Where the career started, the childhood influences, the university years, the first work environments that formed the operating instincts I still use today.
Early 2000s · Hungary
Growing up in the golden era of Hungarian rallying
I grew up in the golden era of Hungarian rallying, but not just from the grandstands. My father was part of one of the country’s top rally teams, so from a very early age I was watching the sport from the inside: special stages, service parks, the working end of a race weekend. Standing on hillsides listening to engines came later; the first thing I ever saw up close was how a team actually runs. That’s the reason motorsport was never a career choice for me later on, it was already inside me.
2014 · Budapest
Budapest Business School, first steps in business
Enrolled at Budapest Business School in 2014 to study Business Administration & Management. Close after starting, I took my first internship at a corporate finance advisory company, a formative first professional environment that taught me structure, rigour and the basics of finance.
2016–2017 · Hannover, Germany
Exchange semester at Hochschule Hannover
Went on exchange to Hochschule Hannover with a focus on international business. Felt flourishing in an international environment from the get-go, it set the direction for a career built at the intersection of Hungarian and international sport.
2017–2018 · Hungary → South Korea → Guatemala
College for Advanced Studies + international case competitions
During university I took every extracurricular opportunity I could find. I was admitted to a College for Advanced Studies and started competing in international business case competitions, including trips to South Korea and Guatemala. This is where I first learned to think, present and negotiate on my feet in front of international juries.
First encounters with motorsport 2015–2020
The years motorsport got its hooks in professionally. The ETRC weekends at the Hungaroring were the door back into the world I’d grown up watching, and the 2018 feasibility study was the first time I saw a circuit development from the inside.
2015–2020 · Hungaroring, Mogyoród · 6 editions
FIA European Truck Racing Championship, Hungaroring
My first professional experience with motorsport after many years away, I joined the first edition of the FIA European Truck Racing Championship at the Hungaroring in 2015. It was immediately clear this was much closer to my heart than corporate finance. Across the six editions I grew from a junior role into the Event Director seat, ending up running the whole file.
Northeast Hungary motorsport complex, feasibility study
Part of a group commissioned to prepare a detailed feasibility report for a potential multifunctional motorsport complex in Northeast Hungary. We worked alongside Apex Circuit Design Ltd. and KPMG on an FIA Grade 2 / FIM Grade B circuit with a Rallycross track, a CIK/FIA Karting track and other modular solutions. The government gave positive feedback, but the project did not ultimately materialise.
Building Hungary’s motorsport calendar 2018–2024
The most intense chapter of my career. Multiple projects running in parallel, rally, motorbikes, karting, government strategy, circuit development.
Making a dream come true, a decade after being just a young boy at rallying events, I put together a candidate event in 2018 with host city Nyíregyháza, aiming to bring the FIA European Rally Championship to Hungary. It worked. From 2019 we ran three tarmac editions in Nyíregyháza, 40,000–60,000 spectators each, and lived through the promoter transition between Eurosport Events and WRC Promoter GmbH. After a year’s break, we shifted formats at the promoter’s request and delivered three gravel editions at Lake Balaton with host city Veszprém, producing thrilling races and viral race moments. Organising a rally event is the ultimate event-production experience: environmental authorities, government agencies, FIA sporting and safety compliance, commercial, marketing, hospitality and F&B, all at once, over a country-scale footprint.
Rally Hungary 2020, an international event delivered under FIA Appendix S
Most of the 2020 international calendar was cancelled. We ran ours. Rally Hungary went ahead on 6–8 November 2020, at the peak of Europe’s second wave, days before Hungary moved to a national curfew, under the FIA’s newly created Appendix S to the International Sporting Code, the COVID-19 Code of Conduct, making us one of the earliest international motorsport events to operate under the framework. The hard part was never the race. A rally has no perimeter fence, so we had to build and hold a closed biosecure “bubble” linking rally HQ, the service park and the official event hotels, across a country-scale, multi-region footprint rather than a single enclosed venue, while complying with two rulebooks at once: the FIA’s protocols and Hungary’s national restrictions, both moving week to week. The event ran to completion and drew positive recognition from every party involved: the FIA, the promoter, the teams and the host authorities.
