Lop desert Auto China 2008 bmx

Philco navigation around the mysterious Lop Nur

--2008 China lop desert cross-country vehicle
Lift the Lop Nur, you will first think of "no-man's land" that impression. It has a peculiar aqik geomorphology, desert buried loulan civilization that could account for the origin of the "source" of the Yellow River, the silk road of obstruction and smooth, visits and explorers of mysterious disappearances and death, satellite photos of the mystery of the "ears" ... All this makes the Lop-nor put on a veil of mystery.


October 13, 2008-18, by the China Association of automobile sports organized by "lop desert Auto China 2008 BMX", to the mystery of the no-man's land to issue challenges from China and Hong Kong Professional off-road vehicle team, including known as the "sand Blaster" of great Canyon of Yunnan province, known as the fleet has the most expensive cars Mitsubishi rally motorcade, Jiangsu die-hard, double Dragon love free fleet, from Inner Mongolia Erdos West Bekaa Wolf of the card, such as domestic famous music fleet fleet total to more than 40, 80 more racing qualifying hand is driving his own carefully adapted vehicles, the mysterious attack of Lop Nur.

According to the competition Committee, the lop desert cross-country vehicle, regardless of difficulty or segment competition rules, and world-class cross-country level scale. Taking into account the special circumstances of Lop Nur, as well as the difficulty of the race track, the Organizing Committee in addition to requiring all racing required with international standards of safety equipment, it must be equipped with professional GPS system and Iridium telephone, the Organizing Committee is also dedicated to the helicopter, in tournaments as rescue efforts, to participate in this tournament game hand provides the necessary protection of life. Race fleet of vehicles, the installation of a domestic FlyAudio Philco GPS car audio and navigation systems.

13 October, the fleet in own tournament carefully calibrated, gathered at the capital city of Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in the gymnasium of the five rings are simple but solemn departure after the ceremony, car and various security vehicle, together to the events of the first segment, Shanshan.


This competition a total of four races, the first segment of the SS1 from Shanshan du Village to seven grams kaner, stage distance 426.12 km special segment 146.26 km, intermediate needs across the Gobi desert, desert and dry river, Sand Hill, and other dangerous road sections, allowing time for 3 hours.
End the SS1 segment, the next station is 300 km outside of Hamilton, by qiketai end point to the next station Hami rally point for driving section of the whole 279.86 km.




SS2 segment, from Hamilton South Lake Township to Lop Nur in the hinterland of 100 kilometers to the West-East gas transmission 579 section, special segment for 92.15 km, is expected to be available 1 hour 20 minutes, the maximum allowable time is 3 hours. Departure point is located next to Harold road 2 km Gobi, first sight a flat gravel surface, and the blue cross each other, reflecting a spectacular landscape.




SS3 segment, segment by the end of SS2-West-East gas transmission 579, special segment 206.25 km to Hami Road Highway 235, finish off the Harrow road depth 100 kilometres, which had entered the Lop-nor's hinterland.



SS4 segment, by Harold Highway 120 to Harrow Road 55, whole 122.20 km, the track passes through on the sand, Rock Hill, Gobi, hang, soft sand dunes, continuously, in addition, the following are known as devil town aqik topography.





After many days of competition, the Lop-nor's tough environment for racing cars and drivers are subject to significant challenges, LOP to challenge showcases its "Devil's Triangle area" side.
After a round of the challenge, the start of 42 racing, the last segment, only 31 trolley to normal departure. Lop-nor's hard visible side.


From competition Road book you can see, the starting point of this segment is a duration of up to 20 km of sand, went on to be dozens of kilometres of sand dunes, enter 10 km soft sandy area, then a stone group, followed by subsequent sections of the dunes, dry Valley, Rocky Mountain, desert, hang, several stories high sand hills, soft sand, and also through the city, known as the devil, the degree of difficulty aqik landforms.




After four races of the competition, October 18, 2008 in the lop desert car rally in Xinjiang Hami perfect ends. From the unified lubricant Mitsubishi rally motorcade of no.2 driver Liu Bin and pilotage du too wide expectations, to the highest ranking of saiji will lop desert rally in 2008 China's overall champion income capsule.


From Jiangsu die-hard 4X4 cross-country club no.1 driver Ma Miao and pilotage-min Liu won first runner-up, third place was Changfeng automobile South China Tiger fleet of 5 riders Vincent dawn and pilot won Ho Xudong.

While all the way to the top of the fleet of the Grand Canyon in Yunnan province no. 8, car advantage significantly leading cases in the last 20 km Sprint, racing in the axis failure, had to be reached before the victory, quit the game, as this competition of a big regret.


In addition, this race fleet of job security, installed a homemade flying song music video and GPS navigation system, Lop Nur in no-man's land, there are no roads and reliable reference, faithfully recorded the us into the depth of Lop Nur, driving track and safely guided our car by the "road" successfully returns.

Although not as racing professional GPS on use as powerful, but in the Lop-nor's harsh environment, all the way to the top is, or has withstood challenges, veryPlayed a role in a stable way, as we enter the depth 100-kilometer Lop Nur hinterland, experienced a different complex road and climatic test didn't show any fault, so that our party will not get lost in the desert, a set contribution.