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2020-07-18

Todays “Aurum 1006 km race” start marks third decade

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 record holder Konstanto Calko, who drove 2682 meters long lap in 1 minute 08,907 seconds.