As at the end of February, northern Portugal welcomed the participants with extremely harsh conditions. It was even worse – it was raining and the wind was so hard that trees broke off on the special stages and cars got stuck, which certainly did not make the very important task of reece any easier for…
This time the break between events was short – just a few weeks, and we will be able to enjoy the wonderful views of Portugal again. The Vieira do Minho Rally is different from the first two events, as the Portuguese Main Championship is now taking a break until the end of April, while the…
The Portuguese Rally Championship, which started in the mud a few weeks ago, drastically changed the venue and temperature and moved to the south of the country. Although there is a lot more sun and warm there, the special stages themselves were definitely no easier. Some of the stages are the same as those driven…
It’s been almost three weeks and we’re back in faraway Portugal. Both the Portuguese main championship and the promo championship run over nine rounds and there’s plenty of action. Of course, this is possible because the climate in this country allows racing almost all year round. In addition, Portugal is not a small country and…
The rally season began in Portugal, which was also visited by the Lithuanian crew consisting of Martynas Samsonas and Ervinas Snitkas. However, the country in the far south of Europe with its mountains was not a place where you could be calmly in light clothing. The participants were greeted by the typical weather for this…
Winter rallying in the Baltic countries is over – we had four events in Lithuania, Latvia and Finland. What do you do when there’s a three-month wet spring in our region? Go where it’s already warm. So after four winter events, until it is possible to race in Lithuania again, we will have four gravel…
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…
The Alūksnė Rally, which opened the Baltic winter rally season, ended last weekend. A crew from our N5 team – Eugenijus Sladkevičius and Marius Kairys with the Škoda Fabia N5+ – took part in the combined stage of the Latvian and Estonian championships. Even before the Alūksnė Rally, the Lithuanian crew had tests in Elektrėnai,…
It does not seem that long ago that the members of the N5 squad were still bathing in the mud baths of the Saaremaa Rally, and they are already starting the new 2024 season this weekend. Since winters in our region are difficult to predict and there are not so many suitable dates for rallies,…
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…