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Today at noon the anniversary 20th “Aurum 1006km race” has started. The leader of the race at 16:24 has reached halfway – 186 laps, in total there are 373 laps.

The very beginning was so intense that you expected it just halfway. There were various accidents, slips out of the tracks and too long stops in garages.

The spectators were the most disappointed when one of the favorite teams from Belgium had to withdraw from the race. “SpeedLover” team had to put their “Porsche 911” car out of the track as it was damaged from front and back and repairing it would have cost a lot of time.

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Two experienced drivers Vitoldas Milius and Aidas Bubinas do many trips every year and most of them happen to be record breaking or interesting inn any other way. During this year Aurum 1006 km race they’ve thought of their own race – to travel around Baltic sea as fast as possible.

They’ve reached the finish line, Aurum 1006 km race town, in 52 h and 30 minutes after start. They’ve travelled around Baltic sea counterclockwise, through Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Lithuania.

Average driving speed of diesel powered Kia Proceed was 100 km/h, average fuel consum...

Every year in the middle of July, the biggest racing event takes place in Palanga “Aurum 1006km race”. Even though the main event is the race, however, there are many entertain beside that. It is called racing festival not without reason – people come here from Thursday until Sunday.

In Camping Site – 3 days of entertainment

In the camping site people were gathering since Wednesday, by Thursday there were many tents. The days were full of events from watching drag or drift races to relaxing and have a grab to bite.

On Friday and Saturday, “Bobcat” specialists are showing off their skills. Ther...

On Saturday, at 12:00, finally the phrase at the start line was heard “Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines”. The organizer, Darius Jonušis, said those magical words that stated anniversary, 20th, race.

At the start, as usual, all the teams that went after qualifications has lined up. At the very beginning, it was ARC Bratislava “Lamborgini Huracan ST“, the sweet moment when the main driver Konstantinas Calko proposed to his girlfriend. He did not in the popular Le Mane but in Palanga, where his speed record is still not beaten.

Specialists are proposing that this year the race is going t...

Have you ever wondered what would happen to the car if all the oil would be emptied? How long that engine would last? In “Aurum 1006 km race“ all of the above questions were answered. A new record has been reached - two and a half hours without any car oil.

The magazine “Top Gear Lietuva“ and TV program “Autopilotas“ journalist team has accepted the challenge once they hear that 10 years ago a record has been reached. In 2009 a car in Lithuania was working without oil for 2 hours and 7 minutes.

The record has been broken and on “Aurum 1006 km race“ track when “Volkswagen Touran“ was operatin...

2019 is an extraordinary year in Palanga race history. It is the 20th anniversary, without any stops they were going on for 20 years. The organizer dedicated car sport’s fan, Darius Jonušis, invited everyone to remember all those years, share some photos and memories.

20th year anniversary is not only for the race or the organizer’s working year. The commentator, Saulenis Pociūnas, has been here all those 20 years as well. In this event gathered many car sport’s fans, former drivers and many more interesting people, the discussions were going.

It was fun to remember the very first race with...

Only women take part in one of Aurum 1006 km racing festival events – the 108 km women challenge. 81 crew each with 2-5 women started their challenge in Palanga‘s racetrack on Friday morning and finished couple hours later in Atostogu parkas.

They did slalom racing, special quizzes and other tasks. The creativity of participants made all region of Palanga look nicer than usual – women decorated their cars and spend much time finding ways how to look different. The team names are unusual as well: Fast divorce (Greitos skyrybos), The other left (Kita kaire), Iron gazelles from the garage (Gelež

The track in Palanga is challenging for all drifters from Lithuania – some are afraid of it, some love it. But drift fans are guaranteed to get an astonishing view every year, because close calls when powerful drift cars slightly kiss the barriers happen on almost every run.

This year the Drift king of Palanga is Benediktas Cirba, driving a BMW 3 series E46. He scored more than others in qualifying stage and did not create any doubt in twin (tsuiso) runs. His main competitor Andrius Vasiliauskas with 1000 bhp BMW 3 (E92) had a technical accident – in a twin run against Valdas Vindzigelskis his...

Some say that qualification has no impact for final endurance race result, however Aurum 1006 km racers do not think that way. The qualifying battle was intense as never before and nobody dared to think that the result is not essential.

Jonas Gelzinis or Konstantins Calko? Both are young, but very experienced drivers, various record breakers and race winners. Jonas has won Palanga race for seven times, Konstantins holds best lap time from 2014 when he was driving a Radical.

This year the Latvian was faster – he did one lap in 1:08.907 min. with Lamborghini Aventador. Jonas was slightly slower,...

Everyone is waiting for the records on a very special occasion – the 20th anniversary of „Aurum 1006 km race“ track. However, the first record in the press center.

Even from the first-ever race back in 2000 “Promo events” organizers always gathers journalists, TV or radio hosts from various corners. This year they attracted 135 media people.

It is a record because 122 journalists, TV and radio hosts were the records from 3 years back. TV channel – TV3 has gathered the biggest crew. This year TV6 will have a live stream of the race for 10 hours. It can be as well watched on TVPLay and tv3.lt. ...