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Pre-tour 2018 – Review and Preview

Three weeks ago we finished our successful pre-tour through Tunisia. We drove all important routes and once again, we spent two great weeks in a hospitable and peaceful country. In the hotels were again significantly more package tourists to be found. And also in the south we met again larger groups with motorcycles and 4×4 cars.

Our recorded datas are evaluated at 80%. The rally road books for almost 2,800 km are ready to print. In the next step, the roadbooks for the transfer routes of the service teams will be prepared. By the end of June, the detailed time and route plan for the 8 rally days in October will be fixed.

Off-road adventure – compact or with extras

Due to some requests: Detailed information about the duration of the rally:

The rally starts with the driver’s briefing on the evening of 21/10 in the hotel “Mahdia Palace” in Mahdia and ends with the winners ceremony on 29/10 in the hotel “Le Sultan” in Hammamet.

The vehicles can also be presented by the service or transport teams for technical inspection in Tortona. If this is not possible in exceptional cases, the scrutineering takes place on 21/10 in Mahdia at the hotel.

In addition to the offered ferry passages it’s possible for all participants to travel individual by plane, e.g. to Monastir or Jerba (latest on 21/10) and for the departure from Tunis (at the earliest on 29/10 in the evening).

Follow our tracks on pre-tour 2018

The EXPLONA tracking system makes it possible!

From now on you can “follow” us on the pre-tour to Tunisia. Via IRIDIUM-satellite the tracking system transmits our position every 15 minutes. That means, our driven tracks are almost live visible on the website mentioned below.

click here: Pretour El Chott 2018/

The Pajero is loaded with supplies for 14 days. Tomorrow we start the journey to the ferry in Genoa. On the way there we meet Team 2 – Oskar from Stuttgart with his Santana. Our base station in the camps, Klaus Spörl with the Chevrolet-“mother ship”, is already on the way.

All information can be found here in the next few days: https://www.facebook.com/ElChott/

Pre-tour 2018

The planning of the stages has been completed, the ferry has been booked, the permits have been requested and the routes for each day have been planned – the pre-tour 2018 will begin in 4 weeks.

Rallye Flyer 2018

The rally flyers 2018 in German, English and French language

El Chott participants meeting

Today I would like to remember you on our participants meeting at 27/01 in the hotel “Eisenacher Haus”.

Starting at 4:30 pm we will have a re-view on the last rally and after this a preview of the changes and the planned routes for 2018. After dinner is then time for individual discussions.

Room bookings please directly in the hotel: +49 36946 149915 or 149914 or online on the website http://www.eisenacher-haus.de/reservierung.php

From “El Chott” to DAKAR

We wish all DAKAR participants a great, successful and accident-free Rally 2018.

Of course, we will be watching especially the achievements and results of the teams that have participated in El Chott in recent years:

  • Stefan Svitko (moto/9) – ElChott 2013
  • Rudolf Lhotský (moto/75) – ElChott 2017
  • Jan Veselý (moto/88) – ElChott 2013/2014
  • Jan Brabec (moto/91) – ElChott 2017
  • Josef Machaček (quad/247) – ElChott 2012/2017
  • Olga Roučkova (quad/277) – BajaBohemia 2015
  • Boris Vaculík/Martin Plechatý (car/372) – ElChott 2017
  • Makus Walcher/Tobias Henschel (car/386) – ElChott 2013
  • Martin Kolomý with new co-pilots (truck/505) – ElChott 2011/2012/2013/2016 + BajaBohemia 2015
  • Martin Macík/Michal Mrkva (truck/510) – ElChott 2017 + BajaBohemia 2015
  • Matthias Behringer/Stefan Henken (truck/530) – ElChott 2014
  • John Cockburn (truck/542) – ElChott 2012

Good luck !