Paris to Peking

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Russian KAMAZ – master “, in recent years has become a permanent participant of the rally” Paris – Beijing “. This is a modern high-class team. It appears in almost all racing. These trucks sport more than once showed himself as a close-knit friendly team. Numerous victories of the crew lie in its integrity, independence, team members from anyone not depend financially themselves develop, design and assemble parts for their future performances. The countdown begins performances of these trucks still in the eighty-eighth year and has successfully continued to the present. Yet not a single Russian team racers failed three times to win the World Cup mezhdorozhnym rally. Прочитать остальную часть записи »

Owner of car Dodge Coupe Craig Marshall said that he got this car 6 years ago. He bought it on the property specifically to participate in such rallies. Craig is very pleased with his car and is not going to sell it. On the question of repairing old cars, he replied that there are no problems with spare parts, stores course, they rarely happen, but they can be found in specialty shops or at auctions.
Was in the parking lot and the most famous car – ITALA 40 1907 release. Many owners took off with their car badges, because already there were cases when they just stole. Прочитать остальную часть записи »

Participants in a Rolls Royce 20/25 arrived here at 6 o’clock in the evening, slightly delayed, they had to go it alone on Belokuriha, where they stayed at the station. At the service station were very friendly and professional people, they just had to motorists showed their support and the ability to help in difficult circumstances.
Aston Martin DB5 by David Roberts and Joe needs a complete cleaning. At the moment, this car takes 3 rd place in the category of classic cars. Mechanic Andrew applied a small brush to clean the carburetor on the loose sands of Mongolia. Прочитать остальную часть записи »

Crews arrived in Almaty, provided a reliable summary of the news. Car 43 is not very lucky – he has to push cylinder head gasket, but crew members gather their forces to eliminate breakage.
Machine Dodge Tourer at number 9 was faced with a faulty bearing in the generator. The car 38 is put very heavy motor because there has got sand and runs cooler. Прочитать остальную часть записи »

Participants from the crews of Rolls Royce 20/25 Washington, Bruce and Bruce Selby said: “This day was planned not too eventful.
All that is required of us, just go on a route about 500 km from Almaty. After that we had a relaxing bath with foam in Almaty Intercontinental Hotel after exhausting night in a field. But once again convinced that that rarely goes according to plan, and even if this were so, then the journey would lose its sting. ”
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In this race involved 11 cars built before 1921, well over 70 cars that were produced before World War II, and about 20 cars the usual type, the issue of which occurred before 1968. In total in the race involved 107 vintage cars.
After the contestants have arrived in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, on their way to lay in Ucharal, and on Saturday they had been parking in Almaty. Already on Tuesday, motorists will travel to Uzbekistan through the city of Shymkent.
The total length of the distance that must be overcome participants will be 15 thousand km. Riders to be done this way for 37 days and finish in Paris. Throughout Saturday and Sunday, the participants drove to the hotel in Almaty and chose their place in the parking lot near the hotel.
Not everyone managed to get its own power: some of the machines were brought up on the car, others were taken by plane. Throughout the weekend residents of the city saw many contestants in the Almaty workshop.
After a short break motorists will go to the next paragraph.

Again held the rally vintage cars on Beijing-Paris 2010. The participants arrived first, 25 on Saturday, September reached the city of Almaty. Arrival of participants were already waiting, and immediately placed at the Intercontinental Hotel, near which was formed in the open air parking is kind of vintage cars. Rally Peking to Paris is one of the most traditional and old rally in the entire history of the world races. Прочитать остальную часть записи »

2008. June 11 started this great marathon. This project was a kind of alternative to the repealed “Dakar”, and called it the “St. Petersburg to Beijing.”
Participants can drive for 17 days on the roads of three countries, the distance they plan to overcome about 11 thousand km. Organizer and director of the rally is still the same, Rene Metzh, said that the name remained associated with the capital of France because of the initial ideas of the organizers. In this way they would like to emphasize that the rules of this competition is not very different from the French marathon. Прочитать остальную часть записи »

Trail rally “Beijing-Paris-2007″ runs on a variety of cities in Asia and Europe. These were countries such as Mongolia, China, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania and France. Since the early to mid-June rally passes through the territory of Russia.
Participants run to go about 6 thousand miles on cities: Novossibirsk, Omsk, Kazan, Tyumen, Tomsk, Biisk, Perm, Kazan, Ivangorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Responsible for the maintenance of the marathon “Peking to Paris” in Russia during the entire contest of OAO Mosaero. Прочитать остальную часть записи »

Since the rally marks the beginning of all races and aims to repeat the run a hundred years ago, to recreate the atmosphere of the era – it was a race of vintage cars.
The initiative of organizing and fundraising events of the jubilee in 2007 belongs to one of the organizers of the general British company Endurance Rally Association. In this unusual rally involving 290 drivers, 32-member committee of 15 cars from 22 countries with technical support from the organizers. Прочитать остальную часть записи »