I've been there and back. In answer to my question, there is tarmac all the way from Hawza to Smara.
And unfortunately there will be more soon:
As you climb up from the dries lake bed (about 15kms before Hawza) there is road building along the old badly pot holed Spanish road. On the Michelin map it looks like the road will follow the route of the old P42 and seems to be coming from Talha to join the tarmac west of the military post in Hawza.
Also at the Assa end of the piste, there is another stretch of road building, linking the Assa - Zag road to TanTan, and running along the route of MW6 as far as Labrouirat. At the moment you need to drive on the piste parallel to the road.
MW6 is a brilliant piste and in February, we only saw one other vehicle - a local Land Rover Santana.
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