Training programmes
Written for your machine and your target event.
We train complete beginners and Rally2 podium riders in the same week, on the same dunes, with different plans. Tell us where you are and what you are aiming at, and the programme is written from there.
Where you start
Where people start.
First sand
No rally experience
You have never ridden or driven on dunes. We start with the machine stationary and build until you can cross an erg without thinking about the surface.
Goal: enter your first rally raid safely prepared.
Competitor
Racing, improving
You already finish rallies. We take apart the parts of your stage that cost you time, usually navigation discipline and dune commitment, and rebuild them.
Goal: move up the results sheet.
Dakar entry
Entered, or about to be
A focused block before a major start: race pace on real terrain, roadbook under pressure, setup signed off, and a strategy written for your specific entry.
Goal: arrive at scrutineering with nothing left to guess.
The syllabus, in seven blocks.
Open a block to see what it contains. Your camp is assembled from these, weighted towards the event you are preparing for.
- Soft-sand throttle and body position
- Line choice across open erg
- Braking and steering when the surface keeps moving
- Riding tired without riding badly
Taught by
Jean-Loup Lepan · Konrad Dąbrowski
Both coaches ride Rally2 at world level and teach the technique they used on their last start.
- Reading a dune face before you commit to it
- Cresting: how to arrive, what to see, when to lift
- Ascent and descent lines on soft and wind-packed sand
- Rock, hard-pack, wadi and camel grass at speed
Taught by
Marek Dąbrowski
Dune reading is the single skill that separates a finisher from a retirement.
- ERTF UNIK 4 operation until it is automatic
- CAP heading navigation and heading discipline
- Waypoint types and what to do when one is missed
- Cross-checking terrain against the book at speed
Taught by
Konrad Dąbrowski · Jean-Loup Lepan · Jacek Czachor
Training roadbooks written to replicate Dakar special-stage style and complexity.
- Opening the stage versus following tracks
- Managing a gap over multiple days
- Refuelling, neutralisation and time-control discipline
- Deciding when a stage is already good enough
Taught by
Marek Dąbrowski · Jacek Czachor
Where to spend risk across a twelve-day race, and where to refuse to spend it.
- Suspension and ergonomics for your weight and terrain
- Tyres, mousses and pressures per surface
- Daily service routine on a rally bivouac
- Field repairs that get you to the finish
Taught by
RTC technical crew
Run with the DUUST Rally Team workshop, the same crew that services our race entries.
- Heat acclimatisation and hydration across a long stage
- Nutrition on a bivouac schedule
- Managing fear after a fall, on the same day
- Sleep and recovery inside a race week
Taught by
RTC coaching staff
Heat, dehydration and decision fatigue end more rallies in Arabia than crashes do.
- Recovering a loaded bike or car alone
- Sentinel, tracking and distress procedure
- First response for another competitor
- When to stop, and how to be found
Taught by
RTC coaching staff
Every camp runs with a support crew trained in first aid.
Tell us your season and we will send back a plan.
Machine, experience and travel window. Three answers are enough for us to write a real offer.