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Written by Jon Spurling
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Tuesday, 10 January 2006 |
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The route of the 2007 Peking Paris rally is over 12000 kms long and covers 10 countries. Rather than try to describe this mammoth undertaking in one go we choose to think of in three separate sections, it is slightly less daunting that way!
The first section covers China and Mongolia; we expect this to provide serious challenges in terms of terrain and petrol quality (an enduring theme). The second stage is Russia, where we expect better roads but some of the daily distances are going to be punishing. Lastly there is the run through the Baltic states to Paris, which is likely to be pretty comparable to other European rallies we have completed though whether, by that stage, we will recognise ourselves is a different matter. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 January 2006 )
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Section 1 - China and Mongolia |
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Written by Jon Spurling
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Tuesday, 10 January 2006 |
.jpg) Starting from Beijing (Peking in old money) the rally moves up the Great Wall of China for a ceremonal start then on to Datong and Siziwangqi before stopping at the Mongolian border town of Erenhot. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 January 2006 )
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Written by Jon Spurling
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Tuesday, 17 January 2006 |
.jpg) Having, hopefully, traversed the Mongolian steppe we proceed into Russia for a section of the rally characterised by long stages over reasonable roads. This section of the rally includes a couple of monster stages of almost 700 km and all of the longest 5 days of the rally. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 January 2006 )
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Written by Jon Spurling
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Tuesday, 24 January 2006 |
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The Peking Paris motor challenge is inspired by the famous 1907 event won by Prince Borghese in a specially prepared Ital. Though it does not follow exactly the same route as used by the intrepid prince and his less well funded and thus even more intrepid opponents it does keep to the same sort area as that traversed in 1907. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 January 2006 )
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Written by Jon Spurling
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Tuesday, 24 January 2006 |
  After leaving Russia we engage upon the last sectionof the rally; a series of stages through eastern europe to Paris. There are none of the really long stages that we will have experienced through Russia but we do expect a wide variety of different sorts of roads; from baltic gravel to western european tarmac. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 January 2006 )
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