Cresting Mania III
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 8:22 pm
How things can change in a matter of a few hours, down on truck road towards Sweihan quite annoyed as heavy rain and clouds on the horizon, I really needed a "proper" drive, it had been a long nasty week at work plus I wanted to test some big work done on the car under warranty, on the way back on the same road with a broad smile.
2 convoys, Shamsi gave Daggerfall the chance to chose, "surprisingly" he went for the more experienced group, Rathica, Marco, Tom, Sorin and myself with Optimus keeping a close eye. Shamsi explained clearly the conditions, hard sand, higher risk of rollovers, mostly approaching dunes from hard side to avoid "surprises".
So finally the time for my first drive with Daggerfall had come!!!, convoy free to chose the order, I wanted 2nd so keeping an eye on the Black FJ with white roof movements until I realized it was Optimus' ... moved quickly towards where the right car was and I was shocked I still made it to 2nd ... hold on I thought, is there a trick here, anything I am missing???
The track was fantastic, towards Al Ain airport turning to the Old Lady to make it to Naqra from there, afterwards out towards the farms. Small convoy that I believe did really really well, rope had to come out only twice, one pop-out and unfortunately one cut tire towards the end of the drive.
What a lead that was, under those conditions Daggerfall managed to put together a fantastic drive, I could not have asked for more, plenty of cresting, sidecresting and some sectors of the drive at an amazing pace, yep, no doubt I want to see how fast he can go under favorable sand & light conditions, I am afraid no option but to start begging Daggerfall soon for another similar drive to see how fast he can go (yes, I might be digging my own grave), and of course very happy to go 2nd (yes, a very deep grave).
To sum up, outstanding leading, great convoy of good friends, beautiful dunes, only issue is that we will have to wait some time for another one like this ...
See you on the sand soon!!!
2 convoys, Shamsi gave Daggerfall the chance to chose, "surprisingly" he went for the more experienced group, Rathica, Marco, Tom, Sorin and myself with Optimus keeping a close eye. Shamsi explained clearly the conditions, hard sand, higher risk of rollovers, mostly approaching dunes from hard side to avoid "surprises".
So finally the time for my first drive with Daggerfall had come!!!, convoy free to chose the order, I wanted 2nd so keeping an eye on the Black FJ with white roof movements until I realized it was Optimus' ... moved quickly towards where the right car was and I was shocked I still made it to 2nd ... hold on I thought, is there a trick here, anything I am missing???
The track was fantastic, towards Al Ain airport turning to the Old Lady to make it to Naqra from there, afterwards out towards the farms. Small convoy that I believe did really really well, rope had to come out only twice, one pop-out and unfortunately one cut tire towards the end of the drive.
What a lead that was, under those conditions Daggerfall managed to put together a fantastic drive, I could not have asked for more, plenty of cresting, sidecresting and some sectors of the drive at an amazing pace, yep, no doubt I want to see how fast he can go under favorable sand & light conditions, I am afraid no option but to start begging Daggerfall soon for another similar drive to see how fast he can go (yes, I might be digging my own grave), and of course very happy to go 2nd (yes, a very deep grave).
To sum up, outstanding leading, great convoy of good friends, beautiful dunes, only issue is that we will have to wait some time for another one like this ...
See you on the sand soon!!!