On May 3rd, organizing committee issued notice: racing driver Pu Yongsheng of B219 car, Shanghai Aolin autocross team, pilot Zhao Lixue were out of touch with committee. When all people were anxiously waiting. Zhao Lixue walk on feet for 53 km through Lop Nur to seek rescue team. With great endurance, he reached Hongliujing water pump inspection station. After 50 hours search, rescue and anxious waiting, the lost racing drivers from Shanghai got into touch with organizing committee. All people exclaimed for the good news. But just a second, the bad new came. One racing driver was dead. This made people quickly shifted from happy to sorrow. A informal motor racer’s backup car—a big black Cherokee occurred accident. its driver was dead since all rescue measures proved ineffectual. One companion was out of danger after emergency treatment. Though there was bad news and rough weather, the race still went on, when knowing the bad news, all racers have prepared their luggage when it dawned to start out a new day’s journey.
After two days’ go-through section, on May 7, the race car team reached Hotan River. At the night car teams encamped at the Camp No.6 near Hotan River. The 7th stage on May 8th is the last one of the Around Taklimakan Auto and Motorcycle Cross Country Rally.. Who will be the hero of the Rally? It will come out after 239.4 km competition on Hotan river valley.
The race started at 10:30. the stage of the day is nearly 240km. race course is soft sand land, light sand or dust is relatively little, which is suitable fro speed-type race car team. However, as it was the last stage, so speed is the key strategy. At 8:00 p.m. of the day, except for one race car encountered mechanic malfunction, the rest car finished the stage.
Through more than ten days’ struggle between survive and death, the game of brave came up to its end. PetroChina Car team and Lufeng car team won general champion of group A and group B respectively. Jiang Qiulin from Xinjiang Dawn Star Auto Team, Luo Shifeng and Cao Lu, two individual entrants won the championship of Group C, D and E, the Category of Motorcycle.
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