The Mercedes-AMG One hypercar was constructed for data. It’s the quickest and strongest AMG that ever set wheels on the street. And racetrack, too. The One merely smashed the Monza lap document.
The Ferrari LaFerrari ought to transfer out of its approach. The Mercedes-AMG One coated the lap at Monza in 1:43.902, which makes it greater than 15 seconds sooner than the Italian hypercar.
With System One tech onboard, the One is a manufacturing automotive data collector. It did the identical in Hockenheim, within the Inexperienced Hell of Nurburgring, and on the Pink Bull Ring in Austria.
The time achieved in Monza places it forward of the LMP3 racecar that lapped Monza for a document time again in 2020.
Model ambassador and professional driver Maro Engel was behind the wheel. He was the one who drove the One (pun meant) on the Nurburgring, too.
Fastestplaps.com reveals that the quickest occasions for manufacturing vehicles are virtually 10 seconds slower than what the Mercedes-AMG One snappedin Monza. The Ferrari LaFerrari took 1:59.00, whereas a modded R35 Nissan GT-R coated the monitor in 1:52.59.
The One sports activities the 1.6-liter engine donated by the F1 automotive, with a number of tweaks that make it road-legal, plus 4 electrical motors. All of them ship 1,063 PS (1,049 HP) to the tarmac when the Race Plus mode is on. Mercedes solely builds 275 such vehicles, however none is road-legal in the USA because of the strict emissions laws in drive. Those that ordered it although would possibly nonetheless be capable to get it of their driveway, based mostly on the Present and Show exemption legislation. It’s the regulation that enables the import of vehicles with greater emissions stage however limits them to solely 2,500 miles driving every year.
1:43,902 minutes. We’re celebrating a brand new document on the Monza monitor! #ONEandOnly
[WLTP: Kraftstoffverbrauch gewichtet, kombiniert: 9,9 l/100 km | CO₂-Emissionen gewichtet, kombiniert: 223,4 g/km | Stromverbrauch gewichtet, kombiniert: 49,8 kWh/100 km | https://t.co/1hjefj6xrW] pic.twitter.com/qYcxOJ5pyN
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