Motorsport Information
EnduranceEndurance racing is a form of motorsport racing which is meant to test the durability of equipment and endurance of participants. Teams of multiple drivers attempt to cover a large distance in a single event, with participants given a break with the ability to change during the race. Endurance races can be run either to cover a set distance in laps as quickly as possible, or to cover as much distance as possible over a preset amount of time.
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Endurance racing is one of the oldest motor sports in Auruna, and it is the most popular. Viska, a joint motorsport team of Schkeska and VSK, has been successful in local and international endurance races, this includes the 24 Hours of Le Mans which Viska won eight times. Besides local automotive brands, Aston Martins are widely used by most Aurun endurance teams with Viska being the most successful with Aston Martins. Aurun drivers are known for their extreme endurance, being capable of consistent performance for long periods. Current Aurun Formula One driver Lukas Ziuvin has raced in the endurance series for the VSK works team for three years before transitioning to Formula One.
AtMATouring car racing is a motorsport road racing competition with heavily modified road-going cars. While not as fast as Formula One, the similarity of the cars both to each other and to fans' own vehicles makes for entertaining, well-supported racing. The lesser use of aerodynamics means following cars have a much easier time passing than in F1, and the more substantial bodies of the cars makes the subtle bumping and nudging for overtaking much more acceptable as part of racing.
As well as short "sprint" races, many touring car series include one or more endurance races, which last anything from 3 to 24 hours and are a test of reliability and pit crews as much as car, driver speed, and consistency.
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The AtMA (Auvotörennä Mestännä Auruna) is Auruna's very own touring car series starting in its inaugural season in 1989. Many local teams and drivers started racing in AtMA with Schkeska, Akil, and VSK being the three main constructors and engine suppliers. In 2010, more international teams and manufacturers started to race in AtMA with varying degrees of success in the series, although the international teams have not seen much success, they are still competitive and are able to win races.
As of recently, VSK has been dominant in the series with the new regulation changes but Viska and Schkeska has been keeping up and in the last season, it was a close competition with a one point difference between the three teams.
RallyRally is a form of motorsport that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars. It is distinguished by not running on a circuit, but instead in a point-to-point format in which participants and their co-drivers drive between set control points (special stages), leaving at regular intervals from one or more start points. Rallies may be won by pure speed within the stages or alternatively by driving to a predetermined ideal journey time within the stages.
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Rallying in Auruna has seen a sudden rise of popularity in the 70s with Aurun driver Niko Kauma winning the 1974 1000 Lakes Rally for Lancia. After that, more Aurun drivers joined rally teams then Schkeska joined in 1981 and proved to be very competitive and in the start of the Group B era, Schkeska is one of the most dominant teams in the series, only beaten by Audi and Lancia but eventually winning one WRC Drivers' and Constructors' championship in 1984 with Andrej Taunkanna. After the end of the Group B era, Schkeska saw more success in Group A, winning two WRC Drivers' and Constructors' championships with Andrej Taunkanna, and three more championships with Lauri Vorlen after he moved from the domestic ARC.
Domestically, the ARC is not as big as the other MNA championships but it is still up there in terms of popularity. While the ARC lacked in certain areas, it wasn't lacking in drivers and memorable stories from Haukanna vs Vorlen to the might of Könä. Many notable drivers in other MNA championships first competed in ARC before moving on to their preferred disciplines which earned the series the nickname of "The Origins of Legends".
RallycrossRallycross is a form of sprint style automobile racing, held on a closed mixed-surface racing circuit, with modified production or specially built road cars, similar to the World Rally Cars.
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While Rallycross is not that popular as Rally, it is slowly rising in popularity since the first rallycross race in Auruna in 1998. Schkeska is a dominant force in rallycross thanks to their expertise in rallying. There are only a few actual rallycross tracks in Auruna, the rest are just a modified, and usually shorter version of one of the current tracks.
E-SeriesThe latest addition to the Aurun motorsport roster. The E-Series is an electric car racing series. It was a spec series using Schkeska's Körd sedan as a base until every team that entered could develop their own cars funded by the MNA, all with custom bodies turning the cars into a "lite" version of AEC cars. There are plans on racing on permanent circuits like Livonsk but due to range, they were limited to circuits below 4 km until further development in the lengthy off-season bumped the range up to 5.5km. The calendar will be mostly comprised of street and road circuits, including Schyözirena Novinaya. A lot of drivers moved to racing in the E-Series with big names like Laura Haukanna and Lena Jaukko. Krazivaran's Haru Jukkenna is currently the reigning E-Series Champion.
Aurun WGP3(Formerly Viska Junior Formula)
The Aurun WGP3 is an Aurun open wheeled championship under the MNA and WGPO. It was the result of the rising popularity of WGP racing in Auruna after the successes of Viska in WGPC and the Aurun drivers who were competing. The championship was formed with the Viska Junior Formula as a base and it slowly incorporated the recently-dead Formula Auruna during formation. After a long and messy period of MNA politics, the Aurun WGP3 was finally born and plans were made to commence the championship in early 2022 which was then pushed back to late 2022 after the restructuring.
The Viska Junior Formula was Viska's one-make open wheeled racing series where their recruited young drivers race, it's intended to function as the young kart racing graduate's first experience of car racing and to train them for the higher-tier racing series. Many drivers from Viska's junior drivers have been successful in their respective motorsport like Miko Kaukanna, Lena Jaukko, Artur Iljakov, and Jöna Ekeränna.