West Coast Rally 2026

West Coast Rally 2026 is a special event in GTA V organised by RBDK.

If you want to join, please sign up and keep an eye on the Google Document for more information.

How Do I Join?

Ensure you have added RBDK as a Rockstar Social Club friend, see the ID in the Google Doc. If you don't know how to do that or where to ask you have been filtered.

Before the start of the rally the server will be set up as invite only. RBDK as the host will invite all drivers.

Restart Procedure

No such thing in a rally, so take care and go a little slower. If you have to retire the car you may re-enter the rally starting from Stage 6 as this will be our "service area" with Los Santos Customs available to repair your vehicle.

Rally Route

A full route of the rally can be seen in the file on the right or on this [MEGA Mirror]. The rally consists of 12 stages and interstages which in any other rally game would be a piece of cake, but GTA has its quirks and funny business making this plenty long enough for some chaos.

The stages run from the northernmost stage to the southernmost stage in the order:

• Donkey Punch Family Farm
• Paleto Beach
• Paleto Sawmill
• Chiliad Mountain
• Chiliad Tunnel
• Cassidy Creek & Raton Canyon
• Harmony & Great Chaparral
• Tongva Wineyard
• Banham Canyon
• Vespucci Beach
• Port of Los Santos West
• Port of Los Santos East

To enable you to learn the stages a bit easier than last year, I have made a complete stage recce with the CAR in stock form. You can watch this recce here:

West Coast Rally 2026 Recce Video

A Stage Guide Book containing the start and finish line locations has been written for the occasion. Download it and print it or have it on a second screen or a tablet for reference since you cannot set the GPS in GTA to go the correct route. If you are found to cut corners because you didn't read the route (some stages this is very relevant) you will be penalized. The book is available on [MEGA] and on [Google Drive].

Rules

West Rally 2026 will be run in a private session of GTA Online with all contestants in the same lobby. The rally will NOT be run as a GTA race, but rather as simply a free roam event. This is to ensure the "real" rally experience driving from stage to stage and retaining damage picked up earlier.

Stage Run Procedure

First contestant lines up at the starting line defined in the stage guide. After setting off, depending on the stage, there will be a wait until the competitor has reached a certain point on the stage before the next driver can go.

On stage finish, contestants must wait at the end of the stage (not blocking the finish) and then drive to the start of the next stage when the race organizer gives a go-ahead on mumble. Basically just wait until everyone is ready.

Timing

Timing will be done by each individual driver. At the end of a stage, when everyone has finished or retired, you will relay the time to RBDK who puts it into a spreadsheet.

I recommend you set your phone up such it doesn't turn off its display until after 10 minutes, and then use the stopwatch app. My method is start the timer, and as it hits 5 seconds you set off. This gives you a little countdown to set off to, and you simply subtract 5 seconds from the time as you stop the timer.

I will penalize you if you're a little bitch and try to cheat with this. This is a special event for the sake of a fun evening, not a tryhard fest.

Car Choice - Read this part it's different!

For this rally, I am enforcing a more limited choice of cars. Your car must be a 4 door sedan. It can be from Southern San Andreas Super Autos or it can be from Legendary Motorsport or it can be something you stole off the street. No exceptions to this rule, it is to change up this running of the rally. 2 door sedans are not allowed, neither are coupes or SUVs or any other vehicle you can think of.

All performance mods are allowed EXCEPT armor and bullet proof tires. Your car MUST be without armor and bullet proof tires. If I suspect your car is in fact armored, I will crash/pistol test it and decide if I think you are cheating or not.

Any weapons related mods are also prohibited.

Car Damage and Retirements

Any damage sustained to a vehicle is kept until the service points before stage 4 and stage 11. ONLY at these points (and before starting the rally) may a driver repair the car with Los Santos Customs or by spawning in the car using the mechanic. In other words if you break your car on stage 5, you're stuck with it for stage 6 through 10 as well.

If the car is "destroyed" (you need insurance to get a new one) you are retired until the next service point. If you destroy the car after the last service point, you are DNF.

Keep this in mind when choosing your car.

Weapon Useage

If you're a complete fucking idiot and haven't realized that any sort of weapon useage in general is prohibited, you need to get your head checked.

Why aren't you doing this my way in my game of choice you're a bad organizer

Because I want to do it in GTA.

FAQ

- Presence on Mumble is unfortunately mandatory this time since Rockstar removed comms from the game itself.