For the 14th consecutive year, an AMG product will serve as Formula 1’s official pace car. This year, it’s a modified SLS AMG that will marshal cars at the F1 season’s 19 races.
The Benz is mechanically identical to the one you could buy in a showroom, but with carbon-fiber mirrors and a louder exhaust to exhilarate fans (AMG’s words, not ours.) On top, an aerodynamically-shaped LED lightbar performs signaling duties, with a 700-LED rear license plate that illuminates the words “Safety Car” at night or in inclement weather.
Inside are radios to allow the driver, former DTM racer Bernd Mayländer, to keep in touch with race officials. Two monitors allow him and his co-driver to keep tabs on the race status and a rearview camera offers a view of the Formula 1 cars impatiently hovering behind.
