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Steps

1. Create your account: say you are a co-driver, and find your eWRC profile so your results carry your photo and flag. I don't have an eWRC profile yet is an answer too.
2. Add a rally: find the rally in the calendar, then your driver and your car. This needs a connection; almost everything after can do without one.
3. Open mappex.app with the same account. The itinerary, the stages and their maps, the programme and the recce are prepared there, at a desk. Preparing a rally, start to finish →
4. The rally's page lists what is still missing, in the order it is done, until nothing is.
5. Share the car with your driver: once they follow the car, give them the Driver seat, and the pacenotes and the driver's notes reach their phone. Sharing the car →
6. On the day, the app opens on the rally. Set the camera up once, and it goes with every rally after. Setting up the camera →

Good to know

• A rally the calendar does not have: write to contact@mappex.app with its name and dates, and it is added.
• Your driver does not add the rally. The car is yours and they are given a seat in it; two accounts adding the same car are two cars. Joining a crew as a driver →
• Everything prepared on the web reaches the phone by itself. There is nothing to export or send.

Before you start

• Your co-driver has added the rally and switched on Let people follow this car, under Share the car.

Steps

1. Create your account, as a driver, with your eWRC profile.
2. Open the link your co-driver sends, or Scan the code on their phone. You are now following the car. Following a car →
3. Ask your co-driver for the Driver seat: on their Share the car screen they pick you and Set role.
4. The car's page opens from your list. The pacenote dial and the notes are yours; the itinerary and the map are the crew's. Wheel notes →

Good to know

• Do not Add a rally yourself: you would own a second copy of the car, and nothing your co-driver prepares would reach it.
• The seat is for this rally only. At the next rally, your co-driver gives it again.
• A driver who keeps the book themselves adds the rally as a co-driver does. Getting started as a co-driver →

Before you start

• An invite link or code from the team's owner or a manager, made for you alone. It works once.

Steps

1. Open the link on your phone, or Scan the code on the manager's phone. A browser can show an invite but not accept it.
2. No account yet? Create your account, as a team member. The invite waits, and opens by itself once you are in.
3. Open the team: the team's cars are on your list, with your role on each.

Good to know

• What you see is your role's. An engineer writes setups and tyres, media publishes stories, a manager sees it all; what the driver said about a stage stays with the crew.
• Somebody who should see one car only is not a team member: they follow that car and are given a seat on it. Following a car →
• A team is made by the holder of the Team plan, with Make a team.
• An invite that no longer opens was used, or has expired. Ask for a new one.

Steps

1. On a phone with the app, Scan the code on the car, on the service park board or on a story — or open the link the crew sent. In a browser, Watch here.
2. The car is on your list. Open it for the map, the itinerary's progress, the results, and the video while the crew streams.
3. Say yes to notifications, and the phone tells you when the car starts a stage, finishes it and reaches service.
4. To keep the car across phones, or to be given a seat in it, Sign in or create an account from the menu. What you follow comes with you.

Good to know

• A link that no longer opens: the crew made a new one, or switched following off. Ask them.
• Followers see what a spectator could: not the setup, the tyres, or what the driver said about a stage.
• Every car has a number of seats. When they are all taken, the crew makes room.

Steps

1. Build the itinerary. Everything else is made from it. Building the itinerary →
2. Create the stages from the itinerary, and draw each one's line on the map. Stages and their maps →
3. Put the recce days in the Programme, each ticked Recce. The programme →
4. Plan the recce: which stages on which day, and the roads between them. Planning the recce →
5. On the phone, set the camera up. A new rally starts from the last one. Setting up the camera →

Good to know

• When the organiser's itinerary, programme, stage maps or entry list are published, Mappex offers them to you. Nothing of yours is replaced without you.
• What you prepare here is on the phone the next time it has a connection, and stays there without one.

