Tracks across generations: how a father's rally crown forged his son's path

NAMPA / Xinhua

2025-05-30

by sportswriters Dong Yixing and Shen Nan BEIJING, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The Taklimakan Desert remembers. Its shifting sands have witnessed countless drivers and riders realize their ambitions over two decades of China's most brutal rally, but one story echoes deeper. Fang Mingji, a humble policeman turned four-time champion, now races not just against time but alongside it -- with his son, Fang Xiangliang, tracing the same wheel tracks that f......

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