IJC Rally Team Jhal 2011 Experience

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Some footage will surface,,, most will not

But it hardly matters given the amount of fun and self satisfaction you gain from knowing that, under the circumstances, you gave 110%, made new friends and the fact of knowing that you have fans in the most remote parts of the country

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Zafar Ustad from Lakki Marwat accompanied our vehicles on the truck to Sukkur and was excellent company and help. Also was resourceful in sourcing food and tea from the kitchen backdoor!

The notorious Billu Electrcian of Citi Sadar Rd. was taken along and sacrificed in the fields of Jhal Magsi if there were any electrical problem with the car. Luckily for him, the only problem we had was after the rally when outrageous amounts of dust in the steering column disconnected our headlights from the dimmer switch. His auxiliary light came to our rescue as we plugged in in the cigarette lighter and held it up in front of us. Billu was great sport and an excellent team player all the way....

Pit Crew Chief and Tech Man Mohammad Sididque. I don't have words to describe our trusted driver Siddique's Himalayan contribution to all our Jhal 2011 efforts. I was very happy to see that the man managed to snap a well deserved photograph with the Champ Nadir Magsi here:

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We probably would never have made anywhere without the excitement, encouragement, support and outright madness unleashed by the eclectic Asad Marwat across IJC over the past few years. Asad was also instrumental in offering advice and guidance to us throughout the event and as always great fun to be with specially with his incessant buggering of his flambouant driver DocNN. Thumbs up, Hats off and a big Thank You!

[SuhaibKiani]

Another point where I am at loss of what to say and how to thank the man, for all his support and encouragement for Team Concordia and personally for myself. Doc Sahib is truly an inspiration for us older people in trying to work hard and remain as young and broad minded as him. Maharaj NN kee Jai Ho!

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With around 25 years of indirect and 15 years of direct association with Farooq Awan, thanking him out for his tremendous contribution our current adventure would be quite superficial in my view. Here it is important to bring in fellow IJC member and previous Project Concordia owner Omar Cheema who initiated this mammoth project but had to abandon it to opportunistic vultures (yours truly). Farooq Awan obviously has been the main force in the concept and implementation of the Concordia FJ40 and its a testament to his confidence in his work that he agreed to navigate for the rally (despite no windshield)! Having him onboard also meant that we could together study the terrain and car behaviour and together decide on direction of the project for the future.

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[saidhi]

Frequently Airborne!!!!!

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Result(A)(A)(A)(A)

[aliaden]

It was really wonderful to spend some time with Adnan Siddiqui (second timing all qualifying runs above) and his friend Ali Aden (navigator and techman for Ronnie patel). The two of them are close friends and are dedicated rally heads in the true sense with great knowledge and experience of the sport and the equipment. Their keen enquiries and appreciation of Project Concordia personally meant a lot for me. Hats off!

thanks dear for your kind words, really humbled.......you guys have got what it takes to play this game....best of luck!

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Another point where I am at loss of what to say and how to thank the man, for all his support and encouragement for Team Concordia and personally for myself. Doc Sahib is truly an inspiration for us older people in trying to work hard and remain as young and broad minded as him. Maharaj NN kee Jai Ho!

Many thnx for the kind words..................Maharaj Khush huway!!!!!!!!! :)(H)

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@ Qasim, thnx for Ashraf Sbs Evo's pics, just watched again the on-board clip in which I nearly banged into the flipped EVO and how Asad n I were arguing (with few choice words) afterwards for next few minutes how reckless I was while passing it!!

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