The Mad Motorists – Peking To Paris – Part 1 DVD – John Surtees , Prince Idris Shah

In 1907 Prince Scipo Borghese won the inaugural and only motorcar race from Peking to Paris immortalised by Tony Randall and Jack Lemmon in the classic film ‘The Great Race’. Ninety years later over 90 classic and vintage cars departed Beijing bound for Paris in a recreation of that epic race following a route literally across the top of the world… Compiled from footage of the entire duration of the event capturing all the sights sounds mishaps comedy and emotions of an