Nearly 10 seconds faster than the runner-up, the AMG One shatters the road-legal Nurburgring record with a 6-minute 35-second hot lap… in damp conditions!
With the almost industry-wide ushering in of new nameplates and generational updates, the Nurburgring has seen an influx of record-breakers lately. The AMG One is the most recent name added to the Ring’s record books.
What started as a drunken promise snowballed into a high-strung race towards birthing what is the most cutting-edge production vehicle of the modern automotive era. Totted as the bleeding edge of Merc’s engineering expertise and desire to push the envelope, the AMG One’s F1 pedigree has afforded it a record-setting time of 6 minutes and 35 seconds with a hundred eighty-three milliseconds. A top speed somewhere within 338km/h and active-aero components in full view, full-tilt driving at its finest. An astounding feat only sweetened by the information that this blistering run was completed in less than favourable record-setting conditions.
“Half a second is one car length” — a chuffed old coloured man in his 9-second MK1
Whether that statement is scientifically accurate, the AMG One has set an unprecedented gap between it and the runner-up, a Porsche 911 GT2 RS which ran 6:43:30 outfitted with a Manthey Performance Kit. The once indomitable time was later broken by the same driver, Lars Kern, in the 911 GT2 RS MR. The fastest time he managed was an incredible 6:40:30. Under an old timing method, the GT2 Rs’ time would be somewhere around 6:38:835.
Adding another notch to his belt, the record-setting AMG One was piloted by the seasoned Mercedes DTM driver Maro Engel, around the hallowed 20,8 km circuit. Tantamount to Da Vinci’s greatest work, the AMG One’s stellar performance ‘round the ring is a euphoria-inducing sight, and an onboard view is available for your enjoyment linked below.
