Africa Eco Race sporting challenge |
| The Africa Eco Race sets off from Portimão on 27th December. The philosophy of this off-road event is "sporting challenge but with human values as the priority". René Metge said he thought that the Africa Eco Race was a race unlike any other and that this Marathon Rally Raid was offering competitors a chance to share in an adventure based on sporting challenge but with human values as the priority. The sporting director of the event was speaking in Portimão during the presentation of the competition in which the only confirmed Portuguese participant is the driver Elisabete Jacinto.  The race starts from Portimão on 27th December heading for Dakar where it will finish on 10th January. Pleased that the event is starting in the Algarve, Elisabete Jacinto said she thought that to do a major off-road marathon in Africa was to combine the spirit of adventure with that of competition because the isolation and the harshness of the desert often took you to the limits of your capabilities. She said she was very pleased to discover that the Africa Eco Race could provide them with all of this and that arrangements for the competition were on track. The route was drawn up by René Metge, himself three times Dakar winner and organiser of other major off-road marathons, and Jose Maria Servia. The Africa Race will consist of 12 stages, six of which will take place in Morocco, five in Mauritania and one in Senegal, making a total of 6200 kilometres of which more than 4000 will be timed. Metge said that navigation would play an important part with the aim of evaluating the aptitudes of each participant; he added that there would certainly be difficulties in Mauritania where competitors would experience total immersion in a desert environment. He said it would not be easy but those who believed in the organisers would not regret it. The first staging of the Africa Eco Race was in 2009, in which Jean Louis Schlesser emerged as winner. Source Algarvemais.com |
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