Grading their very own homework, AMG ONE staff provides themselves a hefty pat on the again.
We’ve talked in regards to the AMG ONE rather a lot right here on MBWorld. And as we’re people with pores and skin within the sport (yours really has an C209, W164 and W105) you’d assume we’d be fairly enthusiastic in regards to the ONE. However the issue is, we discover ourselves being a bit crucial of it now.
Now a few years after its debut and announcement, the AMG ONE has had a couple of automobiles delivered, and has the Nurburgring lap time document for manufacturing automobiles. However is the fizzle for this automobile lastly out? Mercedes doesn’t assume so. They’ve simply launched a brand new video by which Mercedes feels the F1 powered automobile is crucial automobile because the Patentwagon.
A deep-dive video into the AMG ONE’s powertrain – two years after it’s debut – appears nearly a bit determined. We all know that the facility unit is derived from Method 1 expertise. We all know that it’s onerous to make an “F1 engine” work in the true world with regular drivers in regular situations. That was cool in 2022, when Mercedes was an unstoppable drive in Method 1. As of now? Mercedes are in 4th place in constructors standings. Behind McLaren Mercedes, who’re apparently doing higher with Mercedes engines than Mercedes. Oops.
The Method 1 tie-in blunders proceed. Out of all of the drivers they may have picked, they obtained a F1 driver endorsement from David Coulthard? “I really feel like a grand prix driver once more,” he claims. Actually? It’s quick, but it surely’s not that quick. Plus he’s very really a part of Pink Bull’s present camp, and drove for Williams and McLaren Mercedes… There’s that identify once more. To be truthful, they’ll’t financial institution on Hamilton fairly like they did earlier than, as a result of he’s carrying purple quickly. Perhaps Russel was busy, or one thing.
All of us marvel and marvel on the tech behind the automobile, however this automobile simply isn’t information any extra. It has completed the whole lot it wants to perform. Except there’s a brand new evolution of the automobile to come back about. However that’s not occurring any time quickly. Name us cynical, however possibly AMG ought to let this ONE play out.
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