The entry list for the 2026 Africa Eco Race is now online! 🔥 Discover the registered competitors: drivers, teams, vehicles, and categories. This 17th edition promises to be legendary.
For this 17th edition, the Africa Eco Race is proud to announce an exceptional partnership: Baltic, an independent French watchmaking brand, becomes the rally’s Official Timekeeper.
International TV broadcasts, digital reach, audiences, media partners...
The Africa Eco Race continues to spread its influence around the world.
Take a look at the full media report and see how the adventure has been received!
The Africa Eco Race 2026 marks a turning point in the history of the rally.
A new dynamic, new challenges, and optimized logistics to offer you an even more intense experience.
We are delighted to share the program with you, giving you all the key details to prepare for this edition.*
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at: concurrents@africarace.com
The 16th edition of the Africa Eco Race concluded in spectacular fashion at the iconic shores of Lac Rose, continuing the legacy of African rally raids inspired by Thierry Sabine. After a symbolic final stage along the beach with mass starts in successive waves (the final rankings had been locked in the day before at the end of the Mpal stage), competitors were greeted by an enthusiastic crowd celebrating the heroes who braved the desert.
The competitors of the Africa Eco Race 2025 are currently heading towards Kayar beach for the traditional stage that will lead them to the podium on the shores of Lac Rose. Here are the consolidated results from race management as of last night.
Stage 10 took competitors to Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, for the final special stage in the country. The day consisted of 474 km in total, including 409 km of timed sections. The route featured challenging navigation and plenty of sand, with dunes appearing within the first kilometers of the stage. Sandy tracks led the Africa Eco Race warriors to the feared Tifoujar pass. In the motorcycle category, the competition remains incredibly tight on the eve of the finish in Senegal, where the final rankings will be decided tomorrow evening. In the car category, Benoit Fretin finished second behind Pierre Lafay but maintained a comfortable lead of 4h22 in the general standings. In SSV, Pierre Lafay made a great move and is now just 22 minutes behind overall leader Martijn Van Den Broek.
The ninth stage of the Africa Eco Race, planned as a loop around Amodjar, was canceled today due to extreme weather conditions. A violent sandstorm struck the region, making the stage too dangerous for participants, particularly motorcyclists.
It is always a pleasure for the population of Menton to witness the arrival of all these vehicles: trucks, cars, buggies, motorbikes… It is also all about the human and convivial aspect of this race which races through the city of Menton.
Fabrice PINET - Ville de Menton
The enthusiam and passion of the team as well as their constant research of bringing eco-responsable actions to their event, make the AFRICA ECO RACE one of the unmissable events of the Principality and we are proud to welcome them every year. We encourage everybody to buy a maximum of solar lamps provided by AMADE and AFRICA ECO RACE. More than a daily use, they will enable senegalese and mauritanian children to walk safely home after dark and will contribute to reducing the racing vehicules' carbon footprint.
We congratulate AFRICA ECO RACE for their support AMADE and enabling Mauritanian and Senegalese students to have access to solar lamps. A child with light at home, is a child able to do his homework when night comes.
AFRICA ECO RACE is also mutual help and friendship between the competitors
Jean Louis SCHLESSER
For us as service-team, the AER feels like going on a road-trip with the whole family ! Together we follow the ancient African trails. Together with the complete organization of the AER we give it all to bring our teams to the legendary Lac Rose !
Being true fans of the AER we enjoy the whole concept as you find in no other race, as one of our SSV pilots reminded me, there is only one real race to Dakar !
Wil THEUWS - Team Manager QFF Racing
Africa is an happy continent with smiling people, with freedom for racing, thanks a lot to orga work to preserve classic African event based on values from first Dakars... Good luck AER!
Tomas Tomecek - Winner Truck AER 2022
You dream of dunes and beautiful landscapes, follow us to the Lac Rose !
It's a race with values , human values, eco-responsable values… A true and efficient aid for the Children of Africa and that is important !
SAS Prince Albert II
The AFRICA ECO RACE is a true human organisation, you really fell that you're a part of a global project with an open and very initimate feeling. So you sleep with very simple thoughts while you reach your goal: Dakar
