Jonas Gelžinis (born 2 March 1988) is a Lithuanian racing driver. J.Gelžinis won

Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain The Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain is a multi-event one-make motor racing series that takes place in the United Kingdom for the Porsche 911 GT3. Being the fastest and most successful single marque GT championship in the UK, the Carrera Cup ...

Pro-Am1 class champion title in

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. From

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he raced in Pro class and finished runner up in

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. He is also a record ten-time winner of the Palanga 1000km Challenge. He was selected for FIA 2012 Young Driver Excellence Academy. Only 18 young talented drivers were selected from around the world. Moreover, Jonas was also selected for 2013 PORSCHE INTERNATIONAL CUP SCHOLARSHIP shootout. Together with Earl Bamber, Johan Kristoffersson and other top drivers from Porsche Carrera Cups. His younger brother

Ignas Gelžinis Ignas Gelžinis (born 28 February 1991) is a Lithuanian racing driver, currently racing in Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain championship. His older brother Jonas Gelžinis is also racing driver. Career Summary 2012–2014: Renault Clio Cup Unit ...

is also racing driver.

Career summary

Early years

In the beginning of his career, Jonas Gelžinis became a

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champion in "Raket" class. From 2001 to 2003 he was a leading driver in "ICA Junior" class. In 2005 Jonas Gelžinis went to rallying. In rally "Aplink Lietuvą" (eng. "Around

") he finished fourth in "A/R 2000" class. In 2006 rally " Kauno ruduo", he finished second in his "A/R 2000" class. In 2005 Jonas Gelžinis also participated in

1000 kilometrų lenktynės "Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook" formerly known as "ENEOS 1006 km powered by Hankook", "ENEOS 1006 km lenktynės", "Horn Grand Prix", "TV3 1003 kilometrų lenktynės" and "Omnitel 1000 km lenktynės" (for sponsorship reasons) is a touring car ra ...

for the first time and finished third overall and took a victory in his class. He won the race in 2006. Jonas Gelžinis later repeated this achievement in 2008, 2009,

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and

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. From 2005 to 2006 Jonas Gelžinis was competing in Volkswagen Castrol Cup. In his rookie year he took one third-place finish, set fastest lap time twice and ended the season in 8th place overall. In the following year he finished as

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