Steps

1. On the Itinerary tab, choose Edit itinerary.
2. Have the rally's itinerary document as a PDF? Import from PDF reads every row for you, sections included, and leaves out the shakedown and anything else that is not the rally. Check the rows against the document before you save.
3. Or build it a row at a time with Add row. A section opens with Section start and closes with Section end; every row between them is Control, Stage start, Service or Refuel.
4. Give the section start its First car time, and every control after it a Target — the time allowed from the control before. Due is worked out for you, past midnight included.
5. On a stage start, Location becomes the stage's name and Stage km its length.
6. Save itinerary. If something is missing, the first problem is named with its row.

Good to know

• Importing a PDF replaces the rows already in the editor.
• The times are the first car's, in the rally's own time zone. Your start time is entered on the phone at the rally, and everything after it shifts.
• When the organiser's itinerary is published, Mappex offers it — Update or Keep mine. Yours is never replaced without you.
• Once the rally is running, a control that crews have checked in at can no longer be changed.

Before you start

• Stages are not added by hand: they come from the Stage start rows of the itinerary. Building the itinerary →

Steps

1. On the Map tab choose Edit stages, then Create stages from itinerary. After changing the itinerary, Update from itinerary — the maps you have drawn are kept.
2. Open a stage. Click the map at the start, then at the finish, then at points along the road between them; the line follows the road. Or type the start and finish coordinates from the road book and Place start and finish.
3. Drag a pin to correct it. Satellite shows the road itself; Undo point and Clear take points away. Compare the distance along the road with the road book, and when the line is right, Save stage map.
4. Have the organiser's file? On the Map tab, Upload KML or KMZ; then under Routes, Edit the route and Use as a stage….
5. Add a marker for the hotel, the service park, a refuel, rally HQ — search for the place by name, paste coordinates or a Google Maps link, or pick the place on the map.
6. Draw a liaison to plot a road section: click its start, then its finish, then points on the road between them; the line follows the roads. Save liaison; under Routes, Reshape moves its points later.

Good to know

• An imported line stays exactly as it came until you move a pin; then it is drawn again along the roads between the pins.
• Only the rally's owner adds, changes or deletes markers and routes; the rest of the team sees them.
• A hotel or HQ marker is what a recce day can start from.
• When official stage maps are published you are offered them; Replace mine replaces the lines you drew.

Before you start

• The recce days are in the Programme, each ticked Recce, with the hours they run.
• Every stage has its line on the map. Stages and their maps →
• Optional: a hotel or HQ marker on the map, to start each day from.

Steps

1. Settings: Your speed on a stage, The organiser's limit and Your stop — once a day, for eating and resting.
2. Schedule: for each day, Starts from your hotel — or leave it on Anywhere — let the plan choose.
3. Optimise recce: choose the whole recce or one day, set the Passes over each stage, tick Keep liaisons off where liaisons must stay off a stage's roads, add any Openings a bulletin gives, then Optimise. One day is planned from its own passes, and the other days stay as they are.
4. Read the plan. Each day says when to leave and when the last pass is done; Longer than the day allows marks a day that runs past the roads closing, and a liaison that drives or crosses a stage is named.
5. Change it by hand: Move up, Move down, Move to…, Remove, Add a pass. To send a liaison another way, select it, Edit route, click the map, Save this route.
6. On the phone, Recce → Drive follows the plan step by step, without a connection — saying the next turn on each liaison as a maps app would — and after each pass asks how the road was — Not the same all the way? Say it in parts if it changed along the stage.

Good to know

• The first optimisation works out every road between every stage and takes a few minutes. After that, changing the passes or the order is immediate.
• A route you drew yourself is kept even if it breaks a rule: you are told, not stopped.
• The plan reaches the phone by itself; there is nothing to export. Changing the plan from the phone needs a connection.
• A maps app does not know which roads are stages. If you hand a liaison to one, check the route it gives.

Steps

1. On the Programme tab, choose Edit programme.
2. Add a day for each day of the event, then + Add item for what happens on it.
3. Give each entry a Description and a Start time; + End gives it a duration.
4. Tick Recce on the recce days, with the hours the roads are open. Those hours are what the recce is planned into. Planning the recce →
5. Save programme.

Good to know

• An entry has to finish on the day it starts.
• A recce day without a start and an end is planned as a ten-hour day, which is rarely what the organiser gives you.
• On the phone, the bell beside an entry reminds you before it starts. The reminder belongs to that phone.

