The past weekend was in many ways a classic (race) weekend. To begin with more than half of all of the GPRT drivers showed up, instantly making this a well visited race weekend. I got to Bas' place on Saturday already and Sunday morning Stefan joined us making the fun complete. Unfortunately it seems that a GPRT race weekend can't be complete without some piece of inferior hardware failing and this weekend it was my turn. My trusty red MOMO force racing wheel got the gibberish and started to act up in such a way that racing was over for me. This was at about three o clock in the afternoon on Sunday I think so although racing might have over, the weekend sure wasn't. The problem was the cable connecting the wheel housing and the pedals together. I had been having some minor glitches before but didn't realize this was due to the cable breaking up. And yesterday afternoon it gave up and broke down on me completely leaving me with two pedal positions: full brake and no throttle or the other way around, both making it impossible to drive another meter. So I logged in on the S.NL chat channel to ask around and see if anyone possibly had a spare cable that I could use. I could think of at least one person who could have one, but decided to let them come forward instead of pointing out the volunteer :-) Within about ten minutes I could get in my car and pick up my loaned cable from Toon, one of the better drivers at S.NL. He just said 'sure, come pick it up' which instantly saved the weekend. At the GPRT site I made a nice thank you post for him, the least I could do. So in total about an hour and a half after the breakdown the three of us where racing again,thanks to Toon. I believe that this example is one of many that make internet communities pure gold. Where else could I have gotten a good cable for my steering wheel halfway through a Sunday? Exactly, no where. To tell you the truth I don't think I'm able to get one at all since Logitech stopped making my wheel for no known reasons ... :S To be continued I guess ...