Senegal for many years remains one of the key routes for the organizers of car rally and motorcycle racing.
This is facilitated by the country’s political and economic stability, a 720-kilometer coastal line and sand dunes.
Senegal is known to lovers of high-speed racing mainly thanks to the Paris-Dakar rally, which first passed in 1978. But the country has been providing routes for about 45 years for many other races. Among them, Africa Eco Race, Real Way to Dakar, Budapest Bamako and Circuit de Dakar-Baobabs.
Senegal also takes a rally among female pilots-Trophy Musso and the International Moocross Championship in Lac Rose. “
22-day rally “London-Dakar, Dakar Enduro” is carried out on classic cars.
The history of the Paris-Dakar rally began in 1977, when the motorcycle racket Tiery Sabin got lost in the Libyan desert during the Abidgean-Ninitsa rally.
Having spent several days there, Sabin, upon returning to France, decided to create a race, most of which will take place in the desert. So the rally-raid, called “Paris-Dakar”, originated.
The first rally started on December 26, 1978 in Paris, and ended on January 14, 1979 in Dakar.
“Environmentally friendly” races Africa Eco Race “embody the spirit of” Rally “Paris-Dakar”. About this in an interview with an ANADOLA agency correspondent said
Technical Director of the Senegal Moto Verte team Alain Verpoest.
According to him, Africa Eco Race is more accessible to amateur riders than the Paris-Dakar rally. At the same time, the routes of two races are almost identical.
Verpoest invited Turkish racers to active participation in competitions on the African continent. He noted that “Africa is waiting for talented Turkish pilots.”
“We would like to see Turkish teams in the upcoming races here. I know that there are very talented Turkish pilots. Africa is waiting for them,” the agency’s interlocutor said.