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A silver F1 reserve car this year will be a new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.

The unique 571 equine power gull-wing supercar, with the doors hinged upon the rooftiles that overlay upwards, sped to formula asingle celebrity notlongago when Michael Schumacher drove a red SLS on a roof of the hovel in a brandnew TV blurb.

German Bernd Maylander, 38, will again be the full time reserve car motorist in 2010.

A Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG Estate stays a central healing automobile.

Full sum in a press release next.

Source: GMM
Press Release(Click to expand)

The many powerful Official F1TM Reserve Automobile of all time: The new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG takes its place during the conduct of a Formula-1 field

Gullwing model for engine racing’s top flightUnique super sports automobile conceptTwo monitors for gripping a tighten eye on a raceC 63 AMG Estate once again Official F1TM Healing Automobile

When the brandnew Formula-1 deteriorate gets underway in Manama/Bahrain (12-14 Mar 2010), it will symbol a entrance of a many fantastic and absolute Official F1TM Reserve Car of all time. A pursuit of a new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, that will be launched upon 27 Impetus 2010, is to safeguard limit reserve in Formula 1. A “gullwing” indication replaces the SL 63 AMG, that was used as a Central F1TM Reserve Automobile in 2008 as well as 2009. As in a last dual years, the C 63 AMG Estate will be used as a Central F1TM Medical Automobile for a coming deteriorate.

“Together with a complete AMG Group, WE am really unapproachable which the brandnew SLS AMG is a official F1 reserve automobile. I’m certain all Mercedes as well as AMG fans will be vehement to see a gullwing indication together with a brandnew Mercedes GP Petronas Group during a F1 circuits,” says Volker Mornhinweg, Chief Senior manager Militaryofficer of Mercedes-AMG GmbH.

From March 2010, a Central F1TM Reserve Automobile will be deployed whenever dangerous situations such as accidents or bad continue discredit normal racing. A SLS AMG, piloted by Bernd Mayl?nder (38, from Germany), will be upon standby in a array lane throughout a entire race. When radioed by Competition Control, a former DTM motorist and his co-driver, FIA man Pete Tibbetts (44, from a UK) will take to a lane during the head of the field in sequence to guide a Formula-1 race cars safely around a circuit.

Unique car judgment for maximum driving dynamics
A Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG has a best probable credentials for this demanding purpose in a top moody of engine racing: the 6.3-litre V8 engine has the peak outlay of 420 kW (571 hp) and a limit torque of 650 Nm, enabling a gullwing indication to scurry from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.8 seconds. Quick path times have been the contingency for the Official F1TM Reserve Automobile, differently a Formula-1 cars’ tyres as well as brakes would cold down too fast, while their engines could overheat.

A unique vehicle judgment is the pass cause in ensuring superb pushing
dynamics: a aluminium spaceframe body keeps the car weight down to 1620 kilograms (DIN kerb weight). As well as interjection to the dry-sump lubrication complement, a AMG V8 powerplant can be commissioned really low down, resulting in the profitable obscure of the vehicle’s centre of sobriety. The designation onallsides the long way at the back of a front axle and the transaxle arrangement of a brandnew seven-speed double-clutch delivery on a back spindle have the positive outcome on the weight distribution, that is 47/53 percent (front/rear). Pristine motorsport tech-nology is used for a AMG sports cessation: aluminium double-wishbone axles front and back safeguard superb pushing dynamics with accurate turn-in capability, first-class lively, low mass sluggishness when becoming different direction spontaneously and, therefore, the tall cornering extent.

Double-clutch delivery and ceramic composite stop system
The AMG SPEEDSHIFT DCT 7-speed sports transmission with double-clutch record features 4 modes as well as allows quick gear changes with most no stop in tractive energy – in manual mode (“M”), rigging changes can be effected in 100 milliseconds. Together with a 3-stage ESP®, the integrated automatic multidisc differential lock ensures superb traction. Duration, braking distances are minimised as well as insurgency to vanishing is maximised, even when a brakes are theme to typical race-track loads, pleasantness of a AMG ceramic high-performance combination brake complement with the easily sized ceramic discs measuring 402 x 39 mm on a front axle as well as 360 x 32 mm on the back spindle. A weight-optimised 10-spoke fake wheels are shod with 265/35 R 19 (front) and 295/30 R 20 (rear) tyres.

The Central F1TM Safety Automobile facilities the same engine, power delivery, cessation and brake system as a standard-production SLS AMG. A well-developed record package for a super sports automobile ensures perfect pushing dynamics as well as equatesto which no further technical modifications or lightweight-design measures have been necessary, with the sole difference of the all-new back silencer, that allows the high-revving AMG V8 ofcourse aspirated engine to breathe some-more simply as well as offers Formula-1 fans an even some-more emotionally charged receptivetoadvice experience.

Aerodynamically optimised roof light bar incorporating LED technology
Compared to a standard-production SLS, a Official F1TM Reserve Car is discernible upon a outward by the distinguished F1 logos, carbon-fibre exterior mirrors as well as a evil rooftiles light club with integrated TV camera. It sits upon an all-new carbon-fibre metalcover whose figure has been tested in the breeze tunnel to ensure optimum airflow at the rear aerofoil. A aerofoil pops up when the car reaches 120 km/h as well as, together with the back diffuser, provides a necessary back downforce. LEDs have been used for all light functions for a initial time in a brandnew, aerodynamically styled roof light club. Their advantages over a formerly used bulbs lie in their extremely fast reply time and low power consumption.