Before you start

• The board comes from the organiser's Sportity channel. If the rally has none, type it in Sportity channel on the rally's own tab.

Steps

1. The organiser's documents appear by themselves; Refresh reads the board again now.
2. Add your own: Choose a file, then Add. Share with team shows it to your team manager and engineer.
3. Star what you will need at the rally. On the phone a starred document is downloaded and opens without a connection.
4. Make the Service Book when the itinerary, programme, maps and contacts are in. It is built from them, in the language you pick.

Good to know

• Organisers usually take a channel down after the event. What you see then is the last copy taken while it was up.
• The board's times are shown exactly as the organiser published them.
• Only the person who added the rally can make its Service Book, and making it again replaces the one before.

Steps

1. On the web, at the foot of the rally's own tab: ＋ Add a contact.
2. A contact needs a name and a phone number or an email. Tick This is the rally’s SOS number for the emergency number in the regulations.
3. Import copies your team's contacts from your last rally.
4. On the phone, Contacts lists them. Tap one to call, hold one to remove it, or ＋ Add a contact at the foot of the list.

Good to know

• A rally has one SOS number, and it sits above everything else.
• Only the person who added the rally can add or remove its contacts.

Steps

1. When the organiser's list is published, Mappex offers it — Update or Keep mine.
2. Your own row is marked You. It is found by your car number: Dorsal number on the rally's own tab, or Dorsal in the phone's Configuration.

Good to know

• Where the organiser named you, the number is filled in for you. Without a number nothing is marked, rather than the wrong row.
• The results find you by the same number.

Steps

1. Choose a stage along the top. It opens on the newest one with times on it.
2. Stage times ranks the stage, Overall the rally after it, Splits the times at each timing point.
3. Narrow the board to a Group, a Class or a Championship.
4. In Splits, choose a point: To the split is where each crew stood there, the other is how quick they were through the stretch before it.
5. Open a crew to see their passes and where they gained or lost time.

Good to know

• Your car is marked, found by its number.
• Every gap is also given per kilometre, so stages of different lengths can be compared.
• Nothing here is typed: the times arrive as the timing provider publishes them.

Before you start

• An itinerary with its Refuel rows and its distances. Building the itinerary →

Steps

1. Give the car its figures — on the web, Edit car; on the phone, tap the consumption strip: Stage · tarmac, Stage · gravel, Liaison and the margin you never want to go below.
2. Read Put in for each refuel.
3. Driving past a refuel? Tick Skip. Its kilometres go onto the fill before it.

Good to know

• Until the car has figures of its own the web uses standard ones, and says so. Do not fuel a car on those.
• The rally's surface decides whether the tarmac or the gravel figure is used.
• The plan follows the itinerary: change a distance there and the litres change here.

Before you start

• Stages with their lines on the map: the forecast is taken where they are. Stages and their maps →

Steps

1. Pick what the map shows: Rain, Temp, Wind or Cloud.
2. Pick a stage for its start and its finish at the hour of that pass — your own time once the rally has given you one, the first car's until then.

Good to know

• A forecast reaches about two weeks ahead. Further out, the map shows now and says so.
• The phone keeps the figures for each stage, so they are there without a connection. The map is not.
• Two passes over one road share one pin.

Before you start

• The stage has its line on the map; the notes are written from it. Stages and their maps →

Steps

1. On the Pacenotes tab, pick a stage.
2. Zoom in for every call. Click a call to find it on the page, or the page to find it on the road.

Good to know

• G is a hairpin, 1 the tightest corner after it and 10 the fastest. D is right and E is left. After the grade, max is very short, c is short and a second digit is a long corner; < is a corner that opens out at the end, to the grade after it. Before a call, a number is the distance to it, / is into it with a little room, and L is straight into it.
• About four calls in five are within one grade. It knows the shape of the road and nothing else: not crests, cuts, the surface, or a corner that tightens.
• Redraw a stage's line and its notes are written again.
• Only the crew sees this tab.

Before you start

• New test session from Testing in the menu, with the driver and the car. Test days have a list of their own.
• Share this test session needs an account to open: whoever opens the link joins as engineer, and Change role makes them the driver.

