Liwa 2023 Uphill Race Day 1

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[@Evo7HKS]

Nice Coverage Peter. Just a clarification for everyone, this hill climb competition is 300 meters & 50 degrees. They prepare for this race day since a long time (1 year) as it takes place every 1 year end of December in the middle of the desert in Liwa Oasis (Empty Quarter UAE side) Prizes are valuable (every 1st winner in each category gets a new Nissan Patrol Y61) plus a cash prize for the first three places in each category. That’s why “some” don’t run an air filter, they come to this race with spare engines, transmission, axles, driveshaft, etc just like when you go to a drag race competition everything can happen. Most cars belongs to workshops & some have sponsors. Every workshop/team have to proof himself in this competition & for UAE this race is the most popular (there is drag races, drift, 1/2mile race, etc everything comes to your mind) but sand race is different for us, people come all the way from Oman & Saudi Arabia to this event, there is also straight sand drag. N/A Category most cars run TB48 engine (Nissan Patrol inline 6) and its stroked from 4.8L up to +6.5L (by using a longer stroke crankshaft from 102mm to 130mm & up to 142mm) and running methanol fuel + big camshafts + Nitrous , etc so it makes a lot of power. Even without Nitrous, a stroked naturally aspirated high compression TB48 can make more than 550whp with race fuel.

[@TheLoudcivic]

Why they not use paddle tire ?

[@porksword4]

Why don't hardly any of them make it to the top just finish the thing

[@cumbob]

@@porksword4 might not do much testing outside of the event

[@kevintucker3354]

@@porksword4 Full throttle with over 1000 horsepower on a 50 degree grade is soft sand.. You’re joking right?!

[@kevintucker3354]

Thanks for the information! I had no idea they could punch those Patrol inline 6 engines to 6.5 liters!!

[@mhmzi]

Amazing video Peter! You are the only one that makes these movies educational and intresting due to the information about classes/tires/engines etc. No music, just pure sound and no fancy editing, Keep up the good work!

[@FJT_GOOF]

Great videos, I’m glad someone covers this wild action…I love this sport! Thank you for the upload, can’t wait for Day2

[@martinultimatevw3779]

Stock and NA hooks best, money no problem, safety zero, fire safety none, rev limiter....yess 🤣 thanks for covering this gem!

[@FJT_GOOF]

Well said! 👌

[@upurkilt7246]

There is safety and fire safety tho🤣

[@bj6469]

@@upurkilt7246 Not really, they were obviously not equipped enough to put out a full blown car fire. You call a small hose on an atv and some fire extinguishers sufficient at an event like this? Maybe you’re ironic.

[@upurkilt7246]

@@bj6469 yea, i do considering nhra events and near enough all drag events and drag strips in america only have a pickup truck with a hose on it and some fire extinguishers. Are you really expecting these lads to have a full-blown fire engine trying to get up a sand dune?

[@markalan4026]

I felt a little threatened for dude in the giant pictures when all the vehicles started blowing up

[@TurbineResearch]

These trucks are absolutely wild! Truly fire breathing dragons of the desert 🔥🔥🔥

[@seanbandley]

Savage monsters 🔥

[@joshmaitie5954]

Imagine rolling going up a hill and wheeling not to mention its sand Literally driving through mud

[@gsp911]

@@joshmaitie5954 And then imagine breaking down like approx. 90% of them do. 👍

[@nfagfoo]

Hello Peter. Every Year i look forward to your videos covering this unique event. Thank you.

[@olekaarvaag9405]

I have never seen people push their engine more than this. Insane. You guys are beautifully crazy ❤️

[@geofw23]

Or stupid rich and don't care. 🤷‍♂️

[@j0nnyw00]

Well, when you have literally billions in oil royalties choking your bank account, you can afford 747's full of spare engines.

[@khoibao6334]

@@j0nnyw00 uuuy😮l😅😅😅😅 Byit

[@burnsson]

@@j0nnyw00 i wonder what idiots gave them all that money.

[@austinconklin08]

So that's where the oil in the ground comes from 🤔 😆 Love the coverage Peter, it's appreciated!

[@mjodr]

Hahaha yeah they put a few gallons back into the sands, lol.

[@kevintucker3354]

😂😂, good one bro!

[@kvnhhn]

The amount of money and working hours pulverized is insane 😂

[@cosworthTV]

@@cloudpandarism2627 well alot of people got paid!

