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4 hours 29 minutes 49 seconds – this much time it took for “Aurum 1006 km race” leader “Circle K milesPLUS Racing Team” and its driver Oskaras Brazaitis to reach 186-th lap, which marks championships halfway.

While leader still remains “Circle K milesPLUS Racing Team”, only four laps separates “Vytautas gazuotas” with its driver Ramūnas Čapkauskas from thre first place.

Third was „Noker Racing Team“ with racer Sten Piirimagi, while fourth – „Porsche Club by LG OLED“ with its driver Marius Barkus.

The race continues.

Qualification winner “Circle K milesPLUS Racing Team” is still holding first place at “Aurum 1006 km race” after three hours have passed, and 129 laps finished by Jonas Gelžinis with teams` „Porche GT3 CupGen2“.

In second place „Vytautas gazuotas“ with „Porche GT3 Cup“, driver Mindaugas Platūkis, has driven five laps less than leader.

This year race orginaisers brought back „one driver 70 minutes“ rule, meaning one driver must rest for 50 miniutes.

On Saturday morning, Vitoldas Milius and Dainius Jakas reached a new record - the perimeter of Lithuania they drove by Kia e-Niro in 22 hours. 00 min. Driving a total of 1,176 kilometers on the paved roads closest to the border.

This is the first such achievement. So far, no one has tried to overtake the Lithuanian electric car, and the achievement was considered a record car with an internal combustion engine.

The electric car is a different vehicle, so the record is new.

Today at 12pm local time at Palanga a start for “Aurum 1006 km race” was given for the 21-st time.

All viewers, racers and organizers were rewarded with extravagant flight by Lithuanian aviation enthusiasts with several replicas of antique airplanes, which were reconstructed using the last few remaining photos of them.

At the start line 27 racing teams were lined up, all of them had accidents occur to them yesterday, except “Dynami:t energy by Baltic Petrolium”, which couldn’t repair their vehicle overnight.

Yesterday qualification winners were only 0,066 seconds slower than last year’s track ...

For the third decade “Aurum 1006 km race” is brought to the viewers by 121 journalists from Lithuania and abroad.

“We aren`t chasing records, but attention from colleagues is always appreciated.” – says international races media center manager Juozas Mažeikis. “I would like to thank them for giving “Aurum 1006 km race”, which is biggest race in the Baltic countries, that much attention. Thanks to them many people who couldn’t participate in the event can still watch it from home.”

Biggest team of camera operators, directors and journalists was brought by TV3 and TV6 with more than 20 TV camera...

Late Friday evening, the program of all the local events in the Aurum 1006 km race was completed by a ceremony honoring the winners and prize-winners of the Good Gift Drift race, where the fastest were greeted and awarded by the race organizer Darius Jonušis and the national drift championship organizer Linas Ramoška.

The coordinator of the event Justė Šimkutė was pleased that the first stage of the Lithuanian Drift Championship - the first stage of the PRO (top) league in the 2020 season - started in Palanga together with the marathon race, receiving a record number of participants - 34 athle...

The 108 km women's challenge rally with Sonax, which many of its participants, as well as spectators, call just the women's challenge, finished on Friday night.

For the third time in a row, the representatives of the fairer sex who supplemented the program of events of the Aurum 1006 km race festival with smiles on their faces and in a great mood in the morning started the challenge they had. They were also upbeat and finished on the big race track.

There seemed to be no difficulty, especially challenges, no daily fatigue, no excitement in finding hidden checkpoints, and other challenging task...

Friday's tense and interesting training program was completed by qualifying competitions and their decoration - the Super Pole selection, which determined which team will receive the first starting position in Saturday's Aurum 1006 km race.

In the first part of the qualification, the participants were divided into two groups: for the first time, the teams with the best times of the two fastest drivers won the ticket to the top ten.

A total of 24 teams competed: 4 teams solved technical problems. "Technical project - Viada team's BMW M3 car caught fire during training.

Friday noon in the Aurum 1006 km race town is really hot. Not only because the sun shines in Palanga, radiating 24 C degrees of heat. Here, the event is a lawn event, and when there was a short break in the racing program, the team mechanics took up the dispute between them.

In the 21 years that this race has been around, the traditional mechanics 1006-meter run has become an integral part of the whole event. This time it was hot, so the mechanics were more impressed by the partially renovated track.

By the way, the only girl involved in the running company - the mechanic of the Estonian Jouja...

The Aurum 1006 km race press center managed to spread the word about the success of the first two trainings on Friday, when the first failures were also received.

"The judges noticed the fire tongues fluttering at the bottom of the car at the Orlen petrol station, but" Technical project - Viada team athlete Vygandas Urbanas successfuly managed to drive his BMW M3 to the PitLane area, "Gražvydas Smetonis, the chairman of the College of Racing Sports Commissioners, informed the press center. - Within 15 seconds, at a burning BMW rushed Rescue, and after 30 sec. - and fire trucks'.

After spraying...