Routes, roadbooks & tulips — explained plainly.

Short guides to the craft behind a good event: the little diagrams, the book they live in, and the roads underneath it all. No jargon, no fluff.

• What is a tulip diagram?

  The little junction picture in a rally roadbook — what the ball, the arrow and the stem mean, and where the name comes from.

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• What is a roadbook?

  The navigator's book: one row per instruction — a tulip, the distances, a few words. What's in it, and who uses it.

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• How to make a rally roadbook

  The whole job in seven steps: get the route exact, pick the junctions, draw the tulips, measure the distances, add the words, check it, print it.

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• Planning a rally route

  How organisers choose the roads: shaping the day, keeping it lawful and kind, missing the villages, and the recce that proves every mile.

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