Morning Fewbie Desert Drive - Qudra with Andrew the Emerging Lead - Dubai - 5 July 2026

[Riyad]

@Andrew John Melvill @khurramm

thank you both

[Mountain]

Good day everyone,

Thank you to @Andrew John Melvill & @Emanuel for leading the drive today, for @J-P L & @Mahesh_ for your support, and everyone that joined me for my first Fewbie drive. It was good to test my new vehicle's capabilities and got some good advice all round. Now I have a better idea what modifications needs to be made to keep with the pace.

Apologies for my refusal on one of the ridges and @Lazy Frog who followed me into a perculiar position. Reflection is the key to experience building and you can see from the attached clips both my Dash view and Rear view. Unfortunately I was only able to upload a GIF file type on here so the quality is not that great.

There are two learning points from my refusal: Firsly, I did not apply sufficient power getting onto the dune; and Secondly, most importantly, I was positioned to far to the right of the leading tracks which led my centre of gravity over the slipface.

Getting to know my vehicle, I was not confident to power back onto the dune and decided early on to make an escape. The escape procedure could also be improved by maintaining my momentum so not to get stuck in the powder soft sand at the bottom. However, I was able to perform a self-recovery with the awesome encouragement from @J-P L.

Thank you to @Lazy Frog for maintaining composure in the face of having a refusal himself.

Hope to see you all again on the sand!

[_Herman_]

2 hours ago, Mountain said:

Good day everyone,

Thank you to @Andrew John Melvill & @Emanuel for leading the drive today, for @J-P L & @Mahesh_ for your support, and everyone that joined me for my first Fewbie drive. It was good to test my new vehicle's capabilities and got some good advice all round. Now I have a better idea what modifications needs to be made to keep with the pace.

Apologies for my refusal on one of the ridges and @Lazy Frog who followed me into a perculiar position. Reflection is the key to experience building and you can see from the attached clips both my Dash view and Rear view. Unfortunately I was only able to upload a GIF file type on here so the quality is not that great.

There are two learning points from my refusal: Firsly, I did not apply sufficient power getting onto the dune; and Secondly, most importantly, I was positioned to far to the right of the leading tracks which led my centre of gravity over the slipface.

Getting to know my vehicle, I was not confident to power back onto the dune and decided early on to make an escape. The escape procedure could also be improved by maintaining my momentum so not to get stuck in the powder soft sand at the bottom. However, I was able to perform a self-recovery with the awesome encouragement from @J-P L.

Thank you to @Lazy Frog for maintaining composure in the face of having a refusal himself.

Hope to see you all again on the sand!

By steering down you absolutely nailed one of the principal rules: “no fighting gravity”.   Good choice!  

 

(Also, I love that I now know I can post GIFs!!)

[Andrew John Melvill]

Thanks all for joining the drive this morning. And especially to @Emanuel for supporting my 2nd partial lead.

We made some good distance, starting near 3 trees, flowing through some nice long range dunes mixed in with some technical patches through to a play area. Unfortunately it was really busy with 3 other convoys and a few single cars also there. We had a short play but left as it was too busy. 

We then made our way through to the secret garden via some more technical areas, and some tracks. 

Despite the sand being soft we had a good mix of long range dune flow, ridge riding practice and a few simple criss crosses. 

As the temp hit 40 we exited 🤪 

All in a good way to enjoy a sunday morning. 

Great driving from the newer FB drivers @Mountain and @Lazy Frog especially with your calm reactions when coming off one of the ridges. We had great support from @J-P L and @Mahesh_.last but not least we had good company and driving from @Hartzel, @khurramm and @_Herman_.

[_Herman_]

3 hours ago, _Herman_ said:

By steering down you absolutely nailed one of the principal rules: “no fighting gravity”.   Good choice!  

 

(Also, I love that I now know I can post GIFs!!)

You crawled your way out nicely with zig-zagging!

[Emanuel]

Hey @Andrew John Melvill and team, here is the Relive video of our drive.

Enjoy 

https://www.relive.com/view/vAOZmANQ8yv

[Frederic]

On 7/5/2026 at 7:14 PM, _Herman_ said:

You crawled your way out nicely with zig-zagging!

Cool GIF! With @J-P L having a chat on the walkie :)