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Maro Engel beats previous record for road-legal production cars by a remarkable eight seconds despite less-than-ideal track conditions. The Mercedes-AMG hypercar with Formula-1TM technology set a new record for road-legal production vehicles as well as in the super sports car category.

The record-breaking drives on October 28, 2022 were hard to beat in terms of excitement: at exactly 17:14:31, racing driver and AMG brand ambassador Maro Engel took to the track for the last attempt of the day and burned the new, fabulous time into the legendary and demanding Eifel asphalt. This was truly not a minute too early, because the track would have been 

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