Manufacturing facility driver Maro Engel has set a number of information with the Mercedes-AMG One on the Nurburgring. Now he’s damaged his file 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 feel we had been drunk after we authorized this mission”. The Mercedes-AMG One was purported 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 unimaginable 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 System 1 avenue 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 file was homologated and the Mercedes-AMG One grew to become the quickest manufacturing automobile, 8 seconds quicker than the Porsche 911 GT2 RS with Manthey Efficiency equipment.
This file was achieved in October when the monitor situations weren’t ideally suited. 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 situations weren’t ideally suited, and a few sections of the monitor had been nonetheless a bit of damp. We knew we may do extra, and we needed to indicate that. Immediately we had been capable of reveal the utmost potential of the AMG ONE. Many because of the entire workforce from Affalterbach for the belief they’ve positioned in me. It was an awesome pleasure and honor to have the ability to drive this file 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 very best approach.
Engel subsequently felt that the time could possibly be improved underneath ideally suited situations and along with AMG determined to strive once more. The file try occurred on September 23, 2024, underneath higher climate situations. The air temperature was 15 levels, the asphalt 20 levels, and the asphalt was utterly dry permitting good 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 vitality when braking after the straights to retailer it within the battery for later reuse on acceleration phases.
The file was licensed by a notary and TUV Rheinland confirmed that the automobile was the usual model.
For the file try, the utmost camber values inside 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 factor of the two-stage rear wing, lowering drag and permitting larger speeds on the quick sections of the circuit. The record-breaking automobile got here with normal Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R MO Pilot Sport Cup 2 R tires and ceramic disc brakes.You possibly can see the total lap right here.