Shehab Alawadhi

Great job @Thomas Varghese!! Well deserved!!

Well @Watteau inshallah if we are both on the drive we shall see!! I’m not gonna say anything just that I did some stuff 😈

@Lakshmi Narasimhan alright so basically what happened was a few things that led to this. 1 I didn’t get enough sleep and before this drive I was in a morning Fewbie plus drive, so the number one mistake here was me being exhausted (please get rest if you’re going to do 2 drives in one day). 2 I felt my car slipping so I downshifted (to gain more power) to not slide down the dune, as I downshifted my front tires hit a patch of hard sand and got traction which basically shot me over the ridge that’s why you can see my tail moving roughly around but my front firmly on the ground. Now normally I wouldn’t need to downshift on this type of dune but I didn’t have enough momentum from the bottom which in turn required me to give more power. Furthermore, if I would have pushed my gas pedal down I would have dug myself in and ruined the sand that’s why I resorted to downshifting (each car is different I’m not saying you should do this with your car, I’m just telling you how my car works) 3 I miscalculated where the crest was and my front left tire barely went over the ridge and gravity won as usual and pulled me down. That’s what happened. If I would have turned to my right I would have flipped side ways. If you saw in the video my rear right tire was in the air. So the best thing to do at the time was to turn left, exit the dune and re join the convoy I was lucky there was a sort of gradual decline or if there wasn’t my car would have rolled down the dune. This situation happened due to me not sleeping properly, I had gotten 2 hours of sleep the night before and had been awake all day on a sugar and redbull fueled spree, I wasn’t functioning correctly because I was most definitely having a sugar crash. I was actually very luck in this situation, I didn’t panic and tried to the best of my ability to safely go down. You can hear @Foxtrot Oscar saying it was right to exit at that point. Which at the time was what I knew I had to do it. But in all honesty if there was a steeper drop on the other side it would have become and accident. Moral of this story is. Please sleep well before your drives (this situation would have been avoided completely if I did get rest) pay attention to the dunes to the left, right, ahead and to the CAR behind you.

See I purposely chose a night drive, I have something special I want to test out and I’m glad that there is a night drive this weekend 🤘😉

@Wrangeld could you waitlist me for my second drive please!

Thank you @Serafino

Thank you @Wrangeld for this drive, it was a good way to relax and just enjoy the views, wind, gazelles and not think about a stressful week! Thank you @Ale Vallecchi for sweeping the convoy and making sure no one was left behind 😂. Great job to @AlexPol for being our second lead. Thank you to all my seniors for helping out as much as they could and giving guidance where needed. @Foxtrot Oscar @Jeepie @Desert Dweller. Great job everyone else for completing this drive and hope you all had fun and learned something from a drive with this many experienced people! I also hope you didn’t mind my small jokes here and there 😂. See you in the next one inshallah!

Thank you @Luca Palanca Falsini for taking us to this area, I’ve always wanted to climb these dunes. I went twice with my friends but wasn’t confident enough to take my car and now for sure I’ll take my car with them. Thank you @Lorenzo Candelpergher for helping me recover my car, and it taught me a few new things about my car too!! Great job everyone, although it was tough hope everyone had fun! See you on the next one and inshallah we get to our exit!

Get well soon!

Rock, heavy metal, power metal, anything with loud guitars and drums I’m into that stuff 🤘🤘

Ayyyy someone got the reference 🤘🤘

I’m here now 😂 tit said on the gps 1 hour I got here in 45 mins

Not the reference I was looking for but I’ll accept it, I’ll explain tomorrow what I meant exactly 😂

This is gonna be in qudra area correct?

@Pacific @Wrangeld i hope you understand it’s gonna be a rock n roll train 🤘 (if anyone understands this reference please say so, because I think it’s hilarious and perfectly timed😂)

Thank you @Anish S!

Some big cars in the front end of the convoy, this should be a fun drive. See you all tomorrow!

My eyes widened and my jaw dropped to see the different levels on a newbie drive, and 16 cars in one convoy. This is gonna be a learning experience for everyone, including myself with so many experienced drivers in this drive. Does anyone have a “fast forward” button so I can skip the day and just jump to tomorrow’s drive? 😂

Awesome and see you all on Friday, and I have the same question as @Lakshmi Narasimhan

@prajupramod congrats!

@Danish Mohammad thank you!

Yea I’m pretty sure of that also, it’s really great honestly! See you soon bro! 🤘💪

Thank you🤘🤘!!!

congratulations @Niki Patel 🤘💪

We all strive to always better myself and my skills! Thank you! Gaming is in my blood its kinda hard to get away from that, funny story I used to have 2 games on the PS2 about off road driving 🤣 one had monster trucks and one had quad bikes. Yes us truckers need to stick together, we are like a pod of whales gracefully gliding across the sand. Inshallah we get to drive soon, or you never know we might one day do a truck only drive