yeah guys the gold (real earth) santro is mine
Heres my version of the report
Had a late saturday evening, as I was getting a long pending cold air intake
http://www.knfilters.com/search/prod...Prod=RC-5052AB fitted in the car (decided abruptly to shell out the 8k on CAI so that I could test it on the drive
) and then recovering my crashed laptop harddisk drive till 1am. Came back home and also anurag911 dropped into my house as we were to leave together in the AM for the drive. Saw a movie (ben stiller's heart break kid) till 3am.
Woke up at 530am. We had decided to meet Jaguar, vis-racing and matrix at shell OMR before 6am and take off by 603am. Got a call from jag at 555am that he is leaving for shell omr and we both landed there at 615, tanked up and waited but it seemed others had left so decided to move on to the esteem mall rendezvous point.
Drove to esteem mall and saw a huge line of cars, I am guessing we were amongst last few and we had psycho park behind us. Met up with everyone and paid up to mag/riju (followed by a quick enquiry on my lambo by rj)
After all the people were assembled, it was decided to start off and within a few seconds cars started zooming with their exhausts and air intakes at their best. Unlike the yelagiri drive, this drive I wasn't hanging at the back and was pretty much in the middle of things, I guess people were taking it easy, but it was a fun drive. I did control my speeds to under 130, but the CAI was pretty encouraging!!
Finally like others said, we overshot the woodrich resort and actually all cars were lined up just below the nandi hills access. Then mag told us we gotta go back to woodrich and after overhearing some colorful commentry between akshay, mag and keshav, we started to go back a few kms.
Man the access road we took to woodrich sucked, I scraped my car once real bad while following zonda and had to actually back up a bit and avoid the bump
We then jumped on the hot idlis and wadas. Some peeps had bread (non-whole-wheat) and jam too. Most of us were of the opinion that we have lunch n then head to nandi hills, unless there was another access road. Fortunately there was one through a village and that was a good sight for the village kids, who I saw actually counting the cars. I am sure they have a much more accurate number than the 17 or 23 quoted above.
We then drove all the way up to nandi hills, stopped to get some four wheeler tickets and then drove into the fog. We were literally driving in the clouds, and I for one couldn't see a thing. Parked and then walked to the hill, and enjoyed the awesome sight. Our inhouse camera enthusiasts were clicking away and there were others talking about future drives and all thing cars/bikes. It was now 1230ish and we decided to have a group pic and start back down. ROC was leading for sometime, till we reached the ticket counter place and he got confused, I then took lead and we headed downhill. We were taking it easy and then ofcourse the torquey swifts passed us by, try as I may couldn't keep up with em. Once we reached all the way down, kept going straight and the road was awesome. We stopped somewhere when we realized we were way up ahead of everyone. Anurag got out and decided to take a video of all cars zoom by, only to see the swift in front of us and roc cedia + jag ikon stop behind us. We then realized, we weren't so far ahead of everyone, but we had missed the access road to woodrich. U-turned and went back in, hit the access road, suprised the village folks and got back to woodrich.
People were now looking for drinks and food. A few of us were pretty hungry (jag, akroy, matrix, anurag) and decided to have lunch asap. I must say the food arrangement was kinda better than yelagiri (better laid out in a bigger space). This was followed by a talk by akroy on his drives and fully loaded experiments on his alto. Jag, matrix, anurag911 and me then decided to play some table tennis. Played a few sets, where jag and matrix lost their cars to us and then won them back. Post this we hung around for sometime and then decided to head out. Informed mag, that we were leaving. Did get an invite from mclaren to join in cricket, which they had just started, but we were already decided to drive out, so said our byes and moved out.
The drive back was very nice most of the way, till we hit some traffic. Then we stopped at a roadside chai shop, bid adeau and drove on to brave the crazy bangy traffic. Jag and his friend drove off the other way and we decided to follow matrix via outer ring road. Finally we hit OMR and it was jammed real bad. I needed to drop anurag back at his place in koramanagla, however decided to just get off omr and back to my place near drdo. Caught some tv and played RFOM on the PS3, then stepped out at 830. We then had dinner at lazio and drove to koramangla, dropped anurag. Headed back home after a long day and started typing my report in.
Overall excellent drive and very well organized. The drive was nice and it was nice meeting old friends and making new.
Cheers,
j
PS - i am guessing anurag will be posting some pics.