Blokart World Championships 2012 is going to be held on the Ivanpah dry lake bed in the United States of America. Blokarts premier event comes to landsailings “Mecca” on 8th April 2012, for a week of fierce competition.
Lithuanian Blokart Team member Matas Mizgiris current European and World vice-champion has entered the event. Sponsorship is very welcome!
Official website of the event: here
OBBC11 is starting tommorow! Eternal High is still there: pressure over 1030 hPa is holding for over a month in Lithuania and that’s a record of the last 100 years. Here’s the weather map of Saturday 12th November:
For the competitors this picture means lower winds and more efforts to keep the momentum of the Blokart. And of course a big test of the landsailing skills.
Friday’s Match race session at the beach Near Smiltynė New ferry is canceled – training session will take place in Nida airport instead.
Saturday’s and Sunday’s program is as previewed here.
See you in Nida soon! And let the wind blow!
Lithuanian Blokart team.
We welcome you to join Blokart sailing event in Nida, Lithuania! Open Baltic Blokart Championships will take place on 11th-13th November, 2011 in unused Nida Airport. Blokarts for rent will be available.
During the championships Neringa city will be celebrating its birthday, various activities will take place.
Registration has already started! Fill in the Form and join the races.
See you in Nida!
Terschelling island, Netherlands will host Open European Blokart Championships 2011. Island has great beaches of hard sand where around 70-90 pilots are going to compete.
Info about event is to be found here: info and registration
We are happy to invite you to register for Baltic Ice-Blokart Champs 2011!
Baltic Ice-Blokart Championships is going to take place on 25th-27th February, 2011 on Curonian lagoon ice near Nida.
Ice-Blokarts for rent will be available.
Fill in the Registration form and join the ice races!
Ice thickness is 48 cm, snow layer 5-7 cm, but the temperatures are above zero at the moment, and at least 10 days are forecasted to stay this way, so it looks ice conditions are looking very promissing for our event!
Meanwhile here’s some latest video of our ice-blokarting near Nida:
Lithuanian Ice-CUP was held last weekend on 22nd-23rd January at Rekyva lake, Lithuania. More than 30 pilots were competing in DN, Ice-Opti and Ice-Blokart classes. Ice conditions were OK, thickness of 25 cm, snow layer 3-5 cm. Winds varied from 4-7 m/s during the Champs. Every class completed at least 6 races and got 1 discard. Ice-Blokarts were competing in 2 weight classes <80 kg and 80+ kg.
TOP3 results:
Lightweights
1. Paulius Mamonovas 3 pts
2. Kęstutis Berezinas 9 pts
3. Egidijus Navickas 10 pts
Heavyweights
1. Aurimas Eidukas 2 pts
2. Matas Mizgiris 7 pts
3. Gediminas Petrauskas 16 pts
Detail results are available here (.xls file)
During the first day of OBBC2010 all of the sudden Orm’s Valtson’s heart stopped to beat. CPR was immediately started, but ambulance personell was unsuccessful…
Minute of silence was given and event was discontinued.
Compassion to Orm’s wife, family, Estonian Blokart Team mate Raul Nappa and all others.
Orm, we will always remember You as a Great Man and a Great Warrior at Blokart fields whether on land or on ice!
Everybody is welcome to join Blokart event in Nida, Lithuania! Open Baltic Blokart championships is going to take place on 12th-14th November, 2010 in unused Nida Airport. Blokarts for rent will be available.
During the championships Neringa city will be celebrating its birthday, various activities will take place.
Fill in the Form and join the races.
Great performance from Lithuanian Blokart Team who end up with 2 silver medals in World Blokart Champs 2010.
Ilgaudas Šeputa became 2nd between 11 competitors (22 pts) in One ton weight category and Matas Mizgiris came 2nd among 24 competitors (22 pts) in Middleweight category in Blokart production class. Congratulations!
