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: paddocks, 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.
Key facts
Formative childhood exposure to rallying at its Hungarian peak.
Multiple race events attended as a team member, the emotional foundation.
Skills used / learned
Fan-first perspective on motorsport · early instinct for what makes an event work.
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.
Key facts
Enrolled at Budapest Business School, BA in Business Administration & Management.
First internship at a corporate finance advisory shortly after.
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.
Key facts
Erasmus / exchange semester focused on international business.
First sustained time working in a fully international setting.
Skills used / learned
Cross-cultural collaboration · working in a German-language business environment · international business fundamentals.
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.
Key facts
Admitted to a College for Advanced Studies.
International case competitions in South Korea and Guatemala.
Skills used / learned
Structured problem-solving under time pressure · executive-style presentation · working in international teams · fast case analysis.
Era 1, 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.
Key facts
6 editions delivered across 2015–2020, growing responsibility with each.
Ended as Event Director of the file.
Built the largest hospitality operation at the Hungaroring after F1, 1,200+ guests over a weekend.
Delivered the biggest heavy-vehicle industry expo in Hungary, co-located with the race weekend.
Organised an international logistics conference for the top voices of the heavy-vehicle industry.
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.
Key facts
Consortium with Apex Circuit Design Ltd. and KPMG.
Scoped as an FIA Grade 2 circuit with Rallycross track and modular commercial layers.
Positive government feedback; project did not materialise.
Skills used / learned
Feasibility-report authorship · working alongside a specialist circuit-design firm and a Big-Four consultancy · reading government sign-off signals · early exposure to how motorsport infrastructure projects live or die.
Era 2, 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. Each stop is its own card.
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 two 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.
Key facts
5 editions delivered across 2019–2024 (3 tarmac in Nyíregyháza, 2 gravel in Veszprém).
Spectators of 40,000–60,000 per edition.
Secured ~€1M in public funding alongside private partners.
Lived through the promoter transition from Eurosport Events to WRC Promoter GmbH.
Successfully converted surface (tarmac → gravel) mid-history at the promoter’s request.
Delivered the 2020 edition under FIA Appendix S, the COVID-19 Code of Conduct, see the dedicated card below.
Skills used / learned
Public-private funding stack design (~€1M) · FIA sanctioning-file management · large-scale outdoor event production across a country-scale footprint · working simultaneously with environmental authorities, government agencies, sporting and safety authorities, commercial, marketing, hospitality & F&B · promoter transition management · surface-conversion event redesign.
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.
Key facts
Delivered 6–8 November 2020, at the height of the pandemic’s second wave, days before Hungary’s national curfew came into force.
Among the earliest international motorsport events run under FIA Appendix S, COVID-19 Code of Conduct (introduced 19 June 2020, extended across FIA championships and international series that summer).
Built and enforced a closed “bubble” across rally HQ, service park and official event hotels, over a multi-region rally footprint, not a single enclosed venue.
Dual compliance: FIA sporting protocols plus Hungarian government health regulations, both changing during the build-up.
Ran to completion with a full ERC field alongside the Hungarian championship; positive recognition from FIA, promoter, teams and host authorities.
Skills used / learned
Event delivery under crisis conditions · biosecure “bubble” design and enforcement across a distributed footprint · dual-framework compliance (international federation + national government) · contingency planning against moving-target regulation · holding stakeholder confidence when cancellation is the default option.
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.
Key facts
Government-agency role designing a national motorsport structure.
Brief connected youth development · infrastructure development · international events · automotive industry.
Skills used / learned
Public-sector strategy design · cross-ministry stakeholder mapping · connecting policy to automotive-industry economics · working inside government machinery rather than outside it.
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.
Key facts
400-hectare greenfield site.
FIM Grade A circuit + FIA Grade 6RW Rallycross track + CIK/FIA Karting circuit in one master plan.
~€200M planned public-funding envelope.
Plans finalised; project did not materialise.
Skills used / learned
Multi-discipline circuit master-planning · FIM / FIA / CIK licensing-grade literacy · greenfield motorsport-real-estate planning at scale · reading political signals on public-funding megaprojects.
