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Targa Florio

The Story of Targa Florio and the Return of Craig Breen

Rally Il Ciocco e Valle del Serchio

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Vilius Šaltenis 2021 Europe Italy Weekly post's WRC

The rally community seems to have learned to behave in the context of quarantine and we will no longer have those empty weekends as we did a year ago. Italians often have at least a couple of rallies taking place on the same weekend. Everything happens without spectators, but they will come back. In Australia, Philip Island hosted the GT World Challenge Australia race, where after a long break, the stands were no longer filled with ghosts but with motorsport fans.

Otepää talveralli

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Vilius Šaltenis 2021 Estonia Europe Weekly post's WRC

At least in one of the Baltic countries, the rally season has finally started. Lithuania and Latvia have to wait for it for almost a quarter of a year. The roads of the first event of the Estonian Rally Championship not only welcomed the local people but also became a training ground for many crews from all over the world. So it is – Otepää talveralli.

Kehala Ralli ’20

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Vilius Šaltenis 2020 Estonia Europe Uncategorized Weekly post's

What to do, when everything around you is plunging back into a pandemic stagnation, autumn mood, and there are still unresolved issues, untested adjustments to car settings, kilometers not covered, and so on? You just take and organize a small rally to put the last points on the letter i.

Rally di Alba ’20

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Vilius Šaltenis 2020 Europe Italy Weekly post's WRC

This period after opening the walls until the first stage of the WRC in Estonia is interesting, because various rallies in Europe which received only a constellation of local significance, this summer accept such guests and their equipment that they could only dream of before.

Rally Legend ’19

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Vilius Šaltenis 2019 Europe Historic Rally San Marino Weekly post's

Short post because the event that is described needs to be seen live. Black on white doesn’t present it well.

Rally of South Canterbury ’19

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Vilius Šaltenis 2019 Asia New Zealand Weekly post's

A month ago, on a southern New Zealand island, a 4th rally championship event happened. Near 200 kilometers of dusty roads were ready to be tackled by crews mostly from New Zealand. Between a few R5’s and many various years Mitsubishi Lancer Evo’s and Subaru Impreza’s, there are AP4 class cars. They are like “Proto” in the Baltic region, N5 – in Spain or MRT in South America. The body varies from Škoda Fabia to Mazda 2 or Holden Barina, but the main parts are the same.