Check Out the Crazy Aurum 1006 Endurance Race in Latvia
What else are you going to do with that GT3 in the garage? You must enter!
Consider the Aurum 1006 Endurance Race in Latvia JakeSimRacing Back in ancient times, after they invented the car but before they invented racetracks, organizers used to hold races on public roads. This was done all the way up until the 1950s—look at the Mille Miglia. Other open-road courses have been modified a bit—look at Le Mans, Spa, the Isle of Man TT, and Detroit.
But here’s one still going strong that I’ll bet you’ve never heard of: the Aurum 1006 km. The rave is held in Northern Europe just outside the summer resort town of Palanga, Lithuania (11 miles of beaches 1,000 feet wide! ), where the Palangans close down an interchange of the A11 and A13 highways and use the connector roads and enough of each highway itself to make up an AVUS-like track 1.
7 miles long. The race has been held every summer since 2000. It features five classes, from GT3 cars you see at Spa and Nürburgring (Porsches, BMWs, Mercedes, and Audis) to far-slower craft in the “non-homologated entries.
” Everybody gets along. The course itself goes west on A11, takes the transition to northbound A13, makes a U-turn and heads south on the same road, then does a 270-degree interchange loop back to eastbound A11 before making another U-turn and doing it all again. The fuel stop is a regular-old gas station.