From October 20 to 31, 2026, Blue Rally Bardenas will take crews in Twingos, 4Ls and 2CVs from the Pyrenees down to the Bardenas Reales desert in Navarre. The race will be tracked live with RaidLine: a public map, shared through a simple link, will let family, sponsors and curious onlookers follow every crew in real time. Here is what to know about Blue Rally Bardenas 2026, and how to follow it from home.
Blue Rally Bardenas 2026 at a glance
Blue Rally Bardenas is an adventure raid with a charitable spirit, run in youngtimers: small, popular cars nobody would picture crossing a desert. That is precisely the point: no prototypes, no over-equipped 4x4s, but Twingos, 4Ls and 2CVs prepared by their own crews, on tracks that give them no favors. Raising funds for charities is part of the adventure, as on the other events in the Blue Rally series.
- Dates: October 20 to 31, 2026, with two departures. The Twingo edition runs October 20 to 24, the 4L and 2CV edition October 27 to 31.
- Route: about 900 km, from the Pyrenees to the Bardenas Reales desert in Navarre, Spain.
- Organizer: Access Organisation Group, also behind Blue Rally Europe.
- Registration: sold out, waiting list included.
- Live tracking: public RaidLine map, with the link published on the event page before the start.
The setting alone is worth the trip: the Bardenas Reales are a semi-desert landscape of ravines, plateaus and clay chimneys unlike anywhere else in Europe, two hours from the French border. Getting there over Pyrenean passes, in a car more than twenty years old, is what gives the raid its character: simple mechanics, careful navigation and mutual help matter more than horsepower.
Where to follow Blue Rally Bardenas 2026 live
The tracking link will be published before the start on the dedicated page: raidline.net/en/events/blue-rally-bardenas-2026. That is the page to keep at hand: it gathers the event information and will host the live map for the two weeks of racing.
Spectators need nothing to follow along: no app to install, no account to create. The link opens the map in the browser, on a phone or a computer. It shows every crew’s position, updated continuously, with search by name or number to find the car you care about. A family that wants to know where their crew is in the middle of the Bardenas only has to tap a link, the one sent to them on WhatsApp the day before the start.
The two-departure format has a practical consequence for spectators: there will be two weeks of racing to follow, not one. The Twingo edition opens the road on October 20; barely have its crews arrived when the 4Ls and 2CVs set off in turn on the 27th. Tracking will cover both fields, and there is no need to stay glued to the screen: opening the map in the morning at the stage start, then at the end of the day to check that everyone has made it to the bivouac, is enough to live the race at the crews’ pace.
For crews, that same tracking is also a visibility tool: a public link can be shared with relatives, partners and a fundraising page. We covered what a public map changes for family and sponsors in our article on sharing the race live.
The RaidLine setup for the event
The RaidLine app, in the event’s colors, will cover the race with the tracking platform and race control:
- Live tracking: every crew located on the public map, shared through a simple link.
- Offline 3D GPS navigation: pre-downloaded maps, compass and voice checkpoint announcements, to stay on course even with no coverage deep in the ravines.
- Race control on iPad: SOS, speeding and low-battery alerts in real time for race direction.
Each module is described in detail on the features page. To understand how an organizer sets up this kind of system, our guide to rally raid live tracking is the right place to start.
After Blue Rally Europe 2026, a second date
Blue Rally Bardenas will be the second event from the same organizer tracked with RaidLine, after Blue Rally Europe 2026 in July: 50 crews, ten days of racing and every module in production, from live tracking to a leaderboard plugged into the organizers’ Google Sheet. The full field report is in our event debrief.
The Bardenas change one thing: the terrain. July’s alpine stages give way to desert tracks where mobile coverage is patchy and dust puts the mechanics to the test. That is exactly the kind of conditions offline navigation and continuous tracking were built for, and as in July, we will be supporting the organizers throughout the event.
Frequently asked questions
When does Blue Rally Bardenas 2026 take place?
From October 20 to 31, 2026, with two departures: the Twingo edition runs October 20 to 24, and the 4L and 2CV edition October 27 to 31. Both fields share the same spirit, from the Pyrenees to the Bardenas Reales desert in Navarre, Spain.
How can I follow Blue Rally Bardenas 2026 live?
Live tracking is provided by RaidLine: a public map that opens in the browser from a simple link, with no app to install and no account to create. The link will be published before the start on the event page.
Can I still register for Blue Rally Bardenas 2026?
No: the 2026 edition is sold out, waiting list included. Information about upcoming editions is published by the organizer, Access Organisation Group, at blue-rally-bardenas.com.
What is the route of Blue Rally Bardenas 2026?
About 900 km: the crews cross the Pyrenees before reaching the Bardenas Reales desert in Navarre, Spain, a semi-desert landscape unlike anywhere else in Europe. The detailed route remains the organizer’s property and is shared with registered crews.
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