COVID19 Compliant - Tuesday Afternoon Fewbie Desert Drive - Murquab - Dubai - 15 Jun 2021

[Lakshmi Narasimhan]

Thanks @Anish S for todays drive, it was a stress buster for me and enjoyed it very much. Mix of slopes, technical dunes which was enjoyed by every one. You have an amazing copilot on action over radio today, thanks @Veedooshee.
 

@Alain Canivet-Abikhalil good drive, you enjoy second lead position much!!!, enjoying the drive is the objective, continue enjoying!!! You have improved a lot on side slope couldn’t see any fish tailing, it was a pleasure watching you. If you manage to maintain the right momentum on climbing small dunes you will be perfect. But you self recover very well keep it up.

@Marwan Haddadyou did drive well, nothing to worry about exiting side slope early, you will perfect it with more practice, most important is to know when to exit which you did well today.

@Christopher Assal it was pleasure watching you from behind, couple of areas you slowed while approaching the dune but you managed to push at right time and crossed without getting refusal. Good drive!!!

@Zixuan Huang - Charlie you really drove well today maintaining safe distance. 
 

@Sunil Mathew I could see you driving beautifully, and your confidence level has made you enjoy the drive, well done.

@Darren Brooke hope you enjoyed the drive and managed on churned up sand and technical areas well. Hope you fix your car asap and rock as usual.

@TT_Dubai didn’t hear you on radio, as you mentioned you enjoyed technical area very much for first time, that too from behind. Good job, continue enjoying.
 

@darren thompson hope you enjoyed the drive with your monster Raptor specifically in the technical areas and churned up sand driving at the back of the convoy. You were quite through out the drive which shows you managed and enjoyed it throughly.

@RooRzOn thanks for sweeping the convoy and you did great job. Hope you also enjoyed the drive.

Over all we covered good distance in short time and exited on time with most of the time driving. It was a wonderful drive, thanks to every one in the convoy. See you all soon!!!

Edited June 16, 2021 by Lakshmi Narasimhan
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[Cha]

Fast paced and technical drive in the heated summer afternoon, long slopes and tricky dunes. 

Thank you @Anish S for arraging this mid week "3 course meal", and support team members for making the drive smooth and enjoyable @Lakshmi Narasimhan @Alain Canivet-Abikhalil @RooRzOn and ofc @Marwan Haddad for rerouting the tracks on numerous occasions.

@TT_DubaiTim could you please give me the link for that 4 cylinder compressor you mentioned? my little compressor has come to its end of life surely 

 

[TT_Dubai]

I don't think there is a personal inbox function here and I think we can't recommend individual businesses. Pls send me a WhatsApp zero five zero eight five six eight four five four @Zixuan Huang - Charlie

[Rawad]

Pleasure driving with you all. Nothing left to say as you all drove brilliantly

Thank you @Anish Sfor the much needed break during the week

 Until we meet again🤙🤙

[Lakshmi Narasimhan]

31 minutes ago, TT_Dubai said:

Pls send me a WhatsApp zero five zero eight five six eight four five four

Hope theres no restrictions to share contact numbers, but still appreciate ur patience typing all the way late night!!!!

[darren thompson]

Thanks again to @Anish S for a very enjoyable drive yesterday, chasing the sunset across the dunes was great fun. Picked a fantastic route with a nice mix of technical and more open dunes, enjoyed getting up some of those bigger dunes during the mid section and thought the whole group drove so well that we where able to maintain good momentum through  out the drive. 

Thanks also to @Alain Canivet-Abikhalil, @Lakshmi Narasimhan and @RooRzOn for the support during the drive. 

Good to meet some new drivers and see some familiar faces again, look forward to seeing you all in the Dunes sometime soon. 

[Christopher Assal]

As a first Fewbie drive I won’t lie I did have a few nerves. After we first entered the desert and hit a few bigger dunes then I attacked before the nerves really kicked in. 
 

However watching @Anish S @Alain Canivet-Abikhalil and @Marwan Haddad drive with skill I pushed on and learnt as I drive.

