2022 is approaching, the new season of the Dakar Rally is about to start, and the Beijing off-road BJ40 team is about to compete.
Compared with previous years, the track environment in 2022 will be longer and more difficult. Coupled with the new competition regulations, the Dakar in the 2022 season will also be the first in history. The toughest race for cars and drivers. The Beijing off-road BJ40 team, the only Chinese car brand team participating in the Dakar event for the first time in 2021, will make another impact.
The 44th Dakar Rally in 2022 will continue to be held in Saudi Arabia. The race will set off from Hail on January 2 and arrive in Riyadh on January 7. After a day of rest, we arrived in Jeddah, the finish line of the race, on January 14th. In this Dakar Rally, the arid climate and the soft and easily disoriented desert will increase the difficulty for the participating drivers.
In recent years, Chinese independent brands have gradually disappeared from the Dakar. Beijing Off-Road is the only Chinese car brand active in the Dakar. In the 2021 Dakar Rally, Beijing Cross-Country participated as a manufacturer team and won the championship in its first show. The Beijing Cross-Country Team won the first, second and third place in the rookie group; and the three teams participating in Beijing Cross-Country were all ranked in the top 15 The 361 team driven by Lu Binglong/Ma Wenke even ranked 13th in the world.
In 2022, Beijing Cross Country will continue to represent China. In the later period, Beijing Off-Road will continue to build China's off-road culture and bring off-road into more people's lives in the name of hardcore.
Editor: Zhu Guanghua