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The Silk Way Rally?s B-Day Bash Begins? 

It?s May 2020. Tension is building as a sudden outbreak is causing worldwide shutdowns, ultimately cancelling every single event scheduled within the foreseeable future. The Silk Way Rally (SWR) organization held onto hope for as long as possible, unaware that the pandemic would result in far more devastation than missing their ten-year jubilee. Hardly anyone was left dry after COVID?s first few waves, but now as the water recedes a bit, some are able to towel off and carry on. And perhaps this modest yet substantial race can finally celebrate its birthday in style ? but maybe with fewer friends at the party, less countries to hop and much more caution than is usually expected at a bash meant for motorsports? finest adventure-seekers.
Fast-forward to July 1st, 2021, and a crowd ? sporadically veiled by the now customary face curtains ? stood closer to each other in Sobornaya Square to watch the starting ceremony than most have stood near anyone else in over a year. 2020 was supposed to honor the rally?s 10th anniversary with plenty of pomp and circumstance, stealing a page from Jules Vernes? ?Around the World in 80 Day?s? in an extravagant cross-continental chase from Moscow to Beijing by way of Kazakhstan, Mongolia and...