Video: Peking to Paris classic car rally: 'Incredible Mongolia' Telegraph Travel's Michelle Jana Chan is taking part in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge, known as one of the toughest and most spectacular classic car rallies in the world. Along with around 90 other intrepid classic car enthusiasts - among them some seriously competititve drivers - she set off from Beijing on May 28. She reflects on "an incredible but tough week" in Mongolia, with their car attracting more than its fair share of problems, including flat tyres, suspension problems, and problems with the accelerator and brakes. They fell to sixth place, but have since recovered some ground. Having negotiated all those obstacles, the duo have passed into eastern Russia, which leaves Michelle marvelling at the landscape where a quarter of the world's forests can be found.