The £335,000 Mercedes-AMG GT Black series has declared the Nurburgring production automobile lap record. Affalterbach’s most extreme coupe just recently set a time of 6:43.616 minutes, beating the previous record holder – the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ – by more than a second.
Mercedes states the record-setting AMG GT Black series was only fitted with elements that are available from the factory. However, in an effort to provide the automobile an edge over the Aventador, the German firm’s engineers made the most of the GT’s adjustable chassis and aerodynamic settings to optimise the automobile for the eco-friendly Hell.

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The common AMG GT Black series leaves the factory with manually adjustable suspension and manually adjustable aero. So, Mercedes set the anti-roll bars to their stiffest setting and cranked the camber as much as the maximum (3.8 degrees up front and 3.0 degrees at the rear) to keep the car’s tyres in contact with the undulating surface of the track.
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Mercedes also set the GT’s adjustable front splitter to its most aggressive setting which, integrated with a middling angle for the rear wing, promoted sharper turn-in response – important on a track littered with 170 corners. The added benefit of running a bit less downforce at the rear was a considerable reduction in aerodynamic drag, which can jeopardize a car’s top speed.
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Besides, Mercedes tells us that the AMG GT Black Series’s active aerodynamics made up for the less aggressive setting at the rear. There’s a moveable flap in the spoiler which immediately appears under difficult cornering and heavy braking, assisting to stabilise the car.