So, when this Peking to Paris starts? Is the car ready? And the team of Scuderia del Portello is fit? These are the most frequent questions by our friends. And for simplicity - with one shot - we try here to provide the answers to so many people. The Scuderia del Portello (as you can see from the picture) is ready for the start, in seven months, under the Great Wall. But we will have to face many other "departures". The first one (November 21) will be the briefing in the Automobile Museum in Gaydon. Two days of full immersion to understand everything on the path, regulations, assistance, medical and mechanical part, the transport container. Yet, half a day is training on the streets of the county using the GPS. In December, another important (and "painful" ...) step, with the final payment of the registration fee. Passport photos, documents, photocopies, visas, translations. And find sponsors, a frantic chase to limit the collateral damage of this imaginative adventure. On this website, you will find as usual, a daily diary, photos and short videos. Meanwhile, we have seen the final list of starters and we should tap the number 67. That's what we had specifically requested, just to recover the memory of the first Beijing-Paris, that of 1997. That time we had assigned number 67, that no one English wanted: 6 + 7 is 13 and 13 for the superstitious British brings bad luck! In Italy, on the contrary, 13 was just fine, the Neapolitan cabal was on our side: and the basically happy result of that historical and unrepeatable Beijing-Paris did nothing but confirm it. Now we go again. In ten days, when we will arrive at the Automobile Museum in Gaydon we will stand with the old plate, the one we are holding with pride for 18 years...
