Wednesday 13th October 2010

Video: Mercedes SLS GT3 Racer On Track

If you've haven't got 20mins to watch it, leave it playing for the sound...

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If you think that AMG's race-prepared SLS Gullwing looks like the dog's danglies, wait until you've heard its 6.3-litre V8 bark, growl and roar around the the Lausitz Eurospeedway in this awesome test video.

It's a whole 20 minutes of unadulterated action from the track, with all angles covered including pit stops, in-car action and lovely lingering shots of the racer's impressively detailed cabin.

Bernd Schneider and Thomas Jäger are the drivers charged with testing duties, and while it's a movie in which not much really, you know, 'happens' - what the hell else are you doing this morning that's so important? (Go on, we'd really like to know...)

[funster]

An awesome addition to the race calendar

[anonymous-user]

12/10!!!

[filski666]

awesome - when is the CD of the soundtrack coming out??

[A Scotsman]

filski666 said:

awesome - when is the CD of the soundtrack coming out??

LOL..... Just what I was thinking.. :-)

[retro_racer]

Mega! Is that heat damage on the R/H sill from the exhaust???

[RB Will]

I want one even more now

[sledge68]

it does not look that exciting, it looks very boring

[G0ldfysh]

Rules in Formula one should be that all F1 cars sound like this not just the pace car..

So much better sound.

[sledge68]

this is what an engine should sound like


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX93trcL57o

[8400rpm]

That car is seriously cool.

[filski666]

sledge68 said:

this is what an engine should sound like


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX93trcL57o

ok, enough, I am spent...........

[filski666]

sledge68 said:

this is what an engine should sound like


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX93trcL57o

I love the comment:

The focus pulses because your camera is going to have an "eargasm" XD

"eargasm" is now in my vocabulary

[350Wedge]

That Merc does sound lovely as only a V8 can...but then again I still prefer this... For those of you that have not seen it (unlikely!) then enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikeyrh9E91w&fea...

[buckeroodle]

what a brilliant sound. that has added to an already good morning thank you : )

[GTRene]

mmmm lovely sound, well done AMG

[Squabbler]

[clarkson]It sounds like Barry White eating wasps[/clarkson] properly

[BanjoMaster]

Oooooh, that does sound good. What is that's different about the German V8s that gives them the frantic 'metallic' induction noise? It's absolutely brilliant, just about my favourite noise of all time!

It's really nice to see MB back into sportscar racing - I thought we wouldn't see them again for a long, long time after '99. And with all the truly superb metal now available to GT3 regs, it really makes you wish that British GT would get some new life breathed into it.

Anyway, my contribution to Germanic aural loveliness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtD03hEhuOU

[GTRene]

that BMW GTRS jummie too

[j_s14a]

What's with the enormous ariel? Makes it look like an RC car (a rather superb sounding one)

[filski666]

j_s14a said:

What's with the enormous ariel? Makes it look like an RC car (a rather superb sounding one)

presumably for the datalogging transponder sending test information back to the engineers in the pits.

ETA - having rewatched the video - the aerial seems to have a bent tip - looks like it could be a pitot type sensor or a thermocouple sensor or something like that?

Either that or it is just so he can get the shipping forecast....

Edited by filski666 on Wednesday 13th October 13:51