Morning Fewbie Desert Drive - Eye of Sauron: The Faqa Approach - Dubai - 5 Feb 2023

[Ishak]

13 minutes ago, Ahmad Nerat said:

Thanks 🙏 @Ale Vallecchi for the cool drive we had this morning. It was a compination of fun and focus. We learned today many techniques on ridge riding, criss-crossing and proper car controlling on technical dunes.. we practice it i think on tight dunes for an hour..

Amazingly all did well. Short convoy is the best 😁😁.. i enjoy driving as well with @Ishak and @Krishna R .. u did amazingly well guys.

short trip report video can be found here 

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8fdyfhu/

looking forward to see u again on sand.

Ahmad

Nice video @Ahmad Neratfunny emoji 😅.

agree with you. It was amazing drive.

thanks @Ale Vallecchi👍🏼 and the sweeper @Krishna R

[Krishna R]

Ok! This drive calls for a report.

The Raid on Sauron's Kindgom

Closer to the drive date, the convoy got thinner and some of us were awaiting the dreaded news of the drive being called off. @Ale Vallecchi, the professional that he is, was determined to raid the Eye of Sauron even if alone. @Ishak surprised us with his support a day before the drive and the 4 of us were waiting for the crack of dawn.

The convoy of 4 were bang on time at the starting point and with one of the quickest briefs, we started our raid at 7:48 am. Thank you @Ale Vallecchi for letting me sweep the convoy, din have to bother about my tracks for the cars behind  

With the battle-plan in mind, we made our way through the bushes and the technical dunes, stealthily inching closer to the direction of the eye of sauron, only revving our engines when necessary to climb, so as to not alert the security of the fortress. We crept on, dune after dune until we could see the glimmering eye of sauron. 

Keeping the eye of sauron to our left, we raced on the sabkha to get a closer view of the tower and to plan our way out. 

Oh! the way out. We thought it was hard to get to the tower but running away from it was brutal. The technical terrain at the start of our drive tested our control and concentration to the max but we quickly realized that it was just a practice session for what was about to come. 

We had a quick stop to check our way in, on the map and ale prepared us for what was about to come.

One word - Treacherous 

The way out was the tightest technical dunes with soft bowls and we took the hard way of getting out of them - Riding along the ridges rather than going straight up and down. Concentration? what concentration? We became one with the vehicle and slowly ploughed our way out. Again, very less engine, more steering and control. The convoy had one job, follow the line or get sucked in. It was like navigating a minefield.

Once out of the tight dunes, we did a couple of sideys on some wide range dunes and reached the pylon track at 11:48 am. Raced to the deflation point and called it a day. The grinning faces said it all.

Couldn't have asked for a better marshall and a better convoy.

 @Ale Vallecchi You do magic in the sands sir

 @Ahmad NeratBro, The way you drove that LC today. Hats off man! you came out with your bumpers intact too  Thank you for the pics and the video bro.

 @Ishaq Muhammad Man, The YinYang is here to stay. Great control on the revs and your self recoveries were amazing bro. Just reverse a bit slowly next time   

 

Until next time in the sand guys!

 

 

Edited February 5, 2023 by Krishna R

[GauravSoni]

@Krishna R the intensity of the drive can be felt right through the words.. beautiful encapsulation of the spirit of the convoy and the magic of @Ale Vallecchi!! Well done  everyone!! 

[Ishak]