As long as you are a racing driver in the [Paris-Dakar],

Author: Luo Ding
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: Maybe you are only one step away from your dream. This step is between doing and not doing, between thinking and acting. Success or failure is a different matter; whether to do it all depends on you. 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 destined to be 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 French romanticism, passion, and perseverance.
To meet the challenge and realize the dream—it’s actually "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 start, failure and victory, about the Paris-Dakar Rally, about the rally and those incredible racing cars!
The race is also a process of discovery, confrontation, and understanding of nature.
In the face of 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 is abandoned is not just the thought of retreating, but also the relatively insignificant self in the face of nature and the collective.
But Luo Ding, traveling alone in the wilderness, also persists in being himself.