Emanuel

Glad to see you guys completed 100kms.  Quite a challenge. 🦾

Thank you @Looper for an epic first drive in the Intermediate Level. The first time I was up here was with you leading a FB+ drive, which was extremely memorable and one of my best videos of our drives to date. No video today from me because I wanted to focus on this first IM drive and being S/L.

It was a faster drive than FB+ which meant more laser focused concentration. It was exhilarating. 

Nice to meet you @Amir Amiri. Great driving with you again @Mahmoud Taha, @Zulfikhar Naiyar and @Anoop Nair.

A very dynamic elevation profile below and other interesting stats.

See you on the sand next time. 

Truly amazing 👏 

Legend 

Welcome to your first Fewbie drive @Martin M and @RiadJL. You and the rest of the convoy drove well. Looking back every now and again we were mostly evenly spaced out and moving nicely.  

Here is a Relive video of our drive. 

https://www.relive.cc/view/vXOdXPeBAkO

It was driving with you again @Simon D @Sunil Mathew and @Cha.

See below drive stats

Congrats on the promotion @Gurcharan Mehta. Will be good to drive with you again. 

Congratulations @Zak_.

Congrats @Batuhan Kulac. This quite an achievement. I'll see on IM drives soon.

Congrats @RiadJL on your promotion.

Congrats on your latest achievement @Mahmut.

Congrats @Shaun J on the latest achievement. 

Well done @Aser. This is quite an achievement. Enjoy a fast and more challenging pace.

The finale for today are a couple of my videos - a feature and raw footage. Enjoy and smash the Like button if you enjoyed them.

https://youtu.be/5-O6tp3OzUk

https://youtu.be/E45Gna2aivA

Here are some stats from our drive

It was great to drive with you again @Islam Soliman with you in lead and @Mahmoud Taha in sweep. After much time we finally met @M.Seidam and work together to recover a couple of stucks. 

A big welcome to the new joiners @SShan, @JanS, and @nithish468! You all did well on your first drive. Some had more practice than others at finding the sweet spot between just enough power and a wee bit short. 😄 Being one with our cars takes time, patience and practice.

Here is a Relive link to our drive.

https://www.relive.cc/view/vQvx5RXE79O

Here's the finale for our drive. The feature video and selected raw footage. Enjoy.

Follow this link to see more

https://youtu.be/sbJYKQ2uTWo

Good morning @Islam Soliman - I am confirmed for this drive as Simon had to cancel the IM drive due to a damaged shock absorber that cannot be repaired in time for that drive. Looking forward to driving with you again and meeting new drivers.

Hi @Simon D, thanks for the update though sorry to hear about the damage. This usually means a lighter wallet.

See you  next time on the sands.

54 minutes ago, Marek said:

...I was going 70km/h till I reached my place and pulled my washer... what a boring ride

Next time I'm going to have a portable power washer for occasion like this one. It's mad how much mud got inside my rims...

A screw driver did the trick to lossen it all up to get balance back. Speed limit again after that.  

56 minutes ago, Marek said:

...I was going 70km/h till I reached my place and pulled my washer... what a boring ride

Next time I'm going to have a portable power washer for occasion like this one. It's mad how much mud got inside my rims...

All that sand looks like my parking spot. 😂

Here is the Relive video link

https://www.relive.cc/view/vPOpDRr4VRO

Thanks @Ale Vallecchi for another interesting and exploration kinda drive around this area. Second time here in as many weeks. We saw many interesting things and a couple of unfortunate ones like the Jeep that rolled over, thankfully he was ok and his friends were towing it out. With the terrain at times forgiving yet others weren't with very soft patches here and there and others we couldn't quite see well enough to know what was starring right at us because the sand was so bright. You did great getting us around the various fences and eventually over to see Sweihan Pond.  We have to take what she gives and make the best of it sometimes, and we did a great job of it today.

Good to see you again @Rob S and thanks for supporting the drive. It was a good team effort up there helping @Andrew John Melvill from that last refusal. @munkybizness I think we met on a drive last year or the year before. Thanks for sweeping our drive.

As always, good to see and chat with you again @Marek.

One new thing I learned today as I was starting my drive home. The car was wobbling and I went to the Sweihan petrol station to check my tire pressure and all was good. Felt too tired to bother hooking up my compressor again.  Still wobbled on the way home so I stopped on the side of the road to have a better look at things and found about half the mud flat stuck inside my rims. I was loosening all that up when @Sreenath G pulled up to check on me, Thank you for that. 👏

Have a look at all that sand from one tire...

Hi @Simon D, hope you are well. I'm really looking forward to my first IM drive. However, I'm wondering if you may cancel this drive because there are only 3 of us on your drive. Please let me know if that might be your intention if no other IM drivers come or if there is a drop-out.

I have waitlisted on @Islam Soliman's drive on Sunday just in case you cancel so I have at least one drive on the weekend. Haven't driven with him or on a Newbie drive in quite some time.

@Islam Soliman I am looking forward to driving with you again my friend, however, my wife has plans for us on one morning this weekend and it can be Sat or Sun. If the IM drive goes ahead I'll withdraw my waitlist and if it doesn't then it would be great to join your drive if possible on Sun.

Hey @Gary F congrat's on the promotion!

On a final note, next time I'm up front somewhere I'll mount the camera facing the back for part of the drive so we can get more action shots of us making our way. 

Have a great week ahead and see you on the sand next time.

Thank you @Ale Vallecchi for a wonderful drive with a good mix of terrain, camels and @Luke K P that was Ale and I that saw the lizard. It was a good size and speedy.

Thanks @Stumpy for helping me with the stuck gear shifter. As you disassembled the top part it was obvious that the plastic sleeve broke inside, exactly one of your estimations of what went wrong when I pushed it into park that one last time. Your experience came in very handy yet again. 

Carefully using the white plastic part I was able to shift gears and finish the drive. This was a good thing because Ale has said we were quite far from any exit point. This also gave me some long overdue practice driving in Drive because I have gotten accustomed to using Tiptronic. 

@Stumpy - thanks for the Pajero parts guy tip. He has this part in stock and will only cost me 25 Dhs. Good thing too because the Mitsubishi parts department is closed until Saturday and I want to get a couple of drives in this week. I'll see about replacing that missing dust cover though I think its just broken apart inside.

Here is a fun compilation feature video of our drive on Saturday. If you enjoyed it please visit my YouTube site and smash the Like button.

Here is the raw footage with all the action, sound and commentary. Sorry @Luke K P the lizard was too quick to get shot of it.

I'll be there with my new GO15s. My Coopers gave up on my last drive.