Audronis Gulbinas, who had driven front-wheel drive cars throughout his career, took a bold step by moving to a much more serious car. The VW Polo N5 came to Audronis from Giedrius Firantas, who had purchased the championship winning Polo from Nedas Radišauskas. This time, another LARČ5 title for this car was determined less by…
Before this season, an interesting car swap took place, during which Justinas Brokorias received a championship-winning Ford Fiesta N5. It was the racer’s debut with 4WD car, which he mastered quickly together with Ramūnas Paškevičius. However, the season brought various surprises for the crew, so the final third place in the LARČ5 standings does not…
The Citroën C3 N5 crew of Paulius Beniušis and Kristupas Adinavičius also made very noticeable progress this season. Numerous winter competitions, tests before each rally, accumulated experience, and a well-maintained car allowed the crew from Kaunas to surprise their competitors and delight the fans. Paulius and Kristupas had an almost perfect first part of the…
The 2025 season was successful for Eugenijus Sladkevičius. He finished all nine rallies he started, which delighted rally fans. Eugenijus’ driving style excites spectators and provides excellent photos and footage for the media teams. His showy cornering does not hinder his results – he achieved 2nd place in the LARČ1 class and 8th overall. We…
One of the main highlights of this year’s LARČ season is the rise of Deividas Gezevičius. His potential has been recognised for a long time, but in the first two seasons, we saw only a glimpse of what he could achieve with the N5 equipment. Now, everything seems to have come together, allowing spectators to…
The Lithuanian Rally Championship has comes to an end together with the whole 2025 rally season in Lithuania. Rally Aukštaitija will be the final rally of the year, and what could be better than finishing the season on the magical special stages of the Zarasai district? Six N5 cars are expected to compete in the…
The organisers of the Rokiškis Rally again created one of the longest itineraries in the Lithuanian Rally Championship. Although a more conservative strategy with artificial jumps was chosen this year, the cars were severely damaged by huge ruts on the second run of the special stages. However, the Lithuanian summer is to blame for this,…
The Lithuanian automobile rally championship travelled from the south of Lithuania to the north-west, where the well-known special stages near Kelmė awaited everyone. This time, the sporting part of the Rally Žemaitija 2025, which is 2nd round of LARČ took place in just one day, which was quite long, with more than 110 extremely fast…
The first event of the Lithuanian automobile rally championship in Lazdijai gave no one a moment’s rest. Extremely fast stages, complemented by extremely technical sections, difficult terrain and two days of rain made this competition one that we will remember for a long time. From the first hundred meters, the participants, including many former N5…
The time had finally come – the Lithuanian summer rally season had begun. This time in a slightly different format than usual for the Visaginas rally, but the innovations were very well received. For many it was a great pleasure to drive on extremely fast and long special stages. The N5 team was no exception;…