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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. ...

In 20th “Aurum 1006 km race” traditions are not broken. Among many new events, the traditional events fit in just perfectly. One of the extraordinary events – mechanics’ run. On Friday noon, mechanics ran in the open sun, thus, their dedication is extraordinary. 1006 meters distance finish reached “Porsche Club Lithuania“ mechanic Edvardas Barisas. Second “Kaunas techniques college“ Tadas Kairys, third “4 Race“ Zigmas Reisas. The winners were congratulated by the event organizer – Darius Jonušis.

Aurum 1006 km race teams and drivers started their first Friday practice session in the morning. According to racers, this session has showed real performance of vehicles and drivers – they have nothing to hide and must try themselves pushing up to the limit. “We’ve sunny weather in practice sessions, but it does not matter what the weather’ll be tomorrow. If it’s hot, we’d drive like in sauna, if it’s wet – it’d be fun. Anyway, conditions are always the same for everyone” – says Dziugas Tovilavicius, Volkswagen Golf TCR driver (Skuba Racing Team). Competition is very harsh in their class – al...

The Palanga’s Aurum 1006 km racetrack in the evening of Thursday was reserved for street racers: 56 drivers challenged themselves in Street Drag by Startline. Every race fan could take part in the event with his own car and many of them dared to try themselves. The drag race car park was full of various vehicles – Lamborghini Aventador, 1000 bhp Nissan GT-Rs and even a standard Opel Calibra and two Volvo FH trucks. One car even started burning, but the fire was successfully extinguished by track security. The qualification round finished in 3 hours and fastest racers were divided into 5 groups...

The anniversary, 20th, “Aurum 1006km race” always astonishes with the quantity and quality of events. One of it – Lithuanian drag race among celebrities.

On Thursday evening, after practices many celebrities changed their regular clothes into drivers’ costumes and stared in the race #suTV6pramogauk KITAIP.

A chef Gian Luca Demarko, actress Žiedūnė Mardosaitė, former basketball player Dalia Belickaitė, TV person Paulius Morkūnas, “Power Hit Radio“ host Vaidas Leliuga and more have stated that they loved the adrenaline rush they have got.

3 celebrities got it to the finals and the funny thing, ...

The 20th Aurum 1006 km race has started on July 18, Thursday, in the main Vytautas street of Palanga.

Spectators, participants, the organizers have shared memories of those delightful 20 years that have passed. As always, spectators could chat with teams and check their cars from up close. Drivers got motivation from various speakers: singers, organizers and politicians.

There’re 38 teams in this year’s race – the same number as last year. However, that is the only similarity. All the workers, commentators and drivers cannot predict the finish and this year is going to be a year of an intense ...