IngenereAMG

I just got done watching the Canadian GP and there was a fair amount of action for the safety car.

I have to say that the SLK55 that they use looked and sounded great!

AMGDAN

I so much agree with you. The on board camera sound was quite addicting. That was a painfull reminder that I have to wait 2 more weeks for my SLK55.
I am a big Michael Shumacher fan, but now with a SLK coming, I started pulling for Kimi.
Dan

JoeShark

Dan,

I stopped by my dealer on Friday. Looks like my car (and I'm sure your car is on the same boat) will arrive at VPC this Tuesday, June 14th. He's thinking I should see it about 7-10 days later so it looks like two weeks from now, just like you said

Got your wheels yet?

JS

AMGDAN

Joe,
These are really great news. I stopped checking my status, because I felt like I was driving my salesman crazy .
My HRE wheels will probably arrive by the end of July at the latest (Harris updated me last week). It does take around 8 weeks during summer.
Dan

Frank Wiesmann

All of the safety cars used by Mercedes feature the components offered in the 030 performance package that will soon be availably, plus a few extra goodies not available for us common mortals, I presume. The exhausts do not conform to street regulation. I heard that when they started using the SL 55 as a safety car in 2002 or 2003, a dozen SL 500 buyers heard it at the track and changed their orders to SL 55s!

silk32

anyone have detailed pix of the pace car? would be interesting to see if they did any mods

NeilC123

I find it interesting that Mercedes are trying to push the AMG during these races. The medical car was a Mercedes C class (I think it was C - but could have been S) AMG. Nice car though - but i would prefer a F1 car

Yellow R1

That saftey car has many upgrades not available (nor will they be available) to the car. Of course, you can always mod the car yourself though.

That car has 200lbs weight reduction (no roof motor), larger radiator & tranny coolers, 19" rims/more rubber, a less restrictive/lighter weight exhaust, reprogrammed ECU for more power & no top speed limitation, etc. Its just lighter, quicker, & has some additional reliability (cooling) mods to cope with high speed driving as the F1 pace car. Those F1s could blow by that SLK like was in reverse, but you already know that .

See ya,
-Matt

IngenereAMG

I was at Hockenheim in '02 and '03 and they had the SL55 safety cars going.........and they did sound great! and they really were quite quick, but of course the F1 cars could have passed it like it was stopped..........but that would have been a penalty!

Lowflight

@the USGP, I saw the cars alot and can tell you that I would drive either one. The SLK was said to have 385hp +