Sunil Mathew

😀😀wish you more motivated drives, and see you soon on FB+ and IM levels with the FJ!!!

We started off at around 0620 am from the lisaili camel tracks, getting into some technical areas for a short warm up run, reaching the wider dunes of lisaili, when @Ale Vallecchi decided to push the envelope and get the maximum out of our fewbies with some ridge riding and criss crossing. Thats when we had our events of the day...3 pop outs and 4 tugs !! I hope @Paolo Pellegrini, @Joseph Sebastian had very important take aways from the drive. its not about getting pop out or getting tugged, but its about whether we understand why it happened and to fine tune our driving in order to prevent it from happening next time. When getting on and off ridges, i wish to add some pointers which i learnt during my earlier drives , from the man @Ale Vallecchi himself !! 1. If you overshoot the ridge on your first chance , please exit down and do not attempt to fight gravity and climb back up, its not going to work. You can always loop back and try again or rejoin the convoy safely. 2. Our technique should be to angle your car to smoothly get on the ridge and ride "square" on the ridge for sometime and exit down. 3. When you exit down, drive into the slope, not slide into it. These are exactly the words Ale uses to coach us - i still hear these ringing in my ears - "wheels pointing down", "dont slide into it, steer into it" etc 4. Be careful, where you stop your car and at what angle you stop. With soft sand all around , you never know where you are going to sink when you start moving again. Try to stop on flat areas or at an angle so that gravity helps you to ease out of the sand. 5. Stopping on a ridge is a strict no-no. If the driver in front struggles or gets stuck, please exit down while you still can, so that we have one less recovery to attend to. I have made the same mistake myself during my earlier drives. 🙂🙂 @Gerrit Bus with his loooong gladiator, crested once to be pulled out by @TT_Dubai..i saw you flying off the dune on your second attempt...😄😄.. pls post the videos Good to see and drive with Tim, @TT_Dubai who remains a fewbie by choice --- we started our @Carnity journey almost at the same time ..i still remember your manual wrangler, the LC and now you have an FJ...looks like you are now settled with your choice 😉 😀 Pleasure meeting and driving with the others @Andrew McCarthy - great SL @Imran Kashif - great Driving and involvement in our pop out episodes with his jack and sound advices.. Just to hint that at Carnity, we dont jump the convoy order even if the car in front gets stuck or slows down, struggles etc. unless it is required from the safety point of view, temporarily. @Federico Galbieri driving very well behind me..at couple of crossings , i think i made it a bit difficult for you while trying to avoid churned sand and altering the tracks slighly, apologies @Gurcharan Mehta our second drive together..as usual , very well at ease with your modified LC As per my GAIA stats , we did almost 78km when we exited at Qudra, good for a fewbie drive!! And thanks to @Ale Vallecchifor the opportunities to perform recoveries and all guidances during the same. Hope our paths cross again on future drives!! See you all!!

happy 27th [email protected]...😉

Brilliant drive @Rizwanm2.. I did not know that it was your first lead until your briefing..and the drive definitely did not feel like your first one, given that leading a drive through big red is not easy!! As we mentioned on the radio, you should be doing this more often. 👍👍 Good job as SL @Thomas Varghese..And sweep @Tom B Thanks for your watchful eyes @Hisham Masaad at the centre Pleasure to meet and drive with all of you @Sam K @Jonny90 and @Gurcharan Mehta See you guys soon for the next one!!

was expecting link to appear on whatsapp yesterday 😄...opened website today early morning at 6 AM...drive is full!! anyway 🤞🤞 for "Il Sorpasso" !!

Hope this is not going to be included in weekend drives, with the one drive limit 🤞🤞🙏

I was wondering , as a fortuner owner, why isnt a 4.0 V6 Fortuner not on your radar screen ? I am also looking to change my car to something cheaper and reliable , and fortuner 4.0V6 is still on my list