THE RALLY
Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
- the longest and toughest challenge in a vintage or classic car!
Telmen Lake - Russia - Novosibirsk - Omsk - Tyumen - Samara - Ukraine - Kiev - Lviv - Slovakia - Kosice - Bratislava -
Austria - Schladming - Switzerland - Gstaad - France - Troyes - Paris
Check out the route below
The 28th May the next Peking to Paris Motor Challenge will take off. A race that gives reminiscent of Jules Verne's 'Around the World in 80 days', published in 1873, and also gives the chance to explore your skills, determination and the extent of your human spirit.
In total 96 cars will be driving, and our car has start number 8, which is a lucky number in China.
The navigation will be with a Garmin 78s, and a road book with „tulips".
Everyday we will be driving between 190 and 668 km against the clock. On the route there will be some demanding sections, which will be driven as special tests. We will also be going to drive on two racetracks and in Schladming we will drive a Hill Climb.
The race is organized by The Endurance Rally Association, which over the years has organized more than 60 major events spread over 50 different countries around the world.
FOLLOW US LIVE from PEKING TO PARIS
Follow the rally against the clock when we drive from Peking to Paris for a total of 7621 miles in 33 days.
We will try to send a short bulletin and a few photos every day of the latest challenges and experiences.
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HISTORY
Peking to Paris Motor Challenge goes back to the year of 1907, when the French newspaper Le Matin challenged the European automakers to show what the modern car could deliver. The challenge was to drive from Beijing to Paris, on a route of just over 7600 miles with barely no roads.
Several experts and the motoring press ridiculed the race and thought it was impossible. But in the end five participating vehicles were registered: a Dutch Spyker, two French Dion Bouton, an Italian Itala with a 7-liter engine driven by Prince Scipione Borghese and a three wheeled Contral, which only reached the edge of the Gobi desert because of lack of power.
The other four participating vehicles all reached the finish line in Paris in good shape after having overcome every conceivable risks of intense cold and burning heat, of mountain passes and rivers without bridges, desert, sand and snow.
It was Scipione Borghese who first reached the finish line after just eight weeks. The other vehicles arrived a few weeks after.
Due to political circumstances it was decided to put an end to the rally, and only in 1997 the race was resumed, however, the route was changed to go south of Tibet.
First in 2007 when the race celebrated its 100th anniversary, it was decided to drive the original route again.
THE ROUTE PLAN
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DAY |
DATE |
RUTE |
COUNTRY |
KM |
| 1 | 28th May 2013 | Peking to Daihai | China | 472 |
| 2 | 29th May 2013 | Daihai to Erenhot | China | 508 |
| 3 | 30th May 2013 | Erenhot to Altanshiree | Mongolia | 296 |
| 4 | 31th May 2013 | Altanshiree to Ulaan Baatar | Mongolia | 426 |
| 5 | 1st June 2013 | Ulaan Baatar - Rest Day | Mongolia | - |
| 6 | 2nd June 2013 | Ulaan Baatar to Bulgan | Mongolia | 343 |
| 7 | 3th June 2013 | Bulgan to Murun | Mongolia | 350 |
| 8 | 4th June 2013 | Murun to Telmen Lake | Mongolia | 293 |
| 9 | 5th June 2013 | Telmen Lake to Chjargas Lake | Mongolia | 288 |
| 10 | 6th June 2013 | Chjargas Lake to Uureg Lake | Mongolia | 259 |
| 11 | 7th June 2013 | Uureg Lake to Border | Mongolia | 271 |
| 12 | 8th June 2013 | Border to Aya | Russia | 470 |
| 13 | 9th June 2013 | Aya to Novosibirsk | Russia | 560 |
| 14 | 10th June 2013 | Novosibirsk - Rest Day | Russia | - |
| 15 | 11th June 2013 | Novosibirsk to Omsk | Russia | 668 |
| 16 | 12th June 2013 | Omsk to Tyumen | Russia | 632 |
| 17 | 13th June 2013 | Tyumen to Yekaterinburg | Russia | 360 |
| 18 | 14th June 2013 | Yekaterinburg to Ufa | Russia | 481 |
| 19 | 15th June 2013 | Ufa to Samara | Russia | 461 |
| 20 | 16th June 2013 | Samara - Rest Day | Russia | - |
| 21 | 17th June 2013 | Samara to Saratov | Russia | 435 |
| 22 | 18th June 2013 | Saratov to Voronezh | Russia | 545 |
| 23 | 19th June 2013 | Voronezh to Kharkiv | Ukraine | 364 |
| 24 | 20th June 2013 | Kharkiv to Kiev | Ukraine | 485 |
| 25 | 21th June 2013 | Kiev - Rest Day | Ukraine | - |
| 26 | 22th June 2013 | Kiev to Lviv | Ukraine | 583 |
| 27 | 23th June 2013 | Lviv to Kosice | Slovakia | 368 |
| 28 | 24th June 2013 | Kosice to Bratislava | Slovakia | 491 |
| 29 | 25th June 2013 | Bratislava to Schladming | Austria | 442 |
| 30 | 26th June 2013 | Schladming to Davos | Switzerland | 428 |
| 31 | 27th June 2013 | Davos to Gstaad | Switzerland | 325 |
| 32 | 28th June 2013 | Gstaad to Troyes | France | 453 |
| 33 | 29th June 2013 | Troyes to Paris | France | 190 |
TOTAL 7621 miles |
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The routeplan from Peking to Paris in 1907