Steps

1. + Road for each road of the day. Draw it on the web beforehand, or at the road tap Start here and Finish here at the other end.
2. Next pass opens the pass. The clock starts when the car crosses the start line and stops at the finish; Start now is there when the GPS misses it.
3. After each pass, say how the car was, and whether the setup change helped.
4. Change the setup or the tyres from the pass's row before the next one.
5. Best times shows every road and direction, quickest first.

Good to know

• A pass is only compared with passes of the same road driven the same way round.
• The next pass is turned round by default: a car at the finish is pointing back down the road.
• A road with no line is drawn by the first pass driven on it.
• A long press on a pass's row puts it right: it moves the pass to the road it was really driven on, or discards one that should not count — a start pressed by mistake — which stays on the list and counts for nothing. A discarded pass can then be deleted for good from the same place.

Steps

1. On the rally, under Set up and share, choose Camera settings.
2. Pair a camera: turn the GoPro on, open its Connections menu, Search, and tap it in the list. This is the only time the camera has to be in your hands.
3. Camera Wi-Fi: Search for networks, pick the network in the car — a phone hotspot or a router — type its password, Use this network.
4. Test it: Start streaming. The preview appears a few seconds later. Then Stop streaming.
5. In each rally's Configuration, switch on Livestream or Start recording automatically. The camera wakes a minute before the stage, stops at the finish and goes back to sleep.

Good to know

• Always type the Wi-Fi password, even for a network the camera says it knows, and keep an iPhone's Personal Hotspot screen open while the camera joins: it hides when nothing is connected. Not found nearby does not mean the camera is off — Turn camera on may still reach it.
• Keep Mappex open during the stage; it cannot drive the camera from the background. And a camera that gets hot drops the stream and its Bluetooth together: streaming and writing to the card at once is the heaviest thing it does, so switch off Also record to the card while streaming to stream alone.
• A stream is only as good as the car's connection: satellite internet, such as Starlink, is the most reliable; over mobile data it depends on the coverage. And if the stream fails, the camera stops recording to the card as well.
• Without a streaming channel, recording still works. Write to contact@mappex.app for a channel — and if something does not work, say when it happened: Mappex keeps what the camera said.

Steps

1. Mount the phone on the steering wheel, wheels straight, and Calibrate.
2. Drive. Every corner is kept, with the distance from the one before.
3. See the notes shows them on the map. Hold the map to add one; tap one to correct or delete it.
4. Pacenote settings holds your own system: the directions and the levels you call.

Good to know

• Calibrate again whenever the mount has moved.
• This is the driver's screen. A team manager adds the driver to the rally.

Before you start

• The stage has its line on the map; the notes are written from it. Stages and their maps →
• The rally has a note system in use; the notes are written in it.

Steps

1. Open Pacenotes and pick a stage.
2. Each call sits on its corner: red is tight, amber in between, green fast.
3. Tap a call on the map to see what the corner is.

Good to know

• The notes and the map work without a signal.

Steps

1. Add a run: its Expected start, and Qualifying if it is the qualifying pass.
2. Before the run, record what the car is on: Tyre pressures, the tyres, the setup.
3. Run the stage times it.
4. Results shows everybody's times once live timing has them.

Good to know

• A run that has been driven can no longer be changed.
• Your run numbers and the organiser's pass numbers part company when a run was not logged, so the pass is shown beside the time.

Steps

1. Setup, then Record the setup — or Change the setup once there is one.
2. Step each corner to what is on the car, say what changed in the notes, and Save this setup.
3. History shows each change against the one before it.
4. Share the setup sends the change, or the whole setup, as a message.

Good to know

• Saving records a new setup; it never edits the last one. That is what keeps the history true.
• It saves to the phone first and reaches the team when there is a connection.
• A setup saved by name is kept against the car, so Load a saved setup offers it at your next rally.
• Your engineer sees setups. People following the car do not.

