Snap - If you've come from a 10xx series like me the difference is phenomenal. Light sourcing etc is immeasurably better
Yes, upgrade from my 5-6yr old 1080 card
tell me more about the light sourcing
must say the Finnish forest looked pretty stunning last night
Well, due to my lack of pc upto tuesday day when i had it rebuilt with the new parts, i had no practise. Actually got my new pc sorted out with 15mins of practise left for my league GT4 hour race
So qually was tough but kept improving my times throughout, alas so did everyone else. Think it put me 7th? on grid.
Got a clean start but picked the wrong car to follow through turn 3 who slowed down to miss-daisy speed giving cars on my right a clear run! Just as we picked up speed i got clouted from the right and it sent me into a 360 deg spin, also getting hit by innocent Syd.
I wasnt best pleased when i righted myself to see i was now 16 secs behind the leader by the end of the lap. Had that instant sinking feeling that it was probably race over before it had really began, but kept on in hope of someone else having an off to fight with. Within 3laps my prayers were answered and i came barrelling through sector 3 to find two cars going crazy slow and had to check up fast behind them.
Had a brief fight with Geoff and once past him, he seemed to lose heart and dropped right back considerably
So now set off after Fabri and we enjoyed a great chase for many laps closing on 3 cars ahead. Alas i got a wheel on the gravel at T3 and lost 3 seconds to him which proved painful once we closed on the others as i wasnt close enough to follow him through. I had a great tough fight with Laari on his homesoil, swapping places a few times until i got past and then after a shorter fight, also got past Syd whilst Fabri attacked kimi ahead. Proper duels going on!
Fabri cleared KImi but as i closed on him, i spotted a fast blue car battling behind me and assumed it was Tim coming to lap us
but it was Lorenzo after his pitstop (why?) i duked with him a while but his fresher boots gave him the edge and we both chased Kimi with 2-3 laps remaining.
Sadly for Kimi he ran wide at T3 and skidded across my path, just missing him by millimetres
so now i finished behind Lorenzo in 7th or 8th.
Felt poor reward as had the race pace for a top 5 but a good result considering my big deficit on lap 1.
Great combo of track and car