The co-driver advice that has been detailed in these sections have come courtesy of Andrew Bargery and I have pulled out the Top Tips from each section in a summary here. Hopefully there will be at least some small tip that will help you perform better and if that's the case it has been worth reading. If you have any tips of your own that you think other co-drivers will find interesting please e-mail us here, there are all level of co-drivers visiting this site, including complete novices from remote countries that don't benefit from the heritage of rallying knowledge of most European countries, so please just take a moment to help these guys out. Also don't forget you can subscribe to our Blog to be kept updated with any new videos and postings.

Top Tip: Check that your competitor number is recorded on each time card – sometimes this is already printed on, sometimes you must write it on yourself.

Top Tip: Time Cards for Target Timed events will often include "Bogey" and "Stage Target" times as well as "Road Target" times printed on them. Only the "Road Target" is important. Although you shouldn’t really place any unofficial marks on your timecard, crossing out (in pencil) the "Bogey" and "Stage Target" times will stop you accidentally using the wrong time when calculating your Due Time.

Top Tip: timecards are usually only made of thin card. If you attach your time card to a clipboard it will be easier for the marshals to handle.

Top Tip: It is your responsibility to ensure you get the correct time on your time card. Even if this means getting out of your car and walking to the marshal!

Top Tip: write "Extinguisher" in your roadbook just after the first control, in case you forgot to arm your fire extinguisher before the start of the event.

Top Tip: Mark the Stages on the map using a single orange line drawn down the actual road. Do not use the road-rally technique of drawing a line alongside the road. Providing you are careful you will not obscure any details and the route will be much easier to see at speed in a rally car.

Top Tip: When you have marked the stage route on the map, check each junction in the roadbook. If the junction looks different in the roadbook than on the map, the roadbook will usually be correct. You can add this information and any other information provided by the organisers (e.g. crests, logs, mud etc.) to your map, but you must not add any additional information as this could be considered as "pace-notes" With practice, you can use these maps to give a lot of information about the road ahead to your driver, although you can never be confident that the maps are 100% accurate.

Top Tip: You can practice map reading sitting in an armchair. You should aim to be able to describe any section of road without having to think to hard about any particular corner. Remember that timely and consistent calling is more important than absolute accuracy.

Top Tip: Some co-drivers keep the map one way up (so that North is always at the top). Other co-drivers rotate the map so usually the direction of travel

Top Tip: On the stages, only use the map. Don’t try to follow the roadbook at the same time - it doesn’t work!

Top Tip: Where the recce is limited to certain hours, endeavour to travel between the stages outside of these times, therefore maximising the time on the stages themselves.

Top Tip: Just as a reminder, when you are going through the stages, jot down a small note to remind you of what the stage was like, after 22 stages they will have run into one another in your head. Also this is a good opportunity to plan your tyre requirements for each stage.

Top Tip: Try to write your notes as neat as possible during the recce. Some people make rough notes during the day and write up neat versions in the evening. This is time consuming and prone to errors - it is much better if you can get it right first time.

Top Tip: At the bottom of each page, write the next couple of notes that appear at the start of the next page. This means you do not have to stop reading the notes as you turn the page and you can check you have not turned over two pages. Be very careful not to read the note out twice however and watch out for two pages starting with the same note.

Top Tip: Always number the pages in your pace-notes. One way to do this is to number the pages backwards – so if a stage has ten pages of pace-notes, start with page 10 and work backwards so the last page is page 1. Each page of pacenotes is typically just under a mile, so checking the page number will tell you approximately how many miles there are to the end of the stage.

Top Tip: Folding over the corner of every second page is a neat trick to prevent you turning over two pages at once.

Top Tip: Write all the important information (time available, fuel to leave etc.) from the Service Schedule into the correct place in you roadbook so that you always have the information when you need it. (A rubber stamp can keep this looking neat)

Top Tip: Make up a small card to slot into the window, showing Time to Leave and Fuel to Leave and any other work to be performed, so that you do not have to be constantly present in the Service Area.

Top Tip: Make sure you know where the Out Control of the Service Park is, and that it is not blocked by service vehicles. Do this immediately you arrive in the Service Area.

Top Tip: I never use the Time-of-Day function on my Coralba trip-meter. So instead I use this display to calculate my due-times. [HALT] the display and [SET] the Start Time. The press [SET], enter the target time for the Section, then press [ADD] and your Due time is displayed. I find this a useful double-check for my mental arithmatic.

Top Tip: At the start of the Road Book I write "Pins Out" and on the last page "Pins In" simple but a good reminder.

Top Tip: On the bottom of my Pace notes I always write my first few Road Book Junctions in case I'm in a fluster as we end a stage and don't sort myself or the road book out to start the road section.

Top Tip: If the Road Book does not have the SS on different colour paper I always run a Highlighter pen over each page that relates to the SS.

Top Tip: At the end of the road section at the arrival control for an SS I turn the Road Book to the start of the next road section before I put the book away.