Wednesday 2nd May 2012

AMG celebrates 2 million YouTube views...

...by getting all smoky at Laguna Seca

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Time was when car companies would celebrate important motorsport achievements, or production milestones. But this is the 21st century, and social media is king. So when car companies want to shout about something, they increasingly like to crow about just how many people like them in a virtual sense.

Latest is this video from Mercedes' performance arm AMG, a thanks to the world's AMG fans for two million views of its YouTube channel.

Ferrari, meanwhile, is presumably sniggering at the thought of AMG marking a 'mere' two million YouTube views, while it's celebrating a whole eight million Facebook fans.

But while the Mercedes video is a spot of genuinely artful sliding, around one of the most dramatic and challenging corners in global motorsport, the Ferrari video is, not to put too fine a point on it, a chap c*cking about on some Tarmac at Fiorano. Worst of all is the cringeworthy pay-off at the end that the driver has created '8,000,000' written in burned rubber. Not sure we believe that. (Riggers could have done a better job in Photoshop - Ed.) Mind you, racer Dindo Capello's antics in an R8 V10 to celebrate 500,000 Facebook fans doesn't seem quite right, either...

 

 

[robinessex]

1 lap, 1 set of tyres !!!!

[EDLT]

At the end, one of the suggested videos is a woman in a bikini.

Two million views is bugger all. You can get that by making a cat video or pretending to eat an Epic Pizza.

[ucb]

looking forward to the 'Yugo Zastava celebrates 4 YouTube views' report and thread;)

[ReaperCushions]

That Merc sounds so much better than the fezza IMO.

[P4ROT]

The music at the beginning and end of the Fezza video is so cheesy it made me lol

[sanctum]

Would have been nice if they'd put the corners in sequence instead of chopping around the lap.

Lovely set of corners that though, and so blind on the approach, takes a bit of skill to manage a powerslide down that incline.

[monthefish]

@ 0:32 of the AMG vid - is that the car bouncing off the rev limiter?

[torque torque]

0:49 on the Ferrari vid - looks like their fire problems are back..

[sledge68]

just more proof that the AMG MB's cant go round corners properly

[Kazlet]

Its much easier to do that down the corkscrew than drive it fast.
No idea what the ferrari vid is suppoed to be about, any idiot can plant their foot and spin round in circles.

[rockymount]

Kazlet said:

No idea what the ferrari vid is suppoed to be about, any idiot can plant their foot and spin round in circles.

Perhaps it's just showing that once you've turned the lever to ESC OFF (effectively disabling all the traction and stability control system) you can't possibly drive the thing in a straight line

[Bogracer]

A bit lame, really. Modern safe loads of run of circuits, even an AMG is pretty tame with all the nanny gadgets.

Try an old 911 big horsepower Turbo RUF CTR at the Nürbrugring.

http://youtu.be/w6Thomd4BQg

[Auxois]

I thought it was called the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca? ;-)

[predding]

Auxois said:

I thought it was called the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca? ;-)

Good spot :-)) - I was in SFR for NY and drove out to Laguna Seca - no-one around so the shop girl said go walk the track - I headed off UP the corkscrew - it is unbelivable steep and looking back made me think about actually driving down it - was steeper than the dipper at Bathhurst and that is saying something...

[arkenphel]

Those are both crap vids. The blackcircles advert with the white BMW drifting in a warehouse is waaaay better then those 2.

You know, the one with the old lady.

[tommy vercetti]

I love the slow motion bit in the Ferrari video showing the back wheels spinning.

[McSam]

monthefish said:

@ 0:32 of the AMG vid - is that the car bouncing off the rev limiter?

Yep, and it is absolutely bloody glorious!

[Si_man306]

That ferrari vid is just plain tacky....

[tosh.brice]

arkenphel said:

Those are both crap vids. The blackcircles advert with the white BMW drifting in a warehouse is waaaay better then those 2.

You know, the one with the old lady.

link, please?

[EDLT]

tosh.brice said:

arkenphel said:

Those are both crap vids. The blackcircles advert with the white BMW drifting in a warehouse is waaaay better then those 2.

You know, the one with the old lady.

link, please?

This one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHdQzlRcVDY