Every roadbook box combines a distance, a drawing and abbreviations. Learn the FIM symbols for junctions, dangers and terrain until you read them without thinking. The Dinaric Rally guide Rally raid roadbook navigation explains the layout and shows the symbols.
2 · Draw your own
Make a roadbook of your local trails
Record a loop you know, then build its roadbook in software such as Rally Navigator. Drawing junctions forces you to see them the way a roadbook author does. Ride the loop with your own roadbook and note every place where the drawing did not match the ground.
3 · Calibrate
Tripmeter and CAP
A roadbook is only as accurate as your tripmeter. Practise calibrating it over a measured distance, correcting it at known points, and riding a CAP heading on open ground where there is no track to follow. Small errors add up over a 300 km stage.
4 · Ride a virtual rally
Roadbooks on your phone
Full stages, ridden on your own dates with the Terra Pirata app.
Zagreb Winter Rally: two stages from Zagreb, any day from 1 December 2026 to 28 February 2027
Roadbook Selection: six roadbooks from 54 to 450 km, starting near Knin, 1 May to 30 July
Test your set-up first on the free test route in the app. There is no support on these rides, so ride within your limits.
5 · Get feedback
Train with an instructor
Practising alone builds habits, good and bad. A week of roadbooks with an instructor shows which ones to keep. The Roadbook Rally Bootcamp gives you six roadbooks on Dinaric Rally stages, daily debriefs and one-to-one feedback after key sections.
May and July 2027
Roadbook Rally Bootcamp
Seven days, six roadbooks, Dinaric Rally stages in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
