UNSTOPPABLE! Driving the 880hp AMG GT Black Series on the Nürburgring!

Good morning comrades, welcome back to the channel, welcome back to the Nurburgring and welcome to an extremely exciting video. Because today, Lukas and I will be going out in the AMG GT Black Series by Opus. So not completely stock and my god really excited to jump into that. It seems to be like it's becoming a year of AMGs. It was the first time I drove a GTR, first time GTR Pro and now we'll be going out in the GT Black Series. So we met last year, beginning of last year, when you got the car. We talked about the fact that the license plate 10021 is supposed to represent the final horsepower number. It's still in development. So how far have you developed so far? We have developed already the 1100 horsepower stages, but to be honest, it's just too much. Especially for this track. Yeah, for the track. I mean, obviously, if you just want to go straight on a track race or rolling start, yeah, something you can do with the car, but you will maybe see it yourself later. Well, not maybe, but this is 880 horsepower right now. Yes, and this is just the right amount of what is not too much. Yeah, okay, so that's what's underneath the hood. 880 horsepower from the V8 flat plane crank. What other mods have you done to it? Well, just a different suspension setup. Okay, so the shocks are stock, but then different stuff. Because to be honest, it doesn't make really much sense modifying anything there, unless you want to make a real track car and don't use it anywhere else. Yeah, and if you didn't get, for example, the track series, which is made for this. But apart from that, I mean, yeah, it says it's Monroe dampers, but actually it's Öhlins inside. Okay. So it's already one of the few cars you can have with Öhlins parts from factory. Or Polestar 2. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I just had to make that drop there. So we are running Cup 2R tires. Yeah, that's our compound. This is the so-called MO2. You can see it also that it doesn't have the special shape, you know, this matte shape with the silhouette of the car. So tires are used, but still good to go for a few laps. This is the optional harder compound that they suggest to use over 25 degrees Celsius. Okay. Ambient temperature. Which we are right now, currently. We had like 30 plus degrees, but now we're cloudy, so we should be actually quite good. Just need some more time to warm up, but otherwise it just lasts longer. Because the original compound is the MO1 and it's a softer compound. And to be honest, it doesn't last very long. Like it's a qualifier setup, so to say. It has a nice peak, but then it just goes down and down and down. This is just more stable. So in terms of laps, like this one would last you like, what, 20 laps? Yeah, 20, 25. I mean, obviously, depending on how you drive. How you drive, yeah. Where the qualifying setup or like the MO1 is going to be like 10 laps. How much are they nowadays? Like around 2,000, 2,500 euro set? Well, obviously, they're going up and down, but it's like, yeah, let's say 2,000 plus VAT. If you can get them, probably. Yeah, yeah. MO2, for example, you cannot even buy them at Mercedes right now. Wow. So we got a direct contact at Michelin. They found a few places to like, you know, get the tires for us, but we are running out of stock. Yeah. Then for the rest, most important mods that Black Series is screaming for, has it installed the exhaust? Yeah. So is it like complete exhaust or is it just from the downpipes? This is a modified catback section and, yeah, set up with downpipes with nearly no cats. Like a very small. Very small. Very small sport cats. A checkbox cat. Yeah. For the rest, aero is just stock, stock wing, everything is as is. So mostly the power upgrade, some suspension mods, brakes is also just stock or is there some special pad or anything? I mean, we are trying several pads, but to be honest, this car comes from factory, you know, with basically the pads and everything. Yeah, like it should be for a car that can do such lap times. So, yeah, currently we are running stock pads. Yeah. No, that should be, should be good enough. No, I'm very excited. Lukas and I were talking about like, hey, who should be driving? Should you be driving for your viewers? I'm like, yeah, of course I should be driving. But on the other hand, someone who is done, I mean, you'll absolutely be done with this car. You think like a couple of hundreds already by now? More? Yeah. With this car. Yes. Yeah. Or with the previous car we had. Even thousands. So, yeah. I mean, in the end it's still a GT. It's obviously like, you know, it's quicker than a tuned GTR because of the aero. But otherwise, acceleration wise, it's about the same. You already did quite an interesting time at Gran Turismo track day, I think. It was like already a sub seven with some traffic. Yeah, it was 46, 46, something like that. Crazy. And it was still, you know, with a lot of safety. Yeah, yeah. Because, yeah, you know, obviously it's a track day, you don't know what's... You never know what... Still things can go wrong. You never know. So, what we're gonna do, I'm hopping in on the driver's seat. Gonna warm up these tires a bit, talk about what I think of the car. Very much excited because it's going to be the first time I'll be driving a black series. And after that, Lukas can show us what the car actually can do when someone is more used to the car and not just one