In the MusicData showroom, Anthony Schlesser and Christopher Gale presented the event. The Czech automobile federation Autoklub České republiky published a follow-up report by TGR Czech on 13 October.
Schlesser represented race management, Gale public relations and participant support. Guests included Dakar motorcyclist and freestyle motocross world champion Libor Podmol, Tomáš Ouředníček with his team, and Tomáš Tomeček. According to the report, Tomeček came directly from Morocco with his support Tatra.
Twelve stages from Tangier to Lac Rose
The 2027 Africa Eco Race is scheduled for 24 January to 6 February. The route runs through Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal. Twelve stages and one rest day are planned. The invitation to the Czech presentation gives planning figures of around 6,000 kilometres in total, of which about 4,000 kilometres are timed special stages.
The organiser had already published the basic route on 11 September. Tangier is once again the starting point. Administrative and technical scrutineering are planned there, as is the start with a beach prologue on 24 January.
For Morocco, the organisation describes fast tracks, technical sections and navigation tasks. In Mauritania, dunes and long desert stages follow. The route continues through Senegal to Lac Rose near Dakar. The final beach stage, “La Plage”, is not supposed to count towards the overall classification.
Safety and navigation on the agenda
Safety, navigation and communication equipment, route, regulations and prices had been announced as topics for the meeting in Velké Meziříčí. The published follow-up report names no specific new rule changes or fees. It also gives no indication of any commitments to start from the drivers and riders present.
The organisation intends to publish the detailed route, with the breakdown of kilometres and the respective distances for each category, after the reconnaissance trips at the end of November.
Sources and image credits
- Autoklub České republiky: follow-up report on the presentation, 13 October 2026, article by TGR Czech.
- Invitation to the presentation on 8 October 2026: agenda, event dates and provisional stage lengths. The English part of the invitation gives a different year; the date and the Czech text state 2026.
- Africa Eco Race: official 2027 route overview, 11 September 2026.
- Photo 1: group picture in the MusicData showroom. Photo 2: rally vehicles outside MusicData. Both original photos come from the TGR Czech follow-up report published by Autoklub on 13 October. The photographer and any separate rights holder are not named there.
- Banner: AI-assisted editorial collages based on photo 1 with the original Africa Eco Race logo. The two photos in the article are unaltered original images.
As of: 16 October 2026.