[@cosworthTV]

@@cloudpandarism2627 THAT i understand because i feel the same i can't listen to abusing motors i just cant but in this case.. there is no love for the engines its just parts, money, satisfaction.. and rich people are just gonne be rich and dumb you know this

[@motec309]

​@@cloudpandarism2627 You are so biased and jealous its funny. I was in the event at LIWA, matter of a fact, I am from the country that hosts the event, UAE. (4 times I have been at the event) No one gets paid minimum wage first of all, the "workers" who does all the tuning work and welding dont get paid minimum wage, fun fact, most of them actually own these cars, they tune it and let a team member drive, or they drive it them self's. Also, nothing costs millions of dollars, its not a formula race, its an event with prizes and people participate to win and get a reputation which will eventually boost the sponsors and the garage's name that tuned the vehicle, which makes this event even more profitable for the tuners. Emergency vehicles and staff respond 24/7 and the fastest time possible, if you compare responses in USA you will see it is faster here, its just the one clip which you saw where they took long wasn't even long, as you can see emergency polaris was already there but the fire extinguisher wasn't enough so they called for the other polaris which had better equipment, also dont forget that the vehicle was burning high in the hill and not in the street. If you visit liwa, you would see how professional the police and emergency staff there, they are everywhere and very responsive.

[@GixxerKris]

@@cloudpandarism2627 it’s funny you think they do this to entertain a few rich spectators. They do it because they love racing, they simply do it on a giant sand hill. No different than what we do in the US. We take 200-300 thousand dollar trucks and destroy them in mud holes, we also take million dollar drag cars and rebuild the 200 thousand dollar engines after every 3sec pass.

[@jdc8352]

@@cloudpandarism2627 why are you watching then

[@gorandahvu9442]

Great like always Peter. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more 245 videos

[@fuelnfire9268]

I anticipate these videos every year! Thankyou so much

[@MrFabrizio1962]

Always a great Race, thank you for the sharing

[@-MacCat-]

Thank you for bringing this to us Peter. These guys redefine "balls out racing"! Major kudos to them for providing excellent entertainment.

[@geofw23]

Lol seriously?

[@gharne3436]

Watching from New Zealand, wow these boys hit it hard!! impressive

[@theNZmatt]

nz!

[@ryanbrockmiller1648]

DANG! and now I want some Power Horse energy drink. lol I have always loved watching these races. so much carnage so much beautiful engine noises.

[@Cheap_Grey_Plastic]

I don't think I've ever seen a race where this many vehicles break...immediately. Like, not after a few runs... literally drive a few feet and burst into flames/explode/dump all fluids. Fascinating.

[@geofw23]

What 👆 he means is..... zero talent. Lots of wasted money. And low amateur "drivers" "teams" at best. (Wish I had this money to blow in 2 seconds!)

[@effervescentrelief]

Hooking up in sand is unbelievably hard on components. Nothing to do with build quality.

[@austinfleck8664]

Yes!!! Love this series

[@mikeduwe]

Wow more excitement in first 3 minutes than whole 2022 video!

[@GeoffSeeley]

Pretty brutal and surprisingly dangerous. Loved the footage Peter!

[@76vetten]

Always fun to watch. Great video.

[@jokisensimo]

Would be interesting to see some data logs from these runs e.g. wheel speed vs actual car speed. Great content as always Peter!

[@dragonsyph2557]

Most of these people have more money then brains and have no idea what the heck they are doing lol.

[@b_for_brett]

Worlds slowest fire marshals geez!

[@ShaunKjar]

Love this! I really like your explanation at the beginning. It was brief and helpful. I’d love some commentary from one of the teams. I’d love to hear about their approach to the hill, why they don’t use paddle tires or cut lugs off of tires, vehicle power estimates, builds, etc. It seems like the approach is either go or blow up!

[@PeterBjorck]

You have some info here in a FAQ video i did: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWqZYnWOhb-Bm80

[@PoseidonWasTaken]

I've been looking forward to this for a long time! I really love these Liwa videos. What beasts of vehicles!

[@Fwr942]

Excellent coverage, thanks

[@exvils]

Great video as always, i would like to see follow up videos with commentary/pit walk trough.. most ppl in comments don't get what it takes to compete at this level.. all these comments about engines failing, bad tunes etc. grinds my gears for real..

[@robertfischer5893]

Another legendary video. Cheers

[@wimsnuif1232]

I cant thank you enough for this content!!! 👌🔥❤️💪Sssssstututuutuu 🔥❤️keep it up please i love these batshit crazy vehicles

[@vihreelinja4743]

The ammount of sand in those engines must be epic.

[@warponyracing3042]

They sure know how to make things go boom!!😆

[@north_exe]

FuelTech from Brazil to the World!

[@plutonium87]

Good stuff, looking forward to next video :)

[@michaelovitch]

What are the rules about tires ?