Steps

1. Setup, then Ask the engineer.
2. Choose everything the driver is feeling — a car can oversteer and bottom, in slow corners and in medium ones — add anything else in words, and Ask the engineer.
3. When the engineer asks something back, answer every question, then Send the answers.
4. Each answer is the engineer's whole advice so far, with your answers folded in: what is under it is what to do now.
5. Swipe the card sideways to read what you said before.
6. Tap the change you want to try, then Put this change in the setup. It goes in the form; saving it is still yours.

Good to know

• Asking sends the car's make and model, its setups, tyres, pressures, stage times, the forecast and what was said about the stages. Never names, numbers or the rally.
• Asking needs a connection. The rule book's answer does not, and is there the moment the sheet opens.
• It only offers what may be changed where the car is standing: on a road section, the dampers, and the bars on a car whose bars move.
• The changes that appear as you tap are the rule book's: rules from published setup theory and this car's own setups, worked out on the phone with nothing sent anywhere. It knows nothing of the stage, the tyres or the weather; asking the engineer adds those. Change one thing at a time, and say how the car felt afterwards.

Before you start

• Tyres are recorded against the itinerary's sections, so the itinerary comes first. Building the itinerary →

Steps

1. Tyres, then Tyre sections. Choose the Tyre brand, and which run or section the tyres are for.
2. Point the camera at each tyre's barcode — or Type the code instead.
3. Save once all four corners and a spare are in.
4. In the sheet, tap a tyre to see what it has done. Changed a wheel on the road? Swap tyres, tap the two corners and save — or Mark flat.

Good to know

• Nothing is recorded until you save: a half-filled section would read as a declaration.
• The same code twice stops the save, because its kilometres would be counted twice.
• Kilometres count only stages already driven, and only while the tyre was on the car.
• A photo of each tyre is taken as its barcode is read. The camera beside a code opens it, on the phone and on the web, for whoever checks the car.

Steps

1. Your car: your Dorsal, or pick your car from the entry list.
2. Camera: Livestream or Start recording automatically, for the GoPro set up in the camera settings. Setting up the camera →
3. Split times: Show splits, and Compare with to choose whose times they are read against: overall, or one of your car's groups, classes and championships.
4. Save.

Good to know

• Most rallies under FIA regulations do not allow split times in the car. The app asks you to confirm they are allowed before it shows them.
• With the livestream on, recording is on too.

Before you start

• A stage is recorded when the camera livestreams it. Setting up the camera →

Steps

1. Turn Livestream on in this rally's Configuration.
2. After the stage, tap a recording to play it.

Good to know

• A recording is matched to a stage by the run you timed. The rest are listed at the foot.
• Only what was shot during the event's dates is here; everything else is in the camera settings.

Steps

1. Social media, then Before the rally or After a stage.
2. Swipe between the designs: Photo, Video, Map, Times.
3. Add a photo or a recording, and the Driver's quote.
4. Share: straight to a story, or Send to someone.

Good to know

• Mappex publishes nothing: it hands the picture to the app you choose.
• The colours and sponsors are the rally's, whoever makes the story. Set them in Pick your colours and your sponsors; the next rally starts from them. Colours and sponsors →
• A story can be made before live timing has your time; the time is filled in when it arrives.

Steps

1. Social media settings, on the rally, beside Social media.
2. Before the rally and After a stage are set apart, so a light programme can sit beside dark stories.
3. Where the look comes from: Colours & logos for your colours and up to four sponsors, or My template for your own artwork.
4. Then Save branding.

Good to know

• The look belongs to the rally. A new rally starts from the look you saved last, so you only change it where a rally needs something different.
• A team manager and the team's media can set the look too, for the cars they post for.
• Send the guide to your designer gives whoever draws your artwork the measurements.

Steps

1. Share the car, then switch on Let people follow this car.
2. Show the QR code, or Send the link. Following needs no account.
3. Somebody who works on the car: once they follow, Set role — driver, engineer, media or team manager.

Good to know

• Followers see where the car is, the itinerary and the results. Not the setup, the tyres, or what the driver said about a stage.
• Make a new link stops every link already sent and keeps the people already following. The switch stops everybody.
• A role given here is for this rally only.
• Family and friends follow the same way as the team does: with the link or the code, and no account.