Le Mans Winner and Spanish Prince Team up for Peking to Paris

Amongst the adventurers that will be undertaking this year’s Peking to Paris Motor Challenge are  two extraordinary motor sport characters in a famous historic rally car.

Six-time 24hr champion of Le Mans, Spa x2, Daytona, Dubai, and the Nürburgring, Frenchman Christophe Bouchut and Spanish Prince, Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón, a former racer, Dakar and P2P navigator are teaming up to tackle the event. Alfonso won the Baja de España in a truck, but he also runs Racing Engineering, a top race car preparation and high-tech engineering company.  Former works Peugeot driver and 1993 Le Mans winner for Peugeot, Bouchut will be driving the famous Safari Rally winning 504 Coupe of rally legend Jean Pierre Nicolas.  Along with 60 other  teams, the pair will be starting from Peking on May 17th for a 37-day endurance challenge.

Photo Will Broadhead

“OK, we will have to adjust, of course, I have to discover many aspects of the race as the ground will be totally new for me, but I have some experience of driving a car!  This race is so special, it’s so long, but when you look at the result of last year, one of the oldest cars won the rally, so that gives you a clear message, you don’t need the faster car to win the race.  You must take care of your car and escape all the trouble you can on the way.  If I have to go fast, I know how to do it.  If I have to drive slow, I can do it as well!”