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Away from the camels and dates Abu Dhabi’s deepest desert festival is famous for lies a playground of big boys’ toys.
Buggies in flashy colours and eccentric designs lined up in the heart of the Empty Quarter for the final round of a 90-metre drag race.
Welcome to Liwa International Festival’s open buggy competition – a dazzling flash of colour and diesel in which vehicles worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are put to the test in a 50-degree dash up the side of Tel Moreeb sand dune.
Saeed Al Mansouri, known as Bin Dhahak – ‘the son of the laughing one’ – stood confidently in front…
