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In 1907 won motor between Peking and Paris in his new automobile. It took him 60 days during which the time he had dismantle his car to cross mountains, drive along railway and suffer the heat of the infamous Gobi Desert. Seventy-eight years later, China hosted its second motor-sport event, the 555 Hong Kong Beijing Rally. The grueling 2,500 mile rally ran a successfully for three years until the events of Tiananmen Square stopped Chinese motor sport in its stracks.
In 1992, racing got the green light again when the Paris-Moscow-Beijing Rally recreated in reverse the original 1907 race. This time, the 10,000-mile blast across 11 countries, two continents, three deserts and innumerable rivers took the best driver just 27 days. In that same year, the port city of Zhuhai, just across the border from the motor sports Mecca of Macau, made circuit racing history by staging the first Chinese race meeting.