Government agency, motorsport development strategy
Started working at a government agency with the mandate to design a structure that would align all government involvement in motorsport, connecting youth development, infrastructure development, and international events to Hungary’s strong automotive industry.
Commissioned as motorsport expert on the greenfield planning phase of the Hajdúnánás MotoGP development, a 400-hectare area planned to include an FIM Grade A circuit, an FIA Grade 6RW Rallycross track and a CIK/FIA Karting circuit, plus commercial and retail units. Planned as a ~€200M development from public funding. The plans were finalised, but the development never materialised.
Commercial-side delivery of the Hungarian round of the FIA European Rallycross Championship: ticket sales and hospitality. My first commercial-only mandate on an FIA-tier event, distinct from the full event-director roles elsewhere on the timeline.
2022 · Zalaegerszeg, western Hungary
FIM Enduro GP + ZEG Rally Show, Zalaegerszeg
Delivered one edition of FIM Enduro GP in Zalaegerszeg, organised together with a show event called ZEG Rally Show, including a city stage in the centre of Zalaegerszeg. An extraordinary experience for the western part of Hungary and a rare double-format event weekend.
2022–2025 · Papp László Aréna → MVM Dome, Budapest · 4 editions
FIM SuperEnduro GP of Hungary
Promoted the FIM SuperEnduro GP of Hungary with steady growth across four editions. After a sold-out Budapest Arena in 2023, we moved to the MVM Dome, the biggest and most modern arena in Central Europe. SuperEnduro GP is the biggest indoor motorsport event in Central Europe with 15 000+ spectators.
Led the commercial preparations for the MotoGP and WorldSBK events of Hungary, working between the international promoter (Dorna Sports) and the local promoters to synthesise the commercial agreements, build the packages and prepare the event inventory. Handed over before execution, ahead of the move to Finland to run KymiRing full-time.
The years I sat at the sport-governance table and ran a winning federation campaign.
2022 · National Automobilsport Federation of Hungary (MNASZ)
MNASZ Presidential Election Campaign, Winning
Together with my campaign partner, I delivered the winning presidential campaign for the president of the National Automobilsport Federation of Hungary, built the sport programme, ran a nationwide member-club rally, and closed the votes. An intense campaign that taught me a whole new set of skills from political organisation: lobbying, public speaking, programme design, and legal matters.
Member of the FIA Rally Commission, inside the international decision-making room for the discipline I’d been running Rally Hungary in for years. A very different rhythm from the promoter side of the table.
2023–2024 · National Automobilsport Federation of Hungary (MNASZ)
MNASZ Karting Commission
Member of the MNASZ Karting Commission, national-level governance in the discipline that produces most of Hungary’s next-generation motorsport talent.
2021–2026 · Hungarian Esports Federation
HUNESZ, Sim Sport Commission Leader → Board Member
Led the Sim Sport Commission at the Hungarian Esports Federation from 2021 and then served on the Board through 2026, the chapter where motorsport meets esports. During this time we developed the SIM Liga, a national sim-racing league spanning multiple platforms from iRacing to Gran Turismo 7 to Assetto Corsa, helping raise funds for top competitors and guiding them into international racing events.
The KymiRing chapter 2024 → present
February 2024 – ongoing · Iitti, Finland
KymiRing acquisition & turnaround
The most modern GP-standard motorsport circuit in the Nordics, nearly completed, had gone through bankruptcy. I led the transaction to take it over, assembling the investor consortium, running the negotiation, and then rebuilding operations and infrastructure from a standing start. By the second year on site the venue was running 100+ active operating days.
KymiRing hosts RallyX, pathfinder international event
The circuit’s very first international round after the turnaround, a round of the RallyX Championship. The pathfinder event that opened the way for MXGP and World RX later in the same season.
2025 · Iitti, Finland
KymiRing hosts FIM MXGP
The second international event on the rebuilt circuit, a round of the FIM Motocross World Championship. Delivered with the promoter (Infront Moto Racing), the FIM, and the whole KymiRing operations team.
Beyond the events, the circuit needed a commercial platform, sponsorship, event sales, corporate and driving experiences, hospitality, F&B and retail. All of it designed and stood up from scratch.
