CHAPTER 13 RALLY Appendix 18- Servicing and Organised Assistance
1. General 1.1. This Appendix must be read in conjunction with all applicable Appendices to this Chapter. 1.2. Any breach of these Regulations may be treated as a breach of the NCR. 1.3. Organised assistance or Service anywhere other than in permitted areas is forbidden.
1.4. Organised assistance( service) may be Permitted on Special Stage Rallies if the Official Documents allow and providing that the Organisers have provided suitable service areas with Time Controls and a specific time allowance is permitted for Service.
1.5. Single Venue Stage Rallies must allocate a minimum time for Service.
1.6. An exception to Arts. 1.4 – 1.5 above with regard to time allowances applies for retired cars intending to apply for a re-start permitted by the Official Documents.
1.7. Service of a competing Vehicle may only be carried out in permitted areas as defined under Art. 1.4 In any area where Service is not permitted, the presence of service crew, or any vehicle from which equipment or parts are supplied or obtained, or the setting up or the collection or the use of equipment previously deposited, will be considered to be servicing.
1.8. Service vehicles may be required by the Official Documents or the Official Instructions to follow a prescribed route to and from service areas. All other areas would then be‘ Out of Bounds’ to service vehicles and crews.
1.9. Competitors may only refuel in areas which have been specifically designated by the Organisers or by using commercially available Permitted Fuel dispensed directly from installed pumps at filling stations on the rally route. During refuelling, no one must be within the Vehicle and the engine must be stopped throughout any refuelling operation.
1.10. These Regulations do not prevent Competitors from making their own vehicles safe to drive and crews may work unassisted on their own Vehicles using equipment carried in their Vehicle in‘ No Service Areas’ except:
a. Within 100m of any Control. b. Between a Special Stage Arrival Control and the Special Stage Start Control. c. In any Parc Fermé.
1.11. The only work permitted in these areas is the following( unassisted): Cleaning:
a. b. c. d. lamp glasses windscreens windows identification markings and e. vehicle registration numbers.
1.12. Except in the areas listed above Competitors may also work on their Vehicle with the assistance of other Competitors or any nationally recognised breakdown service or commercial garage not associated with the Entrant and not organised in advance. Such service vehicles will not be allowed to enter official service areas.
Motorsport UK National Competition Rules 2026 Edition 1
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