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  4. Morning Fewbie Desert Drive - The Hot Stuff Drive - Lisaili - Dubai - 25 Jun 2022

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    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!!

     

     

     

     

     

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  6. Morning Fewbie Desert Drive - Tawi Nizwa to Big red - Sharjah - 18 Jun 2022

    in Offroad Drives

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    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!!

     

     

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  10. Hydraulic oil for Jack

    in Motorsport Mods / DIY

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    Never thought about where to buy from 🙂... Ras Al Khor - lub shops could be  a good place to start with..or your regular car workshop guy can give you some,  because they have trolley jacks too...so they must be  refilling and servicing them..

    or go by suggestions from @Frederic and @Pacific - brake fluid.?

    I found this , during a general search

    https://www.amazon.ae/SILVERHOOK-SHRJ1-Silverhook-Hydraulic-Oil/dp/B00AYF83QY/ref=asc_df_B00AYF83QY/?tag=googleshopp09-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=406701849751&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7813583968020702977&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1000013&hvtargid=pla-524089794881&psc=1

    something similar should do

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  12. Afternoon Intermediate Desert Drive - Solar Park Counter Revolution - Dubai - 17 May 2022

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    An IM drive after almost a months break from offroading, I was apprehensive whether all the "muscle memory" gained could be recalled, after the gap, but seemed fine !!!

    Thanks for the nice smooth flowing drive @Ale Vallecchi, we did the whole circle as planned, i hope, climbing slip faces and criss crossing our way , all along covering a 100Km with almost 28Kmph average pace... very minor refusals here and there, and the radio channel waking up mostly for "terrain prompts" from Ale, for a bump here, a bush there etc etc :-) 

    Although the day proved to be slightly unlucky for @Pacific, with a pop out and a flat tyre, it was a fun drive with all of us driving at different positions every 40 min, the unconventional element of the drive from Ale 👍👍..this ensured that we dont slip into our comfort zones , staying alert to adjust to a different driver in front of you, every 40 min, varying from a high alert 2nd lead to a lazy IM sweep :-) 

    Good company @Fabien Monleau - who i seem to share some commonality w.r.t our field of work - ships 😀, @Christian Andras and veteran @Thomas Varghese

    Until next time 🤘🖐️

     

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    Afternoon Fewbie Desert Drive - Waiting for Iftar: Faqa Loop "The Recce Drive" - Dubai - 6 Apr 2022

    in Offroad Drives

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    Yes, we all made it!! @Ale Vallecchi

    And Thanks for opening up this otherwise "advisor exclusive" recce drive for normal people :-) :-) ...i was just a silent observer to the whole drive as you kept sharing snippets for  @varunmehndiratta 's lead coming saturday, which gave me a different perspective of how you guys do the route planning, exit points, choice of different routes based on convoy response etc.

    It was indeed a welcome re-start for me after almost a month's break , a chill and relaxing fewbie track , a very short convoy - 4 cars to start with and later 3 cars when @GauravSoni had to exit due to a work site call - hope all is ok.

     

    All the best to both @varunmehndiratta for his partial lead on Saturday and @GauravSoni for his first independent lead...Go rock the sands!!

    See you all soon !!

     

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