Mingva

Mingva
Racer photo done by Alain
Nationality:	Lithuanian
Location:	Klaipeda, Lithuania
Born:	1978-09-03
Team:	Average Joe
First race:	ZCT14 (May 2002)
Championship titles:	4D Stunts League (2003)

Mingva is a Lithuanian Stunts racer associated with the community’s Golden Generation. He co-founded the successful Orion team in June 2002 with Alain, later managed the IRC after the end of the ISA season in 2002, and is remembered both for race wins and for helping formalise attitudes to Advanced Replay Handling during the early-2000s boom of online Stunts competitions. See: Golden Generation, Orion,

Career

Mingva debuted on ZCT14 in May 2002 during the first half of the year that the community later dubbed the “Golden Generation”, and soon teamed up with Alain on chat and forum to found Orion (June 2002). The pair quickly became fixtures on ZakStunts scoreboards, with Orion going on to win the team championship in 2003.

After the end of the 2002 ISA season—created and run by Austrian racers including Pershing II and Ruepel, Mingva took over stewardship and continued the series as the IRC in 2003, keeping the monthly schedule and the OWOOT spirit while tightening rules and presentation. See: Stunts Wiki – ISA competition, Stunts Wiki – Indy Racing Cup.

In 2003 he placed well in the overall ZakStunts standings, winning “Black Pudding” (ZCT32) with the Porsche March Indy, and in July 2002 he had already taken a Plus-series victory (ZCTP02) with the Škoda Felicia Kompressor. He partnered Alain again in 2004 under the short-lived Mimas Racing banner. After announcing retirement at the end of 2004, he made a brief return for ZCT57 (“Skid Row”) in November 2005, and a more substantial comeback in June 2009 to both the forum and competition under the alias Paradisio. See: ZakStunts – 2003 archive (ZCT32 list), Stunts Wiki – list of ZakStunts winners, ZCT57 (all replays), ZakStunts – racer profile, ZakStunts – teams list.

From 2009 he was also associated with the Average Joe team in later seasons (2009–2014), where “Paradisio” appears among past members. See: ZakStunts – teams (Average Joe).

Selected results

• Winner – ZCTP02 (Plus #2), July 2002, Škoda Felicia Kompressor. See: winners list.
• Winner – ZCT32 “Black Pudding”, 2003, Porsche March Indy. See: 2003 archive (ZCT32).
• Return entry – ZCT57 “Skid Row”, November 2005, Corvette ZR-1 (competitive time submitted after retirement). See: ZCT57 replays.

Racing style and legacy

Mingva is frequently cited in community histories for bringing to light the mechanics of so-called “Advanced Replay Handling” (RH hiding) although hating it. It happened in October 2002 — clarifying that continued replays could evade contemporaneous checks — and thereby accelerating the shift of major competitions (including ZakStunts) towards explicitly allowing continued replays rather than attempting to police them. See: Stunts Wiki – RH Hiding, ZakStunts article – Online Stunts Competition History, Part 2.

Racer's name origin

"Mingva" is composed of the beginning of the first name "Min-" and the beginning of the last name "Gv-" IRL. The "-a" completes the racer's nickname.

See also

• Orion
• Indy Racing Cup
• ISA competition
• Golden Generation