CHAPTER 13 RALLY Appendix 4- Road Events – Routes and Sections
1. General 1.1. This Appendix must be read in conjunction with all applicable Appendices.
2. Routes 2.1. A Road Rally Route is the Route provided by the Organisers and conforming with the NCR.
2.2. The only route information that may be given out before the Competitors’ due start time will be information regarding Quiet Zones, Black Spots, Rejoin Points and Neutral Sections. Exceptionally for Road, Targa or Historic Road Rallies, and only if the Official Documents Permit, other route information may be given in advance for those parts of the route that take place between the hours of 07.00 and 22.00.
2.3. The location of all Stop and Give Way junctions along the route must be issued to Competitors along with clear instructions as how they must treat them( Art. 2.5 below).
2.4. Organisers must identify any other junction at which Competitors are required to stop.
2.5. Competitors must stop before entering any road protected by a Stop junction or a Give Way junction where any part of the Event is held between 22.00 and 07.00 hrs. Failure to comply will be penalised by Disqualification from the Event.
2.6. Exceptionally and only with the specific permission of the RLO, Give Way signs in Quiet Zones may be negotiated according to the Highway Code. All such junctions must be advised to Competitors in advance.
2.7. Only 1:50,000 scale OS maps may be used. 2.8. The only information that can be added to the OS map as sold is:
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Highlighting numbers, words and legends printed on the map within the confines of the outer printed grid numbers.
Highlighting and repeating grid lines and numbers and marking adjacent map numbers outside the of the outer printed grid numbers.
c. Information provided by the Organisers of the Event.
2.9. The onus of following the correct route rests with the Competitor who must visit Controls and Checks in the order set out in the Time Card or Route Card unless otherwise specified.
2.10. Any Control or Check( App. 5) is deemed to extend for 50m around the actual point at which Officials are making their records or where a Code Board is situated and that point should be preceded by a Control Board 50m in advance.
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If a different area is specified, the preceding Control Board may be sited accordingly. The location of any such Control or Check with a differing area must be provided to Competitors in advance.
Code Boards which are clearly visible for more than 100m when approached from the correct direction, or for which Organisers are using existing road signage, are exempt from this requirement.
Regularity Intermediate Time Controls( Art. 6.2) and Checks operated by Judges of Fact established in accordance with Ch. 13 App. 2 Art. 3.3 are exempt from these requirements but must be clearly identified to competitors approaching them from the correct direction.
d. An example of all Official Boards must be on display at Signing On for the Event.
2.11. The direction of approach to a Control or Check will be specified by the route information. Approaching a manned control from any other direction or visiting a Control or Check more than once will involve a Penalty( App. 7A, App. 7B and App. 8).
Motorsport UK National Competition Rules 2026 Edition 1
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