The finish at the Great Wall of China has been. In 1995 — on the race «Master Rally», which was launched in Paris in transit passed through Moscow and finished in China.
Supermarathon squirmed in the mouths of rivers, climbing on the ridges of the mountains, down into the valley, ran through the desert. Only then partner Semen Yakubov and Felix Bazhanov (he sponsored while the team «KAMAZ-master», hence the name) were also French, and now Chinese.
Felix Bazhanov, which happened once to talk deserves literal citation: «The Russian Rally — a special theme. Abroad, it is a business for us self-assertion. Trying to show organized in the late nineties,» Master Rally «that we are not wild country, perceived very critical. We did not work, and here at Yakubov (meaning Silk Way — LP) is now published. He did race to a new level. Sponsors go, and administrative resources to the sport has become more loyal, and nineties we were asked: „How much money do you earn?“ — „Not at all, we just spend, we want to prove that we can be not only outsiders...“
So, in 2016 everything will start in the tradition of Silk Way, in early July on Moscow's Red Square and ending in downtown Beijing after 10,000 kilometers, half of which — the stages.
The general partner of the rally Silk Way from the Russian side will deliver «Gazprom». The agreement was concluded for three years. Project Director appointed a seven-time winner of the «Dakar», Semyon Yakubov replaced at the head of the team «KAMAZ-master» Vladimir Chagin, who in the «Master Rally 1995» was riding in a carriage-winner mechanic.
