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Position Name Car Rank Drives 1 Frederic White Temporary Whale Crew 318 2 JC_E 2024 Toyota LC Prado 250 - White Fewbie Plus 53 3 florent sierens Jimny 2025 5 doors Newbie 1 4 Lukas Wii 2026 Toyota Prado - Sand Newbie 3 5 Rasna 2022 Jeep Wrangler-4door-Grey Newbie 5 6 Walter Palk Jeep Wrangler 2024 Newbie 5 7 Rajath Shetty 2023 Toyota FJ Cruiser White Newbie 6 8 Ishak Pajero - LWB - Black/White Expert 133 9 Nikki1007 2019 Mitsubishi Monterosport White Fewbie 11 10 Lazy Frog 2014, Toyota FJ-Green Fewbie 12 11 Albert_Spa 2021 Jeep Wrangler - 4 Door - Red Fewbie 14 12 Jason M 2020 Mitsubishi Pajero White Fewbie 16 13 Hartzel 2022 Toyota Fortuner 4.0 - White Fewbie 17 14 Infaz 2014 Dodge Ram - 4 Door - Silver Fewbie Plus 24 15 Diego Blue Raptor Intermediate 45 16 Aser 2018 Jeep Wrangler - 4 door - black Support Team 118 Good afternoon everyone! @JC_E@florent sierens@Lukas Wii@Rasna@Walter Palk@Rajath Shetty@Ishak@Nikki1007@Lazy Frog@Albert_Spa@Jason M@Hartzel@Infaz@Diego@Aser Thank you all for signing up! I am sure we'll have a great morning out in the pristine dunes of Fayah. Just a couple of pointers: 1. Please try to arrive by 6.15AM. There are some road-works along this road, so be extra cautious. Also take note that there is no 20km/h grace speed in Abu Dhabi 😁 100=100! 2. Don't forget your flag, radio, compressor, and pressure gauge. 3. Upon arrival you can deflate to 14psi if you have highway terrain tires, and to 12psi if you have all terrain tires. @florent sierens your Jimny can be deflated to 10-11psi to achieve good flotation See you all in the morning!

Newbie Drive Report – Faqa to Bab Al Shams Thank you to everyone who arrived early and were ready for the 7:00 AM briefing—great discipline and much appreciated. This was a newbie-heavy drive, including @Esteban Ayala's first Carnity drive—welcome! I hope you had an enjoyable introduction to desert driving. Welcome back @Rajath Shetty and @Ghaithh after a break. Hope you had some fun while getting used to things again. We supported a few of you during setup with tips to improve performance, including guidance for Pajero drivers on managing ABS/traction systems. @Mariem and @Pramod Sathyaseelan, please take time to learn your Prado and Fortuner offroad features (especially 4L and diff locks if you have them) to build confidence. We started with a gentle warm-up through Faqa, heading west through slightly bushy terrain. Some drivers also practiced hill climbs with Aser’s guidance—great effort refining control and cresting technique. Followed by a break on the sabkha. Entering a different dune patch, we encountered very soft, technical sand, where you all handled stucks and refusals well as a team. I also needed a hand with some shoveling to get me moving again. We exited and continued along the sabkha edge dipping in and out of the dunes here. We saw plenty of camels and gazelles here too. The final dunes were again challenging, but you managed well, with good teamwork and learning throughout. After a Prado transmission overheating stop, JP and I ventured forward and found a nearby track ~400m north, giving us a quicker exit as we were running late. From there, we overlanded smoothly to Bab Al Shams. Thank you @nitesh for a good Second Lead and for @Aser Support in the back as Sweep. You were pretty busy yesterday. Overall, a high-learning drive—well done for your progress, teamwork, and perseverance. Looking forward to the next one! Here is the track we made together yesterday. You all should be proud of yourselves. That was some drive yesterday. We covered an amazing 70kms and saw some nice parts of the desert here.

Morning guys. Had a blast yesterday and left me eager for more. Was really fun and was also great to learn quite a few thing on the drive. Thanks to the experienced team members that organized and supported the drive. @Emanuel @Aser & @nitesh. I was great to meet the rest of you. See you soon on the dunes.

Hi we will be using Channel 10: 446.231 MHz

Thanks for the advice @Frederic all sorted!

Gents, Any petrol station here? I may have 10min delay, sorry

The Relive video I made of our drive can be found here: NB Faqa to Bab Al Shams Desert Drive Finally for today, each drive has a special Gallery where you can post photos of our drives together. The one for this drive is located here. Wishing all of you a wonderful Eid break and see you next time in the sand.

Hi @Bjoern, I just removed you from the list 🤣

We will be driving on Channel 4. There is a good section at the start which can sometimes quite interesting depending on how the wind has sculptured the dunes. after that we move towards Little Qudra and take a break before we cross a Sabhka which will be 1 of 2 that day. Next we will some technical dunes and play in the dunes across little Sweihan. After we cross over the second sabkha we will reach what we call little Sweihan. We will enter at the start of the triangle and end near the military area. After that we will drive to exit either at the Science Center or at Bab Al Shams.

Hi Guys, very keen to join you tomorrow. I'm from Argentina, 12 years here in Dubai I used to ride in the desert with a motocross, but I changed now to the cars... Less aggressive and allows me to still be in the dunes. I drove a few times in the sand, but I have a lot to learn. Hope I can improve by joining the community. My car is a black SWB Pajero 2011 stock with bash plate only. I have the equipment mentioned above and watched the video. See you tomorrow.

@Fredericunfortunately I am going to have to bail on this drive after all. Sorry to leave after you've already done the convoy order!

Hi Mark, unfortunately I have to drop out from the drive this morning. Had some AC issues in the house not much sleep and need to have it fixed this morning. See you next time on the dunes and have a good ride. Frederic118