The Great Adventure from Peking to Paris 2025. A Triumph That Already Looks to 2028: The Tenth Edition of a Legend

Departing from Peking, in the heart of China, and arriving in Paris after an epic east-to-west crossing of the Eurasian continent, participants in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge 2025 experienced 37 days of true adventure. A journey spanning over 14,500 kilometers, marked by extreme landscapes, remote borders, timed special stages, and unexpected events that tested endurance, skill, and the spirit of exploration. This edition embodied, perhaps more than any other, the spirit of the great automotive feats of the past: not simply a race, but a marathon of the soul as well as of machinery, where the goal was to bring one’s car all the way to Paris, overcoming natural and human obstacles, facing deserts and mountains, rivers and passes, without ever giving up. A goal that was first accomplished in far more difficult conditions in 1907 by Prince Luigi Marcantonio Francesco Rodolfo Scipione Borghese, with his Itala, accompanied by journalist Luigi Barzini.

Triumphing in the overall classification was a crew of two rookies, Australians Tony Sutton and Andrew Lawson, in a 1939 Chevrolet Master Coupe, who were able to beat off stiff competition in a race that saw the rankings overturned several times. While Chevrolet also won the Vintage Class classification, reserved for pre-war models, the Classic Cars classification, which includes cars built between the 1960s and 1970s, was no less hard-fought and uncertain. The Classic Class cars, although more recent, do not enjoy any modern facilities: they navigate with roadbook, compass and sense of direction, tackling the same demanding course with timed regularity trials and complex navigation sectors. This year's success went to the Peugeot 504 Coupé, driven by the British Brian Palmer and David Bell, which managed to impose itself on a fierce fleet of Porsche 911s, which alternated several times in the lead.