lap first time ever behind the wheel. So, I think TF is actually open, so we can go and do a lap. Let's go. Watch out, the front diffuser is... Is out. We're not street legal. It doesn't say so. It just says... It's out, yeah. It just says reduce height. Yeah. Nothing else about being street legal or not. Program wise, I'll probably just put it in individual mode and then... Yeah. Manual or individual. So, the mode I usually use. Okay. And then we have to press... So, individual gives us race, engine, gearbox, manual. And I didn't see anything else. Yeah. Suspension in sport, non-sport class because it will be a little bit too... Too stiff. Too stiff, yeah. I mean, on the track days, I use the traction control. But during tourist drives, to be honest, ESP sport ending is more than good enough. The traffic jam. We are late. We are to an extent. Or it's going to be one of those thousand overtakes in one lap video. You see this, all the cars like an Uno, Turbo, all these, you know... It's not a Panda either. Yeah, it's an Uno, I think, yeah. Yeah, it's an... Yeah, but anyway, you know, they used to be like really cheap. No one wanted to have them and they are going... Now they're becoming collector's item, you know. Crazy. Oh, which is good. Yeah, good for the guys who kept their hands on them. All that driver safety with way too high windows that you don't... It is a Turbo. Is it? Uno, Turbo, yeah. Nice. I'm familiar with this. It said IE, maybe for injection and electronic or something. Emotion. For sure, yeah. I love the roar inside. It's a good, good sound. Different to a GT-R, obviously. Oh no, he almost hit the cone. Pops and bangs, signature. I don't actually... I kept this. Trick day. Sometimes you get the flame. Really? I see you already feel quite at home with this car. Yeah. Too much talking, too much concentration. Trying to enjoy and take it all in. Especially with all the traffic. It's kind of semi-cold tires, you know. It's something you would try to... I think now they're getting better. Yeah. Yeah, braking is so much better. Braking is... A little bit better. Yeah, I think. Yeah. Actually, it's less traffic on that corner. It's not too bad. It's not horrible. It's a bit of understeer. A sidecar! I think this was a speedster, not a race. Yeah. I don't know why everyone is paying attention today. I don't know, the driver said to cut everyone's money off. I didn't do it, no. No, you have to push him or something. Floating brochure. Yeah, or gold wing. Gold wing. Maybe that's some information from the battery cap. Haha, leave focus there. It was good, but it's very well set up. Like, it's controllable, it's obviously first time for me, but navigating through the traffic, easy. Yeah. Well set up, like, also, like when we went through Wipperman, we did like Wipperman and Overtake. You know, this is something that you wouldn't risk if you don't know the car or not confident in it. But, like, you know that the car is going to catch everything. It was really good. Yeah, I'm impressed. Now just hoping that Mauro can finally beat the time. Yeah, maybe he just needs some more power from me. He needs a bit colder weather. Yeah, I mean, obviously. Last time he was less than a second off, when it was just 35 degrees. Obviously, I mean, the car is losing bad, badly. During an AMG event we were here and it was like 35 degrees. You cannot do three laps in a row without the car basically forcing you to... Back off the throttle. Yeah, back off the throttle and it will not really rev out. It will stop revving out at like 5,000, 5,500, something like this. Okay. Well, yeah, so that was a big issue, but no. So just, you know, it's a prevention, so the engines don't overcook. It has nothing to do with the tuning. It's from factory like this, and we don't touch this. Because obviously, you know, this is also about... It's a safety system. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure. Okay, let's wear a swap and then... That will be... But yeah, we are not here for a breakfast. Exactly, it's just like... The thing is, for me, it's also interesting. It's a different experience from the passenger seat because the amount of... Then you feel like proper G-forces and grip. You know, now you're like stuck to the steering wheel, so it's different. Okay, let's do a mix now. Yeah, swap. Okay. Indicator would have been better. Looks like I have more traffic now. What a pity. Yeah, all the experience with the laps, you just don't know what people are going to do. Yes. And with motorbikes, it's the same. It's even worse. Okay. Could be too much power because on one of the trackdays, I've been doing like 295 over... Over the jump. You know, the video of the climb. It's in GTR in my mind. So it was like... The model would say this. 109 or something. I think Levi was driving it back then. Not the best anymore. No, I know. To be honest, this is what I feel now. You would have less understeer than this. Okay. So just let you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you had a... I had a feeling for it already. Last time, there was a car parking here. Really? Tried to get to the right. Oh, great. And off the track. Nothing on wood. Yeah. I just cut once. Took two years to figure out who is at fault. And yeah, we found an arrangement. But the thing was really that... With this car, there are no parts. If there isn't, I can tell you to be grounded for trying to avoid obviously any contact. Sure. Yeah, the tires are