Russia and Mongolia Route Survey - July 2012

In July 2012 Kim Bannister returned to Russia to survey the route from Omsk to the Russia / Ukraine border before travelling to Ulaan Baatar for his Mongolia survey >> Read more...

Driving in the wheel tracks of history...

Since the early pioneers first drove Peking to Paris in 1907 the ERA has organised three further editions of this remarkable event. The Peking to Paris is the longest and toughest challenge anyone can drive in a vintage or classic car.

On 28 May 2013, the flag will fall at the start of the next Peking to Paris Motor Challenge... it will be the start of a remarkable adventure... the chance to explore your powers of resolve and the extent of your human spirit. Ahead will be thirty-three days of living an extraordinary adventure driving through some of the remotest places on earth >> Read more...

Briefing Day and Training Days

The Briefing and Training days during 2012 are important dates for participants on the 2013 Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. The days provide the ideal opportunity for crews to gain a mass of essential event information as well as meeting other competitors and the Organisers >> Read more...

Tell Me More

The Rally Office is only a phone call or email away and can provide a wealth of information, guidance and advice about what it takes to join the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. Call or send Barbara an email to admin@endurorally.com to obtain an information pack.
Download the 2013 Peking to Paris brochure >> HERE...

Entries Arriving

Entries are still arriving for the 2013 Peking to Paris Motor Challenge >> Read more...

Who organises the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge?

Our 2013 event will be the fourth Peking to Paris Motor Challenge organised by the Endurance Rally Association. The 2010 event blazed a pioneering route thorough some of the most inaccessible countries in the world, where no classic-car had gone before. The 2010 event was hailed as one of the most ambitious and best organised historic rallies of all time. Follow the menu links to find our web pages from our earlier Peking to Paris events.

The Pioneers

In 1907 the first-ever trans-Continental motor-rally between Peking and Paris became an epic challenge between a Prince and a Pauper – Prince Borghese had the best funded entry and carefully researched the conditions of setting out on a journey where the first 5,000 miles saw no roads, at all, so, no maps and no garages. His chief rival was a fair-ground worker who until he read news of the race in a Paris newspaper, Le Matin, picked up blowing in the wind, had never even sat in a motor-car, so had no idea how to drive one.

Five cars set out from Peking, four made it to Paris to a tumultuous welcome and world-wide fame – they had set out to prove that man and machine could now go anywhere, they hoped it would make borders between countries redundant. They had left Peking with no passports – these had been confiscated by Chinese authorities who suspected they were spies, and had no interest in seeing the success of the motor-car having just invested in shares in the trans-Siberian railway.

Peking Paris 1997-2010

The second Peking to Paris was not held until the summer of 1997, when on the 90th anniversary, we organised the first-ever rally for classic and vintage cars to cross China, and the first-ever rally to cross Tibet – we camped at the foot of Mount Everest. We also cracked open the border between Tibet and Nepal. The border at Friendship Bridge between Tibet and Nepal had been closed for 40 years since it was slammed shut by Chairman Mao – the 90th Anniversary Peking to Paris negotiated the re-opening, it remains open today.

This site contains details of our 2007, "100th anniversary" Peking to Paris Rally and some of the background to four years of careful preparations by the Endurance Rally Association – organisers of over 50 major events – planning a route tackled by nearly 300 competitors and officials, through some of the world’s remotest terrain.