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Toyota Landcruiser event with the presentation of new Lexus GS and some more pics of already well-known GT86. More photos
More than 80 subarus participated in this amazing event, that took place on the Track «333» not far from Riga More photos
There is only one conclusion: It is a very good car, with potential, and it lusts for TURBO! More photos
The most powerfull race cars from the Baltics came together on the race track that was converted from the highway Kretinga — Palanga. It was hot and sometimes rainy. And too many horse powers! More photos
This event took place in Palanga , Lithuania before the «1000km Omnitel» race. More Photos.
These races were very popular in Soviet Union from the middle of the sixties and till the 90ies. There were lots of cups that were held in USSR republics. It began as competitions of taxi drivers on weekends, on their GAZ-21 und GAZ-24. And later more professional cars began to be engineered.
In 2010 this championship was reborn in Latvia, where the first „Dzintara volga” („Amber Volga”) Cup took place more than 30 years ago. The most famous drivers today are Anton Dolgopolov – champion of the Year 2011, Andrejs Paupers and Valdis Belmers. So, here are some photos from the last event, that took place at Bikernieki track on 7.July 2012. The battle was breath-taking!
It was the first presentation of Toyota GT86, that was developed in alliance with Subaru (Subaru has named it BRZ). It was long waited car, and so you can see these first pre-sale cars in Europe.
Car specs in focus: Subaru Flat4 2.0 boxer, Rear wheel drive, 197 hp at 7000rpm, 205 Nm at 6600rpm, 7.6 sec to 100km/h with 6-speed M/T and top speed of 226 km/h.
I can’t say that this data is amazing, but the car is well balanced (53/47) and we hope tuner companies and drifters will do their best:)
And now we will wait for another Toyota successors — Celica and Supra!
It was a long waited trip to Russia, land of soviet automobile engineering, to the Gorkiy city (nowadays — Nizhniy Novgorod).
Here in 1932 the plant GAZ was built, where the new soviet cars have been assembled.
In the end of May, during 4 days we managed to visit GAZ museum, N-ring track, where we participated «Gorky Classic» oldtimer motor show , the stage of Dzintara Volga Cup and were lucky to take part in test races on the street supercars. Photos here:
On this photo you can see one of two dragrace Evolutions of «Eparts.lv Racing Team», that landed on the second place in Dragrace Championship. Car didn’t visit the dyno, but has to be about 1000 HP. The second has 850+ HP. More photos
Race of Champions 2012 took place in Germany, in beginning of December, on Esprit Arena in Duesseldorf. Competition consisted of two parts: day 1- “Nations Cup”, day 2 – Race of Champions. Nations Cup 5 times in a row has been conferred to the duet of Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Fettel. Sebastien Ozhje became the champion of the champions . Last year this title was given to Philippe Alburkerke .
The most famous racers from USA to Russia. have participated in the race. The event turned out to be breath-taking. Not so often you are happy enough to see racers from all the series and autos from different racing classes. More photos
It was an amazing event in Essen, Germany on 3rd December. European tuners, racing teams, spare parts producers from all over the worlds, show cars and bikes were brought together in one place. More photos from this event you can find here
It was one of the most interesting drift events I’ve ever seen. Guest drivers from Scandinavian countries and real japanese monsters as Skylines, Crestas, Supras ect. More photos
Hello all! It’s my first post in Rawcar Blog! I will be posting the most exciting moments from car life.
More photos from american cars event in Haapsalu, Estonia