Morning Fewbie Plus Desert Drive - Nahel - Abu Dhabi - 02 March 2025

[Looper]

[Mark B]

42 minutes ago, Looper said:

I’m here now 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Mark B]

7;10 il arrive 

[Andrew John Melvill]

@Looper and the entire convoy, thanks for a great Sunday morning drive! A few minor issues aside it was a really good flowing drive through some relatively clean sand. 

Hope to get my rim issue resolved before next weekend! Again thanks for all the assistance with this! 

Enjoy the last few hours of the weekend! 

[Andrew John Melvill]

Same area different lead styles

[DP1011]

12 hours ago, Looper said:

Why was this Blocked  @Looper ?

[Mark B]

It’s roadworks, they are doing tarmac as they have on the rest of that stretch of road. But you can go the opposite direction and Uturn it only added few minutes 

[Hani crest king]

@Looperthank you for a great Sunday drive. Pace was great with marvelous bowls climbing, had a couple of pop outs one due to a rock placed by someone on a wide bowl, unlucky @Andrew John Melvill and handled very well. @Mark B great support throughout the convey as usual was the fastest tire fixing I’ve witnessed. 

[Looper]

It was indeed a roller costar drive for sure. In the morning when met @GauravSoni who camped the previous night said he had bad feelings about the dunes, so he slept near the treatment plant. Then we had this discussion of how some of us had to tug cars out of these dunes. Even in our last drive - both the convoys had issues in and around this area.

The bad omens kind of continued with @Beide Worku's car showing up trouble 5 min into the drive, literally as soon as we entered the sand. It took about 25 min to get him out and start the drive once again. At the front we socialized, but at the back @Mark B, @GauravSoni and @Mike M. ensured that @Beide Worku is safely out of the sand.

When we started, I knew we lost the momentum and mindset for the drive. We were outside the double bowl, And I wanted the convoy to be in and out like @Frederic did here (click the link) (edit: you can see the rock in this video too. It is protruding a lot more here) Thanks @Glenn W for getting rid of it from the bowl. But unfortunately, @Andrew John Melvill hit a rock that I saw but had no time to tell on the radio. Once Again @Mark B and @GauravSoni took the lead to fix the car in super quick time and moved on.

Then again in about 5 min Drive @nithish468 had a pop out. @Mark B had all the stuff needed to fix it in no time once again. I think by this time we had enough of sacrifice to the desert demons and they were happy, and finally we could do some brisk driving without any further issues. It was smooth and flowing like brush strokes in the desert canvas by a painter. We had one more break, towards the end when @Mike M. had a refusal. 

Thank you once again to @Mike M. at Sweep, @Mark B in Center Forward, @Andrew John Melvill at second lead and @GauravSoni as flying sweep for making the drive successful. 

And last but not the least thank you @ChrisW , @nithish468, @Sandeep N, @Hani crest king, @Glenn W and @Gautam Banka for joining the drive.

 

Some stats from the drive:

 

Flat lines are the breaks we took.

Link

See you all next time.

[Glenn W]

Thanks @Looper for the amazing morning, quite a drive. @Andrew John Melvill great second lead, it's a shame about that damn rock but I hope you manage to nurse the rim back to full health or replace it with a newer younger model 😁 ... @Mark B great support, had your work cut out for you at times, but nice trick with the ratchet strap. one to remember & @Mike M. great support at the back. @Gaurav Soni the super sweep, great drive. 

Had a fantastic morning, everyone drove great, looking forward to doing it again soon.

all the best guys, have a great week