The Aurum 1006 km race ended in Palanga – winner announced, second place winners refused to take the prize



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The extremely intriguing 1006km Aurum race of all time was won again by the Circle K MilesPlus racing team (Julius Adomavičius, Jonas Gelžinis, Ignas Gelžinis, Ralfas Aronas). This was the third consecutive title for this team.

Due to numerous incidents and even a burned-out Porsche, the athletes were unable to cover the entire planned distance in 10 hours, so when they married, the winner was named.

So instead of 372 laps, the Circle K MilesPlus Racing Team topped 352 laps.

Their fiercest competitors Balpol-SPS Automotive Performance (Nemunas Dagilis, Nerijus Dagilis and Deividas Jocius) also finished on the same lap.

They lost 42,420 seconds to the leaders. The hope of this team was shattered at the end of the race for 1 minute. stop at the boxes okay.

Nemumas Dagilis assured during the competition that the race was very unfair and the judges supported only one team, so in the end he refused to recover the prize he won for second place.

142 athletes from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Holland and Great Britain competed in the Palanga race.

41 teams representing Lithuania, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom lined up at the starting line at noon on Saturday. Of the 142 athletes, the absolute majority, up to 138, are men and 4 are women.

All of them from Lithuania are Indrė Senkutė-Gedgaudienė, Ernesta Globytė, Joana Survilaitė and Aistė Antanaitytė-Matukaitė.

However, before the end of the fighting, the race was suspended for almost an hour due to a fire; after 6 hours, the Ramūnas Čapkauskas team “Porsche” suddenly caught fire. The pilot managed to drive the car further from the gas station and jump out of the burning car.

The remaining 113 laps were stopped with red flags. But an hour later, they got updated. Palanga’s race took place in a hot, dry climate.

However, despite the favorable conditions, they have quite a bit of braking, car safety phases and other disturbances.

The race attracted not only a large number of athletes, but also spectators, the event became an exciting entertainment for many.

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