Mercedes strikes back at Porsche for a new 4-door Nürburgring record

36 Mercedes strikes back at Porsche for a new 4-door Nürburgring record

Battle for 4 door sedan Nürburgring supremacy is heating up. After Porsche beat Mercedes by slim 0.37 second margin back in August, Mercedes were back at the Ring and hunting for new record with updated AMG GT 63 S.

According to Mercedes, changes made to the 2021 GT 63 include "newly tuned elastokinematics and other fine-tuning measures". I had to consult search engine to explain meaning of "elastokinematics" and, just as I expected, it really is nothing more than suspension tuning or minor changes in suspension parts.

In essence, this is the same car that ran 7:25.41 effort in late 2018, and Mercedes simply were not willing let Porsche get away with fastest 4 door car trophy when margin of victory was so narrow and Mercedes knew they had gains to be made in certain sections of the track.

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Cocobe 2y ago

So the track was still damp on a few parts, and that's why they waited till later in the day to make the record run. Guess the car could have gone faster still

random drunk 2y ago

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sroser 2y ago

Jaguar XE SV Project 8 went faster.

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Hans 2y ago

benedekpuskas 2y ago

How do you add those hyperlinks (or whatever it's called) in articles?

benedekpuskas 2y ago

"elastokinematics"

I could read that after 4 unsuccessful attempts.

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Corvolet3 2y ago

Another good example for "Who cares?". Everyone is trying so hard to battle it out on one specific track, even though we all know the premium manufacturers use press or tweaked cars to get a minimum advantage and attempt to reach a certain laptime in infinite drives. In reality, nobody wants to even remotely drive so aggressive on a track with a 2 ton boat.
It's like a reason for people to buy this car, to show their non-existent duck size.