LEARN / PRACTICE / GET INVOLVED
Your First Stage Starts Here.
Rally 101 brings together practice tools, orientation, and helpful guides for the people who make rally happen.
What is rally?
Subaru’s eight-minute introduction explains the sport, the crews, and how people get involved. It’s an overview—not event operating instructions.
Watch on YouTubeTiming Controls 101
This American Rally Association training video introduces volunteer control workers to the structure and expectations of timing controls at stage rallies. Watch it before your assignment, then follow the current event instructions and your control captain’s briefing.
Watch on YouTubeRally Time Cards Tutorial
Frog Racing walks through how rally time cards are used. This is a helpful introduction for volunteers working controls; follow your current event instructions and control captain’s briefing for event-specific procedures.
Watch on YouTubeRallySafe Control Training
RallySafe offers training for start, time, and finish control crews, including an interactive start-control lesson and a start crew booklet. Use these materials to get familiar with the system, then follow your event’s current instructions and crew briefing.
Explore RallySafe TrainingPractice your next skill.
Ham Practice
Start with a 35-question Technician practice test built from the current NCVEC question pool. See your score by topic and try a fresh mix next time.
This is a practice tool, not the official licensing exam.
Role Guides
The Course Marshal guide is the 2026 Show-Me Rally edition. The other guides are from the 2026 100 Acre Wood volunteer notice board. The dates below are each document’s own revision or publication date. Before working an event, confirm its current instructions with the event team. These references are not a substitute for an assignment briefing.
Course Marshal Instructions
Revised February 20, 2026
2026 Show-Me Rally edition.
Open PDFSpectator Control Captain Instructions
Revised February 18, 2026
Open PDFSpectator Control Marshal Instructions
Revised February 18, 2026
Open PDFSweep Volunteer Instructions
Dated February 19, 2026
Applies to the three PRG rallies; contains some “New for 2025” wording.
Open PDFMore license levels are on the way.
General and Amateur Extra practice tests are planned. Technician is ready now.
For current schedules, registration, and official notices, use the relevant event page.