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On the eve of the “Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook” race in Palanga, a new electric car record was achieved. Vitoldas Milius in 4 hours and 29 minutes, completed 106 laps of the track formed in the outskirts of the resort town and drove a total of 286 kilometres. This official record is the longest distance covered by an electric vehicle on a racetrack in Lithuania.

V. Milius was driving the new generation “EV6” electric car from the official sponsor of the race weekend, “Kia”.

Before the start of the “Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook” Race, another impressive achievement was recorded in an e...

"Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines", said the main organiser of the event, Darius Jonušis, Director of Promo Events, welcoming all those who had gathered for the opening ceremony, including politicians and representatives of the local authorities, and wishing the drivers good luck and a tenacious fight that would captivate the audience right up to the last metres.

Igoris Lobanovas, pilot of the “Iron Wolf Aerobatics” team, who recently returned from Southern Spain, where the Spanish National Aerobatic Championships were held, also made his debut at the opening of the “Aurum 1006 km pow...

The “Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook” race is covered by 140 Lithuanian and foreign journalists who have been accredited by the press centre.

“In recent years, this has been a fairly regular feature of our colleagues' coverage of the biggest long-distance motor race in the Baltics," says Juozas Mažeikis, who has overseen the race's press centre for the past 20 years. - The largest group of 145 journalists covered last year's race here.”

“TV3”, which broadcasts the race, sent the largest team of 13 people, and also carries the main coverage on its other channels, and 6 journalists represent th...

The very intense programme of the “Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook” race in Palanga was concluded on Friday with the award ceremony of the “Olybet 108 km Women's Challenge” orienteering rally for women only.

Special mention must go to the participants of the Jubilee race. Only crews with at least one member who has participated in the rally for all five years - the length of the recreational rally - were eligible to compete here.

The winners of this category were the “Gerų genų” team - Gabrielė and Jonė Aleksynaitė and Renata Mosiejūtė, who drove a “Seat Leon”, beating the runners-up from “La...

On Friday, 44 participants competed for the “Ultim8 Dragas by Startline” cups.

The fastest ET of all competitors was Irmantas Burinskas, who covered the 402-metre distance in 9.28 seconds in his “Audi R8 Startline 1280 WHP”.

Class winners and prize winners:

Daily

1st. Simona Kateivaitė, BMW i8, 380 HP

2nd. Justas Pečeliūnas, VW Golf, 300 HP

3rd. Rimantas Mencleris, Ford Mustang, 310 HP

Stock

1st. Tomas Vilkas, BMW M4, 430 HP

2nd. Artūras Gusto, Audi Gusto, 1 HP

3rd. Žydrūnas Kuodis, Audi A7, 551 HP

Street

1st. Vytautas Matusevičius, Audi A8L, 600 HP

2nd. Paulius Kondrotas, Audi A8, 420 HP

3rd....

After the intriguing “Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook” Qualifying Race, which determined who would have the honour of starting from the first position on Saturday, Friday's busy schedule was crowned by another very attractive event for the spectators - the "DeCuba" Historic Car Association's "Seni kibirai" race.

Those who didn't see these cars will have an opportunity on Saturday when the Historic Car Association's "Seni kibirai" parade "DeCuba" in Palanga will take place at 12.30 p.m. and at 4.30 p.m. The participants of the race and the parade will be distributing the prizes.

But who w...

The intense practice battles on Friday evening have become the highlight of the "Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook" race, where the team drivers competed not only for the Cup of the Minister of Transport and Communications, Marius Skudis but also for the first starting position in the Saturday race.

The drivers were divided into two groups at the start of the qualifying race. The first group consisted of 16 teams, and the second group consisted of 15 teams.

The TOP 10 teams were the ten best performing teams, based on the times of the two drivers' fastest laps.

The benchmark was more than appar...

The mechanics of the “Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook” race teams had the opportunity to prove that they are not only very fast at changing wheels, changing gearboxes and refuelling. The race traditionally gives them the opportunity to compete in the 1006 metres running race.

Mechanics, who usually do the work of diligence, expertise, and precision, are often the invisible reasons of victory: if it were not for them, the teams would not be able to achieve victory.

The fact that the finish line of the 1006 metres is in the service area gives the mechanics extra motivation, with team drivers an...

"Renaldas Šeinauskas, a “Team by Finansinių sprendimų agentūra” driver, is fighting on two fronts in the “Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook” race.

Together with his teammates, Renaldas will try to compete for the highest possible place in the hierarchy of ranks in Saturday's race, but also to surprise the spectators with his unusual tricks, which he turns into records.

On Friday, he proposed to the participants and spectators of the “Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook” Race by letting the car rotate around its axis, 360 degrees. The driver then recorded the car's rotation and climbed onto the ...

As the “Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook” race weekend approaches, the intrigue is not only about who will be this year's winner. This year, Vitoldas Milius plans to complete 106 laps of the track on a single charge in a “Kia EV6” on the last night before the race starts. The planned 286 kilometres could be officially recorded as the longest distance covered by an electric vehicle on a Lithuanian racetrack.

Technological advances

The record-breaking drive will start on Friday, 15 July, just after the end of training and the sports car demonstrations on the racetrack. On the eve of the “Aurum 1...