Paris to Peking

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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 This project was a kind of alternative to the repealed “Dakar”, and called it the “St. Petersburg to Beijing.”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 »

Marathon in 2007 started May 27 in China’s capital – Beijing. This is an anniversary rally, exactly one hundred years ago, was organized the first ever rally, motorists on May 17 kicked off in Beijing, and successfully overcame 16 thousand kilometers of roads unbroken exactly two months later arrived in Paris. Прочитать остальную часть записи »

2000 and 2001. The competition is covering many European cities. Asia virtually ceased to participate in the route. In 2000, contestants will fit into your trip to Turkey, had to spend a lot of work to overcome it difficult rocky road.
But the cities of Europe were in favor of motorists along the route turned out to be Germany, Austria, Hungary and Romania. In 2001, the route plan even more has changed, the way the participants moved much farther to the south, and almost a little bit left to get to Africa, but the members went as planned and finished in the city of Petra in Jordan.
2002. This marathon could be called Russia for two reasons: after the break to host the race again transferred to Russia, and the route of the route lies almost entirely in the Russian zone. Country reveals the participants, especially foreign ones, their diverse natural areas.
Starting in St. Petersburg, motorists headed into the thick northern forests, endless steppes of the Volga region, the village of Cossacks, in the wide stretches of open spaces of Kalmykia, and finally completed his marathon in Novorossiysk, a city on the Black Sea.

Only one year was made a pause in the “Master Rally”. Marathon 1999 was very memorable because of the extremely difficult route passes through many countries, but in every place the participants waited for the fans happy.
Contestants had to start in Russia, to pass through Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and finally, to finish near the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul. Competitors from Russia, who declared himself as the driver KAMAZ, had to give up on a rather strange reason: he simply did not find opponents.
For the first time in this “Master Rally” kicked off the crew from Israel. Each of the participants spoke very positively about this rally, and indeed the preparation was very high. Many motorists were talking about this rally: “In this marathon just come to the finale – it is a big victory and achievement!”.
A talented race car driver, Mark Morales, in his interview said concerning the rally: “I have only one word to express his feelings for the Master Rally”: great! I am sure that such a rally-marathon will gradually become an equal footing with a great race like the Dakar. “

1997. At this time the track ran on cities: Paris – Samarkand – Moscow. At this year coincided 850 anniversary of the Russian capital, and therefore the participants arrived in Moscow was waiting for festive fireworks and celebratory program.
Sam championship consisted of several heavy stages, culminating in a spectacular finale. At the stage of the race in Indonesia, the machine literally stuck in the mud, this was expensive, but it did not prevent the participants reach the finish.
Ari Vatanen, the famous racer, the team of Peugeot, came to a close race in the finalists. Crew Subaru for many years in a row shows excellent results, and this brand has established itself as a proven quality mark. Racer Mickey Byaziona could be seen as a driver of KAMAZ.
It was in 1997, by decision of the FIA Division 1 power output was limited to 45-millimeter restrictor. This race is long remembered by the audience as a season of high quality and driving skill of the pilot, when there were a variety of car models.

In 1996, the activities of the marathon of Master Rally “does not stop. At this time the trail gets more complicated convoluted route, participants will have to cross many climatic zones.

Most of the marathon took place on the territories of Russia and Kazakhstan. Start of the race took place on 8 September in Ulyanovsk, there was transferred from Paris cars and motorcycles contestants. Finals took place over three weeks in Beijing. In the marathon, has been involved 119 motorcyclists, 146 cars and 70 trucks, and the first test for them was to accelerate at a distance of 300 meters.

Well-debugged economy bivouacs, practically running smoothly, allowing participants to comfortably rest after each covered task. Interest the audience more and more increasing, the roads were filled with fans. Rally participants suggested not to lose time and become familiar with such famous Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia.

And the audience was given a unique chance to monitor acute and thrilling battle between the three sports-prototypes ZX, created by Citroen.

A two-year rally was interrupted, and that in 1995 the marathon was again renewed with the support of the Master Group.

After some hesitation Rally Paris-Beijing was renamed to “Master Rally”. The race was attended by more than 50 motorists: they had to travel 12 thousand miles from Paris and Beijing, including Moscow and Ulan Bator. This rally was not so competitive, like the others, but this marathon was very vivid and memorable because of its unusual route, which captured nearly ten countries. Pierre Lartigue, participated in many competitions, multiple world champion and twice champion of the “Paris – Dakar for the first time felt himself in the role of the driver’s military KAMAZ.

Lartigue gathered his close-knit and friendly team that throughout the race have shown good results and was represented in the category of truck team “Kamaz-Master”. Spectators are warmly welcomed all participants and, unlike other races, road rallies that were filled with fans. Surprisingly, and in the desert and impenetrable regions of Kazakhstan, Altai mountains, Mongolia marathon contestants were waiting for a friendly and hospitable people in these places. In 1995, the FIA announced the assignment of the Master Rally “status of the World Cup with the highest degree of difficulty – 4