[video=vimeo;132199139]https://vimeo.com/132199139[/video]
It was a crazy time! We were participating and then not participating, vehicle was being worked on / finished and then not worked on. We ran out of funds and at some stage in December I pulled the plug on the 2015 Concordia mid-engine campaign.
Then with just weeks to spare, we got a call from a friend who said that his NGO would help us fund our rally expenses if we ran a peace campaign in support of the victims of terrorism. In the end it was the FJ40 race team that had ended up convincing the Directors of the NGO, that not all desert racers in Pakistan are running fat budgets and that this was a cause they would like to support, particularly in Southern Punjab where this NGO was active in pro-peace activities and countering extremism among the youth.
Finishing up the "experiment" and getting the vehicle race ready in 20 days was another story. We moved mountains, crushed boulders, fought amongst ourselves, cursed rally and 4x4s, but we got the thing to the start line somehow. We had seen documentaries of projects running timelines for carshows and customer orders, but this time we lived it and managed to live through it somehow.
The test video above, was actually the first time we had let the V8 stretch the legs a bit and felt the vehicle handle the turns on the sand. Also it tells you the real answer why the engine is in the back: so that the Go-Pro can pick up the engine sound properly 
