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Got bored of playing grind races, still not even close to 20 million, so i decided to leave it (i got one car anyway, so doesn't matter) and treat myself with something "cheaper" - an Aston Martin Vulcan...
I've been hearing a lot of complaints about that car in particular: many blamed brakes, some didn't like the handling etc. I didn't like the car that much too when i was doing the Mission race (where the game provides you with one). But i've completed Missions a loong time ago, physics model in GTS changed since then, tyre model has been updated, so i decided to buy the car and give it a go.
I've set it on Racing Hard tyres (since, let's be honest, Sports tyres on a track car is an overkill) and gave it a go on one of the Premium Sports Lounge races and, to be honest, i quite enjoyed it. And at that moment i thought: how does it compare to race-spec cars? And so i decided to do this test
Three cars, all of them Aston Martins:
V8 Vantage Gr.4 (BOP'd)
V12 Vantage Gr.3 (BOP'd)
Vulcan N800 (Stock)
All cars on Racing Hard tyres
ABS on
No TCS
Weak Counter-steer Assist
Driven on DualShock 4
Two tracks: Monza as high-speed track with long braking sections and Streets of Willow Springs as a tight, technical track where low/medium speed grip is crucial
Just an IRL reference: Aston Martin claims that Vulcan is 3 seconds faster than Vantage GT3 car on Snetterton circuit
Lap Times on Monza:
1)Vulcan - 1:51.973
2)Vantage Gr.3 - 1:52.246
3)Vantage Gr.4 - 2:03.231
Lap Times on SoWS:
1)Vantage Gr.3 - 1:11.211
2)Vulcan - 1:12.267
3)Vantage Gr.4 - 1:15.025
Thoughts on the Vulcan:
The car is very oversteer-prone and sometimes spins wheels even on 3rd gear, so you must be very gentle on the accelerator. Brakes are actually very good on Racing Hard tyres, much better than i expected. The car has significant power advantage over the race-spec AMs (which is obvious, since huge power difference), but race-spec cars make it up with much higher stability on low and medium-speed corners.
The biggest issue with Vulcan is the downforce. For a car that has enormous rear wing and was overall built in-mind as a lap-time tearing monster, it feels like Vulcan has almost no downforce at all. And downforce settings are not adjustable and are locked at 0/200 (front/rear), which is ridiculous.
There is possibility that PD intentionally set the downforce of Vulcan on such low level, because otherwise it would be either extremely OP in N-class (i mean, if even a "handicapped" Vulcan can keep up with a Gr.3 racer), or they'd have to put it into Gr.X, which is pretty much useless in this game, but they could at least let us tune it.
Other than that it is a fun car, I recommend you to try it out
That is, if you have spare 3.3 million credits lying around
I've been hearing a lot of complaints about that car in particular: many blamed brakes, some didn't like the handling etc. I didn't like the car that much too when i was doing the Mission race (where the game provides you with one). But i've completed Missions a loong time ago, physics model in GTS changed since then, tyre model has been updated, so i decided to buy the car and give it a go.
I've set it on Racing Hard tyres (since, let's be honest, Sports tyres on a track car is an overkill) and gave it a go on one of the Premium Sports Lounge races and, to be honest, i quite enjoyed it. And at that moment i thought: how does it compare to race-spec cars? And so i decided to do this test
Three cars, all of them Aston Martins:
V8 Vantage Gr.4 (BOP'd)
V12 Vantage Gr.3 (BOP'd)
Vulcan N800 (Stock)
All cars on Racing Hard tyres
ABS on
No TCS
Weak Counter-steer Assist
Driven on DualShock 4
Two tracks: Monza as high-speed track with long braking sections and Streets of Willow Springs as a tight, technical track where low/medium speed grip is crucial
Just an IRL reference: Aston Martin claims that Vulcan is 3 seconds faster than Vantage GT3 car on Snetterton circuit
Lap Times on Monza:
1)Vulcan - 1:51.973
2)Vantage Gr.3 - 1:52.246
3)Vantage Gr.4 - 2:03.231
Lap Times on SoWS:
1)Vantage Gr.3 - 1:11.211
2)Vulcan - 1:12.267
3)Vantage Gr.4 - 1:15.025
Thoughts on the Vulcan:
The car is very oversteer-prone and sometimes spins wheels even on 3rd gear, so you must be very gentle on the accelerator. Brakes are actually very good on Racing Hard tyres, much better than i expected. The car has significant power advantage over the race-spec AMs (which is obvious, since huge power difference), but race-spec cars make it up with much higher stability on low and medium-speed corners.
The biggest issue with Vulcan is the downforce. For a car that has enormous rear wing and was overall built in-mind as a lap-time tearing monster, it feels like Vulcan has almost no downforce at all. And downforce settings are not adjustable and are locked at 0/200 (front/rear), which is ridiculous.
There is possibility that PD intentionally set the downforce of Vulcan on such low level, because otherwise it would be either extremely OP in N-class (i mean, if even a "handicapped" Vulcan can keep up with a Gr.3 racer), or they'd have to put it into Gr.X, which is pretty much useless in this game, but they could at least let us tune it.
Other than that it is a fun car, I recommend you to try it out
That is, if you have spare 3.3 million credits lying around