Customer Teams Give Mercedes-AMG Welcome Victories

Customer Teams Give Mercedes-AMG Welcome Victories  阅读原文»

Over the weekend, there was more than the F1 race for Mercedes to consider. Despite the less than podium showing of the factory F1 team in Singapore, Mercedes’ customer teams brought welcome cheer to racing headquarters by finishing first in three different series events and a second in another.

First of all, the HEICO-Gravity Charouz has won both team and driver’s titles in FIA GT3 European Championship while theALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport took over the lead in the FIA GT1 World Championship as a result of its consistent race results. In theAustralian GT Championship meanwhile, 1st and second places were won by Erebus Racing.The venerableBlack Falcon team also placed 2nd and sixth in the latest race in the Blancpain Endurance Series. All these stellar placings were obtained using customer-spec SLS racers. The fact that the SLS race cars have won and are leading various championships is a testament not only to the performance of the Mercedes SLS but also to the underlying philosophy of engineering excellence maintained by the company.

Understandably, Mercedes-AMG headOla Kllenius is very happy with these results. Said he, “I am very happy about the fact that the HEICO-Gravity Charouz Team managed to win no fewer than two titles in the FIA GT3 European Championship here on the Nürburgring. The start position in the FIA GT1 World Championship for the AMG Customer Sports Team ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport for the final in Donington on the coming weekend is more than promising.The guest entry of our AMG brand ambassador Maro Engel in the Australian GT Championship with one victory and a second position for Erebus Racing is also very pleasing. All of these successes on this race weekend are a welcome confirmation for our Customer Sports Programme with the SLS AMG GT3."

Invisible B-Class F-Cell Glides Through Hamburg  阅读原文»

For now, invisibility is a holy grail sci-fi aficionados, military engineers and probably the rest of the world's population. But plenty to attempts to fool the eye have been made, and the latest here is an attempt by a Hamburg studio to use the appeal of invisibility to build up the B-Class F-Cell's positive attributes. Showing some creative thinking to portray how the F-Cell is invisible to the environment, the studio proceeded to literally cloak the B-Class F-Cell with a magnetic cloth embedded with LEDs. The whole of the car was covered, including the wheel cutouts.

But this was only the first part of the process, the LED controller was then connected to a laptop which used special software to control the LEDs embedded in the magnetic cloth. To effect the illusion of invisibility, a Canon EOS camera was mounted at the level of the front passenger door. The image captured by the camera could then be projected to the driver's side of the car, thus showing whatever background the F-Cell was passing through.

Obviously, the human eye cannot be so easily fooled with such electronic gimmickry. But in capturing the attention of pedestrians and motorists as it glides along, the message that the F-Cell is invisible to the environment is passed on.

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