[@joshmaitie5954]

Can't wait for more videos

[@Jay-Dylan]

Man these things must be tuned right on the edge, so many blow ups. Killer footage again Peter! Love it! Hangout every year for this.

[@matton36]

Pretty sure they cant build engines properly

[@youtubebandme4382]

@Matts Channel pretty sure they ha e more practice than you so I'm pretty sure they are

[@matton36]

@@youtubebandme4382 I race cars mate and build my own engines

[@youtubebandme4382]

@@matton36 cute

[@ferrarikingdom]

@@matton36 funny you say that when many of the world record drag cars are tuned and built by the same people.

[@spg3331]

Awesome!

[@BigD1395]

That was some sick uphill racing fellas, but not as good as our rock bouncers though.

[@MaxTIRA69]

Peter thank you very much for your beautiful video 👨🏻🇮🇹🇸🇪

[@extremelyunfocusedman]

Some of the liveries are mind-blowing 😂

[@aroussama1407]

Who cares about the liveries

[@extremelyunfocusedman]

@@aroussama1407 well somebody certainly does

[@mihalis1010]

The number of engines that immediately detonated, and lack of rollcages was all somewhat surprising. It's like they threw the engines together, gave em all the boost and fuel, then just ran them at full tilt without tuning them.

[@mohammedalsuwaidi683]

These cars make well over 1500hp som are 2500+ too the 4 tyres and no grip and high rpm off course it will blow up some times and there's a rollcage under the fiberglass body and we put a lot of money into these cars sum team's put in hundreds of thousands into these cars but mistakes happens

[@jeremyatkinson4976]

@@mohammedalsuwaidi683 Awul lot of chinese parts....

[@mbt8545]

Plus the tyres bouncing up and down so traction, air tyre spinning and then touch the ground. Its not flat ground 😒 we don't see them fail on streets.

[@harrypalmer291]

The amount of out of tune cars and blown engines is crazy. A good tuner would make a fortune working in this part of the world.🤪

[@harrypalmer291]

@@mbt8545 Gasoline engines are easily kept in a safe rpm limit with ignition control boxes and I'm not a diesel guy, but there must be ways to govern "over-rev" thru injector cutoffs at too high an rpm. (?) I wouldn't want to blow my motors up over a simple fix.

[@EuroDollarYen_]

this is my new favourite racing event.

[@chadjohnson2853]

Man you guys do it right out there …. Great video

[@bolf]

Thanks for the video , :)

[@darwonboyful]

Incredible

[@iCancelFlights]

this is awesome

[@metal-pe8ux]

These Boyz have and awesome racing category --- huuuge horsepower...👍👍👍..

[@johnpodo]

These keeps us busy in building V8s here for Middle East.

[@gafrers]

great video of this crazy event 👍 The Subzero cars look great. Always a shame to see the emergency crews being slow and inadequate. Glad no one got hurt, beside some bruises. 18:00 Motec 1212 or 1812 but Fueltech sponsor/distributor? 🤣🤣 Great eye catching that Thanks Peter

[@effervescentrelief]

To be fair they did have to come up a hill, of sand, and the car was well beyond totaled.

[@MrPowertech]

Wauw real stuff, bit dangerous though😁

[@davidhakes3884]

Great Fun!!!! and Carnage of Engines.

[@jacobsawtelle5429]

Great video amazing amount of time and $ spent. Love the different classes of vehicles and modifications that can be done

[@JayTalksinjury]

I think if they switched over to paddle tires and that would allow the tires to dig in and stop the High R.p.m.'s that are blowin the motors.. Happy new year 🎉

[@gaborungvari784]

cool video, thanks Peter! it should be really good fun to see and hear these fire spitting steel beasts in action...nice firework :) luckily no one seems to be hurt.

[@SaschaFrohsinn]

Very good Video 👍👍👍👍 thx

[@CS555]

Excellent video,those things are insane,crazy amount of mechanical failures though

[@xavierfolger1304]

like the second car soo much. very entertaining...

[@Labergemusic]

Still my favourite race event ever. Maybe I'll attend one day.

[@exvils]

heh, same i used chatgpt few days ago to calculate for me cost of going there :D it said it would be expensive, so it would make more sense for me to build car like that (patrol/hilux with tb48/1fz)

[@crazzed4]

Some of them trucks are fast wow. Them are some crazy launches from a dig. Just shocks the hole truck when they let it eat. I can't wait for the next one. That was awesome to watch. 👍👍

[@rutlandcitybikes9729]

Man they beat the snot outta those motors!! And they are all insanely done up! Blasting them to pieces!!

[@More_Row]

Stock category didn't sound very stock. Wonder what the rulings are there. Thank you for the great coverage of the event Peter.

