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22 Februari 2011 Dear rally-friends,
Thursday 24th, the day after tomorrow, our vehicles were supposed to leave to Africa. All trucks are loaded and unfortunately all goods were ordered and paid for. Money of items such as Libyan entry visa and several other things we’ve lost, but plane tickets and ferry tickets we can recuperate when a new date is decided upon. CTN Ferries as well as Afriqiyah Airways have confirmed last night they are willing to change the tickets, free of charge. Also Cellhire, the company we use to rent satellite phones, has agreed to cancel the order. Before making a decision on the next step we’ve been brainstorming about a possible “Plan B” in Tunisia or Morocco, but after a few phone calls with about 20 teams, the situation was clear: all of you want to go to Libya and so do we. We’ve worked hard and long to create one of the most beautiful rally’s in the world and this in a breathtaking place, so beautiful you cannot imagine. An alternative that’s less good is apparently not an option for 90% of you.
Sportive regards
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It is obligatory for every participating vehicle (bike, quad, buggy, car, assistance truck) in Libya Rally 2011 to be equipped with an Iridium Satellite phone, regardless of the category (race/raid/dune driving school) you’re participating in. Reason for this is that on the race track and in most of the camps, there’s no gsm network coverage. Just like every year, the organization of the rally is facilitating the rental of these phones by working with Cellhire, a specialized company based in the UK. You can order a satellite phone for the entire duration of the rally and this for 99,5€ only. One of the advantages is that we’ll ship all the phones to South-Libya (Sebha) and that we’ll be the ones returning them to Cellhire at the end of the rally. Please fill in the order form before 10th February. The amount of 600€ will be taken off your Visa card, but you’ll get it back at the end of the rally, of course lowered with the rental fee (99,5€) and your call costs. For more information on this rental contract or on technical details, please contact Chris Power at Cellhire UK: +44 (0) 1904 616765. Another advantage of renting your satellite phone with Cellhire is that everyone in the rally will have the same phone, including a spare battery and chargers and that all phones will be preprogrammed with the sat phone numbers of your fellow competitors and of course those of the organisation team. |
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With only 25 free places available the Libya Rally, 6th – 13th March 2011, has nearly reached its maximum of 200 participants. The road books are ready and in January a team will check and validate them for the last time. After Belgium in 2008, 2009 and 2010 it looks like the 2011-edition will be dominated by Holland. Half of the racers that will battle in March for the title of best dune pilot of the Sahara, have the Dutch nationality. Others come from France, England, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Romania, Libya and Luxembourg. Also for the 2011-edition the level of the rally has risen again and more famous drivers and better vehicles register for Libya Rally. So far we have for instance 4 Desert Warriors (Rally-Raid-UK) participating as well a wide variety of buggies and prototypes (Predator, Rage and PGO buggy, Mercedes AMG and Toyota RAV4 prototypes, etc.). |
If you still want to participate but you do not have a vehicle yourself, an option is to rent one from the following partners:
Motorbikes: RBC or Rally Bike Center (Holland) offers fully-prepared Yamaha WR450 rally bikes starting from 1400€. For 1150€ extra they offer full-service, including transport of the motorbike from Europe to Libya and back, including your personal luggage. More info on their website www.rallybikerent.com 4X4 rally cars: No standard 4X4’s but genuine ex-Dakar rally cars (Mitsubishi L200 Dakar, Toyota RAV4 prototypes, etc.). More info on www.4x4centrumermelo.nl |
Rally de Libia 2011: Nuevas rutas, nueva fecha, nuevos desafíos pero sin cambio de precios
También el Rally de Libia 2011 cumple su principal misión: proporcionar un rally inolvidable para cada corredor del desierto, independientemente de su nivel de experiencia y económicamente factible para todo el mundo. Al igual que los años anteriores, podrá unirse a nosotros en un 4 x 4, buggy, quad, moto o camión y usted puede elegir entre “la categoría Rally” (con toma de tiempos), “el Raid ” (con los mismos roadbooks, y mismas pistas pero sin cronómetro) y “la categoría Descubrimiento” (escuela guiada por instructores profesionales de rally como Frans Verhoeven y Rashad Faraj). Los derechos de matrícula son más o menos los mismos que el año pasado,incluso han bajado los precios para los vehículos de asistencia. Las tasas de participación iniciales son de 2500 € por persona (incluido quad o moto) o 4500 € (2 personas + su 4 x 4). Registrar un vehículo de asistencia sólo cuesta 1850 € (1 coche + 1 mecánico). Y aquellos que han participado en la edición anterior pueden contar con un bonito descuento si se registran antes de finales de agosto.
