22/09/2026
Poznan 2026, final round of the Baltic Touring Car Championship season, was the first visit to the race track for “V1600” and ABC Race classes, with total of 10 entries in those classes. Mixed with local Polish series similar paced cars, the grid size went up to 30. New track, new emotions, but the same pole sitter – Mareks Matvejevs just managed by couple thousandths of a second to beat Nauris Agafonovs for first position in the class with Ruudi Reinumagi in third and Annija Anna Vitina in fourth. A lot of action right from the start of the race, saw multiple position changes that resulted in Agafonovs taking the chequered flag first followed by Matvejevs who was relegated to 4th position in the race after being penalized. Resulting in Reinumagi in second and Vitina in third. Race 2 in damp conditions saw similar action, with off-road excursions and different paces for racers. Reinumagi managed the race best of all, and took his first race victory, followed by Matvejevs and Agafonovs. Matvejevs won Race 3 ahead of Agafonovs and Reinumagi. In sum of all 3 races victory in the event goes to Agafonovs, second Reinumagi and third Matvejevs who comfortably won V1600 class 2026 standings for the second year in a row, followed by Agafonovs and Reinumagi.
Thus in the event TOP3:
🏆 Nauris Agafonovs ( JV Racing Academy)
🥈 Ruudi Reinumagi
🥉 Mareks Matvejevs (JV Racing Academy)
And the season winner:
🏆 Mareks Matvejevs 🇱🇻
Vice-champion: Nauris Agafonovs 🇱🇻
3rd place: Ruudi Reinumagi 🇪🇪
Total of 15 drivers took place across all rounds. The work to finalize the technical rules for upcoming seasons are already underway. Waiting for more to join the basic class of circuit racing!