bad. Yeah. Okay. I guess we can expect that. Yeah. The good thing is about having this amount of power, you just zoom into the next corner. Yeah. It's like, you know, you wait, then you overtake. And it's like fast forward. Yeah. A short amount of time. We are now at 90 degrees already. So... I think we cannot win anything. I mean, what is there to win apart from a golden pineapple? You had a quicker and a better lap. Yeah. No, I liked it. I liked it very much. And... Of course, this is better than going to be in GT2 RS. Or in your case, here in AMR. Because of what it might... I would say it was a surprise. I think I like this more. I mean, to be honest... It's not like this famous statement from Sabine Schmitz. Like, every ape can drive this car or something. Yeah, yeah. But it goes in that direction that, to be honest... To get way easier and more safe to do than with a GT2 RS. Because it's just more planted and just more stable. And the engine and the... Yeah, obviously, you know, the power. But the good thing is also that the weight distribution is there and you have more aero. Yeah. So, it helps a lot. Yeah, definitely. I'm not saying like when I said that the car was really lifting in the front. It's like... It's not imbalanced of speed. Which was just a few kilometers more than on the record lap. It was just enough to lift. Yeah, that's quite scary, I imagine. I mean, it was not bad. I could still steer. But it was like, you know, the moment you feel... Yeah, yeah. Slow down. Yeah. Brakes. Yeah, okay. So, apparently, your lap was, I think, nicer to enjoy. I enjoyed them both. They were both great to an extent. I mean, you're too fast with this car anyway for TF traffic. Yeah, you really have to watch out. Yeah, and you need to really be cautious what others do. And also just... Yeah, for track day even that's gonna be quite quick. Yeah. Comparison. This is simply the fastest production car. Or depending on the marketing point of view. Exactly, exactly. But anyway, I mean, we are discussing a few seconds back and forth towards the Porsche. But still, it's just, you know, the way the car is made, it's actually... You know, I've been lucky enough to have the opportunity when we had back in the times the GT3 race car to drive a GT3 race car on the Nordschleife with the Aero and with slicks. And I can tell you, if you have new tires on this car, it really, in some sections, it feels really like the race car. And in many sections, you are obviously way quicker because of the power you have. So, you have to really watch out when you are about to brake. Okay, obviously, there are enough sections where you can go flat out with a GT3 race car. And yeah, you don't have to lift. And you are probably 30-40 kilometers per hour quicker just like that. But still, I mean, it's just crazy. If you have a free lap and you come out of Galbenkopf really nicely, and it's, let's say, under 30 degrees like here, you will end up at the Bilstein Bridge with nearly 320. Wow. And this already with the wing in mid-setting. If you would have it more flat, it would be even over 320. Wow. With this amount of power. If you have stock power, it will be like 10 less. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Crazy. But also, I like how the power delivery is. It's not trying to kill you. It's really linear. It's really good. So, yeah, actually, what we did, I think we've shown this probably on the video with Shmee, that, let's say, mid-torque is not raised at all. It just basically starts at 4,000 where the original torque drops a little bit or starts dropping. And we just keep it flat. And this is also what makes the car or the power delivery of the engine linear. So, you have just the higher rev, the more power you have. Yeah. I mean, it's from factory already like this, but this is what we always try to do in the best possible way we can. Obviously, if you want to go to 1,100 horsepower, you need to have 1,100 newton meters of torque at 7,000 rpm. So, this is just simple maths. Yeah. You cannot say below 1,000 newton meters. This is about 950 right now. Newton meters. Yeah. But, yeah, simple maths. Or you would need to have a higher revving engine. But, yeah, even though it's a flat crankshaft, it wouldn't survive revving over 8,000. So, we already raised the rev limit. We've raised it here by 400 rpm. Okay. This is what the engine can take. So, it's now 7,400 or something? Yeah, 7,350, something like this. Because originally it's 6,950, yeah. Yeah. Nice. No, very cool. I like it. And I really love the exhaust because when I was first time in the Black Series, watch me. It was like... Yeah, it's like a Dyson vacuum cleaner. Yeah, you said it, so I don't have to say it. Yes, indeed. So, that alone gives the car actual... It is quite close to a GT-R. Yeah. Like with pops and bangs and the roar. It's not as loud, but maybe even also not necessarily bad. It's just missing the typical V8 sound. Yeah, for sure. It's not the typical V8 sound. Okay, if you drive McLarens or other brands who use flat crankshafts, then you are familiar with the sound. But, yeah, it's not typical for an AMG. No, I like it. Thanks for the experience. And if you want 1100 horsepower, contact this man. Not in the A-class, but unless you pay enough money, of course, then it's possible. Yeah, we can also do it in a GT-R. That's also possible. Yeah. It's still drivable, but on the track... Yeah, a bit sketchy and tricky. Yeah. But it was good. Nice. Loved it.