Off-Road Festival – „Virgas Manevri” in Liepāja District.
An off-road driving festival – 4th stage of the Latvian Open Trophy Raid Championship under the name „Virgas Manevri” [Virga Manoeuvres] will be held in Liepāja District on July 23 and 24, 2011. We have found an area full of changing natural conditions and interesting events – bogs, wet meadows, sands, railway, clearings, a specially prepared trial track.
Both sportsmen with sports 4x4 cars and enthusiasts with quite ordinary 4x4 cars are invited to enjoy a two-day off-road motoring. Simultaneously with the race of sportsmen to win the Trophy Raid, there will be arranged a Tourist Cup race, within which jeep owners will have opportunity to view beautiful places, drive along better and worse roads, search for control points, test their driving skills in simplified mud and trial laps, as well as perform other tasks.
Sportsmen will have opportunity to show their skills in a specially prepared trial lap, mud lap, orienteering zones and a night tour. There will be prepared a several kilometres long corridor, which should be passed as quickly as possible, without crossing the corridor borders. The areas selected for orienteering are sufficiently wide, in order to prevent crowding of participants at control points.
The venue of the festival will be at Virga, Liepāja District (N56 28 29.2763 E21 25 2.4915). The festival venue is easily accessed by asphalted roads both from Liepāja (in Grobiņa you should turn off the highway Riga – Liepāja), and from the Lithuanian border. Tent sites will be available; in the case of rain, overnight stay will be possible in the gym hall of the school.
Detailed and latest info on
www.4x4klubs.lv,
www.trofi.lv
Sportsmen from Lithuania and Estonia are especially welcome. Participants from foreign countries, who submit application for participation in the Virga Manoeuvres, will get a 50% discount on the participation fee.