Thanks Bunny for your detailed response!
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Originally Posted by BunnyPunia 1. As per Guinness regulations, we couldn't take the same route twice - if taken, this is deducted from the final figure. |
Fair enough and considering we have more than 30Lakh kms of road Network encompassing Expressways, NHs, SHs, District and Rural roads, it makes sense not to take the same route if eyeing for a record. What would have mattered here is planning the entire circuit.
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2. 23800 includes superb highways, normal highways, hilly terrains, no roads, off-road paths, nature's fury (floods / cyclones) and so on
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Part and Parcel of such road trips. Isn’t it? A simple Leh to Kanyakumari especially via Manali route can make one experience all of the above test cases with one of the slowest roads in terms of progress and when one does the same, it is just a usual road trip and not a record. In fact, roads to Bhutan are even worse!
Driving in cyclone hit areas is just driving under unpredictable conditions of mother nature. It so happened last year that knowing that the cyclone Phalin had made touchdown on east coast that we set on a drive driving anti-clockwise on the GQ. Chennai to Odisha was the worst with flooded roads, wipers at full speed for more than 12 hours and watching the rehab centers set-up all along the medians in Odhisha.
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3. It wasnt just a daily drive but shooting pictures, video-graphing the journey, attending press cons, meeting customers etc. This did slow us down a lot but was very essential at the same time
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This makes the drive more interesting and this is exactly where your co-driver will come to rescue when it comes to operating the camera and moving those essential clips from the Dashcam onto a storage device. I am sure since you mention meeting the customers and press conferences, It was indeed a Honda event?
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4. We had a few rest days - and services / check-ups of the car
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For a drive spanning 53 days, rest is of paramount importance both for the body and the mind. The car however should perform flawlessly given the fact that it wasn’t taking any severe abuse apart from being driven in all types of roads. Necessary fluid changes, torquing of under chassis and suspension related bolts due to bad road and general mechanical inspection becomes a need for such drives like how we take the car to the nearest FNG while in Ladakh, put it on hoist and check for any damages due to the bad roads taken.
There have been too many records off late and it so happens that people have ended up driving for records. At the same time many others may have driven as part of their planned drive too but were never aware that it could perhaps get into the record books!!
The only reason I had to post my comment is for the fact that I may have either missed something extra-ordinary that may have been part of this record (which is not the case) or because this is simply a usual drive covering Indian highways under normal circumstances.
For driving 23,000 in 53 days, you need –
- Better drivers
- Excellent rapport within the occupants - Bear with their loo breaks & other habits etc.
- Extreme levels of patience – In bearing the Traffic, diversity, mess and your own partner
- Co-ordination in terms of the co-driver helping you navigate you through the tricky places and petty towns
- Basic to little advanced troubleshooting abilities in case of any breakdown
In the end I will still say this is more to do with the driver than the car itself and hence I commended you first. Honda is only lucky that they got the best hands (and minds) to
perform this.
Anyways, thanks again for your response. I wouldn't want to divulge this into an altogether different topic as this thread is the Official review about Amaze. It is only because I read
Record and I wondered what did the Amaze do.
I rest my case.