Mercedes-AMG GTS | DUNLOP Sport Maxx RACE | SUN and 50 laps in Hockenheim!
From smoky, dirty, bearish, nefarious to desperate in the speed hysteria roaring at the gods of the performance guild, the AMG GT with its new bi-turbo V8 can do it.
The start-finish curve in Hockenheim is a bend formed by the racing god personally in asphalt. Wonderful sight, easy on the curb, take care that you are not driven out too little with production vehicles, but actually a textbook curve from the first chapter. 
It gets a bit trickier when braking into the Parabolica curve. The furiously pounding V8 roar under the long hood was quickly assigned, the front axle works perfectly with the Sport Maxx Race (MO) and the fabulously tuned ABS. You feel every millimeter of deceleration, hard in - but then, off the brakes, give the tires the chance to change from longitudinal deceleration to lateral grip - now choose the right gear - the shift paddles are a chance - at the beginning you practice yourself Race mode of the automatic transmission on. And the transmission is actually always better, always on the ball, always on point. Anyone who realizes when turning hard, that he was actually still too fast, maltreats his sports tireast in the drive train - rather spectacular across the rest of the curve than whimpering on the front axle.
If you want to slaughter your Dunlop Sport Maxx Race, you have the greatest chance in this curve. Brains and feelings are the order of the day. Then you can feel the bitumen working, the gearing, the feedback, a crystal-clear conversation can be held with the front axle. She tells you exactly what's going on, you just have to listen yourself.
Smooth curve out of the Parabolika entrance, accelerate again early - the Parabolika presents itself as a curve, but is also a straight line in the AMG GTS and even under full load. The thermodynamic demonstration of power rages under the long front hood. 510 PS throw you in the slipstream of the instructor. Dunlop and the AMG Driving Academy leave nothing to chance. A beginner and 510 hp could also turn into a fiasco. So that you don't get lost in Hockenheim, the instructor drives in front of the pack of journalists. That wasn't a qualification for “Germans next Racer” either - it's the presentation of the DUNLOP Sport MAXX RT - the RACE version turns on the AMG GTS.
275 km / h must be sufficient at the end of the parabolics.
Hockenheim has no mercy with the brake of the AMG GTS. And without the 265 sports tires on the front axle, the perforated brake system on the front axle would not do anything. It is the tire that maintains contact with the road - the Dunlop Sport Maxx Race tread blocks, brutally compressed, have to do a professional job.
The hairpin again calls for this deeper dialogue between steering, grip and pilot - looking at the following straight line - when accelerating out, the 650 Nm of the four-liter V8 fall over the rear axle. 295 tires struggle for grip. If you do not keep yourself in check and use race mode, you should remember: after hard time comes. After adhesion, sliding friction.
The corner in front of the Mercedes grandstand is a case for “effective” driving, every drift angle possible and initiates concentration for what is probably the second most beautiful corner in Hockenheim: Drive the right into the Motodrom, far onto the inner curb, open steering, out Let go, lightly on the green carpet, hard on the gas, the AMG GTS in third gear to the rev limiter - and now drive far outside the Motodrom, the Sachs corner.
If the sound of the AMG GTS V8 weren't so wonderful and so loud - you could hear people cheering. The full grandstands - the very own “Morning has broken” chord on the harmonica, played by Kalli Hufstadt. Memories overwhelm you.
There are still two bends, the grip is particularly noticeable on the front axle, the rear axle is simply too easily overwhelmed by the dominance of the drive train.
When crossing the finish line, it becomes clear that the best sports car is not good without the right tire. The answer is clear when the question is asked: the best or nothing?
Thanks to Dunlop, thanks to the AMG Driving Academy, thanks to Nico Bastian for little fun with the Challenge!
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