The Silk Way joins the Cross-Country Rallies World Cup

2020 will be marked with a milestone for the Silk Way Rally. THE rally-raid will in fact celebrate its tenth anniversary, and will also integrate the World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, proof of the importance of this race taken over in 2016 by the new organization, and whose success continues to be denied Since.

This round will be contested from July 3 to 16 on a route whose exact contours remain to be defined, but which will pass through Russia, Kazakhstan and China, culminating in the famous Gobi desert and its immense dunes.

12 étapes et 8000 km seront au menu pour les concurrents, pour espérer succéder au duo Nasser Al-Attiyah – Mathieu Baumel, lauréats en 2019 avec le Toyota Hilux du Toyota Gazoo Racing.

“We are preparing a very good course and some surprises for the competitors which we will announce in a month, comments Vladimir Chagin, at the helm of the Silk Way Rally with Frédéric Lequien in particular.

We had to build an interesting rally which also corresponded to the specifications desired by the FIA ​​and the FIM. The Silk Way is a unique rally, all participants can attest to the wonderful welcome we received during the competition.

This is a very important dimension for us, through the race, we want to show the inhabitants, their culture and the beauty of the regions crossed.”