Francois Germishuys

@Wrangeld please add me to the drive, first drive. 

Thanks @Kailas I enjoyed this night drive, new experience so all good!  You didn’t hold back so it was good!!

Just a few issue on the drive, 2 drivers with no night lights, this is a must on night drives as clearly they have issues with seeing where to go. Also this later on causes people to lose the actual track and take their own ways and get stuck. Its very important to follow the leads tracks especially at night when dark and not easy to see where you are going...

Thanks to @Craig Finlayson for putting his winch to good use and doing all the recoveries. 

Other than that awesome drive. 

see you guys on the next drive! 

Great see you all later 

Hi @Lorenzo Candelpergherunfortunately not, little late notice, enjoy. 

Hi @Tbone this will be by first and only drive, please add me thanks.

16 minutes ago, Emmanuel said:

@Shaaz Sha and @Francois Germishuys sorry but due to too many drop outs I have to call off this drive.

Thanks for the update @Emmanuel

Very disappointing to have drop outs this late..... 🙄

@Emmanuelim ready to go!!

@Emmanuel thank mate 

Good evening still a spot open for me to join? Let me know, ✌🏼

Hi please add me to the waiting list second drive

Hi please add me to the waiting list, first drive 

34 minutes ago, Ale Vallecchi said:

Thanks @Jack Thomas. Hope to see you soon. 

Thanks for letting me know @Yahya Munir. Hope to see you soon. 

Hi @Francois Germishuys. You will drive with my convoy tomorrow. 😁

@Ale Vallecchi i hope you and @Wrangeld will still be friends after this weekend 🤣✌🏼

1 minute ago, Wrangeld said:

Take a look above - you drew the short straw: You're in the left hand side convoy ...  😏

But @Ale Vallecchi said he will see me tomorrow, was just wondering 🤪 

@Wrangeld my old buddy, I missed you, im sure you asked for me to be in your team! Haha see you Saturday! 

Hi @Ale Vallecchi what do you have planned for us tomorrow? 

Hi @Ale Vallecchi any spot open for me? First drive and only drive for the weekend.

@Foxtrot Oscar thanks fun drive today, lots of skid plate action today, it was fun..... except for the choppy surf at the end 🤪 

See you all next time 🤘🏻

See you all tomorrow I guess ....

Hi @Foxtrot Oscar  please add me to this drive wait list, first drive. 

Hi @Luca Palanca Falsini ok no worries, the boys are scared....  

@Emmanuel thanks for a good drive, it was a fast paced and safe drive, I enjoyed it, my truck obviously enjoyed it as well as I just made it to the fuel station after the drive...

Really good team @Foxtrot Oscar @Ilya Golubinsky @Craig Finlayson @Kalaharithis time with no issues at all except for the 2 pop outs myself and @Kalahari had, but easily managed.  
 

thanks and see you all on the next drive! 
 

ive added all the pics and videos i have in the gallery ✌🏼

Same here test done, I passed, see you guys tomorrow. 

good day @Emmanuel, please let me know if its possible to join the drive so that I can arrange the COVID19 test, I completed all the needed drives... 

Thank @Tbone for a great drive, first time driving with you as well, it was fun.

I had fun at the back, always good to get the V8 working in the soft sand at the end of the convoy 

Little bit of a challenge getting you out of that pocket but team work did the job at the end, i think i still have a phobia for pulling to hard after the the incident were we broke the town hook off Daniels RAM.... 

Other than a few refusals and few crested stucks it was all good. 

see you guys next time. 

9 hours ago, Foxtrot Oscar said:

Drive Report

I started the afternoon by making every member of the convoy aware of exactly what I expected from intermediate drivers on an Intermediate drive. Pace, no babysitting and if you have a refusal? Get yourself out of it!  I didn’t want to hear constant chatter on the radio, I wanted a drive like no other and by goodness did the convoy deliver!

We limbered up as usual in the smaller dunes, which offer excellent practice for the mammoth dunes that lay ahead. We swept around them at some pace, warming up our desert wheels. @Ilya Golubinsky 's mother asked for  bigger dunes, and who am I to disappoint someone’s mother?!

As we began to climb into the labyrinth of bowls we had a couple of refusals but nothing much, we continued and @GauravSoni experienced a nice crest which @Kailas tried in vain to dig him out of, we got the ropes and @GauravSoni was on the move again.

It’s fair to say that the initial climbs met with a fair share of refusals, I asked @GauravSoni to check his tyre pressure and after deflating he was back in the game and then some. Then @asifk found himself in a nice pocket of soft sand and the recovery saw his transmission oil heat up. We stopped to allow it time to cool down and got the magic spray out (water).That seemed to do the trick and we were on the move again.

I usually try to convey a sense of what a drive was like in these reports but it is difficult to truly reflect this afternoon’s drive. Perhaps my instructions over the radio would be better. “Climb, push it, push t , sweep the bowl, criss-cross, sweep, cross, push it push it! Control the descent , sweep, cross, sweep, momentum, stay high , cross, stay high, sweep. Cross, sweep, cross, climb PUSH IT PUSH IT!! OWN IT! YALLA! Repeat x 50 🤣

Thank you all so much for your excellent driving skills , you were all utterly fantastic and I had a great time leading you. Special note to @Hisham Masaad who was on his first IM and had a flawless drive and also @asifk who did exceptionally well. It was great to drive with @Francois Germishuys for the first time too. Love how you have control of that beast!

To @David Ortells, @siddharth maheshwari , @GauravSoni, @MUHAMMAD Kashif RAZZAQand @Ashok chaturvedi, you all had great drives, thank you.

Special thanks to @Ilya Golubinsky who once again was excellent as my second lead, to @Kailaswho kept an eye on everything at the front of the convoy and to @Islam Soliman who was sweeping at the back. Brilliant support!

And that was that, Sharjah’s Bowls….Owned!

Until our next adventure.  

Thanks @Foxtrot Oscar well played, awesome drive, i think if i had a passenger on this drive he would have definitely been sick halfway through, hats off to @Ilya Golubinsky mom that made it through that. It was definitely a game where momentum (and power) prevailed, if you didn't pay attention then you didn't make it up the dune, if you left to much space sometimes couldn't find the actual track and then got stuck or got refusals....... like several drivers realized. Oh i remember there was a call for you to slow down at some point as well....haha  . 

At least our driving skills were better than our flag fixing skills on this drive (maybe an idea for a extracurricular activity prior to the next drive? haha)  

Otherwise good drive by all, thanks, c u all next time in the sand.