Commercial-side delivery of the Hungarian round of the FIA European Rallycross Championship, ticket sales, hospitality and on-site commercial operations. My first commercial-only mandate on an FIA-tier event, distinct from the full event-director roles elsewhere on the timeline.
Commercial-only scoping on an FIA-tier round · ticket-sales operations · event-day hospitality delivery.
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.
Key facts
1 edition of FIM Enduro GP delivered.
Co-located with the ZEG Rally Show, including a city-centre stage in Zalaegerszeg.
Skills used / learned
City-stage event production · multi-format event weekend (championship round + show event) · working with a regional host city · FIM Enduro sanctioning delivery.
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.
Key facts
4 editions delivered (2022–2025).
Sold-out Budapest Arena, 2023.
Moved to the MVM Dome, biggest and most modern arena in Central Europe.
15,000+ spectators, biggest indoor motorsport event in Central Europe.
Skills used / learned
Indoor arena event production at 15,000+ scale · sold-out ticketing operations · arena-tier upgrade (Papp László → MVM Dome) · FIM SuperEnduro rights-holder management · steady multi-year event growth.
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.
Key facts
Head of Commercial for both MotoGP and WorldSBK files.
Worked between Dorna Sports and the local promoters.
Built commercial packages and event inventory end-to-end.
Handed over pre-execution; role concluded before joining KymiRing full-time.
Skills used / learned
Top-tier rights-holder commercial interface (Dorna) · dual-role between international and local promoters · commercial-agreement synthesis into sellable packages · event-inventory design · disciplined handover of an in-flight commercial file.
The years I sat at the sport-governance table and ran a winning federation campaign. Now closed; presented as a chapter, not a current role. This ran in parallel to Era 2, the governance rooms informed the events, and the events built the credibility for the governance rooms.
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.
Key facts
Winning campaign, run with a campaign partner.
Built the sport programme end-to-end.
Ran a nationwide member-club rally as the primary voter-facing tactic.
Skills used / learned
Campaign leadership at federation scale · lobbying · public speaking under adversarial conditions · programme design under time pressure · federation election legal frameworks · membership economics.
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.
Key facts
Member, FIA Rally Commission (2023–2024).
International-level policy and governance exposure.
Skills used / learned
International federation governance · rally-discipline policy literacy · working alongside FIA leadership.
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.
Key facts
Member, MNASZ Karting Commission (2023–2024).
National-level governance and youth-pipeline exposure.
Skills used / learned
National federation governance · karting-discipline policy · youth-development structural design.
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.
Key facts
Sim Sport Commission Leader (2021–2024) → Board Member (2024–2026).
Developed the SIM Liga, a national multi-platform sim-racing league.
Platforms covered: iRacing · Gran Turismo 7 · Assetto Corsa.
Funded top competitors into international racing events.
Skills used / learned
Federation governance at national level · esports commercial dynamics · league structural design across multiple platforms · athlete-funding pipeline design · sim-to-real-world talent bridge.
Era 4, The KymiRing chapter 2024 → present
The current chapter. Multiple projects sit inside one job title, each gets its own timeline card so the visitor sees the range of what running the only GP circuit in the Nordics actually involves.
February 2024 – ongoing · Iitti, Finland
KymiRing acquisition & turnaround
The only 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.
Key facts
Acquisition out of bankruptcy, investor consortium assembled and negotiated.
Rebuilt from a standing start to 100+ active operating days in year two.
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.
Key facts
1 edition, the venue’s first international round post-turnaround.
Opened KymiRing’s international 2025 calendar.
Skills used / learned
First-international-event delivery on a rebuilt venue · promoter relationship management.
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.
Key facts
FIM Motocross World Championship (MXGP).
Second international series delivered in the debut season.
Skills used / learned
FIM World Championship-tier delivery · promoter (Infront Moto Racing) relationship · large-scale race-weekend operations at a rebuilt venue
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.
Key facts
Every commercial line owned: sponsorship, event sales, corporate & driving experiences, hospitality, F&B, retail.
Full P&L ownership.
Brand partners engaged include Hartwall, Avant and the wider Finnish and international sponsor set.
Skills used / learned
Multi-line commercial platform design · corporate & driving-experience product design · sponsorship packaging on a rebuilt asset · hospitality and F&B operations
