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London to Peking Motor Challenge : ウィキペディア英語版 | London to Peking Motor Challenge The London to Peking Motor Challenge was a one-time car rally organized by the Jules Verne Society in the Spring of 1990. As the name implied, the rally consisted of a drive from London, UK to Peking, China. Peking is now officially known as ''Beijing'', but the old name was used, as the rally traced the course driven by the Italians Prince Scipione Borghese, mechanic Ettore Guizzardi and journalist Luigi Barzini in the Peking to Paris race in 1907 (before the name change). The 1990 rally ran in the opposite direction as the 1907 course, heading west-to-east. ==Origins== In March 1907, the Parisian newspaper ''Le Matin'' issued a challenge for anyone to drive from Peking to Paris by motor-car. Five teams; four French, and one Italian took up the challenge. Thus began the first, and most famous international car rally in early motoring history. Barzini had written a popular book about his adventure, being the first to arrive in Paris, but a decade later, the Soviet Union closed off the route used by Barzini. With the glasnost and perestroika of the final days of the Soviet Union, the time seemed right for a new journey.
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