ChrisW

Well, it’s taken a couple of days to come back to it, but that was an excellent drive for many reasons. First and foremost, thank you to @Asif Hussain for the experienced and calm leadership. I really liked the point you made in our opening brief - Liwa is nothing to be scared of, but it will test us. …and it did! For many it was their first time down there - well done, everyone kept calm and put their earlier experience to work. Whilst our initial progress was problematic, once everyone had become fully accustomed to their cars, the sand and the scale, the second half flowed far better. It was great seeing you again @Zed and thank you kindly for the tailgate buffet! @Aser thanks for keeping me company down the back too! Here’s a short video with some highlights of our trip:

Hey @Krinesh - we can do but I’m not sure it would be very useful. Drives in locations like Liwa tend to be quite dynamic, and a route that’s good on one day will not work even as little as a week later. Today’s drive had some especially tricky spots, and I wouldn’t recommend doing it without very experienced people in the convoy (eg. we had a number of areas where we stood outside the car and coached people one-by-one through certain difficult areas). If you’d like some advice about how to sample Liwa more generally though, I’d definitely recommend making a standalone post in the forum and asking for people’s advice on where’s good, what to expect etc. Just as a general note - Liwa is nothing to be scared of, but it is only somewhere that can be fully enjoyed when all of the fundamental skills we practice in our local areas have been fully practiced and rehearsed.

@Ale Vallecchi - Would you be interested in another support team member joining? I have added myself to the waitlist!

Excellent session this morning - great work leading @Luke K P and good work everyone on keeping the convoy flowing. Safe driving from everyone - skills are really sharpening up as we come into the winter season. @Diego @Zsolt @Luke K P Little sand in the car… Following Raptor’s in the bowl… https://youtube.com/shorts/kakEFVVxbnM?si=uSLl0vONlnBP6O68 Zsolt following in the bowl… https://youtube.com/shorts/oHdMLykmH0o?si=rCbts8k5XiXn6ZU4 Following Luke into the bowl… https://youtube.com/shorts/X98VJTRD8gs?si=XoxLSwbNRuMyCe-d

This was a really fun drive. Thank you for leading @Luke K P, delivered exactly on the brief! @Jose Luis Campos you drove confidently and positioned the car well on the terrain, finding the right balance of speed and momentum, position and line. Good work! @Dan S Amazing work for an early night drive. Everything was executed safely and you made some good early calls to come off a line that wasn’t working. Good foundation for future drives. We also all got to practice different levels of recovery and working with soft sand. Really good quality trip out 😁