RAC Rally of the Tests 2026

As darkness falls, our one-and-a-half-hour Prologue will hopefully ease you into the swing of things with a couple of regularities and a test using the Great Orme and, in the lanes, surrounding Llandudno, warming both crew members up before returning to Rally HQ and the Welcome Dinner. Arriving around 19:00 crews can enjoy the evening and recount tales of triumph and woe from the first competitive elements of this year’s RAC Rally of the Tests and speculate over where we are heading and the likely winners.

The morning starts with quite a long run down the A55 to a brace of tests then onto a regularity ,our first on Anglesey of four , followed by a visit to Trac Mon for three tests and the morning coffee halt in the circuit café , a stage rally is taking place the next day so the tests will have some chicane elements included , trust me speaking from experience you don’t want to hit any as they don’t move !

Refreshed by the coffee stop you head out into the lanes of Anglesey for a couple more sections and test before returning to the circuit got a repeat, almost, of the tests before heading to lunch in the nearby Rhosneigr.

Suitably fed and watered, we resume with a final test and regularity before leaving the island and heading onto the Lleyn peninsular , our final test of the day , early I know but that will be 11 tests completed already toady , sees three challenging regularities split with a supper halt near Porthmadog , the last three sections will be tackled in the dark , with Lite crews stepping out after the first of these and heading back to the finish while the main crews have the challenges of navigating the complex but great lanes which skirt the Conwy valley as they head back to the overnight halt in Llandudno. 

An early morning start begins with a bang; several tests close the Llandudno! Before we start our journey south to Mid Wales, the two regularities take us into territory used in 2025 but in the opposite direction before two tests and a coffee halt will give crews a welcome break.

The pressure continues after a road section with two regularities and an awesome test before a relatively early lunch on the shores of Lake Tal-y- llyn, after lunch we have two challenging regularities one of which was the highlight of the 2012 route, the clerk of the courses first edition of ROTT. 

After a short breather there are two tests in the Sweet Lamb rally complex and one final regularity and two tests before the supper halt at Builth Wells. The Lite crews step out here and head for the Metropole Hotel but the main field the fun and challenges now ramp up in the darkness with three tests with three time control sections on the Ranges over some 60 miles in total, before crews arrive at the overnight halt with no doubt numerous stories to tell. 

We start the final day with two back in Builth Wells and two on the Ranges, this time in the daylight , we than tackle on off road regularity and two more tests on the Ranges before we finally leave the iconic rally eternity but not before starting a long regularity on the private land that we are so privileged to use.

Brecon cattle market sees the coffee halt where the crews will no doubt have plenty of stories to tell of the morning activities, we are now on the home stretch with a quick blast around the mart site then three more regularities before we arrive a lunch in Usk where its nearly time for the navigators to relax as all we have to finish are three tests for the crews to enjoy before heading to the conclusion of the event at the finish in Newport.