Compared to newbie this was fast paced , technical and sooooooo much fun and I learnt a lot about myself and my driving. @Anish Si believe you have shown me that I love technical driving , mid paced , tight turns , small difficult bowls and  cris crossing mid size dunes. Really enjoyed even with a couple of refusals , however even there learning from other Marshall’s in the past we didn’t stop and kept momentum and came back round. All in all everyone drove so well!!!! The momentum was fantastic, unless I’m mistaken only two major refusals through such a tricky drive. Are all fewbie drives this technical and at that pace?

With reference to a post I made Re kill switches , yes I will be getting them installed, traction control was not an issue however the ABS did kick in a couple of times on this drive when I’d rather it hadn’t , causing me to have to adjust my braking on the fly! I also had a big hit exiting a side slope early in Qudra where the first thing in my mind was “Airbags” ,car was fine thank god however the bash plate has officially been christened and is definitely not as straight as before 😂. @Lakshmi Narasimhan @RooRzOn fantastic support over the radio and keeping the team knowing what was happening in the kid and back of the convoy. In a way was a shame not see you rescuing more of us and advising the team as we got stuck and learning but I guess that’s a good thing you didn’t have too. Thank you all great mid week drive! Really amazing and learnt a lot again.

[Rawad]

 

2 hours ago, Christopher Assal said:

traction control was not an issue however the ABS did kick in a couple of times

@Christopher Assalyou can follow this method until you install the kill switch

https://youtu.be/FMT72YQxgnU

I use it and its flawless. Just turn your engine off, unplug, the turn it on. Same goes for plugging it back

Dont worry abt skidplates.. they are there to be bended 😂😂

[Sunil Mathew]

Was a wonderful, nice, technical mid week drive , thanks to @Anish S and support team @Lakshmi Narasimhan, @RooRzOn. and 2L @Alain Canivet-Abikhalil....and not to forget @Marwan Haddad who created a new position called 3rd Lead 😂 

as L and 2L were in-seperable at times due to the nature of terrain !!

the drive was worth the early "bunk" from my worksite 😉, every minute

Right mix of intense technical stuff and fast paced long range dunes, cross overs, broad ridge rides etc.

Sustaining long sideys still prove to be a challenge for me, as i lost confidence mid way on couple of them, and exited early. Waiting for the right technique to present itself, as i get to practice more . This mound of sand on long side slopes, created by the cars in front always scares me, as a pivot for roll overs, so the moment i see a fairly high sand mound, my mind goes blank 😃

Tried to create some video links..excuse the quality and vibration...taken with iphone on a 50AED holder

 

Edited June 16, 2021 by Sunil Mathew
video links added

[Lakshmi Narasimhan]

2 minutes ago, Sunil Mathew said:

Was a wonderful, nice, technical mid week drive , thanks to @Anish S and support team @Lakshmi Narasimhan, @RooRzOn. and 2L @Alain Canivet-Abikhalil....and not to forget @Marwan Haddad who created a new position called 3rd Lead 😂 

as L and 2L were in-seperable at times due to the nature of terrain !!

the drive was worth the early "bunk" from my worksite 😉, every minute

Right mix of intense technical stuff and fast paced long range dunes, cross overs, broad ridge rides etc.

Sustaining long sideys still prove to be a challenge for me, as i lost confidence mid way on couple of them, and exited early. Waiting for the right technique to present itself, as i get to practice more . This mound of sand on long side slopes, created by the cars in front always scares me, as a pivot for roll overs, so the moment i see a fairly high sand mound, my mind goes blank 😃

Tried to create some video links

 

Definitely you are improving with every drive, so nothing to worry, it took me 20+ drives to be more confident its still WIP.  Try to see the  path car in the front has taken (if they can do safely, you will also be able to) and observe the momentum (this is the key factor), also try to take fresh track left/right/above/below based on the situation and also push little bit more, try to practice this on couple of newbie drives, you will see lot of improvement!!!