Rallye des Pharaons

The Rallye des Pharaons (French for "Pharaohs Rally") was a rally-raid event that took place in Egypt between 1982 and 2015. Cairo was both the starting and finishing point at the foot of the pyramids of Giza, and the rally covered roughly around 3,100 kilometres (1,900 mi). It was similar in format to the Dakar Rally in that it took place in desert conditions and cars, trucks, and motorcycles were all permitted to compete.

History

The first Pharaohs Rally was held in 1982 from an idea of Jean-Claude Morellet. In 1998 the organization was taken over by JVD, a company managed by Jacky Ickx, Vincenzo Lancia and Daniele Cotto, and the name was changed to Pharaons International Cross Country Rally.

The competition is valid for the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship since 2000 and for the FIA Cross-Country Rally World Cup since 2005.

Tragedy struck on September 29, 2004, when three-time Dakar Rally winner Richard Sainct was killed when his motorcycle ran off the course.^[1]^[2] KTM, who Sainct rode for, pulled all other factory racers from the rest of the rally in respect for Sainct.

2015 marked the last year that the event was run due to difficulties in receiving support from the FIA and the Egyptian government.^[3] Rally des Pharaons restarted in 1998 after it wasn't held for 1 year in 1997 under the name of Rally of Egypt with joint organisation of Siag Travel with JVD and has stayed with this name in 1998-1999-2001-2002, and then JVD changed the name to Rally des Pharaons crosscountry.

Winners

Year	Cars (driver / co-driver)	Motorcycles	Trucks (driver / co-driver)	Quads
1982	André Trossat / Eric Briavoine	Edi Orioli	–	–
1983	Jean-Claude Briavoine / Catherine Plessis	Patrick Drobecq	–	–
1984	Christian Avril / Gérard Troublé	Gaston Rahier	–	–
1985	Saeed Al-Hajiri / John Spiller	Gaston Rahier	Kovář / Brzobohatý / Héritier	–
1986	Miguel Prieto / Ramon Termens	Franco Picco	Bonvin / Jacquerod / Missilliez	–
1987	Ari Vatanen / Bruno Berglund	Alessandro De Petri	Groine / Ferri	–
1988	Ari Vatanen / Bruno Berglund	Gaston Rahier	Francesco Perlini / G. Belotti / Claudio Vinante	–
1989	Ari Vatanen / Bruno Berglund	Alessandro De Petri	Not held	–
1990	Hubert Auriol / Philippe Monnet	Alessandro De Petri	Gueguen / Damereu	–
1991	Ari Vatanen / Bruno Berglund	Danny LaPorte	Pelichet / Pelichet / Musitelli	–
1992	Jean-Louis Schlesser	Franco Picco	Maurizio Traglio / Del Prete	–
1993	Timo Salonen / Fred Gallagher	Edi Orioli	Maurizio Traglio / Pio	–
1994	Jean-Louis Schlesser	Heinz Kinigadner	–	–
1995-97	Not held
1998	Giorgio Beccaris / Roberto Ferrari	Fabrizio Meoni	–	–
1999	Gerard Marcy / Jean-Paul Cottret	Fabrizio Meoni	–	–
2000	Grégoire De Mévius / Alain Guehennec	Fabrizio Meoni	–	–
2001	José Luis Monterde / Rafael Tornabell	Fabrizio Meoni	Gilberto Sandretto / Corrado Pattono	–
2002	Balázs Szalay / Aladár Laklóth	Richard Sainct	Giuseppe Panseri / Giacomo Vismara / Marco Sangalli	–
2003	Yves Loubet / Jacky Dubois	Nani Roma	Teruhito Sugawara / Masahiro Saiki	–
2004	Alain De Mevius / Emmanuel Eggermont	Pål Anders Ullevålseter	Giacomo Vismara / Mario Cambiaghi	–
2005	Stéphane Henrard / Antonia De Roissard	Marc Coma	Giuseppe Panseri / Marco Piana / Oscar Mor	–
2006	Sergey Shmakov / Konstantin Meshcheryakov	Marc Coma	Giacomo Vismara / Mario Cambiaghi / Paola Bellina	–
2007	Christian Lavieille / François Borsotto	Marc Coma	Matteo Paccani / Attilio Brevi	–
2008	Christian Lavieille / François Borsotto	David Casteu	Matteo Paccani / Attilio Brevi / Luca Baschenis	–
2009	Jérôme Pélichet / Eugénie Decré	Cyril Despres	Not held	Camelia Liparioti
2010	Jean-Louis Schlesser / Arnaud Debron	Marc Coma	Luisa Trucco / Corrado Pattono	Marcos Patronelli
2011	Jean-Louis Schlesser / Arnaud Debron	Marc Coma	Marco Piana / Christophe Troesch / Jarosław Kazberuk	Lilian Lancelevee
2012	Khalifa Al Mutaiwei / Andreas Schulz	Joan Barreda Bort	Not held	Lukasz Laskawiec
2013	Not held
2014	Yazeed Al-Rajhi / Timo Gottschalk	Juan Carlos Salvatierra	Not held	Rafal Sonik
2015	Nasser Al-Attiyah / Mathieu Baumel	Jakub Piątek	Artur Ardavicius / Alexey Nikizhev / Jakub Hrava	Mohamed Abu Issa

References

^ Edge, Alex. "Richard Sainct Killed in Egyptian Rally Crash". MotorcycleDaily.com. Archived from the original on 13 December 2004. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
^ "Richard Sainct" (PDF) (Press release). FIM. 30 September 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2007. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
^ "Militant threats, red tape, vast deserts: rally racing in Egypt". Roads & Kingdoms. 2018-08-13. Retrieved 2020-11-20.

External links

Rallye des Pharaons Website Archived 2021-12-16 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Edge, Alex. "Richard Sainct Killed in Egyptian Rally Crash". MotorcycleDaily.com. Archived from the original on 13 December 2004. Retrieved 21 April 2015.

[2] "Richard Sainct" (PDF) (Press release). FIM. 30 September 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2007. Retrieved 21 April 2015.

[3] "Militant threats, red tape, vast deserts: rally racing in Egypt". Roads & Kingdoms. 2018-08-13. Retrieved 2020-11-20.

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