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We hope this collection of figures and facts will give you a better understanding and feel of what the 2022 “Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook” race was all about.

Participants and countries

• The teams consisted of 110 drivers and 31 team leaders from five countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Netherlands, and Finland.
• More than 2000 more people took part in the “Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook” festival (“Olybet 108 km Women's Challenge”, Drag, “Seni Kibirai”, “Memel Motor Fest”, “Technitis Spectator Slalom”, dB Drag, etc.).
• Most drivers were men. 108 men and only 2 women: A...

On Saturday evening, the spectators watching the "Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook" race gave a round of applause to Julius Adomavičius of "Circle K - Lesta Racing Team," the first driver to cross the finish line.

Julius was recognised as a true champion, and his teammates Marijus Mazuckas, Eimantas Navikauskas, and Ignas Gelžinis, were delighted not only with the transition cup but also with a whole series of extraordinary records achieved.

The team also won the GT3 class, completing the 373-lap, 1006-kilometre race in 8 hours 20 minutes 1.762 seconds. That is a new record for the race durati...

It's the dB Drag - a popular worldwide competition between car sound system enthusiasts, where everyone tries to prove whose car sound system is more powerful by measuring the sound level in decibels per unit of volume of the car, whether it's enclosed or open.

40 competitors battled for recognition and prizes as the powerful sound systems roared. But what to do for those who find the attraction simply repulsive and the sounds from the powerful systems ear-splitting?

The organisers quickly found a solution. They offered to “hide”, at least temporarily, in a soundproof “Rockwool” garage. The mo...

For three days at the “Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook” race, spectators could also compete in the “Technitis Spectator Slalom” race.

Many spectators who came to the race tried their luck, some of them even several times.

According to the organiser of the event, Andrėjus Savčenka, Head of the Vilnius City Sports Driving Centre, the number of participants in the spectator slalom competition, which has been held for the seventh time already, is rising noticeably.

This year, as in the past, the slalom participants competed in three groups according to the type of car drive: front-wheel drive (FW...

On Saturday, when the race was in full swing, the lovers of exclusive cars were also invited to the event.

At 3 pm, the “Memel Motor Fest” parade of exclusive cars started from the racetrack to J. Basanavičiaus Street in Palanga, near the “Mojo Lounge” club, and at 5.30 pm, the exhibition of these cars opens its doors, which is sure to attract a crowd of interested curious people.

Black Magic, built in Kaunas by the hard-working hands of Aidas Klimantavičius. It weighs 1187 kg and is powered by an “Audi A8”, “V8”, 4.2 litres, 220 kW. The car was assembled only last year.

The creator is convinc...

The “Porsche Baltic GT3” team, the leader of the “Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook” race in Palanga, is the first team to reach the halfway point of the race.

At 4.04 p.m., the “Porsche 911 GT3 CUP”, driven by Rokas Kvaraciejus, crossed 186 laps marking the halfway point of the event.

The fierce battle between the leaders, which started from the start, did not let up.

At the halfway point, the “Circle K MilesPlus Racing Team”, whose “Audi R8 LMS” was driven by track record holder Ralf Aron, took second place. He was a lap behind the leader.

In third position was the “Ignera &Bio-Circle by Dyna...

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...