RAK / Awafi

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Post by ROJ » 20 Sep 2009, 5:11 pm

WTH is going on there? Heard people r skidding until their tires burst.. A friend calls to tell me, hoping he will send me some pics...

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Post by Alpha » 20 Sep 2009, 10:29 pm

This is what's going on...
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Post by ROJ » 20 Sep 2009, 10:50 pm

Shit!! anyone was hurt?

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Post by Ozimandius » 20 Sep 2009, 11:13 pm

I don't understand guys...what? How can a car catch fire by skidding!? Am I missing something?

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Post by Alpha » 20 Sep 2009, 11:25 pm

There was a fire below the car at first, I'm not sure what blew up. Just when the cops were called, the whole car caught fire. No one was hurt.

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Post by Alpha » 20 Sep 2009, 11:56 pm

NOT Awafi but pretty much the same idea...

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Post by ROJ » 21 Sep 2009, 11:58 am

What a waste... I wish it was a proper drifting event...

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Post by Ozimandius » 21 Sep 2009, 12:28 pm

It looks like a Donut competition. Do they have slalom, etc.?

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Post by Alpha » 21 Sep 2009, 1:07 pm

ROJ wrote:What a waste... I wish it was a proper drifting event...
Ozimandius wrote:It looks like a Donut competition. Do they have slalom, etc.?
Nothing of that sort... Just a place to burn as much rubber as you want, in whatever manner of course, includes car-on-flames and red-smoke moments :)

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Post by SoarerTO4R » 21 Sep 2009, 7:16 pm

Awafi Description :[/b] An area in the southern side of RAK desert ( Not deep into the desert - u can still drive your sedan all the way into the skid pad area ) , 1st time I went there was back in 97 but friends telling me it was ''Discovered'' in the early 90's !
the place didnt have much of crowd ( rather than RAK guys ) until they closed the former infamous EID Skidding arena ( nearby DEBBA ) due to the huge amount of fatal accidents and Lack of police attendance by Alfiter EID of 2003 ... Then everybody start traveling to AWAFI from all over UAE , Qatar and bahrain sometimes , looking for some tire shredding ''FUN'' ! so RAK authorities start looking after the place and refurbished the whole area adding shops , cafeterias Quad Bike rental shops ..etc and calling the whole thing during Eid , the ( Awafi Eid festival ) !!
BTW: its open all through the year !! u can go anytime and kill ur car whenever u like !!



Awafi skidding ''Fun'' Description :[/b] Insanity !! or In simple words , if you had a tough car '' it got burn more rubber than Rashood's GT last year '' !! and you wont know this 'Rashood' or even heard of him but you gotta prove it ,,, so either you become 'Rashood' or you end up like Hamad the poor owner of the skyline in the picture above ....So you pay the 30 dhs ( a ticket to enter the skid pad ) and then burn your tires till they blow or your engine or your radiator !!!

Keyword is ( No Rules ) , you actually dont need any skill rather than 100% throttle and steering , but there is a trend now for the last 3 years of that everybody tries to ''Drift'' ! as in driving in a circle with the rear skidding ( Which to me its not drift at all !! , its just skidding with a bit of a Throttle control - we used to do this with a mini bus for God sake !!! ;) )

thats it !! people come there with 4 sets of used tires and thier tire changing tools and burn rubber till don !!

INSANITYYYYYYY - Frankly speaking I go there for two things ( Accidents & turbo sounds ) , never entered with any of my cars !!!

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Post by ROJ » 22 Sep 2009, 1:00 am

SoarerTO4R wrote:thats it !! people come there with 4 sets of used tires and thier tire changing tools and burn rubber till don !!

INSANITYYYYYYY - Frankly speaking I go there for two things ( Accidents & turbo sounds ) , never entered with any of my cars !!!
4 sets of used tires & probably a spare car incase it catches fire like that poor nissan.. I heard it got roasted good cuz the firefighters took time to arrive..

I even heard some people go insane & spend shit loads of cash on mods will last only 1 event & then a whole new rebuild will be needed after..

BTW, there is alot of valuable RWD cars going byebye after this event...

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Post by Alpha » 22 Sep 2009, 1:10 am

More of yesterday...

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Post by ROJ » 22 Sep 2009, 8:34 am

Thanks 4 sharing... Friends told me u gotta be there...

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Post by DLock » 22 Sep 2009, 3:53 pm

Aaaahhh!! Brings back memories...the last time me and my firends visited the was 2 years back...i remeber seeing a white Soarer (oman Registered) the guy wasn't really doing doughnuts but was derifting relly well...but wat a place to waste talent.....Fires are very common....there was a skyline once that caught fire....people were throwing bucket and buckets of sand..lol



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