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Sometimes, speed equals safety. Maybe nowhere else is that more true than upon the racetrack when you’re piloting the so-called safety automobile and you’ve got the pack of Formula One cars riding up your tai lpipe. Great thing, then, which the newest safety car to be used for F1 avocation is a 571-horsepower Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.

Interestingly, that tailpipe is a only automatic shift made to a SLS AMG to bring it up to Central F1 Safety Automobile specs. Mercedes-Benz left everything else on the automobile, including a engine, suspension and carbon-ceramic brakes, stock. Not that you won’t be able to tell a differen ce between the Reserve Car as well as a customary Gullwing – a new carbon essential element metalcover with front-mounted camera, rear number plate with a camera and 700 LEDs and an “aerodynamically optimised roof light club” (for a first time using all LEDs) ensure nobody can miss this sold SLS AMG.

For what it’s worth, a SLS AMG replaces the SL63 AMG, that had been the Central Safety Automobile for a prior two seasons. Again, the F1 Reserve Car will be piloted by former DTM driver Bernd Mayl?nder. Also, a Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Estate (that’s car to us Americans) will serve as the Central F1 Healing Car. Let’s goal that asingle doesn’t see aswell much lane time, eh? Click past the mangle for the official press recover.

Gallery:Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG F1 Reserve Car

[Source: Mercedes-Benz]Show full PR textThe most absolute Official F1TM Safety Automobile of all time: The new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG takes the place during the head of a Formula-1 fieldGullwing indication for motor racing’s tip flightUnique super sports car conceptTwo monitors for gripping a close eye upon the raceC 63 AMG Estate once again Official F1TM Medical Automobile
When a new Formula-1 deteriorate gets underway in Manama/Bahrain (12-14 March 2010), it will symbol a entrance of the most fantastic and absolute Central F1TM Reserve Car of all time. A pursuit of the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, which will be launched on 27 March 2010, is to ensure maximum reserve in Regulation 1. The “gullwing” model replaces the SL 63 AMG, which was used as a Central F1TM Safety Automobile in 2008 and 2009. As in the final dual years, a C 63 AMG Estate will be used as a Official F1TM Medical Car for the entrance deteriorate.

“Together with a entire AMG Team, I am very proud that a new SLS AMG is the central F1 safety automobile. I’m certain all Mercedes and AMG fans will be excited to see the gullwing indication together with the brandnew Mercedes GP Petronas Group during the F1 circuits,” says Volker Mornhinweg, Chief Senior manager Officer of Mercedes-AMG GmbH.

From March 2010, a Central F1TM Safety Car will be deployed whenever dangerous situations such as accidents or bad weather discredit normal racing. The SLS AMG, piloted by Bernd Mayl?nder (38, from Germany), will be on standby in a pit lane via a entire competition. When radioed by Race Carryout, the former DTM motorist and his co-driver, FIA male Pete Tibbetts (44, from the UK) will take to the track during the conduct of the field in sequence to beam a Formula-1 ra ce cars safely around the circuit.

Singular vehicle concept for maximum driving dynamics

The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG has a best possible credentials for this perfectionist purpose in a top moody of motor racing: the 6.3-litre V8 engine has the peak output of 420 kW (571 hp) as well as a maximum torque of 650 Nm, enabling the gullwing model to sprint from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.8 seconds. Fast path times are a contingency for the Official F1TM Reserve Automobile, differently a Formula-1 cars’ tyres and brakes would cool down aswell fast, while their engines could overheat.

The unique vehicle concept is a key factor in ensuring outstanding driving

dynamics: the aluminium spaceframe body keeps the car weight down to 1620 kilograms (DIN kerb weight). As well as interjection to a dry-sump lubrication system, a AMG V8 powerplant can be commissioned very low down, ensuing in a beneficial lowering of the vehicle’s centre of gravity. The designation onallsides a long way at the back of a front sp indle as well as the transaxle arrangement of the brandnew seven-speed double-clutch delivery on the back axle have the positive effect upon the weight distribution, which is 47/53 percent (front/rear). Pure motorsport tech-nology is used for the AMG sports cessation: aluminium double-wishbone axles front and rear ensure outstanding driving dynamics with accurate turn-in ability, first-class lively, low mass sluggishness when becoming different direction casually as well as, therefore, a high cornering extent.

