Hi all. What a weekend folks, and man did we have a great time. We, btw, where Bas and I on Thursday and Friday, Bas, Stefan and me on the Saturday evening and Bas, Stefan, Jaap and myself again on the Sunday. The whole GPRT team together for the first time since we 'are' GPRT, the Giant Pixel Racing Team. Unfortunately our hardware didn't arrive in time for this weekend, but that didn't stop us from having a great time racing, flying and so on. Four days of multiplayer fun is just so much fun. Because of me signing up with, and getting accepted by, the VVS 504 Squadron 1st Bomber wing I wanted to get myself better acquainted with the SU-25 bomber plane in Lock-On, our flight sim. Actually the Mig29 is my favorite plane but while doing some reading up on the VVS 504 I noticed they had a huge shortage of bomber pilots so I thought 'what the heck, let's go bombing' ;-) and so I ended up with the 1st Bomber wing. Luckily Bas also likes flying so the main part of the Thursday and Friday we spend up in the air, bombing stuff. Or at least trying to. We put together a few practice missions so we could familiarize ourselves with the various weapon systems. Not an easy thing in such a beast of a plane. After trying everything we could think of we nearly missed everything on the ground ... Shame of ammo and very irritating. So then we applied the golden rule: back to the books. After a quick read we soon found out what went wrong and after taking off again we we're king of the sky again :-) The Saturday we had Stefan accompanying us so the flying was over ;-) But no harm done, that only meant that we were to start doing the name of this race weekend some justice: racing! We first tried to do some NASCAR - PTA racing only to find out that Bas' installation was somehow getting worse and worse, so this wasn't much fun. Bas his sound went from bad to worse and Stefan's NASCAR crashed every now and then, for no particular reason. So back to Grand Prix Legends it was! Bummer, hehe. Not really of course, this is what we do best: driving old cars on our limits. I specifically say 'our' limits because the world records clearly show that the cars can go must faster than we drive with them. All three of us crushed a couple of personal records with various cars while trying to keep up with those always difficult Grand Prix Legends AI drivers. Even with the BRM and Cooper I was managing to get some top ten times on the board. This must mean I'm getting slightly better ;-) I sure hope so. On Sunday Jaap joined us so we had a 'full grid' as far as GPRT was concerned. Jaap is still thinking about running with us in the DSZ competition next season, so he jumped in his gorgeous blue and white Eagle Westlake and gave it some stick. We did a number of nice races, including qualifying, and most of the times I ended up in the paper that comes up afterwards. And that, of course, is good news :-) Getting in 'the paper' means a top six finishing place and getting there with a Cooper Coventry or BRM instead of my favorite, the Lotus 49, was nice to see. Once I even managed to have the fastest racing lap on my name, in a Cooper for crying out loud! Later in the evening we did some more Lock-On flying, without Stefan who showed us some real mental strength and went home at a bit more sensible time than Jaap and I did ;-) We found a joined A10 and SU25 mission so both Bas and Jaap could have a A10 and I could practice some more SU flying. I can't wait for our hardware to come in, Lock-On is simply the very best fighter flight sim of this moment and it can look so absolutely fantastic, providing your computer is up to the job. And it will be once our order comes through and we’ve finished building and upgrading the darn things, trust me. Four day weekends are cool,