It is a busy time in Latvia when viewed through the prism of the rally. It seems that the “Rallijs Sarma” has just finished and the rally community has once again traveled to the north of the country. Only this time, not to Gulbene, but to Alūksne. The rally, which was supposed to take place…
Many of us were looking forward to the opening of the Baltic Rally season in Alūksne in January. The nervous, far too frequent look at the weather forecasts in the north of Latvia was interrupted by the announcement that the rally was unfortunately postponed to the end of February. A large part of us took…
Finally, the winter rally has come to our yard. Last year we had a non-championship event in Ignalina, this year – the LARSČ rally in Zarasai. Hey, maybe next year winter will return to Lithuania Rally Championship? That would be a lot of fun. Well, this weekend the Zarasai motorsports club “Akseleratorius” and its partners…
Until recently, there was a time when we were looking at soaked roads and last year’s leaves rotting next to them, we enviously remembered winter rallies and their special atmosphere. This year, January, which made us nervous is over and February has taken matters into its own hands, which benevolently gives us the opportunity to…
Tomas Šmagarys talks about the beginning of his career, teacher, and coach Kristian Sohlberg, the new Hyundai i20 N5 car, and other very interesting things How long have you been behind the wheel? I have been driving professionally since last year. Well, we’ve had a little bit of a few rally sprints in the past,…
The 2023 Estonian Rally Championship finally started last weekend. Well, it should have started much earlier in the Alūksne rally, but the weather in the Baltic region often significantly distorts the plans of participants and organizers. However, the Otepa region remained frosty, and it snowed during the days of the rally, so ideal conditions were…
On the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, the weather, as usual, keeps messing around and causes quite a headache for both the organizers and participants of winter rallies. The participants of the Zarasai and Alūksne rallies recently had to look for other places to grind the studs of the sports tires. A helping hand…
In mid-January, 4 N5 class cars appeared at the opening ceremony of the Arctic Lapland Rally, located in the beautiful city of Rovaniemi. They did this after a particularly long Reece and shakedown. Those crews were Lithuanians Martynas Samsonas and Ervins Snitkas with Volkswagen Polo N5, Linas Vaškys and Laurynas Paškevičius with Škoda Fabia N5+,…
Three N5 crews from Lithuania took a 1,500-kilometer trip north of Finland, where the famous Rovaniemi town sits between countless frozen forests and lakes. It will be a 2023 season opener for Martynas Samsonas, Linas Vaškys, and Vilmantas Padegimas. All drivers have the same, but a few different goals to achieve. There will be one native…
A few days ago Arctic Lapland Rally organizers published an event entry list, where 3 N5 cars from Lithuania could be found. A total of 103 crews will tackle one of the most demanding rally on the calendar – nearly 250 icy and snowy kilometers await competitors, which will be dwelled in Rovaniemi for an…