion team in the GP2 Asia Series. In the same year, he was also a test driver for the Galatasaray team in the inaugural Superleague Formula season, having revealed he was a lifelong fan of Galatasaray.
Tahincioğlu was educated in automotive engineering at the University of Bath in England.
Racing record
Complete GP2 Series results
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | DC | Points |
| 2006 | Petrol Ofisi FMS International | VAL FEA Ret | VAL SPR Ret | IMO FEA Ret | IMO SPR Ret | NÜR FEA DNS | NÜR SPR 18 | CAT FEA 15 | CAT SPR 19 | MON FEA Ret | SIL FEA 13 | SIL SPR 16 | MAG FEA Ret | MAG SPR 17 | HOC FEA 17 | HOC SPR 17 | HUN FEA Ret | HUN SPR 14 | IST FEA 17 | IST SPR 17 | MNZ FEA 11 | MNZ SPR 13 | 30th | 0 |
| 2007 | Petrol Ofisi FMS International | BHR FEA Ret | BHR SPR 13 | CAT FEA DNS | CAT SPR Ret | MON FEA Ret | MAG FEA 15 | MAG SPR 18 | SIL FEA 19 | SIL SPR 16 | NÜR FEA 17 | NÜR SPR 19 | HUN FEA Ret | HUN SPR 11 | IST FEA 14 | IST SPR Ret | MNZ FEA 11 | MNZ SPR 20 | SPA FEA 14 | SPA SPR 20 | VAL FEA 13 | VAL SPR Ret | 33rd | 0 |
Complete GP2 Asia Series results
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | DC | Points |
| 2008 | BCN Competicion | DUB FEA 19 | DUB SPR 16 | SEN FEA Ret | SEN SPR 17 | SEP FEA 12 | SEP SPR Ret | BHR FEA 17 | BHR SPR 13 | DUB FEA 9 | DUB SPR 8 | 22nd | 0 |