Mehmet Volga

After meeting right on time with 15 cars together, we smoothly started our drives in two convoys keeping different tracks. I had driven in this area some time ago, a fewbie plus again, and it was clear from everything but just sand and wonderful dunes & bowls to play. Now, like the part at northern Sweihan, it is full of those bulldozer tracks, solar panels, cables, plugs and poles... We couldn't keep enough pace for a Fwb+ due to numerous cross tracks killing more than half of all playable dunes so caused 30 min overtime at the end. We had to keep it slow because it was risky to attempt on the dunes as many of them were suddenly broken with those tracks. It was really sad to see the dunes which I have previously ride on were completely non-approachable... Anyhow, we managed to exploit some dunes and bowls in between them and had our play time enough to make us laugh. It seems we will have to wait some months to visit that area again, as @Warren Flay pointed, until the Mother Nature has recovered her wounds by blowing winds. Sorry to hear @Srikumar had a broken suspension and the second convoy had to exit early, but no worries, you didn't miss too much... Drive report for convoy 1: The performance of the first convoy was outstanding, excellent long hill climbs, wider sideys and criss-crossings worth to record. Adrenalin pumped for @Zed today; flying over the bump and "teleporting" from the top of the dune... breathtaking experience buddy! Thank you for your excellent 2nd lead as well! @Pacific had his standard mood in being extremely boring with effortless reaching up to the tops, except the last bowl close to be crested (that was my Pajero's turn to smile in watching 😉) . Center support fulfilled bro 💪 @JeromeFJ, thank you for your great support today my friend. Especially the last bowl couldn't be beaten without your perfect guiding. You lifted each car one by one and set the convoy back! @Karthikeyan Govindarajan, couldn't count how many "minus" points you got today, all to be considered in your next promotion 😁. Good to see you in plus buddy, keep it up! (but do not think I missed that fishtailing 😉) Other boring guys; @Josh T. ; really enjoyed watching your amazing control on that heavy truck! Huge progress you have made in very near past bro. Well done! @Hasan Wahlan ; flawless ride buddy! let's have more on a clearer route next time @Farouq Owdeh ; didn't know you are in competition with @Pacific as I got bored in waiting you to fail... Let's try something "technical" next time 😉 Keep it up friend 💪 Lessons learnt for today; I think we need to mention some events of today; @Zed unwanted dune crossing close to roll over; as I explained on the radio, you all need to consider "centrifugal force" impact while climbing and looping on bowls/dunes. When you follow a looping track in a circle, additional force pushes you out, meaning that the momentum is bigger than the one in straight climbs. This may pull you on a higher track, and even over the top if there is no path to move up there. So keep this in your mind on the "rounded tracks" and lower your speed accordingly. @Karthikeyan Govindarajan's fishtailing and @Farouq Owdeh's over speed during their return from climbing... The risk with fishtailing is again to roll over, in Karthik's case, he was a bit late to slow down + changed his track with making a sharp turn instead of keeping straight. Farouq's was a straight down coming, but again a bit fast bringing damage risk by hitting his bumper at the bottom. The main reason in such is that speedy climbs reaching at tops creates some satisfaction on the drivers' mood and this may lead disruption of your attention while returning back. To avoid all above, it is always safer to make your first attempt on an easy and slower way in order to check the conditions, understand the track, see the bumps and other obstacles and then make your second attempt with a speed adjusted accordingly... Thank you all for another lovely day. I love driving with you. See you next time on the sand!

@Zed @Karthikeyan Govindarajan @Hasan Wahlan @Charbel @Josh T. @Werno @Farouq Owdeh @Pacific @ShereenMK @Mus_hus78 @Warren Flay @munkybizness @Amir Amiri @JeromeFJ @Srikumar Good evening everybody! Pity that we will not have @sertac but thanks to @Srikumar we can still run two convoys tomorrow. Here are the convoy orders; Convoy 1 = Channel #2 Convoy 2 = Channel #3 See you all in the morning

Well done @Russ. Keep it up!

Congrats @Marcin Wronowski!

congrats @Rsjiv Samuel

congrats @Adnan Halepota!

well done buddy @Shaaz Sha!

Bravo @Zed keep it up!

Congrats @Sergio Big Dawg

congratulations @Belal Aldaour

AD team all lined up to the plus! Well done @ShereenMK! Keep it up 💪

Bravo @Werno

Well done @Morshedi keep it up 💪

Well done @Simon Claes

Well done @Xavier Treasurer

Congrats @Tom V well done 👍

Bravo @Anoop Nair keep it up 💪

Well done @MMansoor keep it up 💪

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Well done @Faisal Alhashimi

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@Hisham Masaad I've already tasted your leading just behind you and I want more from those my friend. Very well deserved. See you soon on the sand again. Well done!

Well done @Bernard Kalaani keep it up

Well done @Alphin Aloor

Well done @Michel Van Woudenberg !