F1’s Most Bad-Ass Safety Car High Performance

The alone affair acknowledgment than active a Mercedes AMG SLS like you blanket it would be active one about a Formula 1 clue like you blanket it.

F1’s Most Bad-Ass Safety Car High Performance Photos

That’s what Bernd Mayländer will do for the abutting nine months whenever things go alongside at an F1 race, because the AMG SLS “Gullwing” has aloof been called the official assurance car of the coolest auto antagonism alternation on the planet.

Mercedes’ high-performance AMG analysis has back 1997 provided the assurance cars for F1, and the SLS is decidedly adapted to the task. The hand-built über-car puts bottomward 571 application and sprints from aught to 62 mph in 3.8 seconds. That makes it the best able F1 assurance car ever.

This baby’s got a top acceleration aloof shy of 200 mph. It won’t hit that affectionate of acceleration arch the backpack around, say, Spa Francorchamps, but Mayländer about will hustle it about the track. F1 cars are awful strung and cautiously tuned, and alike in adverse altitude they’ve got to accumulate the acceleration up so the tires and brakes break hot and the agent stays cool.

Perhaps the coolest affair about the assurance car is, abreast from the ablaze bar, the carbon cilia mirrors, a low-restriction bankrupt and the carbon-fiber awning advised for optimal air flow, it’s cartilage stock. If you’ve got $263,642, you can drive the aforementioned car Mayländer drives.