Freaking amazing!
I know it's amazing and fast and has a literal F1 power train in it but the AMG one just just excite me the way the Valkyrie and Gordon Murray T.50 do. And it's not got much to do with those cars both having V12s. I don't much care about that, I just find them to be somehow more compelling.
But good lord the AMG one is mind bendingly fast.
If only he had a fully dry track, I expect they'll do another lap in the spring and shave a number of seconds off that time again.
In reply to adam525i :
Misha Charoudin was saying that given how the track looked he can easily see the car doing a 6:30 lap.
nocones said:I know it's amazing and fast and has a literal F1 power train in it but the AMG one just just excite me the way the Valkyrie and Gordon Murray T.50 do. And it's not got much to do with those cars both having V12s. I don't much care about that, I just find them to be somehow more compelling.
But good lord the AMG one is mind bendingly fast.
I'm with you, the Gordon Murray one is awesome.
It's kind of like the LFA, it may not be the fastest, but the looks and sounds do it for me.
I just thought how fast the AMG One was really cool.
Hitting the long straight like:
Pretty cool, but not near as exciting as watching a Ford Transit do it with Sabine at the wheel in 10.08.
There was an awful lot of floaty in that video. Pucker factor was high.
grover said:There was an awful lot of floaty in that video. Pucker factor was high.
I'm not so sure. There was only one place where the car moved 'unexpectedly'... at ~5:25 in the video as Maro descends after the left through what (iirc) is referred to as Sprunghuegel before getting into Pflazgarten 2; but he's patient and the car takes a set after having "stepped left". All the steering angle looks pretty common with what I've seen other drivers do, big movement to initiate turn-in and then finessing to the apex; there's only a couple power-on corner exit corrections that I see.
The Nurburgring is really bumpy, and that can unload the steering, which can make it look like the wheel is moving around unexpectedly, but isn't actually changing the attitude of the car.
You can see the attitude to the lap based on Maro soft pedaling it (more-or-less) from Kesselchen to Hedwigshohe because of the dampness. There's a lot of time left on the table. This was definitely a "controlled agression" kind of lap... where bringing the car back was a higher priority than 'ultimate time', imho.
Two real interesting things for me are:
1) How much curb is being used, and confidence to throw it into Karussell and Kleins Karussell
2) that they don't have a 'mode'... 'Strat 3' -or whatever- where the DRS is automatically configured. Instead, Maro's having to command it manually throughout the whole lap.
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