... So you will set this in and around the Japanese occupied area?
Exactly! It's about 1935, so the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo is the setting...
I am thinking the road race starts in Ryojun Port, goes through Mukden, Hsinking, and so on - eventually ending somewhere near the Mongol border.
The international rally is sponsored by Emporer Pu Yi of Manchukuo, but others agendas are at work behind the scenes. Including...
The rally is being used as a cover by a small group of adventurers and treasure hunters that are looking for a lost train full of Russian gold that escaped the Siege of Port Arthur in 1904...
That's the idea so far. More to come....