With the arrival of the new year, the guidelines for the new 2024 season are becoming clearer. The cars moves from one hand to the other, and the winter rallies are filled with sensational participants. The changes have not escaped the ‘N5 gang and their cars. One of these changes is that the white VW…
Last week, the representatives of Domingos Sport – Ricardo Domingos and his brother Paulo – visited the Samsonas Motorsport factory, where the headquarters of N5 Lithuania are located. Domingos Sport from Portugal and Samsonas Motorsport have been working together for 4 years and this partnership is being extended with the N5 car project. From this…
Spain is the country where the N5 class was born, and it is here that these cars are most common. Of the total of 91 N5 cars currently on the world’s rally stages, over a third (37) are located here. N5 cars have the green light in all national and regional championships in Spain, and…
How was your weekend in Miranda de Ebro? Is it fun to return to the discipline of contact motorsport? The weekend was good, very good. You can say that it’s not a completely new thing for me, but I still gained new experiences and new information. We keep moving, everything is moving forward. Admittedly, we…
Martynas Samsonas is visiting Spain this weekend, where he is taking part in the final stage of the Spanish Rallycross on the Miranda de Ebro circuit with the RMC Motorsport team. Martynas will be in the Toyota Yaris N5, and he has shared some thoughts on the upcoming competitions and behind the scenes of the…
At the moment, you could say that Lithuania and Italy are in a race to see who has more N5 cars. In Lithuania there were 11 during the season, in Italy – 13. An increase is expected in both countries for the 2024 season. However, Lithuania are a little better off in terms of activity,…
There are three N5 cars in Finland. Recently there were 4, but one of them traveled to Lithuania where driven by Rokas Steponavičius Ford Fiesta N5 finished 2nd in the LARČ5 classification this year. Among these three cars, there is another Lithuanian accent – Jaakko Lavio’s Peugeot 208 N5, which he has been driving in…
It was a really long but fast-paced year that started in the polar night in the far north and ended in mud baths on the magical island of Saaremaa. How was this N5 season? Amazing – in short. This amazingness can be illustrated with a few numbers like these. The N5 LTU season consisted of…
It looked as if the season was already over, but rally cars were still flying through the woods here and there. This was the case in western Lithuania, where private test sessions were organized. The very windy, cold, rainy and of course muddy conditions were ignored by the people who gathered near one of the…
We have N5 cars in Lithuania, Finland, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Peru. Of course, sometimes cars of this class migrate to other countries, such as lithuanian ones at the “Otepaa” and “Sareemaa” rallies at Estonia. At the end of the year, we will review the situation in each of these N5 countries. The first of…