[@NoctisIgnem]

Probably allowed to use stock engine turbo atd such, no limit on amount of boost, fuel etc.

[@AlexDresko]

Yeah, I saw the first "stock" car and said to myself, "I do not think that word means what you think it means".

[@mjodr]

After watching them run twice I think the word "stock" means stock body and stock frame, because they were running crazy power.

[@exvils]

dunno but i bet its stock :D i mean stock body, stock diff/trany/engine, and by that i don't mean stock stock, but engine/trany that come in car must be kept, but you can upgrade it (straight gears, better diff insert, fully build engine, adding turbo/nitrous... probably also street legal cars)

[@mjodr]

@@exvils So what you're saying is it's stock, but not stock.

[@1tk]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@1zbossz]

Was waiting for this 😍🔥

[@scottytapp5296]

Diamonds must be flying out the exhaust... Sand. Heat. Compression. Wow... Aussie Scotty...

[@Zer-re4mu]

This is how we accomplish world peace, men + big engines + racing = common ground

[@truthbespoken7750]

Aww man that red vehicle was hot 🔥 literally

[@YesNoMaybeIDntKnwDoU]

Holy INDUCTION!!!

[@barbarborbor6531]

วัยรุ่นอาหรับเล่นกันโหดจัด เล้าใจดีจัด💸💸💸

[@duncandmcgrath6290]

Gotta say the send it , bend it vibe is hardcore with these guys 🤘

[@rcvg69420]

A solid part of the entertainment is watching half these drive trains fail catastrophically before they get up the hill.

[@MrToppox]

😈😈😈😈 great line up of videos 😈😈😈😈😈

[@SM3X1T]

Tjenare Peter, Undrar, kan man bara köpa biljetter för att gå på sånthär? Hade vart jävligt kul och jag brukar vara i Dubai pga affärsresor så kan resa runt i mellanöstern ganska fritt

[@mars7786]

To the wood no matter What got to love it

[@debragibson3489]

Hot Flash moment!!!!

[@Webedunn]

The non turbos are kickin butt.

[@moonjumper66]

It's the fire brigade it's the fire brigade...and they don't let you wait !

[@johnnygoins7457]

Yall are some badazzz sons of britches,holy shit you must be running 3/4in. Fuel lines ,holy shit ,I love it

[@cephurs]

most rolls I've seen in years!

[@longtime239]

These trucks are freaking amazing I think their drivers need to start keeping up with them Skill level of trucks 10 skill level of most drivers there 6 gotta bring it up fellas

[@mbt8545]

Its hard to control the wheel on sand and don't forget the tyres bounce a lot. Its jumping thats why some engines blow up... Its like traction on and off. So suspension setup is so important here.

[@wattsinaname6975]

@@mbt8545 That makes no sense. One of the engines blew up before it even went anywhere. 😆

[@nightnope]

always nice to see these races. i must wonder tho what is required to be in that new "stock" class..

[@Zadjelly]

stock engine i think

[@user-wn5im4dz6t]

Nos all 🔥

[@JavierRomeroPrados]

real power

[@cottonhiker]

Rev limiter GOOOOOOOD👍🏻

[@mars7786]

Funny seeing tuned by whoever on the side and the blow up

[@Maiky78]

Cool fun

[@Shahacah51]

They gave us a new meaning of kabooommmm 🤣

[@HeyJoe1978]

Them boys popin motors like I pop beer cans!

[@joshuatoland9241]

I love this adrenalin! Why not with paddles? Rocket ship lets go!

[@syahrulpanter6183]

Sangat terancam luar biasa

[@markmartinfan62]

Nice fire dept.!

[@revsinc]

ace engine builders over there !!

[@tomahoks]

Blaah, they are built for one race only

[@IrenESorius]

Så kul , Inte.

[@nikolaiownz]

I would not be caught in a burning car with that slow fire equipment.

[@northwestmountainbikeaddic6874]

So bad ass!

[@johnlane5344]

1st one sounded like an RB, second one looked like it was tuned by McFarland Racing

[@domsta2008]

What size engines are the 6 cylinder patrols ? Tb48? Are there any tb45s amongst them?

[@ElTyranto]

yaaaaaaay!

[@thequattro20v]

New Series Stock, Doesn't sound stock to me😂😂😂

[@tombowen8091]

what is the angle , please

[@madmike5144]

That new class stock looks awesome...But still those are nuts, so wild and when you think that is uphill and looks very deep and still go that fast..Totally nuts, but i love it, these are so cool races..

[@2000ds650]

I love watching oil money hard at work. Amazing skill and machines. Great job everyone!!