At the 1st of April the pre tour for the ElChott 2011 begins with our trip to Genoa. After the ferry crossing, we will drive with 5 vehicles all special stages. We will check the roadbooks and we visit the camps and hotels.
With assistance of the EXPLONA tracking system it will be possible to watch the entire pre tour in the web. -> click here
30 years of motor sports and adventure
30 years after the first rally “Chott el Jerid” and one year after the successful revival of the Rally ElChott in 2010 we will implement our concept in 2011 consistently. We place special emphasis on three things:
A route with a balanced mix of pists, fast sand passages and dune crossings is the most importand fact of the rally.
The daily stages should be demanding for experienced rally drivers. On the other hand, newcomers with standard vehicles must be able to finish the special stages too. To this end, we will prepair exit opportunities before particulary difficult passages.
As a complement to the actual rally, there will be a guided travel group this year also. Participants which do not like to fight for placement can experience the event here. In addition to breathtaking scenery and cultural places of interest, there will be a small dune driving school and photo shoots at well selected locations of the special stages. In this tourist group are adventure and team spirit in the foreground.
And all together will have a lot of rally feeling every evening in the common camps and hotels.
The situation in Libya, in particular the brutality of the regime against its own people, makes it currently impossible to implement any motor sport event in this part of the Sahara. Consequently, I also will not travel to Libya and therefore not to Tunisia. Nevertheless, I am, of course with the Tunisian authorities in connection: Our pretour is prepared and will start in early April as scheduled. And there are more good news on the local situation there first hand: Jörg (Steini) Steinhäuser was in the last week for a short visit in Tunisia. From Tunis to Hammamet, Gabes, Jerba and up to Tataouine and Remada and back from Ksar Ghilane to Douz, Nefta, Gafsa and Kairouan, he traveled through the whole territory, in which the ElChott will take place. His conclusion: the situation is quiet and the people, friendly as always, are waiting for the normal tourist and the rally participants from across Europe also. -> details here
We will come, promised!
Motor sports and adventure
After the successful revival of the Rally ElChott in 2010 we will implement our concept in 2011 consistently. We place special emphasis on three things:
A route with a balanced mix of pists, fast sand passages and dune crossings is the most importand fact of the rally.
The daily stages should be demanding for experienced rally drivers. On the other hand, newcomers with standard vehicles must be able to finish the special stages too. To this end, we will prepair exit opportunities before particulary difficult passages.
As a complement to the actual rally, there will be a guided travel group this year also. Participants which do not like to fight for placement can experience the event here. In addition to breathtaking scenery and cultural places of interest, there will be a small dune driving school and photo shoots at well selected locations of the special stages. In this tourist group are adventure and team spirit in the foreground.
And all together will have a lot of rally feeling every evening in the common camps and hotels.
13 daily stages
1 prologue and 12 special stages
Dear Friends of the rally,
current events in Tunisia give all of us cause for concern. And the public reporting is doing not so much, to answer our questions for the situation in the host country of the rally ElChott.
Of course we want and we will provide to our participants an event with a high degree of safety. But in spite or perhaps because of this, it will not help to make panic.
For example Tunisia Tourists have not understood, why they had to cancel their holidays and fly home. Nothing was felt in the tourist resorts about revolt and political crisis.
I get similar information from our partners in Tunisia itself: So reports the agency that is responsible for our entry into the southern restricted area, about tumult in the cities of the North, but which are now controlled. The government will made every effort to resolve the crisis quickly as possible and without violence, to preserve the image of Tunisia as a safe tourist destination.
And we are the people who have benefited with our rally from the hospitality in Tunisia. So we should also be the first to give the evidence: Nothing really changed in this image.
On my way to Libya at 29 February I will go thru Tunisia. I will meet with our rally attendants and I will have an appointment with the military that is responsible for the restricted area. After that I can tell you my first-hand impressions about the security situation.
The route planning for the El Chott 2011 is nearly completed. And for the planned pre-tour for early April there is no obstacle, according to current knowledge.
Details about the situation in Tunisia, a view back to the El Chott 2010 and a first preview of the edition 2011 of the rally with information about changes and improvements, I will give to you at this coming Saturday, 22 January, at the follow-up meeting at the Hotel Eisenacher Haus.
Here we publish your assessment of the El Chott 2010.
About 30% of respondents have given their statement.
Thank you. We will do our best to implement the suggestions in the next year.
