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Campulung Offroad Stage 2010

Posted in LifeStyle with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on 18 October 2010 by Watcher Romano

I have just returned from the Campulung 2010 Offroad Championship Stage. Nothing interesting, very badly organized, bad lodging conditions (thank God we chose not to stay at the official hotel). The tracks were the opposite of what I like: they were quite easy, but dangerous. I prefer them to be difficult but not dangerous (to only have the risk of breaking the car, as opposed to dying).

We did pretty well in the first day, given that we lost 30 minutes with a flat tire and some other 15 on a wrong turn: we started 14th and arrived 8th. However, in the second day our winch broke when we needed it the most, so we had to be rescued by the Duster team (the maximum shame), and then had to abandon the race.

Here are some photos:

 

There go 30 minutes

There go 30 minutes

 

 

Even worse - GTC could not start (he's already 5 minutes into the time)

Even worse - GTC could not start (he's already 5 minutes into the time)

 

 

What a champion looks like

What a champion looks like

 

 

Day 1 track - 2000 meters altitude

Day 1 track - 2000 meters altitude

 

 

Day 1 Finish line, Rausor Dam

Day 1 Finish line, Rausor Dam

 

and some movies:

Day 1 track:


Day 2:
Here comes trouble



Superalfie does it:

“our turn”:

Maximum shame:

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Valcea Offroad Day – 24 January 2010

Posted in "Art" ??, Beautiful Romania, LifeStyle, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 26 January 2010 by Watcher Romano

On January 24th 2010, I joined the X3M Offroad Valcea crew for a relaxing cruise in the mountains near Valcea. We took a 7 hour, 50 kilometers long stroll in a completely untouched area. As you will see, the snow was pure, clean and shiny white. “The warm sun” we enjoyed refers to the white balance only, because the highest temperature we encountered was -8 degrees Celsius.

I will start off with a few pictures of ‘action’ but will end this post with much more pictures of the beautiful winter scenery we were lucky to encounter:

The official thread of this trip is posted here.

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Kamikaze Offroad Cup

Posted in LifeStyle with tags , , , , , , , , on 16 October 2009 by Watcher Romano

Almost one week later, only at the persistent argument of Cornel Biciu, here are some photos of friends at the Kamikaze Cup trial on Sunday October 11th 2009

PS: Cornel, now you owe me a trip together with Nea Gigi ;-)

Luana – Paths into the Unknown – May 2009

Posted in Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on 19 May 2009 by Watcher Romano

Last weekend (May 15th – May 17th), beautiful Bozioru hosted a traditional offroad event: Luana – Paths into the Unknown.

Participants arrived late on Friday evening and socialized untill all the palinca was gone.
Saturday was the day for offroading. We split in 2 ‘classes’ – I went for the ‘open’ which was advertised as longer. They also told me that I would have problems crossing one point in the ‘extreme’ track, because the car was too wide.

As any responsible person would have done, we turned the ‘open’ into ‘extreme’ too :-)
Here are the pictures recorded with my camera at this event:

On Sunday I went back home on alternative routes, and there will be another post with those pictures ;-)

If you want to see more pictures from the event, this is the official pictures thread.

Balotesti Offroad Day

Posted in LifeStyle with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 3 March 2009 by Watcher Romano

Sunday, March 1st, beautiful sunny day in Bucharest.

What could one do but go out to Balotesti, meet some other 4×4 enthusiasts and:

(there are 2 categories of pictures – “forum” – 800 px wide and “web” – 1200 px wide)

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8th February Offroad Expedition – final installment

Posted in LifeStyle with tags , , , , , , , on 11 February 2009 by Watcher Romano

These are the last photos I will publish from our offroad expedition around Bucharest:

February 8th Offroad Expedition

Posted in LifeStyle, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , on 8 February 2009 by Watcher Romano

First installment of pictures from the February 8th Offroad Raid organized on the Club4x4.ro forum :

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