Mongol Rally

04/04/2025

Do you want $5000 to spend on doing the Mongol Rally? Introducing the Don McLester Adventuring Stupidity Scholarship.

The legends Don & Sarah McLester have opened an annual scholarship offering a hefty wedge of cash to fund the pursuit of old school chaos. The money can be spent on all direct rally costs including buying a car or bike.

Anyone who hears the call to mischief but doesn't have enough cash for an adventure this year is eligible.

Applications are open now and the deadline is 30th April.

24/12/2024

Tiny Mongol Rally car on a tiny tow truck towing another tiny Mongol Rally car. Giant metaphorical wi***es all round.⁠
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📸 Adam Callister on the 2019 ⁠rally.⁠
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23/12/2024

Mongol Rally in numbers 2004 - 2010. Has it been long enough for the mighty infographic to make a comeback? Join in the high level discussion taking place now in the Mongol Rally | Official Group.
Does the world need to know how many more ralliers experienced an 'in car underwear browning' over the last 14 years?
Or whether the record for the earliest punch up between team mates has been beaten (it was in Calais after launching from London).

If the demand is there the investigation into the numbers behind the legends will begin immediately at Rally HQ.

It'll be just like a census, but focused on soiled trousers, border delays, crappiest cars and marriages un-created.

23/12/2024

"England to Oskemen, Kazakhstan in a 1.1 litre car. 21 countries, countless delays, and roads that should never be seen by mankind, we somehow made it for the Official Mongol Rally finish line!

"A major accomplishment ... The Mongol Rally 2024: officially done ✅"

Jordan Doyle, Team Trail Of The Caribou

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18/12/2024

"Let's drive to Mongolia. I had no idea where Mongolia was. But I missed both my brother and adventure. So I said "YES".

"Before I knew it, I'd quit my job and we'd purchased a little (993cc), some spray paint, and some costumes. We were off!

"30 countries and 18923.2 km later, we arrived. So many things happened on the way, but we simply tackled every problem as it arose. And we enjoyed everything the journey threw at us.

"So many times I've talked myself out of things because I've over contemplated the logistics. But if we simply start, there's no limit to the things we can accomplish! (Even if they are seemingly impossible)"

- Adeena Gerding, Mongol Rally 2009

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12/12/2024

The Mongol Rally 2024 was pure, beautiful chaos: rooftop sculptures, sheep invasions, midnight canoe runs, and little bumper smooches in the middle of nowhere.

Mud, mountains, and mayhem—adventure done right.

Ready to make your own mess? Mongol Rally 2025 is calling.

10/12/2024

Meet the Mongol Rally’s finest roadside mechanic.

Perfectly engineered by nature: a piercing glare to give you a withering look as you crash into a ditch, talons sharp enough to shred the map into a thousand scraps, and wings to fly for help when you're broken down amid the Mongolian steppe.

This bird has all the mechanical knowledge you need to take on the Mongol Rally 2025.

05/12/2024

“Leaving Karakul and heading for the border of Kyrgystan. We are mesmerized by the beautiful landscapes, which are changing their colors every few kilometers.” — Johnny and Douwe, .blanche in Tajikistan.

Mongol Rally 2025 runs through July and August.

03/12/2024

The Mongol Rally 2024 and Team Karmaa are here boldly heading nowhere they can actually see.

Who needs visibility when you’ve got confidence?

Mongol Rally 2025 goes in July.

30/11/2024

Any future rally teams agonising over the perfect roof rack and pondering whether it will hold all the useless stuff you won't end up needing...
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Team Three Muskabeards went for a double shopping trolley set up. It clearly needed some running repairs but most importantly it served as a shining beacon to not giving a s**t what the sensible brigade say is necessary for driving across a third of the Earth.⁠⁠
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They also excelled by putting almost nothing in it, then finished the look with a slightly disturbing child's doll.⁠⁠
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Simon, Kurtis, & Luka of the Three Muskabeards on the Mongol Rally 2019. ()

28/11/2024

A little peep behind the curtain of Mongol Rally 2016. What's better than one car? Two.

Presenting Mr Will Bazeley, Team Hiley Unlikely, Mongol Rally 2016 Veteran and his steed, the Berkely T60. Also pictured the Lada that the Berkeley rode in on.

How was the final journey?

"One of the most terrifying drives of my life, rain, more rain, oil from the Berkeley engine bay cascading down the windscreen, roads changing from perfect Tarmac to rough as hell dirt tracks in the blink of an eye, and all the while my beautiful Lada workhorse bouncing around like a fat man on a water bed."

Bravo sir, even it bravo doesn't quite cover it. 📷: The team formally known as Hiley Dangerous - Mongol Rally 2016

26/11/2024

The Mongol Rally 2018: where your car decides it’s a fish and tries to reverse evolution and rejoin its aquatic brothers and sisters.

There's nothing your map-reading skills can do when your transport decides to remake Titanic.

The Mongol Rally swims again in July and August 2025.

23/11/2024

Dragging isn’t the smartest propulsion method. But when your car’s the size of a parrot’s lunchbox, who cares?

You couldn’t get more lost than these pirates. 500 miles from the nearest puddle.

To follow in their (literal) footsteps, sign up for the Mongol Rally 2025.

This is the greatest motoring adventure on the planet. This is 10,000 miles of chaos across mountains, deserts and roads ranging from bad to not-a-road in a tiny car you bought from a scrapyard for £4.60.

21/11/2024

We’ve always known entering the Mongol Rally takes a rare breed of genius — the kind not found on every speck of cosmic dust.

But did you know there’s a level above ordinary, everyday clever cloggy-ness? Introducing: the map car.

Can’t lose the map if it is the car. Though we’re not sure you need that much detail for a route like: ‘Left at the Isle of Wight and straight on till you fall off the edge.’

16/11/2024

"It's been an exhausting but amazing month and a half, and that we made it to the end is honestly surprising yet bittersweet. A huge thanks to , and to all of our friends and family for keeping up with us throughout." —

limped, spluttered, and somehow survived deserts, mountains, and more than one over-friendly camel to complete the Mongol Rally 2024. Their Nissan couldn't help but commemorate the experience with a couple of tattoos from the locals.

Little Swetaly: Rasmus Bergstrom, Federico Rossi, Nicola Palumbo, Mongol Rally 2024.

14/11/2024

Oh, 2019—simple times.

Did we say simple? We meant silly.

Fear not, the nonsense is back in full, filthy glory. The Mongol Rally returns in July and August 2025, ready to drag you across half the globe with all the reckless abandon of a startled cow. Be there, or become a soggy piece of cardboard.

12/11/2024

's Mongol Rally 2024 journey is less a "textbook disaster class" and more an avant-garde masterpiece in vehicular masochism.

Take one thoroughly knackered Renault, scribble on it like the wall of a pub toilet, and drag the whole mess through Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

Tomas, Daniel, and Ignacio somehow survived without too many bruises, unlike their poor yellow friend who "parked" itself wheels-up on a motorway. A classic fumble.

09/11/2024

"We kinda forgot the gas-thingy at a gas station so we had to improvise."

A vintage bodge job showcasing the timeless genius of duct tape from way back in 2014 by team

They drove a 1984 Fiat 127, a Mongol Rally classic.