Time doesn’t matter.
Terms used
In Morocco they call it “piste”, as soon you leave the paved road. Piste stands for a dirt road. A paved road is also called “coudron” in Morocco. We don’t use the word “gravel” as gravel stands for a specific kind road surface. Expect everything on a piste in Morocco, like gravel, stones, sand, dirt.
New for the 2025 edition. In addition to the general rules, following special rules come into use on the piste route:
- For the ranking the time you need from the start to the finish doesn’t metter.
- Build your route out of defined piste modules.
- Each piste module has to be driven from the start to the end.
- For every piste km driven you get points. It is related to the difficulty of the piste section, how many points one km of the piste is worth. Some paved roads in very bad conditions may count as piste too.
- A minimum of 500km piste has to be covered to be classified.
- You can use paved roads between the piste sections and to the finish, except blocked roads. You get a list of blocked roads. These are in general routes with traffic.
- For each checkpoint you get points. It is related to the difficulty to reach the checkpoint how many points you get for the checkpoint.
- Be part at the finisher party is mandatory to be classified.
- On piste sections, cycling is not permitted from half an hour after sunset until 5 am. If you are on the piste one hour before sunset, there will be a designated area indicating where and when you must come to a stop. The specific details and guidelines for this restriction will be outlined in the routebook.