FAST AND HIGH
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:15 am
10+ level drive.
This morning drive, found us starting our drive close to Al Qudra area. The morning was cold with all 20 cars getting ready for our weekend adrenaline rush.
Little about the track: As always the members do not know all the work that it takes behind the scene for a drive to put together. So the original plan was to drive in a different area and a totally different kind of a drive when @alshamsi_m contacted me and was kind enough to share the subject track that he has worked so hard to put together for an entire different reason but this is a story for a campfire.
Special thanks to @alshamsi_m for the surprise.
The convoy was long with @nidal78 as a second lead @Aligi76 as a sweeper @alshamsi_m @Solmaz @rashid as floating marshals and our beloved @Mahmoodyasin floating as well.
Our intermediates were spread within the convoy providing support when needed.
The drive started with a practical joke to put the convoy to the area of OLD EIB just to kill some time until one of our supporting marshals joined us. That idea did not sit well with the group and on the first 30 meters we had to negotiate several stacks with assisted recoveries and self recoveries. So the decision to aboard the idea was quick and instant
Moving on to the drive the pace got faster (not as fast as I would like) but decent enough to get the feeling how is to drive fast and have to make quick decisions,
The drivers had all short of challenges and so had the rescue team. Special thanks to @Carlos which pulled most of the weight (talking about been at the wrong position) while the rest of the intermediates not falling far behind,
The second part of the drive was long and technical something that the drivers were not expecting and from a fast drive it became snail crawling dragging my feet drive with one recovery following the other,
The members worked hard to survive with radio communication being excellent but keeping the right distance was a challenge that not everyone got to address properly so traffic jams were unavoidable.
The drive lasted longer than the usual (in a flat area such as this one I was expecting that you will do better and we will finish on time) Sorry for that, but nonetheless it was a long morning full of adventure
As I mentioned at the end of the trip, that was my last drive for 2022 and I am looking forward to the new year that will bring new adventures for all of us.
Until next time thank you all and drive safe
This morning drive, found us starting our drive close to Al Qudra area. The morning was cold with all 20 cars getting ready for our weekend adrenaline rush.
Little about the track: As always the members do not know all the work that it takes behind the scene for a drive to put together. So the original plan was to drive in a different area and a totally different kind of a drive when @alshamsi_m contacted me and was kind enough to share the subject track that he has worked so hard to put together for an entire different reason but this is a story for a campfire.
Special thanks to @alshamsi_m for the surprise.
The convoy was long with @nidal78 as a second lead @Aligi76 as a sweeper @alshamsi_m @Solmaz @rashid as floating marshals and our beloved @Mahmoodyasin floating as well.
Our intermediates were spread within the convoy providing support when needed.
The drive started with a practical joke to put the convoy to the area of OLD EIB just to kill some time until one of our supporting marshals joined us. That idea did not sit well with the group and on the first 30 meters we had to negotiate several stacks with assisted recoveries and self recoveries. So the decision to aboard the idea was quick and instant
Moving on to the drive the pace got faster (not as fast as I would like) but decent enough to get the feeling how is to drive fast and have to make quick decisions,
The drivers had all short of challenges and so had the rescue team. Special thanks to @Carlos which pulled most of the weight (talking about been at the wrong position) while the rest of the intermediates not falling far behind,
The second part of the drive was long and technical something that the drivers were not expecting and from a fast drive it became snail crawling dragging my feet drive with one recovery following the other,
The members worked hard to survive with radio communication being excellent but keeping the right distance was a challenge that not everyone got to address properly so traffic jams were unavoidable.
The drive lasted longer than the usual (in a flat area such as this one I was expecting that you will do better and we will finish on time) Sorry for that, but nonetheless it was a long morning full of adventure
As I mentioned at the end of the trip, that was my last drive for 2022 and I am looking forward to the new year that will bring new adventures for all of us.
Until next time thank you all and drive safe