Another very intense season came to an end, with more than a hundred N5 cars competing in hundreds of rallies around the world. While this period is considered an off-season in many parts of the world, we wanted to fill the gap and ask Roberto Mendez, founder of RMC Motorsport, a few questions about what…
As far as we know, you have serviced the car yourself – is servicing the Ford Fiesta N5 difficult? What are the most important tasks after and before the rally? Compared to the previous R2T, there are definitely more complicated areas to pay attention to (turbo, steering column), but we bought the car from Rokas…
In Druskininkai and the surrounding forests, not only the Lithuanian Mini Rally Championship, but also this year’s entire Lithuania rally season has officially ended. The event in Druskininkai was very special, as the special stages were on the same roads that were used for the LARČ and WRC events ten years ago. However, they were…
The fifth, penultimate event of the Lithuanian Rally Championship usually took place in Elektrėnai. Rally action in one day, extremely narrow, fast, technical roads with special terrain are something like the representative card of this rally. 7 N5 cars took part in this rally, 6 of them in the LARČ and 1 in the LARSČ…
As was to be expected, the big break between Rokiškis and the Elektrėnai rally was not entirely peaceful. A few weeks ago, Rokas Markovičius and Martynas Masaitis drove the special stages of the Cēsis Rally in Latvia, and last weekend we saw them at the Lithuanian Mini Rally Championship stage in Plungė, where they competed…
The Cesis Rally, which took place in Latvia, was the only external event in all three Lithuanian rally championships. The participants of the Lithuanian Car Rally Sprint Championship are taking part in Cesis for the second time, including the Hyundai i20 N5 crew consisting of Rokas Markovičius and Martynas Masaitis. Cesis was their second competition…
As always, the fourth event of the Lithuanian Car Rally Championship lived up to its name as an endurance rally. There were some crashes and damaged cars, unfortunately, some N5s were among the dropouts, but a few others drove as if it was a sprint rally. But to everything from the start. Friday of the…
It’s been a busy few weeks for Darius Biesevičius and his Ford Fiesta N5, which he rents out to local and foreign drivers. A few weeks ago, a call from Estonia meant that the N5 car would be back in Estonia since Saaremaa last October. The Lithuanian team helped local Karl Martin Volver, who needed…
The Lithuanian rally championship reached its halfway point last weekend. The Orlen Lithuania Rally featured two innovations. Firstly, the rally route extended far to the south, where there were two special stages with a significantly different profile than usual for this rally. The other thing is the weather conditions. The last time we had to…
After the Rally Lazdijai, the crews and their teams had a month to prepare and travel to Kelmė, where the second stage of the Lithuanian rally championship took place. Part of the N5 gang also passed through Zarasai, where they honed their skills and tested cars. When the day of the rally came, 8 cars…