Insert a real engine from F1 into a road-legal hypercar was no easy feat for Mercedes-AMG, but the company finally did it, giving birth to the hypercar One presented in September 2017.
Among the lucky owners of this special car there is also the F1 champion Nico Rosbergwho ordered his in 2018 but had to wait six years to pick it up.
In a recent video posted on his channel YouTubethe driver showed that he had made the mistake of turning off the car prematurely before the engine reached the optimum temperature: something that later 6 volteaccording to the manufacturer, could lead to the complete blocking of the 1.6 Turbo F1. Here are the details.
A harmful procedure
Turning off an engine when it has not yet reached its optimum operating temperature is not normally a procedure that risks damaging the car. This is obviously true if the engine is not directly derived from that of a single-seater. Formula 1.
As explained in the video published on his YouTube channel, if the Circus champion had performed this dangerous procedure six times in a row, Mercedes could have blocked the car, preventing him from using it again.
And then? The owner of the One should have called Mercedes and asked someone from the AMG to come with a laptop to unlock the car’s ECU.
La Mercedes-AMG One al Nurburgring Nordschleife
Speaking about this very function, Jochen Hermann, CTO of Mercedes-AMG, declared to Rosberg that the software It was the most challenging part of the long development process.
More generally, Hermann admitted that the AMG One was the most complicated car to develop in the history of the German company and believes that it will never be replicated. The management, in fact, has already ruled out the possibility of building another road car with an F1 engine due to the more stringent emissions regulations.
The video posted by the pilot
Source: it.motor1.com