Double-clutch delivery as well as ceramic combination stop complement

The AMG SPEEDSHIFT DCT 7-speed sports transmission with double-clutch record facilities four modes as well as allows fast gear changes with practically no stop in tractive power – in primer mode (“M”), rigging changes can be effected in 100 milliseconds. Together with a 3-stage ESP®, a integrated mechanical multidisc differential lock ensures outstanding traction. Duration, braking distances are minimised and insurgency to fading is maximised, even when a brakes are theme to standard race-track loads, courtesy of the AMG ceramic high-performance combination stop system with its generously sized ceramic discs measuring 402 x 39 mm on a front axle as well as 360 x 32 mm on the back axle. A weight-optimised 10-spoke forged wheels have been shod with 265/35 R 19 (front) and 295/30 R 20 Back tyres.

The Official F1TM Safety Automobile features the same engine, energy transmission, suspension and stop system as the standard-production SLS AMG. The exceptional record package for a super sports automobile ensures perfect pushing dynamics and equatesto which no further technical modifications or lightweight-design measures are necessary, with a solitary exception of a all-new rear silencer, which allows the high-revving AMG V8 naturally aspirated engine to breathe some-more easily and offers Formula-1 fans an even more emotionally charged sound knowledge.

Aerodynamically optimised roof light bar incorporating LED record

Compared to a standard-production SLS, a Official F1TM Reserve Car is distinguishable on a outward by the distinguished F1 logos, carbon-fibre exterior mirrors and the characteristic rooftiles light bar with integrated TV camera. It sits upon an all-new carbon-fibre hood whose figure has been tested in the wind hovel to ensure best airflow at a rear aerofoil. The aerofoil pops up when a automobile reaches 120 km/h as well as, together with a back diffuser, provides a necessary rear downforce. LEDs are used for all light functions for the first time in the brandnew, aerodynamically styled rooftiles light club. Their advantages ove r a formerly used bulbs distortion in their extremely fast response time as well as low power expenditure.

The two centrally positioned immature lights in a aerodynamically optimised light bar have been bright when the Official F1TM Safety Car joins a field as well as initial needs to overtake all the racing cars in front of it. Once the SLS AMG has assumed the heading position, a outdoor orange flashing lights are switched on to vigilance to the Formula-1 drivers which no overtaking whatsoever is allowed. The white stroboscopic lights in a headlamps as well as tail lights perform the general signalling duty in that they regularly flash whilst the safety automobile is deployed. THE special number plate at a rear, with “Reserve Automobile” type as well as 700 LEDs, provides one more safety in dark or soppy continue. THE reversing camera is integrated to a left of a series p late, allowing those in the cockpit of the Central F1TM Safety Car to keep an eye upon a Formula-1 cars behind around monitor.

Practical interior with AMG sports bucket seats

The distinctive gullwing doors open to reveal the unsentimental cockpit that, like a extraneous, differs only slightly from that of a standard-production indication. AMG sports bucket seats with black tannedhide upholstery and six-point chair belts ensure optimum parall el support. On a right side of a AMG DRIVE SECTION, there are four coloured buttons for controlling the ass orted light functions, along with the vigilance horn, which is activated when the car is driving into and out of the pit line. The centre console, similarto various alternative interior trim parts, is finished in genuine carbon twine, while the AMG performance steering wheel in leather/Alcantara facilities a specifically made hold area, a high-quality genuine-metal insert as well as a flat-bottomed rim with the diameter of 370 millimetres. Two genuine-metal shift paddles are used to change in between a seven gears in the double-clutch delivery.

