Comments on: Pictures: new SL 63 AMG F1 safety car

By: jamie turay

jamie turay — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:51:57 +0000

my dad had an old silverstone sc it was a 928 porsche 4.7ltr left hand drive dogg leg box. it was great not sure if it was upgraded but it was fast i had it on the spot in 4th spinning the rear wheels great bit of kit.

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:45:58 +0000

My Cousin Is Going To Be In The Pace Car For F1 Australia!

By: Roadie John

Roadie John — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:05:23 +0000

Fantastic, The Safety Car always sounds sweet as it hurtles off around the circuit before the race starts. Especially today (Spa) just before the race. Yep, I think to own an Ex-Safety Car would be pretty damn cool!!

By: jakobmy

jakobmy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:26:33 +0000

its a great car nice sound great engine beauty of a car

By: David Fraser

David Fraser — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:40:03 +0000

Some really odd suggestions for safety car replacements here. However, I remind everyone that “safety” is a pretty important word here. So being faster than the Merc is not such a good thing. It wouldn’t be pretty if a Veyron or old F1 car found itself wedged in a marshal’s post. So yeah, safety car is meant to DECREASE speed of F1 cars for the marshal’s sake, non?

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:58:16 +0000

Going slightly off topic, but the only good thing about safety car periods at the moment is getting to hear the fantastic resonating roar from the AMG Merc.

By: James

James — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:42:39 +0000

Yeah but the 63 nameplate bears the traditions of those old-school 6.3L V8 mercs. All about the history

By: Bradley

Bradley — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:28:59 +0000

I once went 85 mph down hill in my old metro 1 litre to over take a lorry, the only trouble was I slowed down to 55 mph going up the following hill, the lorry then over took me.

By: G

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:38:23 +0000

The F1 cars absolute top speed is irrelevent and will vary based on gearing and aero settings (plus tyre rating) – somewhere above 280 mph is certainly feasible with a long enough straight.

By: AmericanTifosi

AmericanTifosi — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:34:44 +0000

The Bugatti Veyron’s absolute top speed is faster than what an F1 car will go on a track. If you let an F1 car go for the 4-5 miles it takes the Bug to get to 253 mph, it would exceed it. The estimated top speed of an F1 car is about 300 mph.

By: AmericanTifosi

AmericanTifosi — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:30:56 +0000

The SL 63 would be a really beautiful car if it hadn’t been sat on sometime during the design process. I think the perfect safety car would be an Audi R8.

(P.S. it should be called the SL 62, it’s not really a 6.3 liter engine.)

By: Nestor Leone

Nestor Leone — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:41:20 +0000

Sometimes before ‘96, a couple of Countach were used as safety cars….. but just for 1 or 2 races (one of them was in Canada) . Nothing steady.

It would be great to see supercars as SC. But I guess that it must be ruled which cars are allowed and previously planned as everything is in modern F1. There is a 15 o 20 year deal with AMG.

15 years ago and before… F1 was a little less down on small details as it is today.

By: JavierS.

JavierS. — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:03:19 +0000

It is always funny to see the safety car… a street car with some mayor upgrades leading all the other F1 cars… i was in brasil 06 (Schumi’s last race) and you could hear the race car at flat-out. Here’s an idea.. I know mercedes has a F1 car, but could the safety car be a bugatti veyron? instead of having the SC flat out to keep up with F1 cars, you have a car ABOVE F1 in speed. I guess it would to expensive to keep the veyron.. still everybody would die to have te SC for their own

By: Ritehsh

Ritehsh — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:14:28 +0000

just curious, why all safty cars are always mercs?? any special life time contract with FIA ?

By: Scootin159

Scootin159 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:48:53 +0000

Daniel… my guess is because they need something a bit more ‘reliable’ than the old F1 cars were. Could you imagine if they needed the safety car NOW, but had to wait for the engine to properly warm up before sending it out on track?

By: Matthias

Matthias — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:38:16 +0000

@Becken: I think, Bernd Mayländer drove the safety car as always.

By: daniel

daniel — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:09:27 +0000

who come its always a "standard" car thats acting as safety car? came to think about it. why not a modified old f1 car? then they would be able to keep the speed at those parts of the track where theres no accident and drivers could keep their tires warm. guss it might be a sponsor/pr thing, or?

By: Ratboy

Ratboy — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:35:58 +0000

Mercedes make those god awful Smart car/shopping trolleys right? try having one of those as the safety that would be funny

By: Becken

Becken — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:28:53 +0000

Keith, Who was driving the safety car in fuji 2007? Do you the know driver´s the name?

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:08:17 +0000

Looks great. IMO if Mercedes is supplying the safety car, it really has to be an SL. Seeing anything smaller leading a Grand Prix just looks goofy.