Manufacturing unit driver Maro Engel has set a number of information with the Mercedes-AMG One on the Nurburgring. Now he’s damaged his report and dipped underneath the magic barrier of 6:half-hour.
The Mercedes-AMG One was unveiled in June 2022, with a three-year delay and 55 years after AMG was based.
Ola Kallenius, Mercedes’s boss, was very sincere when he mentioned “I believe we had been drunk once we permitted this undertaking”. The Mercedes-AMG One was imagined to hit the market within the autumn of 2019, however adapting the F1 engine to more and more powerful emissions guidelines and to the idle pace of a “civilian” engine raised some hurdles that appeared inconceivable at that second.
275 clients paid a deposit and waited three years for the two.75 million euros-plus tax hypercar. However the wait was price it. The Method 1 road hypercar proved extremely quick.
On October 28, 2022, with manufacturing facility driver Maro Engle behind the wheel, the Mercedes-AMG One lined the 20.832 km lengthy loop of the Nurburgring circuit in 6:35.183 minutes. This report was homologated and the Mercedes-AMG One grew to become the quickest manufacturing automobile, 8 seconds sooner than the Porsche 911 GT2 RS with Manthey Efficiency package.
This report was achieved in October when the monitor circumstances weren’t preferrred. Though the air and asphalt temperature was an optimum 20 levels, there have been areas of the circuit that weren’t utterly dry. “Two years in the past, the circumstances weren’t preferrred, and a few sections of the monitor had been nonetheless slightly damp. We knew we may do extra, and we needed to point out that. Immediately we had been in a position to show the utmost potential of the AMG ONE. Many because of the entire staff from Affalterbach for the belief they’ve positioned in me. It was an ideal pleasure and honor to have the ability to drive this report lap with such a novel automobile.
It was additionally a problem to handle the plug-in hybrid system and use the DRS system in the absolute best approach.
Engel due to this fact felt that the time may very well be improved underneath preferrred circumstances and along with AMG determined to strive once more. The report try befell on September 23, 2024, underneath higher climate circumstances. The air temperature was 15 levels, the asphalt 20 levels, and the asphalt was utterly dry permitting excellent grip in all areas.
At 6:56 pm on the third timed lap, Maro Engel clocked a time of 6:29.090 minutes and the Mercedes-AMG One grew to become the primary manufacturing automobile to drop beneath the magical 6:30 minute barrier. Like two years in the past, the most important problem was managing electrical energy alongside the 20-kilometer-long circuit and recovering power when braking after the straights to retailer it within the battery for later reuse on acceleration phases.
The report was licensed by a notary and TUV Rheinland confirmed that the automobile was the usual model.
For the report try, the utmost camber values throughout the supply tolerance had been chosen and, surprisingly, Maro Engel used the Race Plus program and never the sportiest program, Strat 2. Race Plus is devoted solely to the circuit like Strat 2 and the suspension is lowered by 37 mm on the entrance and 30 mm on the rear. The distinction is that in Strat 2 the suspension is even firmer. In Race Plus, the DRS system is activated from a button on the steering wheel and it retracts the entrance louvers on the wings in addition to the higher aero component of the two-stage rear wing, lowering drag and permitting increased speeds on the quick sections of the circuit. The record-breaking automobile got here with customary Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R MO Pilot Sport Cup 2 R tires and ceramic disc brakes.
You’ll be able to see the total lap right here.
