1000 kilometrų lenktynės


"Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook" formerly known as "ENEOS 1006 km powered by Hankook", "ENEOS 1006 km lenktynės", "Horn Grand Prix", "TV3 1003 kilometrų lenktynės" and "Omnitel 1000 km lenktynės" for sponsorship reasons) is a touring car and GT endurance racing event held annually in Lithuania, at Palanga circuit, two kilometers away from the resort town of Palanga. The race was first held in 2000.

History

1000 km lenktynės at Palanga Circuit, then known as "Horn Grand Prix", was first held in 2000. A total of 18 teams entered the race. It was won by Vytautas Venskūnas, Vladas Laurinavičius, and Eugenijus Tumalevičius. In 2004, the number of participants increased to 34, in 2005 to 37. In the same year, the race distance was increased to 1003 km to honor new title sponsor TV3, and the race was renamed to TV3 "1003 kilometrų lenktynės".
The number of participants continued to increase in the following year as the race was officially included in the list of FIA sanctioned events and the race began to attract teams and race drivers from other countries. In 2006 41 teams entered the race and in 2007 the number of participants increased to maximum 60.
In 2008 total 75 teams submitted their entries, but only 60 entered the race, as other teams, who failed to qualify, had to compete in support 100 laps race. A new title sponsor was introduced in 2008, as Omnitel replaced TV3. Therefore, the race reverted to its original 1000 km format. Omnitel pulled off its support before 2013 edition of the race, and the race became known simply as "1000 kilometrų lenktynės" until ENEOS became a title sponsor in 2015.
In 2017 race organizers introduced a Hankook as mandatory tyre, and it also became one of the race sponsors and race name was renamed to: "ENEOS 1006 km powered by Hankook", and in 2018 race was renamed again when the main sponsor entered and the event became - "Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook".

Classes

, GT and prototypes can enter the race if they comply with technical regulations of the race. Open top cars, such as Radical SR8, were banned from the race after the 2014 event due to safety reasons. From 2019 class system where changed: cars that satisfy Technical Regulations and are not faster than FIA GT3 will be classified and divided into classes according to the Technical regulations of the Event.
ClassDescription
GTFIA GT3 cars, FIA R - GT cars and cars made by SRO GT4 European Series Technical Rules. Cars that comply with GT class principle, but were not built for FIA/ SRO homologation regulations. For example, when the base of car is a legal road sports car. The organiser can divide cars into 2 or 3 subgroups, if there are enough cars registered for separate classification.
TCTouring Cars; prepared by FIA rules for A - and N - Group, FIA rules for R - Groups and these Rules for TC class. Class TC will be divided by calculated engine capacity to subgroups TC1 - TC4.
SPSpecial Cars; cars which are not accepted in any other class and silhouette cars. Electrical and Hybrid cars can start only with special request. This request must be presented to the organiser at the least 3 months prior to the race. Class SP will be divided by calculating engine capacity to subgroups SP1 - SP3 and SPE for electric/ hybrid cars.
DDiesel cars; cars with diesel engine.
TCRCars prepared according to TCR International Series requirements and complying to an Appendixes for Aurum 1006 km Powered by Hankook Race and TCR endurance events.

