Hold On
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2020 11:07 am
Hello Almosters,
our first intermediate drive since early march...wow
Bored at home I reached the meeting point 20 minutes before meeting time, just to find some participants of the newbie drive already there.
The place filled quickly and I was really happy to see everyone
Our convoy was small with just 7 intermediates, @Booy leading and @alshamsi_m floating around. We started the drive from Al Ain road between Al Faqaa and Murquab towards Al Qudra. As there are no big dunes in this area, I expected a fast and technical drive and thats exactly what we got! ninja
Terrain wise we had a mix of everything. We started in the medium sized dunes with a lot of side cresting, crest riding and side sloping. Couple of times @Booy warned the convoy not to change his track, but I had the impression some of his lines are not in line with general laws of physics... drifting down the dune after a side crest and without touching the flat climbing up again to do side crest again... scared
Following him definitely made me exploring the limit of my drifting abilities and to play and control the force of gravity
Towards Qudra the dunes became smaller and the sand softer, so we had some technical parts close to infamous EIB area and still going fast. I was focusing on not to have a pop out by hitting an edge or falling into a ditch.
We had no major issues, some second tries and one quickly fixed pop out.
I was surprisingly total relaxed and I did not feel out of shape or anything, there was just pure happiness. Offroading seems to be in my blood now after 3 years
We drove for 4 hours and finished with the sunset. Although it was not a track we usually drive in this level, it was amazing how @Booy made the most of it.
Thank you all so much for this fantastic afternoon, I missed all of you and I really hope that we do this now again every friday.
See you all in the sand
our first intermediate drive since early march...wow
Bored at home I reached the meeting point 20 minutes before meeting time, just to find some participants of the newbie drive already there.
The place filled quickly and I was really happy to see everyone
Our convoy was small with just 7 intermediates, @Booy leading and @alshamsi_m floating around. We started the drive from Al Ain road between Al Faqaa and Murquab towards Al Qudra. As there are no big dunes in this area, I expected a fast and technical drive and thats exactly what we got! ninja
Terrain wise we had a mix of everything. We started in the medium sized dunes with a lot of side cresting, crest riding and side sloping. Couple of times @Booy warned the convoy not to change his track, but I had the impression some of his lines are not in line with general laws of physics... drifting down the dune after a side crest and without touching the flat climbing up again to do side crest again... scared
Following him definitely made me exploring the limit of my drifting abilities and to play and control the force of gravity
Towards Qudra the dunes became smaller and the sand softer, so we had some technical parts close to infamous EIB area and still going fast. I was focusing on not to have a pop out by hitting an edge or falling into a ditch.
We had no major issues, some second tries and one quickly fixed pop out.
I was surprisingly total relaxed and I did not feel out of shape or anything, there was just pure happiness
. Offroading seems to be in my blood now after 3 years We drove for 4 hours and finished with the sunset. Although it was not a track we usually drive in this level, it was amazing how @Booy made the most of it.
Thank you all so much for this fantastic afternoon, I missed all of you and I really hope that we do this now again every friday.
See you all in the sand