Two central monitors in a SLS AMG cockpit have been used to monitor the swell of the race. To the left and right of a lower guard have been the controls for the airwave system, that allows Bernd Mayl?nder as well as Pete Tibbetts to communicate with Competition Carryout as well as with each alternative. A second interior counterpart lets the co-driver keep an eye on the Formula-1 cars at the back of. Duration, a “Marshalling System” is integrated in a central display on the instrument cl uster as well as in the lid of a glove cell: here a motorist and co-driver can see exactly the same signals as the Formula-1 drivers in their cockpits. For instance, the various LEDs indicate when yellow or immature flags are being waved. LEDs indicating the status of the rooftiles light club, along with an on-board camera angled towards Bernd Mayl?nder, have been mounted at a front end of the dashboard.

C 63 AMG Estate once again Official F1TM Medical Car

A SLS AMG is not the usually AMG high-performance car to be concerned in the Formula-1 World Championship: as in 2008 as well as 2009, the C 63 AMG Estate is the Official F1TM Medical Automobile – obliged for ensuring fast emergency reply in the event of an collision. A lightning-fast estate automobile follows the Formula-1 field on a start path since a race cars are still bunched intensely closely together during this vicious phase of the competition.

The concept on that a AMG Estate is formed is ideal for meeting a requirements of Formula-1: outstanding driving dynamics are positive pleasantness of a AMG 6.3-litre V8 engine developing 336 kW (457 hp) with a peak torque of 600 Nm, not to discuss a AMG SPEEDSHIFT PLUS 7G-TRONIC transmission, a adjustable coil-over cessation, a AMG light-alloy wheels shod with 235/35 R 19 (front) and 255/30 R 19 Back tyres, the differential close, a 3-stage ESP®, as well as the AMG high-performance brake complement with internally ventilated as well as perforated combination stop discs on a front axle.

A new AMG front apron with larger air dams is an indicator of the optimised cooling for the water, engine oil, delivery fluid as well as energy steering. One aspect which cannot be seen though can positively be heard is the particular AMG V8 sound issued from a new back silencers of a AMG sports exhaust system. Like the Official F1TM Safety Automobile, a Official F1TM Healing Automobile is distinguishable by the F1? logos, the rooftiles light club, as well as the stroboscopic flashing LED lights at the front and back. A series image illuminated w ith LEDs as well as displaying the difference “Medical Automobile” upon the tailgate makes a car easier to see in darkness or inauspicious continue conditions.

Copiousness of space in a boot for puncture apparatus

The Central F1TM Medi cal Automobile is piloted by racing driver Alan outpost de Merwe (from South Africa); his co-driver is a central FIA Grand Prix Arch Healing Militaryofficer Dr Gary Hartstein (from Belgium). Dual assisting medical experts from the specially selected hospital near a race lane sit in the rear. There is copiousness of space for all of a emergency equipment – including a defibrillator as well as respiration apparatus – in the 485-litre boot of the C 63 AMG Estate. 4 AMG sports bucket seats with six-point seat belts, dual monitors integrated in a centre console for monit oring a race and a airwave set for communicating with Race Control distinguish a interior of a Official F1TM Healing Car from which of the standard-production C 63 AMG Estate.

AMG PERFORMANCE STUDIO responsible for growth

The growth, track-testing and configuration of a two Central F1TM Safety Cars and the two Central F1TM Medical Cars – in both cases, there is one emergency vehicle and one replacement vehicle – are carried out by the specialists from a AMG OPENING STUDIO in close collaboration with a exam team for AMG altogether vehicle development. This involves sketch on over 40 years of know-how from the margin of motorsport as well as the resources of experience in the design of high-performance sports cars. Numerous test drives were carried out on various racetracks in order to tune the suspension as well as determine all the systems as well as components. Dual highly-qualified AMG technicians are also on palm to take responsibility for the deployment of the Safety Automobile and Medical Automobile at all 19 Formula-1 races.

9 generations of Reserve Cars from AMG

For 14 yea rs AMG has continuously supposing the Official F1TM Reserve Automobile and a Official F1TM Healing Automobile in the top moody of general motorsport.