THE BRIEF - BY BYRAM DHALLA
Driving liberates you by enabling you to get across large distances at your own pace, stopping anywhere or everywhere.
From a very young age, cars have fascinated me, not only for the joy of being behind the wheel, in control of a machine and the mobility it brings, but also because a car is a “bridge” in itself – a passage, to places often inaccessible to any other means of transport; new cities; meeting different people and getting an outsider’s peep into life around the world.
The drives over the last 35 years have come together as a result of dreaming, passion and having the right people with me along the many journeys I’ve been privileged to undertake across more than 50 countries and four continents.
Enjoy my stories!
LIST OF DRIVES
1985 – MASA Car Rally
1986 – West-Central-North India
1987 – MASA Car Rally
1988 – Goa
1990 – Western Ghats
1991 – USA
1994 – Bombay to Kanyakumari (Southern India)
1995 – UAE
1998 – UK, Lake District, Scotland
1999 – Spain and Invited to train in Belgium for Performance Driving (Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps)
2004 – Langkawi
2005 – Switzerland, Wales and Cornwall
2006 – Italy (Venice)
2007 – SAARC Car Rally, Austria and Germany
2008 – Scandinavia, Belgium
2009 – Indonesia
2010 – Sri Lanka
2011 – USA (Drag Racing)
2012 – East Africa, ASEAN Car Rally
2013 – Himachal (Kaza)
2014 – Ladakh, Eastern Europe (The Balkans)
2015 – Ireland, Ladakh
2016 – Iceland, Himachal (Sach Pass), Himachal (Narkhanda – Snow Drive), Rann of Kutch
2017 – Italy (Tuscany) and London to Bombay
2018 – Spain and Portugal, Germany and Switzerland, Thailand, Ladakh
2019 – Thailand, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
2020 – Russia (Lake Baikal, Siberia)
