After the Rally Lazdijai, the crews and their teams had a month to prepare and travel to Kelmė, where the second stage of the Lithuanian rally championship took place. Part of the N5 gang also passed through Zarasai, where they honed their skills and tested cars. When the day of the rally came, 8 cars…
A month later, we return to the battles of the Lithuanian rally championship. Usually the “Rally Žemaitija” opened the LARČ season, but in the last two years this honor has been taken over by other rallies, and Žemaitija itself has become the second bullet point on the calendar. The rally itself is still basically similar…
The mantle of the 2024 Lithuanian car rally season was unveiled in Lazdijai. After the Visaginas rally, we hypothetically asked what Irmantas Buivydas’ pace would be in a full-mileage rally with a full field of competitors, both in his class and in the overall standings. The answer is the same as for Visaginas. Perhaps there…
The Lithuanian Car Rally Championship (LARČ) is only just beginning, but some of the N5 cars have already raced more than once this year and have “warmed up” sufficiently. It all started in the depths of winter in Lithuania and Latvia, and later, when our roads were trying to recover from the winter frenzy, M.Samsonas…
The general training before the upcoming Lithuanian rally championship took place in Visaginas. If we will have 9 N5 crews at the upcoming LARČ opening at the Lazdijai rally, it was possible to see a little more than half of them in Visaginas – five N5 crews. The rally in one-day format consisted of 4…
The time has finally come when the main attribute of the rally is not snow, but green fields and dust. The warm rally season willy opened by the Visaginas AMSK Club, which is organizing the Visaginas Rally for the third year in a row. This time it will also be an event of the Lithuanian…
There are two changes to the LARČ5 / N5 gang for the 2024 season. The first was already known at the beginning of the new year – Giedrius Firantas bought the VW Polo N5 from N. Radišauskas. Throughout the pre-season, it was known that R. Steponavičius had also sold the car, but no body didn’t…
Before the “Aukštaitija Winter Rally” competition, there was a lot of nervousness because our winter had started making jokes again. But in the end, everything was more than great. Before the rally there was enough coldness to freeze the roads, and during the day and night the clear and cool weather made it possible to…
As soon as we have time to shake off the Latvian snow, we will be heading to Zarasai this weekend, where the first stage of the Lithuanian Car Rally Sprint Championship – “Winter Rally Aukštaitija 2024” – will take place. As in previous years, many guests will come to enjoy the joys of winter. To…
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…