JK Tyre Orange 4x4 Fury set to return as OFAM Dambuk dates land

Dambuk gets its December dates

The Orange Festival of Adventure and Music, the four day gathering that doubles as the venue for India's best known off road event in the North East, has its 2026 dates. The organisers' own ticket page lists OFAM 2026 for December 17 to 19 in Dambuk, Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh. Day passes cost ₹2,000 each and a three day pass costs ₹6,000, according to that page.

The festival's off road programming, built around the JK Tyre Orange 4x4 Fury, is confirmed to return this year, according to event listing site Encamp Adventures, though JK Tyre had not yet posted a formal entry list or stage schedule for this edition by the time of writing.

What last year's Fury looked like

The 2025 edition gives a sense of scale. The contest was flagged off from the Golden Pagoda in Namsai on December 18 by Abu Tayeng, the state's Secretary for Sports and Youth Affairs, before moving to Dambuk, according to archived reporting from Arunachal Times. It ran in two classes, Pro Mod Xtreme for heavily modified machines and Stock for production based 4x4s with limited upgrades.

Fifty off road vehicles took part, with teams travelling from Thailand and Malaysia besides crews from across India, Arunachal Observer reported. The Pro Modified class was won by the pairing of Ujjal Namshum and Sujeewan Choutang with Chethan Chengappa and Sachin Saikia, in a penalty adjusted time of 4 hours 50 minutes 35 seconds. The Stock class went to Krishna Phani Dhanekula and Prudhvi Sistla with Bhaskar Raju and Mutthu Kumuran. A women's class was won by Joi Basar and Ringam Doni. Autocar Professional's report on the same weekend carries matching names and times.

This is also the event where a Maruti Gypsy and a Force Gurkha have taken past class wins in earlier editions, a reminder that the Fury has never been only about purpose built buggies. It rewards navigation and tyre choice on riverbed stone and elephant grass as much as raw power.

What an Indian reader needs to go

Arunachal Pradesh requires an Inner Line Permit for visitors from outside the state, a separate process from booking an OFAM pass, so budget time for that before you book flights to Dibrugarh, the nearest railhead and airport to Dambuk.

For club members on this desk's beat who want to enter rather than just watch, JK Tyre's motorsport site and media page are the first place to check for an entry form, since the Fury has historically been organised with the Department of Sports and Youth Affairs of the Arunachal Pradesh government rather than through a club affiliation system. North East clubs, MOCA among them, have had home advantage in past editions, and this desk will carry the entry list and stage details once JK Tyre publishes them.

For now, the one dependable fact for a reader planning the trip is the calendar. OFAM 2026 runs December 17 to 19, and its off road contest is expected to run inside that window, as it has every year since the Fury's first edition.

Sources

• OFAM Tickets
• Orange Festival of Adventure & Music 2026 listing
• 10th JK Tyre Orange 4x4 Fury flagged off
• JK Tyre Orange 4X4 Fury International concludes successfully in Arunachal
• JK Tyre Orange 4X4 Fury International Concludes in Arunachal Pradesh