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Omsk to Ulaaanbatar, crossing the border in Ulgii.
Photo: Silk Way
Racing is back on again, after we lost much of 2020 to COVID-19. The Andalucia Rally just wrapped up (with Joan Barreda triumphant), and now we’ve got more details on the Silk Way Rally’s route.
We already knew the race was headed from the Siberian town of Omsk to Ulaanbaatar, capital of Mongolia, over July 1-11. Registration opened earlier in the winter, and just like the 2019 event, the 2021 event is open to motorcycles (the 2020 event was canceled, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic).
The Silk Way Rally is also on the FIM’s Cross Country Rallies World Championship tour. Does that mean the top Yamaha/KTM/Husqvarna/Honda/Sherco/Hero/Gas Gas riders will show up? Well, many of them weren’t at Andalucia, but Silk Way is rapidly establishing itself on the racing map, so maybe more top guns will be at July’s race.
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The 2021 rally will run through Russia, Mongolia
Photo: Silk Way
The Silk Way Rally is back for 2021 or at least, that’s what it looks like. Officials seem confident they can run this year’s rally, as they’ve opened registration.
The Silk Way Rally was scheduled to travel through Russia, China, and Kazakhstan in 2020, and then only through Russia, as the coronavirus pandemic prevented the Mongolian leg. And then, it was canceled altogether, like all the other fun things in 2020. Thanks, COVID-19.
Now, the real world is cautiously re-opening, and so is the race world. The Silk Way Rally is back on for 2021, scheduled for July 1-11. Once again, its planned route goes through Russia, then Mongolia. China is not on the schedule this year. The race starts in the Siberian town of Omsk, and will cover about 5,000 miles, from what we’ve seen; about half of that distance is specials.