The mantle of the 2024 Lithuanian car rally season was unveiled in Lazdijai. After the Visaginas rally, we hypothetically asked what Irmantas Buivydas’ pace would be in a full-mileage rally with a full field of competitors, both in his class and in the overall standings. The answer is the same as for Visaginas. Perhaps there…
The general training before the upcoming Lithuanian rally championship took place in Visaginas. If we will have 9 N5 crews at the upcoming LARČ opening at the Lazdijai rally, it was possible to see a little more than half of them in Visaginas – five N5 crews. The rally in one-day format consisted of 4…
There are two changes to the LARČ5 / N5 gang for the 2024 season. The first was already known at the beginning of the new year – Giedrius Firantas bought the VW Polo N5 from N. Radišauskas. Throughout the pre-season, it was known that R. Steponavičius had also sold the car, but no body didn’t…
The winter fun in the Baltic States is over – the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian championships are ending the winter cycle and waiting for the summer. Only the Finns will have a third winter event in March. The Sarma Rally had all the necessary conditions – it was cold, the roads were as icy as…
The Arctic Lapland Rally ended on the first weekend of February, with two of the three Lithuanian crews using N5 cars. Several hundred kilometers at special stages on day and night, many more liaisons in between, huge snowbanks with stuck cars in them, enormous snowfall and a number of other nuances specific to this rally.…
Before the “Aukštaitija Winter Rally” competition, there was a lot of nervousness because our winter had started making jokes again. But in the end, everything was more than great. Before the rally there was enough coldness to freeze the roads, and during the day and night the clear and cool weather made it possible to…