A marathon rally in the desert is always a big challenge – for everyone.

Reports of participants about not-ending daily stages, almost non practicable navigation requirements, house-high dunes and non drivable soft sand describe the adventure.

We want to enable this adventure even for rookies and off-road riders without desert experience. For this we have had at the rally El Chott already some innovations:

• exit possibilities during especially long stages or before particularly difficult terrain sections
• the introduction of the Discovery Class – navigation training, exercise in using the road book and dune driving school
• the individual times to reach the exit became part of the daily ratings
• PowerWeek as “Rally Light” with half of the total distance

And for 2015 also, we have planned something new: Rookie Challenge

In the RCE vehicles will participate which comply to classes E1/E2/E3/E4. And in the RC4 participants are summarized with vehicles of categories BU/CS/CM/CP/TL.

In case of bigger interest, and a larger numbers of participants, we would divide the RC-classes in the future according to the classes of the rally regulations.

Now, a few days after our return from Tunisia, it is time to draw a conclusion:

We were with the El Chott 2014 once more guests in beautiful Tunisia. As always, the people were friendly and helpful. Despite the upcoming parliamentary elections was absolutely nothing to feel of political unrest or other incidents. The protection of the rally by the Tunisian military around Ksar Ghilane and inside the southern restricted area seemed unnecessary, but it gave anytime a feeling of complete security.

Therefore my thanks goes not only to the ORGA staff and the service but in particular to the Tunisian authorities, the police, Guard Naional and the military. All together they have contributed to the smooth running of the event.

Already now the dates for 2015 are fixed.

23.10.-07.11.2015		23.10.-31.10.2015

Yesterday’s publication of overall and class results of El Chott and Power Week were the last entries in this year’s online magazine. -> Click here!

If you want to check out the done tracks of each team, follow this public link: EXPLONA

And finally, I can inform you that our rally meeting will be held on 21/02/2015 in Hotel Eisenacher Haus again.