Upcoming Events

06/04/2028 – 07/16/2028

The Peking to Paris Motor Challenge represents one of the last true motoring adventures on the planet. To complete it has been described in the past as to ‘Driving the Impossible,’ as it became known courtesy of the French newspaper Le Matin who issued the original challenge in 1907. They challenged motorists to take their new-fangled machines across the world’s largest landmass from Peking to reach the finish in Paris. Yet despite the French origins of the challenge, no French contestant has ever won it!

This will be the longest ever Peking to Paris Motor Challenge at 43 days and 17,500 kms across twelve countries, 2,500 kms more than the original 1907 event!

This will be a fitting 10th anniversary as it recreates the challenges and demands facing those early pioneers which will make 2028 a rigorous test of crews and cars in the spirit of 1907. Starting at the Great Wall of China, the 2028 challenge will take the crews across China, but then back to Mongolia for the first time since 2019. The remote desert wonderland is a unique place, where the desolate yet beautiful landscapes enthral the viewer to provide escape beyond imagination. The sheer vastness of the Gobi desert and the dunes that whistle as they are whipped into shape by the wind, provide pure adventure. To camp under the stars in the desert and gaze in wonderment at the universe is something that will always be remembered.

The challenge of competition in the desert becomes a case survival for both the crews and their machines as sand and heat saps their energy, conservation is king. The adventure continues across the tough tracks of Eastern Europe, but if anyone thinks it is nearly over, they will be wrong. The competition will take in tests along the way with regularities in the mountains and hillsides of Europe as the endurance element continues to bite before France is in sight. Even then, there are a few elements of competition left to be endured, so any rally cars that are struggling will need to be nursed if they are to achieve the goal of crossing the finish line in Paris.

The Peking to Paris Motor Challenge is unique in the motoring world, a true historic vehicle and human endurance event that follows in the spirit and desert tracks of the 1907 Pioneers. Adhering to its original purpose of testing the automobile and crew, the first event provided the ultimate challenge of a 14,500 kms adventure 118 years ago. The 2019 event, the seventh revived by HERO-ERA, was described by competitors as the toughest yet. 2025 rivalled 2019 for real endurance, but the 10th Anniversary 2028 edition will be not just be the longest ever, but the most adventurous by far!

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