Concentration
 It's our job as a co-driver to keep an eye on our driver's concentration. There is a lot to do in this area. If you have time, stop the car 3 or 4 kilometres before the start of the stage to prepare yourself. Arrive at the timing zone area at the start of the stage on time. There is no need to arrive in advance, as you will have to wait for your time and will have time to be distracted … Just before starting, give the first pace notes to your driver, remind him the eventual tricks there could be in the stage. Once the stage is completed, it's time to debrief on the road section. Everyone has some personal secret…

Pace notes
The notes are the driver's. The co-driver has to adapt himself to the system and stick to it. Everyone use his own symbols to write down the pace notes. That's why you can only race with the notes you wrote. Very often, if you take the pace notes from another co-driver, you will barely understand them…

Of course, you can give your opinion if a data seems very optimistic or pessimistic, but never correct it without his agreement (it already happened!). You can add some personal marks on the notes. Those ones are only there to confirm that the notes are matching with the place you are. On the note book, at the start of every stage, write down the name of it, the mileage, the time of your clock and anything particular on the stage. Don't forget to note the page numbers on reverse order. If, like me you have about one kilometre of stage per page, you know roughly where you are in the stage. 2 or 3 lines before the end of the stage write down to stop your clock. Think to write the time your are doing, the weather conditions, the tyre choice that you can compare if you have to re-run the stage later.



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