Talk:Aston Martin Vulcan/@comment-31044517-20180107190857/@comment-31044517-20180116205010

@ Spyman

And I totally agree. The SLK is only good in a few tracks for events at max pro. The Vette is better than the SLK in all the remaining ones.

And for MP, I don't think the SLK is even good for Tokyo. I've seen an SLK only twice in max pro MP so far. Otherwise we would see much more SLKs in Tokyo at least. The SLK is knocked down much much much more easily at the start compared to the Vette. And since its nitro duration is dismal, it really needs all the nitro bottles it can get on the way, while trying to catch up. The Vette with its shining nitro efficiency can skip a lot of nitro bottles when catching up with the leaders. It's so easy to nitro starve the SLK in a MP situation while it's extremely hard to starve a Vette. You may pick all the nitro bottles on the way but if a Vette is excellently driven it will surely catch you in straight enough tracks and will overtake you or knock you down.

Zlatan even reported to be knocked down in a Vulcan by a Vette at the first lap, before the hairpins in Nevada Reverse.

But as you said, with all the guys the Vette driver needs to overtake before catching the leader in multiplayer, it's highly likely that he'll lose at least some time battling them. And that's the main problem of the Vette in MP. It always has to fight back from the back of the grid, having to overtake each car without losing time which is a very hard thing to do. Because catching a leading Vulcan who is making an excellent run, requires the Vette to make an excellent run as well. And all the guys between the Vette and the leading Vulcan that the Vette driver needs to overtake will make it very hard for the Vette driver to do an excellent run. And the more technical the track becomes, the harder it gets to overtake guys without losing time. That's why I really commend the Vette drivers who can get a win in tracks like the Ice Cave. And that's the reason why we see Vette drivers much more frequently and in numbers only in Tokyo and Monaco and to a lesser extent, Barcelona.

In short, max proing the SLK would really be ruining it as it is such a dominant car in MP in lower ranks and the Vette is already dominant in A class events and is way better in max pro MP.