Dear Friends,
The Ultimate Rally is postponed. The Ultimate Rally will take place during October 2007.
We wanted the first Ultimate Rally in 2006 to take place in North Africa. For several reasons, we had to postpone the event:
1. Security became an increasing concern. Terrorist attacks in Egypt and the overall situation in the Muslim world pose potential security problems. With 40% of our teams coming from the USA, we had no choice but to find an alternative.
2. Emergency services are rare and insufficient in North Africa. If any team would have had a serious accident, the lack of emergency infrastructure could have threatened lives.
3. Safety for the teams and their vehicles was another major concern. Bringing hundreds of wealthy individuals and their supercars to some of the poorest countries in the world might have resulted in bad guys executing bad ideas. We decided not to take that risk.
The Ultimate Rally will take place in 2007 in a single and developed country. It will be fully sanctioned and recognized as the "world championship of street racing". The security, emergency and safety situation will be on a high level, and we will not make any compromises when it comes to the wellbeing of our participants.