Winners of 1000 kilometrų lenktynės

YearBest lap timeCarClassDriversTeam
20201:09.553Porsche GT3 Cup Gen2GT Open Julius Adomavičius
Jonas Gelžinis
Oskaras Brazaitis
Ralf Aron
Circle K milesPLUS Racing Team
20191:10.384Porsche GT3 CupGT Open Julius Adomavičius
Jonas Gelžinis
Ignas Gelžinis
Ralf Aron
Circle K milesPLUS Racing Team
20181:10.987Porsche 991GT Steve van Bellingen
Nemunas Dagilis
Robertas Kupčikas
Palanga SPA Hotel by EMG Motorsport
2017TBDPorsche 911 GT3 CUPGT Ignas Gelžinis
Jonas Gelžinis
Egidijus Valeiša
Skuba Dream
2016TBDPorsche 911 GT3 CUPGT Sebastiaan Bleekemolen
Jonas Gelžinis
Benediktas Vanagas
General Financing team Pitlane
20151:12.091Porsche 997 GT3 CupGT Jonas Gelžinis
Ignas Gelžinis
Tautvydas Barštys
Juta – KG Group
2014BMW E90 M3A3000+ Jonas Gelžinis
Ignas Gelžinis
Edvinas Arkušauskas
Liqui Moly Racing Team Lithuania
2013Porsche 997 GT3 CupGT Benediktas Vanagas
Nemunas Dagilis
Nerijus Dagilis
15 min - General Financing
20121:21.209Porsche 997 GT3 CupGT Sun Moodley
Andrew Culbert
Manogh Maharaj
Oktanas Racing
20111:27.594Honda Civic Type-RA2000 Martynas Samuitis
A. Granskas
Neiluva - Martin Sport
20101:23.568BMW M3 SilhouetteX1 Benny Smets
Ward Sluys
Steve van Bellingen
KS Motorsport
20091:22.955Ferrari F430 ChallengeGT Jonas Gelžinis
Aleksey Vasilyev
Ilja Burenko
Snoras Client team
20081:20.734Spyker C8 Spyder GT2RX1 Jonas Gelžinis
Ralf Kelleners
Aleksey Vasilyev
Peter Dumbreck
Snoras Spyker Squadron
20071:25.245AGM Kit CarX1 Ramūnas Čapkauskas
V. Čebatavičius
Adampolis - Racing team
20061:25.570Porsche 996 GT3A3000+ Jonas Gelžinis
A. Rusteika
G. T. Jarmalavičius
A. Bartusevičius
Topo centras
20051:26.641Porsche 996 GT3A3000+ E. Dapšas
Nemunas Dagilis
Nerijus Dagilis
Oktanas - Snaigė I
20041:22.068Audi RS4A3000+ V. Venskūnas
V. Simuntis
L. Karlavičius
A. Pyragius
Los Patrankos - Printera
20031:21.794Porsche 996 GT3A3000+ V. Venskūnas
A. Kudla
SK D.A.L
20021:25.995Porsche 993 CupA3000+ V. Laurinavičius
E. Tamulevičius
A. Simaška
N. Kondrachin
Lietuvos "Porsche" Klubas
20011:24.766Porsche 993 RSR V. Venskūnas
A. Kudla
Automodus V
2000Porsche 993 CupST over 2000 V. Venskūnas
V. Laurinavičius
E. Tamulevičius
Lietuvos "Porsche" Klubas

Individual race history

2010

2010 Omnitel 1000 kilometrų lenktynės was an 11th installment of 1000 kilometrų lenktynės. It was held on July 15–17, 2010.
The race was won by Steve Vanbellingen, Benny Smets and Ward Sluys from Belgium with BMW M3 Silhouette, who drove for KS Motorsport team. Oktanas Racing drivers Robertas Kupčikas, Nemunas Dagilis and Nerijus Dagilis finished second with Porsche 997 GT3, two laps down. Fuchs MP Sport Star Moto team's drivers Maciej Marcinkewicz, Maciej Stanco and Pawel Potocki finished third with Ferrari F430 GT3 Scuderia, 15 laps down.
Only 34 cars from 42 finished the race. Fastest lap was recorded by Robertas Kupčikas, with a laptime of 1.21:032.

2012

2012 Omnitel 1000 kilometrų lenktynės was the 13th installment of 1000 kilometrų lenktynės. It was held on July 19–21, 2012.
The race was won by South Africans Sun Moodley, Andrew Culbert and Manogh Maharaj, who drove Porsche 911 GT3 Cup for Oktanas Racing, despite running out of fuel in the final lap. JR Motorsport team drivers took second with BMW M3 Silhouette. RIMO team with BMW 3 Series finished third and also took victory in diesel-powered cars class.
Race favourites BOD-Bauer Racing took pole position with a laptime of 1:30.204, but soon after the start their Aquila CR1 developed a brakes issue and finished only in 28th position. During the race weekend team also set the fastest Palanga Circuit laptime of 1:17.270, which is still the best lap time on the old configuration circuit.

2014

2014 1000 kilometrų lenktynės was the 15th installment of 1000 kilometrų lenktynės. It was held on July 17–19, 2014. This was the first time when the race was held in shortened circuit. This was also the second time in a row when the race did not had a title sponsor after Omnitel pulled off its support in 2013.
The race was red flagged for the first time in history due to heavy rain after 303 laps from 373. Victory was awarded to Liqui Moly Racing Team Lithuania and its drivers Jonas Gelžinis, Ignas Gelžinis and Edvinas Arkušauskas with BMW M3. "INTER RAO Lietuva" finished second, 13 seconds behind with another BMW M3. Final podium position was taken by "Macrofinance" racing team with third BMW M3.
Qualification was dominated by sports car drivers. Speed Factory Racing driver Konstantin Calko with Radical SR8 took pole position with a laptime of 1:07.046. "15min-GSR-Telsiu statyba" with Radical SR5 was second, 2.344 seconds behind. BarBar'a-Bauer by Algirdai took third, 2.892 behind, but due to technical problems they all finished outside the top 10.