AMG Project One Could Beat The 919's 'Ring Record, But Mercedes Isn't Keen To Try
When Porsche set an astonishing 5min 19sec Nurburgring time - smashing the all-time record - the motoring world was astonished. So busy were we watching the onboard footage with mouths agape, that we didn’t even consider if that time might ever be bettered by anyone else. Who else actually could?
Well, Mercedes-AMG reckons it could eclipse Porsche’s heavily-modified LMP1 car’s effort with the incoming 1000bhp+ Project One hypercar. There’s just one problem: Merc doesn’t want to.
“Could we beat the Porsche’s ‘Ring time? We could, probably,” AMG boss Tobias Moers told Motoring. “Theirs is a racing car that isn’t actually fit to race anywhere, in any class, anywhere. It doesn’t have any rules,” he said, adding, “We have to meet full homologation rules. We could do some things to the aero and take out the air-conditioner and fit some slightly different tyres and then I’d be confident about it.”
So it’s possible, Moers reckons, but there seems to be little will in the company to attempt the feat. “I just don’t know what we’d do it for,” he concludes. It’s highly likely we will see the F1-powered monster at the Nordschleife at some point, but if you see any videos of it popping up on YouTube, that’ll most likely be for testing rather than a record attempt. But who knows, perhaps AMG will change its mind…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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i never understood when something about Mercedes comes up and all the people just go “Merc is shit!” in the comments in CT. Why praise BMW so much and hate Merc for no reason? Every single thing Merc does just bothers people on CT i suppose..
Yeah, my MR2 can also beat a Ferrari LaFerrari on the Nürburgring but I am not going to try it
I could also break the record around the Ring with my e46 waggon, I just don’t want to. I’d have to change everything about it and some slightly better tires and I probably could beat the record, but I dunno what I would be doing it for…
Yeah but you couldn’t tho 😂😂😂, maybe if the car doing the record looks nothing like the production but there’s no way the such project 1 could match the acceleration and aero of the 919
Project One Black Series incoming
““We have to meet full homologation rules.”
At least we know fairly confidently that it will be a GT1 variant when those regulations take effect
YA RIGHT BULLSHIT