As long as you do--a racing driver's Paris-Dakar

Author: Luo Ding
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Perhaps the distance between your dream is just one step—whether to do or not to do, the distance between thinking and doing can be as close as it is far. Success or failure is a separate matter; whether to do or not, it all depends on yourself. The modern prosperity of Europe, the primitive vastness of Africa, the gentle charm of Paris, the majestic grandeur of the Sahara—the connection between these two points is inevitably a dream, a great dream. Since 1979, Sabine, the founder of the "Paris-Dakar" Rally, has turned this dream into a challenge with the unique romanticism, passion, and perseverance of the French. Facing challenges and realizing dreams is actually about "as long as you do." Luo Ding—a Chinese driver who participates in the "Paris-Dakar" Rally, a Chinese driver who reaches the finish line of the "Paris-Dakar" Rally—quietly tells the story of effort and achievement, overcoming and difficulties, the end and the beginning, failure and victory, about the "Paris-Dakar," about the rally and those incredible racers! The race is also a process of discovery, confrontation, and understanding of nature. For nature, individuals are truly insignificant, and the race is a test of a team and organization. Perhaps what needs to be overcome is only one's own fear, but what needs to be abandoned is not just the thought of retreating, but also the relatively insignificant self in the face of nature and the collective. However, Luo Ding, who walks alone in the wilderness, also persists in being himself.