The first event of the 2025 Baltic rally season took place in the north of Latvia, in Alūksne. But the closer we got to Alūksne, the fewer winter features we could see. It was also raining quite heavily, so the conditions were not the best for the participants, the spectators and the roads on which…
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…
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…
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…