An adrenaline-pumping journey where drivers race custom-built machines through a post-apocalyptic scene — from frozen Baikal to the dunes of Namibia.
Enter the wastelandNowadays there are too many armed conflicts in the world. If they aren't resolved, humanity could find a future without hope — living in a post-apocalyptic world is more real than we might think. That's why MadWay Rally advocates for global peace.
Participants have already traveled thousands of kilometers across Mongolia, Lake Baikal, Altai, Kyrgyzstan, China, Namibia and South Africa in souped-up cars — modified to go faster and handle better than anything else on the road.
Nine cars, two buggies, two motorcycles and one truck on a thousand-kilometer journey through the Gobi Desert.
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The deepest lake in the world, frozen solid. 25 adventurers tearing across the ice — and an orchestra playing at dusk.
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Majestic peaks, crystal lakes, the treacherous Chuysky Trakt — and wine poured into fire for the local spirits.
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From -10 to +40°C through the Tien Shan mountains. The crew rebuilt the forgotten 100 km Ornok-Kemin road.
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From Khan Tengri through the Tian Shan to Kashgar and the edge of the Taklamakan — river fords and Victory Canyon.
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Back to the land where Mad Max: Fury Road was filmed. 2 000+ km of desert with the crew behind the movie.
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From Cape Town into the Tankwa Karoo: fynbos hills on horseback, a great white off Gansbaai, clay-pan donuts and the neon nights of AfrikaBurn.
read the full story →* some of these places can't be reached by ordinary transportation. that's the point.
Large engines, exposed exhaust pipes, intimidating spikes and armor. Every car is built to an individual project from pipes, plumbing elements and scrap metal — deep in Siberia, by mechanics who work like mad scientists.
Take the two-story car that ruled the Baikal ice but overheated in the Altai mountains — the crew simply cut a hole in the hood for airflow and kept going.
Meet the machines
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It started in 2016, when Alexey stumbled upon a video of fearless Englishmen tackling frozen Lake Baikal on sled-towing motorcycles. To him it was a call to arms. In 2017 he and Anna organized a race across the ice-covered lake — and after watching Jackie Chan tear across the Gobi Desert, there was no turning back.
The first custom cars were tested on Baikal ice in February 2018 — and MadWay Rally was born: an epic journey through the most challenging terrain on the planet.
Full storyConverted Mad Max–style vehicles roaring over dirt roads and carving routes through Namibia's breathtaking landscapes marked the seventh MadWay Rally.
The MadWay Rally team gifted the city a sculpture of a street musician with a balalaika, installed in the city center.
Bodies decorated with spikes, turbines and elaborate scrap-metal elements — like they drove straight out of the cult action movie.