A dual centrally positioned immature lights in a aerodynamically optimised light bar are bright when a Official F1TM Reserve Automobile joins a margin and first needs to overtake all the racing cars in front of it. Once the SLS AMG has insincere the heading onallsides, the outdoor orange flashing lights have been switched upon to signal to a Formula-1 drivers that no overtaking whatsoever is allowed. A white stroboscopic lights in a headlamps and tail lights perform the general signalling duty in that they regularly flash whilst a safety car is deployed. THE special number image at a back, with “Reserve Automobile” type as well as 700 LEDs, provides one more safety in dark or wet weather. A reversing camera is integrated to a left of a number plate, allowing those in a cockpit of the Central F1TM Reserve Car to keep an eye upon the Formula-1 cars at the back of around guard.

Unsentimental interior with AMG sports bucket seats
A particular gullwing doors open to reveal the unsentimental cockpit that, similarto a extraneous, differs usually slightly from that of the standard-production indication. AMG sports bucket seats with black tannedhide upholstery as well as six-point seat belts safeguard best parallel await. On a right side of a AMG DRIVE SECTION, there have been four phony buttons for determining a assorted light functions, along with a vigilance horn, which is activated when a car is pushing into as well as out of a array line. A centre console, similarto assorted other interior trim tools, is finished in genuine co twine, whilst the AMG performance steering circle in leather/Alcantara facilities the specifically made grip area, the high-quality genuine-metal insert and the flat-bottomed rim with a hole of 370 millimetres. Two genuine-metal shift paddles are used to shift in between the seven gears in a double-clutch delivery.

Dual executive monitors in a SLS AMG cockpit are used to monitor a swell of a competition. To a left as well as right of a lower guard have been the controls for the airwave system, that allows Bernd Mayl?nder and Pete Tibbetts to promulgate with Competition Carryout as good as with any alternative. A second interior counterpart lets a co-driver keep an eye upon a Formula-1 cars at the back of. Meanwhile, a “Marshalling Complement” is integrated in the central display upon a instrument cluster as well as in a lid of a glove cell: here a motorist as well as co-driver can see exactly the same signals as a Formula-1 drivers in their cockpits. For instance, a assorted LEDs indicate when yellow or green flags have been being waved. LEDs indicating a status of the rooftiles light bar, along with an on-board camera pointed towards Bernd Mayl?nder, are mounted at a front end of the dashboard.

C 63 AMG Estate once again Official F1TM Healing Automobile
The SLS AMG is not a only AMG high-performance automobile to be involved in the Formula-1 World Championship: as in 2008 and 2009, the C 63 AMG Estate is the Official F1TM Medical Car – responsible for ensuring fast emergency response in a eventuality of an collision. A lightning-fast estate car follows a Formula-1 field on a begin path because a race cars have been still bunched intensely closely together during this vicious proviso of a race.

A concept upon which the AMG Estate is based is ideal for assembly a requirements of Formula-1: superb pushing dynamics have been positive courtesy of the AMG 6.3-litre V8 engine building 336 kW (457 hp) with the rise torque of 600 Nm, not to discuss a AMG SPEEDSHIFT AND 7G-TRONIC delivery, a adjustable coil-over suspension, the AMG light-alloy wheels shod with 235/35 R 19 (front) and 255/30 R 19 (rear) tyres, a differential lock, a 3-stage ESP®, as well as a AMG high-performance stop complement with internally ventilated as well as seperated combination stop discs upon a front spindle.

The new AMG front apron with larger air dams is an indicator of the optimised cooling for a water, engine oil, transmission fluid and energy steering. Asingle aspect that cannot be seen though can certainly be heard is a particular AMG V8 receptivetoadvice issued from a brandnew back silencers of a AMG sports empty system. Similarto the Official F1TM Reserve Automobile, a Official F1TM Medical Car is discernible by the F1? logos, a rooftiles light bar, as well as a stroboscopic flashing LED lights at a front as well as rear. THE series image illuminated with LEDs as well as displaying the difference “Healing Automobile” upon the tailgate creates the automobile simpler to see in dark or inauspicious weather conditions.

Plenty of space in a foot for puncture apparatus
A Central F1TM Healing Automobile is piloted by racing motorist Alan outpost de Merwe (from South Africa); his co-driver is the central FIA Grand Prix Arch Healing Officer Dr Gary Hartstein (from Belgium). Dual aiding healing experts from a specially comparison hospital nearby the competition lane sit in the back. There is copiousness of space for all of a puncture apparatus – togetherwith a defibrillator as well as respiration equipment – in a 485-litre foot of the C 63 AMG Estate. 4 AMG sports bucket seats with six-point seat belts, two monitors integrated in a centre console for monitoring the competition as well as the airwave set for communicating with Competition Carryout distinguish the interior of the Central F1TM Medical Automobile from that of the standard-production C 63 AMG Estate.
AMG OPENING COLLEGEOFMUSIC responsible for development

The growth, track-testing as well as pattern of a dual Central F1TM Safety Cars as well as a two Central F1TM Healing Cars – in both cases, there is asingle emergency vehicle as well as one deputy car – are carried out by the specialists from a AMG PERFORMANCE STUDIO in tighten collaboration with a exam team for AMG altogether car development. This involves sketch upon over 40 years of know-how from a margin of motorsport as well as a resources of knowledge in a pattern of high-performance sports cars. Countless exam drives were carried out upon assorted racetracks in sequence to balance a cessation as well as determine all the systems and components. Two highly-qualified AMG technicians have been additionally on hand to take shortcoming for a deployment of the Safety Automobile and Healing Automobile during all 19 Formula-1 races.

9 generations of Safety Cars from AMG
For 14 years AMG has invariably supposing a Official F1TM Safety Car as well as a Central F1TM Medical Car in a tip moody of general motorsport.