Talk:McLaren MP4-31/@comment-119.152.138.110-20170408123521/@comment-30728605-20170408171256

i havent yet completed the championship, so i dont yet have the mp4-31...and even when i do, i'll be a far cry from ever being able to fully pro it lol..i lack CREs and i dont want it so much to be willing to buy pro boxes...

i drive a 1778 vulcan in MP (max 5555, pro 5255), which is nearly pro and my competitors are usually fully or nearly maxpro vulcans, hommages, mp4-25s and since the last two days mp4-31s...i have seen at least two races in which a 1813 mp4-31 gave serious competition to vulcans and hommages (however, <1770 mp4-31s faired poorly, despite their drivers' ratings being >1900 and they didnt make any major mistake as far as i could see).

however i have also seen, sometimes in the same race, one >1800 mp4-31 winning against vulcans and hommages but other >1800 mp4-31 losing badly (position 4 or even later) against vulcans and hommages, all drivers well rated (>1800 at least).

i have beaten 1813 TB mp4-31s, but also once or twice some TB 1813 mp4-31 has beaten me too...

so in some sense it is from experience, not of actually driving a pro mp4-31 but of competing with one... a lot depends on who makes how many mistakes or gets wrecked at the start and how long the track is, how technical it is and how many lap the races are and if there's some nuisance of a driver in the mix less interested in racing and more in wrecking others...and also if no one makes any mistakes, who starts the race first sometimes becomes a major factor deciding the win.

but in any case, a fully or nearly pro mp4-31 is a great MP car, with only real competition being the vulcan (but the vulcan still has a slight upper hand in most cases because of more stable handling and slightly better speed, but the advantage is slight enough that everything is at the end dependent on driver's skills and mistakes and a bit of luck).