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On Saturday, the most important week of the year in Lithuanian motorsports came to an end: the prestigious “Aurum 1006 km race” was held in Palanga.
Last year’s championship was championed by the Circle K milesPLUS Racing Team: Julius Adomavičius, Jonas Gelžinis, Oscar Brazaitis and you are Ralph Aron. Three of these drivers represented the team last year, and O.Brazaitis replaced Ignas Gelžinis. For J.Gelžinis it was even the ninth champion title. J.Adomavičius and R.Aronas triumphed a second time, and O.Brazaitis became the champion for the first time. This team has run 373 laps.
The second was the Porsche Club of LG OLED racers – Janavičius blankets, Marius Bartkuyes, Arūnas Tuma and Aurelijus Rusteika. They drove a Porsche 911 and covered 359 laps.
The Noker Racing Team has been impressive (Kęstutis Stasionis, Stenas Piirimagi, Egidijus Valeiša and Jousting Jonušis) They passed 359 laps, finished third and improved the all-time record. The Noker Racing Team became the first team in history to be in the top three in the overall standings with TCR class cars. This team drove a Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR.
There were several incidents in the race. In the middle of the race, a drone fell on the track and the judges had to show a yellow flag. For a long time, the Vytautas Gazuotas team took second place, but Ramūnas Čapkauskas due to technical problems he turned on the track and ran into the fences. As the mechanics fixed the car, Vytautas Gazuotas lost his place in the top three and finally took fourth place.
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Updated at 8:20 p.m. With 25 laps remaining, there is still a fierce battle for second place, and the Circle K milesPLUS Racing team is fast approaching victory.
Updated at 7:51 p.m. The LG OLED Porsche Club came in second, beating the surprising Noker Racing Team.
Updated at 7:00 p.m. The Circle K milesPLUS racing team is quietly approaching victory. He has a 13-wheel lead over the Noker Racing Team and 14 wheels against the LG OLED Porsche Club.
Updated 6:57 PM R.Čapkauskas was still fined for unsafe flexing and had to go through the service area.
Updated at 6:31 p.m. R.Čapkauskas returned to the track in fourth. He is being chased Paulius Paškevičius with a Lamborghini Huracan GT from the Good Sign – RD Signs team.
Updated 6:25 PM The LG OLED Porsche Club moved up to third place, its Porsche 911 is currently driving Marius Bartkus.
Updated 6:16 PM Noker Racing Team climbs to second place, the Vytautas Gazuotas car is still in the service area.
Updated 6:07 PM R.Čapkauskas, who was driving second, ran to the fences. Mechanics are now trying to fix the car. Vytautas Gazuotas’ chances of fighting for victory are diminishing, and they may also lose second place as the Noker Racing Team is just 2 laps away.
Updated 4:50 p.m. 4 h 29.49 min. – It took so long for the leader of Aurum’s 1006km race in Palanga, Circle K milesPLUS Racing Team, and his athlete Oskars Brazaitis to drive 186 laps and be the first to cross half the race.
The total distance of 1006 km of the race consists of 373 laps, one of which is 2682 meters long. Therefore, it is the 186 laps, albeit very precisely, 186.5, that mark the middle of the race.
Does this mean that in the history of the 21st event, the marathon race will end for the duration of the first half?
Not necessarily, because nobody can predict how many forced stops there will be. Although there were no major accidents, there were no stops or other disturbances in the first half of the race, so the race was repeatedly stopped.
If there are fewer distractions in the second part of the race, they will inevitably be faster.
Ramūnas Čapkauskas, who piloted the Vytautas Gaza Porch GT3 Cup, came in second after the leader crossed the equator of the competition and separated from O. Brazaitis on four wheels.
The third driver was Noken Racing Team athlete Sten Piirimagi, and the Porsche Club was bitten by LG OLED team representative Marius Barkus.
The race continues.
Updated 3pm For the spectators, who exchanged the 25 degree C heat on the seashore for the no less hot “1006 km Aurum race”, the first three hours went unnoticed.
Winner Qualifier Ralf Aron (Circle K milesPLUS Racing Team) has been able to keep pace from the first laps and has been successful.
Mantas Janavičius, representative of the OLED team of Porsche Club by LG, who won the same position in the selection, came in second place, and Ramūnas Čapkauskas, who drove the Porche GT3 Cup, breathed from behind.
It was this trio of leaders who survived the first hour of the race.
Such confusion was brought about by the leaders in the lineup after 1 hour from the start. 10 minutes. Mandatory driver changes have started.
We will remind you that this year lthe race organizers returned 70 min. time limit for a runner on the track, regulating at least 50 minutes. Rest regime of the athlete.
After 3 hours from the start, the race leaders. Circle K milesPLUS Racing Team Jonas Gelžinis, who piloted the Porsche GT3 CupGen2 team, recorded 129 laps.
Vytautas Gaza athlete Mindaugas Platūkis, who was five laps from the leaders, did his best to reduce this deficit with the Porsche GT3 Cup.
Marius Bartkus, who drove the Porsche Cayman GT4 Club sports car from the Porsche Club by the LG OLED team, after 3 p.m. Like the Vytautas Gaza team, it recorded 124 laps.
The top three positions of the absolute leaders occupy the same positions in the GT Open class.
Noker Racing Team athlete Egidijus Valeiša jumped to fourth place, driving the Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR car and claiming at least first place in the TCR car class.
Your team in 3 hours. drove 123 laps out of 373 required.
Updated at 12:30 p.m. The race from first position was started by the Circle K MilesPlus Racing Team, which won the qualifying and Super pole competitions on the eve, where last year’s crew was Julius Adomavičius, est Ralf Aron, Ignas was replaced by Oskaras Brazaitis .
The qualifiers gained just 0.066 seconds yesterday. to the trajectory, which was also established last year by selection competition winner Konstantino Calko, who drove a 2682-meter lap in 1 minute. 08,907, and this result is a record for this track that has not yet been improved.
Circle K Miles Plus Racing Team athlete R. Aron lost 1 minute yesterday in one lap. 08.973 sec.
Among the top ten, 4 Porsche teams (Circle K Miles Plus Racing team, LG OLED Porsche Club, Vytautas Gazuotas and Porsche Baltic) lined up at the start line of the race, Lamborghini Huracan driving Gera gift-RD Signs), 3 competing TCR teams (Noker racing team, Lesta racing team and DHL racing team), Baltic Petroleum by Piano Piano (BMWM3) and Tarzanija races ”(Audi S4).
The race has just started, and the athletes are turning the first few laps of the mandatory 373, which is the total distance of the 1006km race from Aurum.
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