The plan was to cover 1255 km in 24 hours to ensure that they completed the required 3766 km in 90 hours with a six-hour break after every 1255 km. However, they managed to reach their destination in just 84 hours and 52 minutes, covering an additional 175 km! “More than the destination it was the journey that was an adrenaline pump,” Sangha’s log book and diary and pictures taken as evidence for the record tell tales of an incredible India. A rally driver, proprietor of Sangha’s Motorcraft and the techie in this adventure, Bhalinder’s filled the pages chronicling the change in terrain, language, people, weather and of course road conditions every 100 km. If Gujarat was a cruise, Madhya Pradesh was a catastrophe! “We were told that dacoits rob travellers at night, and we should avoid driving through, but we were racing against time and took the risk,” tells Harinder. Bihar was another experience where the road was everyone’s property - people, cattle, dogs, and piles of farmers’ harvest. In West Bengal, a major traffic jam awaited them, while in Guwahati, they had to get special inner line permits for Arunachal, for which they needed their passports! “Kaziranga National Park was beautiful, except that Karanbir, Overdrive’s winning motor sport man, was chased by a baby elephant!” laughs Bhalinder adding how India is best enjoyed through roads where roadside people are your GPS. “It’s been an eye-opening journey, one that every one should undertake to witness and appreciate the immense beauty of this country,” he says.

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