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It took a while but finally it's online, the pay site on which participants and fans of Libya Rally 2010 can order their pictures. All photo's are categorised by race number, making the research for your own pictures very easy. But also the prices of the photos are, just like the registration fee of the rally, much lower than those of competing events. You only pay 1 to maximum 2 euro per photo. First create an account, buy some credits (min. 50€) and start selecting your favorite pictures. All photos are available now on www.maniacsmedia.nl |
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Permanent internet access in the bivouac Cap88.info, a company specialised in satellite internet access, will during the Libya Rally 2010 operate a "Hot-Spot Internet Café" in all of our bivouacs. The off-road cybercafé will travel with the rally and will guarantee internet access via satellite, enabling participants (with their own laptop) to e-mail or surf the web every evening and enabling the organisation to update its website with daily results, reports and photo & video material. Prices for internet acces (per Mb) will be posted soon. |
19/12/2009: Anyone who wants to ensure a place in the rally is recommended not to wait any longer and to register quickly. No less than 172 people have signed up already as pilots, co-pilots or assistance teams. Teams from 13 different countries will enter the arena of the Libyan dunes between the 9th and 16th March. Countries represented include: Belgium, Libya, Holland, France, Morocco, Spain, Germany, Italy, Romania, Lithuania, the UK, Algeria and even Canada. About 70% of participants currently registered have opted for the Race category and the remaining 30% are spread over the other three categories (adventure raid, regularity and dune driving school) The largest group of vehicles so far are the cars: out of 112 registered vehicles we have 40 cars, 6 buggies, 35 motorbikes, 27 quads and 4 assistance trucks. Also in “regularity”, a recent addition to the categories offered in the Libya Rally and ran entirely by ex-Dakar director Patrick Zaniroli, we have welcomed our first participants. Teams from France and Holland have decided to take part in this special discipline.
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19/12/2009: The famous Belgian rally pilot Grégoire de Mevius, who terminated his sporting career as a rally pilot in 2005, has decided, by participating in the Libya Rally, to taste again the beauty and the adventure that African rallies offer. The man who was twice World Champion in the N-group, Belgian rally champion in 1995 and one of the best pilots in the Dakar for 9 years, will participate in the Libya Rally in the “adventure” category, driving a Manx Buggy. |
At the end of September race director Maurice Maurey and his team leave for Libya for the first reconnaissance trip of the LR2010 and to write the road books. To help with this job he gets the assistance of Alain Lopes. As a road book specialist Lopes has written the road books of the Dakar rally 8 times and also 8 times those of the Pharaoh’s Rally, together with Jacky Ickx. For more than 20 years Alain Lopes (1948) was a professional rally pilot and co-pilot of rally legends such as Schlesser, Colsoul, Duez and -coincidence or not- Patrick Zaniroli. An impressive 16 times he participated in the Dakar rally: 8 times as co-pilot and 8 times as road book writer, which he did also for more than 50 other rallies. In the Libya Rally organisation Alain’s main responsibilities are writing the road books for the regularity race and assisting Maurice Maurey in the writing of the general road book for the race category. With the superb combination of Zaniroli-Lopes on board, the Libya Rally can be sure of a seriously experienced team with decades of know-how; something any so-called competition can only dream of. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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The Dutch professional motor biker Frans Verhoeven will lead the new Dune Driving School for motorbikes during the next edition of Libya Rally. With 2 day-victories and an overall 8th position in the last Dakar rally in South-America, Frans can easily be called one of the best off-road bikers in the world. The reason why we asked him for this job lays also in another fact. During the year and when he’s not driving rallies, Frans Verhoeven is working full time as an instructor for off-road biking in Holland, Spain and Romania and this in his own school: the FV Off Road Academy. The plan is that in March 2010 the bikers in the Discovery category will be thought the art of rally driving, both in the field of navigation with road book and GPS, as well as in the field of technical driving skills in sand and dunes. Important: those who are interested in this package, better register quickly: Because in order to guarantee an optimal training, we’ll limit this group to 10 people maximum. More info will soon be posted on www.libyarally.com. Also worth checking: www.fransverhoeven.com/2009 |
Of the four photographers who joined LDC2009, Isolde Poncelet and Wim De Koning were the first to post a first sample of their pictures online. You can watch the album by clicking on the title or the picture. Participants can still order a personalised photo book and screensaver via wim.dekoning@telenet.be More online picture galleries will be posted on this site during the coming days. |
Order now your Iridium Satellite Phone for LR2011
Update 09-12-2010
Libya Rally in a rental vehicle. 
A pesar de que el Rally de Libia es en primer lugar un rally de arena y dunas, la organización prevé algo extra para la próxima edición. Novedad en marzo de 2011 será la llegada gloriosa en la antigua ciudad de Trípoli, en la “Plaza Verde” para ser más precisos. Una llegada en la capital del país es imprescindible para todo rally que se respete e implicará automáticamente a un gran interés de los medios de comunicación, del público en general y de las autoridades. 
The Libya Rally photo website finally online
NEW: Click here to see a sample of good photographs of Libya Rally 2010 (which exceptionally took place in Tunisia)
