ORGANISATION
Gert Duson - Organiser & rally promotor for Europe
With the organisation of 4 Libya Rallies and with personal experience in 38 African countries and numerous trans-saharan expeditions, Gert established the well-known “Touareg Trail” (trans-saharan rallies), which every year takes 70-80 people accross the desert from Brussels to Benin. Gert also became a published author after having successfully completed a 6 month trans-Africa expedition in a 25 year old 2CV.
Contact Gert:
Mobile: +32/(0)475 50 36 50
Tel/Fax: +32/(0)2 649 04 08
Skype: touareg-trail
Jean Van Volsemstraat 77
B-1050 Brussel
België
N 50°49.988' - E 004°22.339'
gert@touareg-trail.be
Hadi Bkai - Organiser & rally promotor for Libya & the Arab states
Hadi Bkai started his activities as tour operator in 1997 and became quickly one of the Libyan leaders in the tourism market. After 12 years of
experience he got involved in many of the big events taking place in Libya
such as international folklore festivals, business events, expo & fairs , aviation services and motor sport events.
Thanks to the expertise, a professional team and offices spread all over the country Fessano Tours became the ideal local partner for the organisation of the Libya Rally. Contact Hadi via: info@fessano-w-tours.com
Maurice Maurey: Race Director
Libya Rally is also proud to have Maurice Maurey in its team. After a professional career which mainly proceeded in countries in Asia, Middle-East and Africa, he is since a few years 100% focusing on his passion: rally sport! For many years, he has joined the AIO team (Amitiés Internationale Organisation) where he takes an active part in the race management of the Shamrock rally and the Raid de l'Amitié, both taking place in the Moroccan desert. Maurice is a certified "FIA Internationale Commissaire" (Licence Nr. 162031)
Alain Lopes: regularity road books & opening car
Next week 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 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.
Cécile Van Hattem - Chief communication & press
Cécile van Hattem, 39 years, born in France and living in The Netherlands. For the past 6 years Cécile has been active in the motorcycle industry, working as project manager for the National Motorcycle Fair in the Netherlands. It’s there that she met several Dutch participants of the Dakar and their passion for the desert. Due to their stories and an old passion for the stories of her father having lived as missionary in Senegal, she became more and more curious of the desert and rally’s. Cécile will join us next March as Chief communication & press. Contact her via: Cecile@cielyourevent.nl or (tel) 0033/(0)6 23110427.
In order to ensure, as much as possible, the safety and smooth running of the three elements to LR (rally, raid and discovery) the organisation team consists of approx 120 people, including rally officials, mechanics, guides, medics, broom trucks etc.
